New STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Pictures

The new issue of Empire magazine, which will be on newsstands on Dec. 27., has revealed 11 new pictures from Star Trek Into Darkness including a pair of promo images gracing the cover of their preview issue.

Santa arrived early this year and also delivered the new plot description from the text of the article:

with Earth under terrorist attack from Benedict Cumberbatch’s ex-Starfleet employee John Harrison, Kirk is this time forced into a rash decision that breaks a critical Starfleet command, puts his crew in danger & costs him his captain’s chair. Now out of uniform and dressed down in space civvies of black leather jackets and boots, our three heroes have separated from the Enterprise and headed off on a mission to try and rectify his mistake…

The follow up to J.J. Abrams massively successful Star Trek reboot stars John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Cumberbatch, Alice Eve and Peter Weller, respectively.

The film will hit theaters on May 15th, 2013.

Christmas goes wild! Enjoy!