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Star Trek: The Wrath of Spock

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One of the great Star Trek  rules was always, "Don't piss off a Vulcan." And, of course, there was an extension to this rule: "Don't fight a Vulcan." Captain James T. Kirk found this out the hard way in an episode called Amok Time. This is one of many details that is "right" with the new movie  Star Trek: Into Darkness.  That, and many one liners, name-checks of characters from the original series, remind us that yes, this is still  Star Trek , and it's the cast of characters we all loved so well. With better hair and kinkier inter-species romances. Still... still... still... When the new series was conceived, I think the one thing most fans could agree on, was,  don't simply re-do the old episodes . In an interview after the first reboot alternate timeline Star Trek movie, director J.J. Abrams said, "I don’t want to approach the second film as a remake of episodes we’ve seen in the past." And yet, here we are. I tr