This is Trekcast of the USS Enterprise. A shuttle of highly trained officers is on its way to your location. If you do not surrender to them immediately, I will unleash the entire payload of advanced long-range torpedoes currently locked onto your location. You have two minutes to confirm your compliance. Refusal to do so will result in your obliteration. And If you test me, you will fail.

Khan you believe it? We’re back with another Kelvin Timeline movie review! This time, we’re diving into 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness—how does it hold up against modern Trek?

Plus, Jonathan Frakes (a.k.a. Riker) says Starfleet Academy is for the hardcore fans—what does that mean for the future of Trek?

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And in a real-world twist, a judge actually cited Star Trek’s Data in an artificial intelligence case—what does this mean for AI ethics?

Tune in for all this and more on the latest episode of Trekcast!

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STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.

Star Trek Into Darkness is a 2013 American science fiction action film directed by J. J. Abrams and written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof.[4] It is the 12th installment in the Star Trek franchise and the sequel to the 2009 film Star Trek, as the second in a rebooted film series. It features Chris Pine reprising his role as Captain James T. Kirk, with Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldaña, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Greenwood, and Leonard Nimoy reprising their roles from the previous film. Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, and Peter Weller are also in the film's principal cast. It was Nimoy's last film appearance before his death in 2015. Set in the 23rd century, the film follows Kirk and the crew of 

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