When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

One of the biggest concerns about ‘Star Trek Into Darkness‘ was that the film was going to be a remake of ‘Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan,’ which made no sense to those who know the series because the character wouldn’t have interacted with the crew in the new timeline of these movies. Now there’s a synopsis for ‘Into Darkness,’ and it suggests that J.J. Abrams and company may be plundering another familiar character, but not Khan Noonien Singh.

Okay a little boilerplate, but it does suggest that they may be taking from the Original Series episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before” which had Kirk and company going up against Gary Mitchell, who was an old classmate who received God-like powers.

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

NHFT. Blow up the Romulan Star Empire in the Prime universe first, then blow up Starfleet's ships in the second? WAT.

Which fleet are we talking about? Starfleet doesn't have a Pearl Harbor--their ships are deployed unless we're talking spaceport--did they get Utopia Planetia?

Right? And how did they just happen to have that big of a fleet lying around Earth? Awfully convenient. From what I understand, most of Starfleet is out on military/diplomatic/scientific missions. EDIT: I get that the Enterprise was being built in drydock, but the Farragut? And a ton of other ships?

Also, Earth isn't the ONLY planet in the UFP, ffs. If Starfleet got toasted, I'm pretty sure there'd be a few hundred star systems freaking out.

But still......WHY is an entire fleet assembled? Are they at war? Generally there wasn't a standing 'fleet' in terms of a group of ships gathered together, unless there was some sort of strike about to happen (Wolf 359, Dominion War, etc.)

From within sounds like Section 31-esque fuckwittery, though. NAGL right after SEVEN FUCKING STARSHIPS were lost in the last movie. Do not blow shit up without any real purpose just to hype up the tension, JJ.

If they seriously cross S31 with Gary Mitchell, I will need to kill someone. It's like.. Mary Sue'ing the original Mary Sue founders. Stop. I can't.

And this whole willy-nilly blowing up of whole starships? It's not like there's thousands of people on each one, or that they would certainly cost a lot of time/money for the Federation to re-build one, much less a brand new fleet.

Also, they wiped out an entire graduating class last movie on those seven starships so... gonna need more officers, too. (And the enlisted who were staffing the ships, too).