And it's clear from the pics that Cumberbatch is NOT playing Khan Noonien Singh the genetically enhanced human from the 1967 episode of "Star Trek" called Space Seed as well as the big screen sequel Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan--played by Ricardo Montalban...And I couldn't be more relieved...
He's not a Klingon Romulan or Vulcan--but rather seemingly a human Starfleet officer--of which there are several possibilities of officers who went bad during the original series causing problems for the Enterprise crew...
The one guess that came to mind as soon as I saw the top photo is Captain Garth as seen in 1969's Whom Gods Destroy played in the episode by Steve Ihnat--In the ep Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by Garth, who now spends his days at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane. Kirk admired Garth during his academy days (which were all but ignored in Trek '09)
Just speculation on my part but Garth who also learned the art of shape shifting seems to me to make the most sense for now....
Either way I am just happy to finally see stuff from the set.....
All photos were courtesy Eric Ford of On Location News. Even more images from the Trek 2 Set can be found by visiting PopSugar, TooFab, and Yahoo.
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin John Cho and Bruce Greenwood have all returned to the Final Frontier in their respective roles as Kirk Spock Uhura Dr. McCoy Scotty Chekov Sulu and Admiral Pike.
The Supporting Cast Also Includes Nazneen Contractor who will play the wife of Noel Clarke’s family man character--while Alice Eve has a major role as does former "Robocop" star Peter Weller and actor/stuntman Joseph Gatt.
Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof wrote the script for director J.J. Abrams.
The sequel will be produced by Abrams, Kurtzman, Orci, Lindelof, Bryan Burk, and David Ellison.
The film will be released May 17, 2013 in 3D.
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