The Captain The Federation Deserves: Star Trek Into Darkness Teaser Trailers Released

There’s nothing like the holiday season, and its attendant shopping, travel, insufferable parties, rotten fruitcake, family gatherings, family arguments, family recriminations, family embarrassment, and, well, family, that makes the heart yearn for summer blockbuster movie season.

And Hollywood knows this. This is why they spend millions on new Christmas movies (not that I begrudge Tim Allen a living), on funnelling It’s A Wonderful Life onto every second-rate expanded cable channel in America from Thanksgiving until about Valentine’s Day, and its why your local oldies radio station alternates playing Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime and Bing Crosby’s White Christmas from the day after Halloween until the smile on the face of the clerk at your local convenience store begins looking suspiciously like a silent prayer for the sweet release of death.

They want you to feel that level of despair so that, when they give you a tease of the big, explodey action of the summer flicks, you become disproportionately excited over the idea of big sun, long days, and starship captains blowing up bad guys.

And in that spirit, the first teaser trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness has been released… along with a little something extra for people in a country where Christmas is a time you spend with your boss instead of your family. Those lucky motherfuckers.

First, we’ll go with the regular old American teaser:

And now, the Japanese version, with a little extra footage:

Now, I’m not the world’s biggest Star Trek scholar, and it’s hard to tell everything you’re seeing on a small scale YouTube video, but if I were to hazard a guess, based on the odd eyes we saw on Kirk and the apparent bad guy here, I think the antagonist might be Gary Mitchell from one of the earliest episodes of the original Star Trek, Where No Man Has Gone Before. It fits the apparent superpowers, on a scale that can affect people, starships and even cities.

Either that, or based on the bad guy’s outfit and moves, Captain Kirk is about the get the Christ kicked out of him by Batman. Merry Christmas, suckers!

(via Ain’t It Cool News)