Action overload in polished 'Star Trek Into Darkness'
In the captain’s log from the 1960s TV series, James Tiberius Kirk brazenly split an infinitive as the crew of the Enterprise embarked on a five-year mission “to boldly go where no man has gone before”.
The three screenwriters of ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ abandon that crusading spirit, harking back to bygone Starfleet missions for this action-packed sequel to JJ Abrams’s 2009 revamp of the franchise.
