People still think it is Khan. Apparently the Japanese trailer has a scene like in Wraith of Khan. I don't want it to be Khan purely because everyone THINKS it'll be Khan. But that is just me. I didn't want River Song to be Amy's daughter just because everyone online guessed it before it happened they all went "see I told you that is so boring everyone knew it was going to happen" my mum and sister who DIDN'T know were like "OMG I NEVER GUESSED THAT!" and I was just sitting there amused!

Well I looked it up and this was what I found...

"Space Seed"
Khan makes his introductory appearance in Star Trek's twenty-second episode, "Space Seed," first broadcast on February 16, 1967. According to the backstory revealed in the episode, Khan is one of a group of genetically engineered supermen, bred to be free of the usual human mental and physical limitations, who were removed from power after the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s.[1] Khan had been both the most successful conqueror and the most benign ruler of the group, ruling more than a fourth of the world's area across Asia to the Middle East from 1992 to 1996 with a firm but generally peaceful hand until he was deposed. While most of the supermen were killed or sentenced to death, Khan and 84 others escaped Earth by way of the sleeper ship SS Botany Bay. Cryogenically frozen in suspended animation, the crew of the Botany Bay are discovered by the crew of the Enterprise in 2267.
When Khan's sleep chamber malfunctions, he is transported to the Enterprise, where he reawakens and learns he is in the 23rd century. Given spacious quarters while the Botany Bay is towed to a starbase, Khan fascinates and charms the ship's historian, Marla McGivers (Madlyn Rhue), while using his access to the ship's technical manuals to learn how to take over and operate the Enterprise. McGivers agrees to help Khan revive the other supermen, allowing him to organize a mutiny. To coerce the Enterprise crew to cooperate with him, Khan places Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in the ship's decompression chamber and threatens to kill Kirk unless the crew submits. McGivers cannot stand by as her Captain dies and frees Kirk, who neutralizes Khan's men by using a "neural gas." Khan heads to engineering and sets the ship's engines to self-destruct, whereupon he is incapacitated by Kirk. Captain Kirk conducts a hearing, sentencing Khan and his followers to exile on an uncolonized world, Ceti Alpha V. Khan accepts Kirk's challenge—invoking the fall of Lucifer in Milton's Paradise Lost[2][3]— and McGivers joins Khan rather than face court-martial. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) wonders what the "seed" Kirk has planted will bear in a hundred years.
[edit]Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Khan returns in the 1982 feature film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and serves as the main antagonist. Clark Terrell and Pavel Chekov (Paul Winfield and Walter Koenig), officers of the USS Reliant, beam down to what they believe is Ceti Alpha VI, looking for an uninhabited world to test the Genesis device, a powerful terraforming tool. Khan's followers capture Terrell and Chekov, and Khan explains that the barren wasteland they now inhabit is Ceti Alpha V; the sixth planet of the system exploded shortly after Khan and his followers were marooned, causing massive climate disturbances. The planet was turned into a desert, and many of the survivors—including McGivers, who had become Khan's wife—were killed by the only surviving species of animal, the Ceti eel. By the time the Reliant arrives at Ceti Alpha, only twenty of Khan's followers are alive. Swearing vengeance on Kirk, Khan takes control of Chekov and Terrell using Ceti eels implanted in the officers' brains, rendering them vulnerable to suggestion. Khan then seizes control of the Reliant, intent on capturing the Genesis device and attaining revenge on Kirk for his exile.[1]
Lured by Khan to the space station Regula I, the Enterprise falls victim to Khan's surprise attack. With the Enterprise disabled, Kirk tricks Khan by using a special code to remotely lower the Reliant's shields and inflict significant damage. Khan is forced to withdraw and make repairs. Using the mind-controlled Terrell and Chekov as spies, Khan captures the Genesis device and leaves Kirk marooned on Regula I. However, Khan is deceived by Spock into thinking that the Enterprise is crippled, and is surprised when Kirk and the Enterprise escape to the nearby Mutara nebula. Goaded into following Kirk, Khan pilots the Reliant into the nebula, where shields and visuals are inoperable. Due to Khan's inexperience with three-dimensional space combat, the Enterprise defeats the Reliant and Khan is severely wounded. Refusing to accept defeat, Khan activates the Genesis device, intent on killing his foe along with himself. Khan quotes Ahab's words of vengeance from Moby Dick as he watches the Enterprise attempt to escape before the Genesis device destroys them. However, Spock, in an act of self-sacrifice, is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while repairing the Enterprise's warp drive, allowing it to escape in time.




So I guess it is possible especially seeing Cumberbatch's character seems to be quite powerful. But I still don't see why it would have anything to do with revenge on Kirk.

Oh I saw it when it was released and I can't wait to see it in the cinema Benedict looks like he's fitted into the film perfectly, funny enough the only thing that looked odd was Spock but maybe because the trailers were so... Humany, it was more like Dredd or something like that, a bit futuristic but mainly human. Spock stood out like a sore thumb in the trailer, hoping it doesn't look that weird in the movie. Making aliens (and Spock in general) look out of place will ruin the film a little.

And before anyone says anything I know that makes little sense! MAybe it was jsut the makeup of the particular clip that we saw of Spock.

I don't know I just feel like it seemed very earth bound and therefore left Spock looking out of place and plastic-y. Though it is just the advert it probably looks better in the film but everything in that trailer was dark and grimy whereas Spock looked sparkly clean and perfect (plastic) .

No I agree the trailers look more like Transformers then Star Trek. Hoping it is better then the trailers make it out to be

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