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Star Trek Into Darkness is the twelfth film in the Star Trek film series and the sequel to the reboot Star Trek. Kirk is under investigation for violating the Prime Directive, but when a terrorist attack on Starfleet Headquarters leaves him one of the few surviving captains, it's up to him (and the Enterprise crew) to save the day.
Tropes used in Star Trek Into Darkness include:
- Adaptational Badass: In the prime timeline, Khan's only major augmentations were an eidetic memory and enhanced strength. Here he shows himself to be as strong as a Vulcan, being to dish out a Curb Stomp Battle to a Klingon patrol, smart enough to quickly master and improve upon 23rd century tech and has a powerful Healing Factor.
- All There in the Manual:
- The "Mudd Incident" was explained in the comic prequel Countdown to Darkness.
- IDW's Star Trek: Khan miniseries explains why Khan looks like a British man rather than a Sikh. Section 31 gave him vocal and plastic surgery to make him one of their own. It also shows why he smuggled the other Augments out in torpedoes.
- The novelization explains why McCoy needed Khan to bring Kirk Back From the Dead. He wasn't sure if the other Augments shared the Healing Factor and didn't have enough time to test it.
- Beyond the Impossible: The Vengeance can interact with another ship's warp bubble, something that should be impossible with 23rd century tech.
- Cutting the Knot: Carol correctly gambles that Admiral Marcus won't destroy the Enterprise if she's aboard. He beams her off.
- Dark Is Evil: The USS Vengeance, combined with Evil Is Bigger.
- Darker and Edgier: Than the original series (though it's hardly the only entry in the Trek franchise to be so), for sure. Starfleet Command itself is directly attacked, for one thing.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Per Word of God, a lot of the film is meant to be a brutal Take That at the War on Terror and how George W. Bush used 9/11 to justify invading countries that had nothing do with the attack, like how Admiral Marcus is using the destruction of Vulcan to justify starting a war with the Klingon Empire.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
- Khan considers his crew to be his family.
- Admiral Marcus does love his daughter.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Khan seems pathologically unable to wrap his mind around the fact that other people wouldn't murder and betray at the earliest convenience. The whole film was kicked off because he simply assumed that Admiral Marcus would have killed the other Augments because it's what Khan would have done in that situation.
- Godzilla Threshold: Ambassador Spock stuck to the Alien Non-Interference Clause in the new timeline. He's willing to break it in light of Khan.
- Hot Scientist: Carol Marcus. Doubles as Ms. Fanservice.
- Monumental Damage: The crashing Vengeance demolishes the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
- Mythology Gag:
- Carol mentions Christine Chapel as someone who had a thing with Kirk. Kirk has no idea who she is.
- Two iconic scenes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan are played out but with Kirk and Spock's roles reversed: screaming Khan's name, and the heroic sacrifice in the warp core. The Enterprise even gets a gash on its side in the same style as Wrath of Khan, though on the opposite side.
- Peter Weller previously had a guest role in Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Demons" and "Terra Prime", playing a similar role to his one here.
- No Sell: Khan is able to push through a Vulcan nerve pinch and mind meld though not without great pain on his part.
- Noodle Incident:
- McCoy once helped a Gorn give birth.
- Kirk once did something that can be compared to jumping out of a moving car into a shot glass.
- Say My Name: KHAAAAAAN!
- Shout-Out: R2D2 makes a brief cameo as part of the debris blown out of the Enterprise.
- Signature Move: Khan's preferred move seems to be crushing his enemy's skull.
- Spotting the Thread: Kirk flags the oddity of John Harrison bombing a public archive. If someone wants to make a political statement, why would they bomb what's essentially a library? It was a Batman Gambit.
- You Didn't Ask: Spock only tells Kirk that Carol faked her credentials to get aboard when it becomes relevant.