Despite claiming in their teaser for their upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness cover issue that J.J. Abrams wouldn’t answer their question about whether or not Benedict Cumberbatch plays Khan ...

The Wrath of Khan, and then by Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek Into Darkness, this baddie exceptionally antagonized the crew of the James T. Kirk-captained USS Enterprise in multiple timelines.

Star Trek Into Darkness however telegraphs its moves so ... this is Space Seed, the villain’s Khan, Benidict Cumberbatch is Khan. It was no surprise to me at all the surprise main villain.

But the true nadir of Star Trek into Darkness came in a final act that morphed into a weird cover version of The Wrath of Khan. As dialogue was recycled verbatim and Kirk (rather than Spock ...

And while I’d never suggest Into Darkness tops Wrath of Khan, I’d urge those who’ve entirely written it off to take another look. Star Trek Into Darkness is better than you might remember ...

which made him a Section 31 agent gone rogue in 2013's "Star Trek Into Darkness." That Khan is a living representation of scientific hubris and man's obsession with perfection probably mattered ...

J.J. Abrams' cinematic re-envisioning of the Star Trek universe portrayed by a new cast, and set in an alternate reality from earlier films and series (referred to as the "Kelvin" timeline).

But the franchise has never really topped Khan, even when it ingloriously remade the story (sort of) as 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness. What does it say about Star Trek that its best work came so ...