Whether or not you can get behind the Star Trek reboot, we can at least agree that the Star Trek villain is a classic dimension of the show that can make or break a movie.
In the original Trek, there is none to surpass Khan, and with the reboot opening up all kinds of possibilities it was left for fans to debate whether or not Khan could, or should, be recreated. To tackle yet another icon from an alternative perspective, or to let history preserve the Khan that we all know. Personally my favourite Trek villain will always be Malcolm McDowells's Soran, but then I'm funny like that.
Spoiler Alert!!
Well Trek fans need wait no longer, Khan will not be reinvented for the twenty first century, at least not yet. Benedict Cumberbatch's villain will most likely be Gary Mitchell, or so Karl Urban hinted in a recent interview with UK magazine SFX. The character Gary Mitchell appeared in the original episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in which Kirk was forced to sacrifice the life of his friend for the good of everyone.
Whether or not this is a slip of the tongue or a trick to mislead fans, has yet to be seen.
