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Is the Official ‘Star Trek’ Sequel Title a Clunker?

By Alison Nastasi on

There was some chatter over the weekend about the official title of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek sequel, but Deadline has confirmed that the rumored moniker is the real deal: Star Trek Into Darkness. It’s missing a colon, which would have made it slightly less embarrassing, but thankfully it’s lacking a dreaded “In2″ — or something awful to that effect. The new, troubling name deviates from the franchise formula that has traditionally included roman numerals. Fans and grammarians are already having a field day tearing the title apart, so perhaps if we’re lucky enough, Abrams will get the gumption to toss us a punctuation mark or something.

A look at previous films in the sci-fi canon show a number of one-word clunkers, with Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country being a few of the blandest. Nothing, of course, can surpass the beauty of The Wrath of Khan — a film many fans have been chatting about lately, speculating on a possible tie-in since both movies share sequel spots. Trek past the break (sorry!) to help us rank the series’ best and worst titles, and let us know what you make of the new name. All jokes aside, we’re still excited as ever for May 17 to arrive so we can blind ourselves with crazy lens flares and forget all about this.

 

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Agreed. This article sucks.

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I find this article terribly offensive in terms of journalistic integrity as well as worthwhile time spent on this website. I enjoy this website thoroughly, though I will admit that I am mostly drawn to its section on books due to a passion for literature and because there seems to be a general digital ignorance of literature in general. This I attribute to the general stupidity of the internet as well as the general attention deficit disorder which has become the law. Basically, I like your taste in books and you've led me to more than few good ones. However. This article is bad in the way that I think, or rather, thought that this website and its contributors were above. First of all, it's disguised advertising for hopelessly large blockbusters. These films don't need this, pardon the frank language, jerking off marketing wise. The obvious nature of money changing hands is almost painful after reading this. Secondly, this is a fishing hook for Google searcher candidates. You've put a contemporary franchise into a headline and hoped that you pop on Google to further readers. I don't blame you for doing this, but it's fairly disingenuous to regular readers who come here not just because you've mentioned the latest blockbuster in a headline and are masturbating religiously in hopes that Benedict Cumberbatch plays Khan. Third, this is trivial. It's trivial in a painful way. It's trivial in the way that pop stars are trivial, it just happens to apply to a popular franchise. A popular franchise has been given a title by a table of executives and producers and directors. Will this effect it's performance at the box office, will this effect the film in general? I lean towards no, because it's a franchise with a strong first film, with attractive young stars, being released in the midst of another summer orgy of blockbusters. I sound cynical and I am, but this is piss poor journalism that reads as a desperate attempt at 'me too' on a topic not even worth discussing. If the directorial methods, the story content, the acting content, anything at all to do with the general content of the movie were up for discussion, revealed or considered, hell even the marketing of it,(which I do believe this article to be a part of), then this would be something to discuss. But this isn't. This is tripe. This is fluff. This isn't your website and this isn't you. You can do better and have and I expect will. but this is shameful. And I wonder if green will change from meaning envy to meaning shame.

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I dunno -- colon or not, that title doesn't convey much of anything. The Wrath of Khan suggested revenge, but this title -- they're in space, and it's dark. Okay, now what?

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