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Say, wasn’t there supposed to be some big Star Trek news today? ‘cause I haven’t heard anything about it…

I kid, of course. The only thing anyone is talking about today on sites like ours is the newly released Star Trek Into Darkness teaser trailer. It’s being watched and rewatched and dissected and considered by zillions of geeks just like us. But let’s not forget, as many tidbits as there are in the Into Darkness teaser, we’re about to get an even bigger glimpse at the film a mere week from now, on December 14th. That’s the day that a nine-minute preview of J.J. Abrams’ new Trek film will be showing in front of selected IMAX screenings of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

If today’s teaser has you fiending for another potent dose of boldly going, you can now breathe a sigh of relief. Or possibly an angry shriek to the heavens. Either way, you can now click over to Star Trek Into Darkness’ official website to find out if the nine-minute Trek preview will be playing in your neck of the woods.

We’ve all been speculating for months now over who the villain in Star Trek Into Darkness might be and the film’s first trailer, released moments ago does a good job of keeping the film’s bad guy a secret.

But the movie’s Japanese trailer spills everything.

The Japanese version of the first Star Trek Into Darkness trailer is nearly identical to the one being released everywhere else, except for an additional scene at the end which basically spoils the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch’s character. If you don’t want to know, don’t play the following video and leave this page now.

SPOILERS FOLLOW!

The first ever trailer for Star Trek into Darkness, the follow-up to JJ Abrams’ 2009 sort of reboot of the Star Trek universe has arrived, and it does a pretty good job of keeping us in the dark about who Benedict Cumberbatch is playing. He is, however, clearly the movie’s villain and very much the focus of this first teaser trailer.

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I have to wonder how many hearts started pounding ferociously when it looked like Zachary Quinto was actually going to reveal unseen footage from Star Trek: Into Darkness on Conan O’Brien last night. I’m sure a rumbling mass of Tweets and texts would have unleashed themselves upon the world had it actually happened during the taping, but I like to think about one-eighth of every fan’s being got super-excited just before Conan’s stilted excitement and the lame fonts from the title mock-up brought them crashing back to reality. I like when people get their hopes up for nothing over something non-life threatening.

Quinto’s clip comes as a belated strike back against the notorious three-frame “preview” that J.J. Abrams “showed” Conan audiences a couple of months back. The Internet runs wild with shit like this. You’re reading my case in point. (That was meta.) Watch the clip below.