Three to beam up, Mr. Scott.

Mission to come aboard, sir.

Welcome to Now Plains Star Trek Retrospective Series.

We here at Now Plains will be going at warp speed as we watch and review all installments of the Star Trek movie franchise.

Bringing you the perspective of a Star Trek novice, a casual Star Trek movie fan and a former hardcore tracker,

we will be providing spoiler-filled critiques of this long-running movie franchise.

Today we're talking about Star Trek into darkness, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldania, Benedict Cumberbatch,

Carl Urban John Show, Alice Eve, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Peter Weller, Anton Yelchin, and directed by JJ Abrams.

This is Mr. Brock, co-host of Now Plains.

Steward in LA?

This is Arnie. Have I got your attention now?

Sorry, Arnie. You just don't have the pipes that Benedict has.

Nice try though.

And I was wondering how you do the title. Is it Star Trek into darkness, like Star Trek, Nemesis, or is it Star Trek into darkness?

I say it's Star Trek into zero dark thirty, but we'll get into it.

Welcome back to our Star Trek Retrospective Series. This is like the second series we ever have done.

It's been four years and give you guys some reference. When we were doing this series back in the day, my daughter was just born.

I was editing this series in the hospital bed while she was sleeping next to me.

And now she's running around making noise outside the door now as we are recording this.

It's been four years since we left this series. Unbelievable.

That is hilarious to me. It does make me feel nostalgic, strangely.

And I remember this was the debate show. Star Trek 2009 was the first time we went well beyond 60 minutes.

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