Star Trek Into Darkness: Deconstructing the bizarre new title

With the latest Star Trek film's storyline shrouded in mystery, Trekkies are desperate to parse the hidden meaning woven into the film's inscrutable name

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After nearly 50 years of movies, TV series, and packed convention halls, Star Trek is poised to boldly go where it's never gone before: Into darkness. After months of speculation, Paramount has confirmed that the sequel to J.J. Abrams' hit 2009 reboot of the Star Trek film franchise will be called Star Trek Into Darkness, and will hit theaters on May 17, 2013. With the film's storyline cloaked in mystery, fans and critics are analyzing every morsel of information that escapes from the film's Fort Knox-like set. And now, the unusual title "only raises more questions." What could Star Trek Into Darkness possibly mean? Here, four theories:

1. It's a callback to the plot of Abrams' first Star Trek film

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