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Paramount just released a new international trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness, the hotly-anticipated preboot-sequel which pits Kirk and the Enterprise gang against a mysterious villain played mysteriously by Benedict Cumberbatch. So is Cumberbatch actually playing beloved Trek baddie Khan Noonien Singh? Or is this just a publicity ploy, a long-term con by the film’s mystery-epic auteur? J.J. Abrams’ Khan Con Can’t Continue…Khan It? Watch the new trailer — which is laid out from the point of view of Cumberbatch’s still-unnamed baddie — and find out:
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