Star Trek Into Darkness Spoilers

[TrekToday]

New information about Star Trek into Darkness has been revealed courtesy of a recent media event in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to some plot points, a character played by an actor new to the franchise has been confirmed. Spoilers below the cut.

Spoiler: Peter Weller is playing

... Admiral Marcus (probably the father of Carol Marcus) [...]

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[Kamdan]

The details of these spoilers make it sound like the film is reiterating the points made in the first film, kind of like Ghostbusters 2.

Spoiler: Also, it appears that

... the whole violating the Prime Directive plotline could have been avoided if they didn't submerge the ship.

Seems all kind of pointless just to bring in this in.