 Christian Blauvelt from website Hollywood.com criticized the casting of Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness as being " whitewashed into oblivion " . Star Trek : Voyager actor Garrett Wang tweeting , " The casting of Cumberbatch was a mistake on the part of the producers . I am not being critical of the actor or his talent , just the casting . " Co @-@ producer and co @-@ screenwriter Roberto Orci addressed the issue of the casting saying , " Basically , as we went through the casting process and we began honing in on the themes of the movie , it became uncomfortable for me to support demonizing anyone of color , particularly any one of Middle Eastern descent or anyone evoking that . One of the points of the movie is that we must be careful about the villain within US , not some other race . " 
