QHow much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
AFor detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Star Trek Into Darkness can be found here.
QIs Admiral Marcus connected to John Paxton from Star Trek: Enterprise, as they are both played by the same actor?
AThe early announcement that Peter Weller was cast in an unknown role in Star Trek Into Darkness brought up speculation about a possible connection with the Star Trek episodes Enterprise: Demons (#4.20) and Enterprise: Terra Prime (#4.21), in which Weller played John Frederick Paxton, the leader of a xenophobic organization intent on purging all alien inhabitants from Earth. However, his Into Darkness character is called Starfleet Admiral Alexander Marcus, and is a completely different person. No statements were made whether the casting of Weller in both roles signifies any familial relation between the characters (as was the case with Brent Spiner who played both Dr. Arik Soong and Dr. Noonien Soong in seperate series). However, Star Trek has a long-standing history of actors playing different parts in different series/movies, perhaps most famously David Warner, who in a span of 4 years played a human in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, a Klingon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and a Cardassian in Star Trek: The Next Generation. What Paxton and Marcus have in common is a belligerent persona and ruthless demeanor, and Weller is known for playing malicious characters in recent years, which may have been the reason for his casting.
QWhy is Carol Marcus British in this movie, whereas her counterpart from Wrath of Khan was North-American?
AIt is not addressed in the movie, so it could simply be an artistic decision by the creators to make the character British, since Alice Eve, who portrays Carol, is British as well. It may therefore be somewhat surprising that her father in the movie, Admiral Marcus (Peter Weller), is North-American. For an in-universe explanation, the temporal changes made by Nero in Star Trek may account for many of the discrepancies seen between the alternate universe (Star Trek and this movie) and the prime universe (all the previous series and movies). In Star Trek Into Darkness, Admiral Marcus mentions that he was the one who convinced captain Pike to join the Academy. This, combined with his rank, suggests a long history within Starfleet, most likely joining before the two universes started to diverge. In the prime universe, Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch) was an American physicist, but there was no mention of her father being a Starfleet admiral in any of the movies. A possibility, therefore, is that Carol's father in the prime universe never rose to prominence within Starfleet or even left, and raised Carol in the USA; in the alternate universe, he may have had a successful career following the changes introduced by Nero, which included being stationed in the UK with his family; his wife may be British, choosing to live in the UK while her husband was on missions; or Carol was sent off to a British boarding school and university, to get the highest education befitting the daughter of a Starfleet officer.
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