Star Trek: 10 Plot Twists Everyone Saw Coming

4. Tribble Your Troubles Away

Star Trek: The Search for Kirk doesn't have the same ring to it. Probably best, therefore, that they didn't spend the next film doing it when the irradiated roles were reversed. If Star Trek: Into Darkness was the remake of The Wrath of…, the McGuffin in both was still McCoy. In the former, it was more 'remember that tribble (?)' than 'remember,' and then time to collect more super-blood. The twist in Into Darkness was about as subtle as either "Khaaaaaaan".

Out of the warp core, into the cryo-tube, as the saying goes. No sooner was Kelvin Kirk dead than he was being put on ice. "We haven't needed to freeze anyone since we developed warp capability," Doctor McCoy had said regarding the augment ice lolly in the torpedo tube. Oh, don't be so sure, my dear Bones! Don't be so sure!

No ship-to-ship soliloquies either, in this one they had Khan on board. That way, McCoy could inject those magical "platelets into the deceased tissue of a necrotic host". Oooh, that sounds important! Cut to "[tribble chittering softly]," as the subtitles elegantly put it, and we've come full circle. There are worse things you can do with those furry thwarters of the Klingon Empire. With all that super-blood, the real twist might be the rise of super-tribble to rule them all!