A new trailer and character poster featuring Captain Kirk from the anticipated sequel ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ have been released on iTunes Movie Trailers. The poster features actor Chris Pine as the captain, as his spacecraft, the Starship Enterprise, is being destroyed.

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ is set to be released by Paramount Pictures on May 15 in select theaters in IMAX. It will then expand wide on May 17 to theaters everywhere. The action adventure film, which was directed by J.J. Abrams, also stars Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Benedict Cumberbatch and Peter Weller.

The sci-fi thriller follows the Enterprise as it’s called back home. But the crew find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving Earth in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk (Pine) leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a weapon of mass destruction. Love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart and sacrifices will be made for the crew, the one family Kirk has ever known.

For more information on ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ visit the movie’s official website. Check out the trailer and Kirk character poster below.

New Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer and Kirk Character Poster Leap Into Action

Written by: Karen Benardello

By Karen Benardello

As a graduate of LIU Post with a B.F.A in Journalism, Print and Electronic, Karen Benardello serves as ShockYa's Senior Movies & Television Editor. Her duties include interviewing filmmakers and musicians, and scribing movie, television and music reviews and news articles. As a New York City-area based journalist, she's a member of the guilds, New York Film Critics Online and the Women Film Critics Circle.

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