J.J. Abrams Reveals One Of The Alternate Titles For STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

Abrams has already been quizzed about which other titles were considered for the sequel, and while he admitted they did have other ideas, up until now he was hesitant to reveal any. Find out what the movie might have been titled after the jump.

By MarkCassidy - May 14, 2013 06:05 AM EST

Filed Under: Star Trek

Source: MTV

Quite a few people were surprised when the full title for "Star Trek 2" was revealed to be Star Trek Into Darkness. I think many were expecting the usual Star Trek: Insert Generic Subtitle Here. But it seems that was very nearly the case, as director J.J. Abrams reveals to MTV:

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"There's an intimidating giant black ship in this thing called the 'USS Vengeance.' We talked about that word, vengeance," says director J.J. Abrams about alternate "Star Trek" titles.

Star Trek: Vengeance. I would have immediately hated it -- I'll take a trek into darkness over that any day! What do you guys think? Hopefully we'll get to hear a few more rejected titles at some point.

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22 Comments

JoshBerger - 5/14/2013, 6:51 AM

lmao Jollem...the "RISE" year was 2012...I'm glad it's over.

NoAssemblyReqd - 5/14/2013, 7:05 AM

A bit of trivia:

TREK II was originally VENGEANCE OF KHAN, but it was changed because of REVENGE OF THE JEDI (which, of course, also eventually changed its title).

Gus - 5/14/2013, 7:21 AM

I read somewhere Lindelof liked the title 'Star Trek: Transformers 4' because it was available at the time.

GenerationX - 5/14/2013, 7:27 AM

sounds fine to me

KaineBParker - 5/14/2013, 7:32 AM

Star Trek Vengence sounds pretty good; better than Into Darkness; ID sounds like a mini series on the SyFy channel

anthonok - 5/14/2013, 7:40 AM

Star Trek 2: The wrath of John

mrHJK - 5/14/2013, 7:51 AM

Star Trek into the Rise of Dark Vengeance

Gus - 5/14/2013, 7:54 AM

Star Trek: Revenge of the Fallen actually works with the story. I guess you could say they/he was fallen.

Wingding - 5/14/2013, 7:58 AM

Star Trek: Rise of the Fall of the Revenge of the Dark Legacy's Vengeance

ElDarkside - 5/14/2013, 8:40 AM

Star Trek: revenge of the fallen franchise... Is more like it.

Returning JJ Abrams as "Darth Fixthis" making it much more like Star Wars than any Star Trek fan would like to admit...

DVonShakari - 5/14/2013, 9:19 AM

Star Trek Into Blackness!!!

exe - 5/14/2013, 11:13 AM

Star Trek: Unimproved

beane2099 - 5/14/2013, 11:14 AM

Some other titles they didn't use:

Star Trek In Your FACE!!

Star Trek Not That Into You (Didn't test well with the ladies)

Star Trek In Your Mom (Didn't test well with my mom)

Marvel's Star Trek

RexDartEskimoSpy - 5/14/2013, 12:18 PM

Star Trek: That's What She Said

MediaMan - 5/14/2013, 10:25 PM

Star Trek for Dummies

Star Trek for Airheads

$tar Trek for Dollars

Star Trek for a Decent Script

J.J. Abrams Reveals One Of The Alternate Titles For STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

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