Very good "popcorn" entertainment, just don't get too critical of the story.

Rating: Null/10 (1 October 2013)

My wife and I enjoyed watching this for an evening of inoffensive entertainment. It is the second Star Trek movie for this new gang, after the 2009 "Star Trek." Pine's Kirk and Quinto's Spock play well off each other.
Set far in the future, the story here is that a rogue Starfleet member creates some havoc, then waits for a conference of leaders to kill more, before fleeing off to an unoccupied planet. When his identity is revealed he really is Kahn (Benedict Cumberbatch) who is several hundred years old, a product of experimentation to create a type of super-human, and had been held in a cryogenic state.
Chris Pine as Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock, along with their ship and crew, are given the task of finding Kahn, and killing him. But Spock reminds Kirk that morally, they need to capture him and bring him back for a trial.
After a battle with Klingons on patrol, aided by Kahn, he seems to be too easily "captured" and held on the starship Enterprise. So most of the rest of the story becomes a battle of cunning, is Kahn really trying to help them, as he claims, or is he just manipulating them to achieve his sinister goals?
The cast includes a number of fine actors, including Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, and Anton Yelchin.
But to me the real star here is Cumberbatch, who plays an excellent villain.