When the crew of the Starship Enterprise reprises their role in J.J. Abrams 2013's Star Trek sequel, fans of the original series should expect a familiar face for the film's villain. While the identity of the "big bad," played by Benedict Cumberbatch of Sherlock, is still under wraps, Simon Pegg debunked widespread rumors that Khan was in the running.

"It's not Khan. That's a myth. Everyone's saying it is, but it's not. I think people just want to have a scoop. It annoys me - it's beyond the point to just ferret around for spoilers all the time to try to be the first to break them," Pegg said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.

"It just spoils the film. It masquerades as interest in the movie but really it's just nosiness and impatience. You just want to say, 'Oh f*** off! Wait for the film!" he adds

Zachary Quinto, who plays the role of Spock, recently said that Star Trek 2 is "bigger and bolder than the first one, that was pretty big and bold from my stand point. I'm really excited to see what they do with it."

He continues, "I feel like, you know, my work is done on the movie right now and until we have to go and promote it, then my work remains done and I let JJ and his incredible team of people get in there and do the work that they need to do now."

"I feel very fulfilled, but I don't feel particularly attached to what the outcome of the project will be because I have faith in the people that I was collaborating with to make it as good as it can be."

Chris Pine, otherwise known as Captain Kirk, affirms that "the threat is even greater" in Star Trek 2 than the original.

Star Trek 2 opens on May 17, 2013 and stars Chris Pine, Zachary Qunito, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Alice Eve, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Noel Clarke, and Peter Weller.

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Germick is right: As a television series, Star Trek was far ahead of its time. For starters, there was the multiethnic cast, which included Asian-American and African-American actors. And then in November of 1968, there was "Plato's Stepchildren," an episode thatfeatured one of the first interracial kisses in television history. The participants? Captain Kirk, played byWilliam Shatner, and Lieutenant Uhura, played by Nichelle Nichols. 

"It didn't hit me at the time until somebody told me," Nichols told The Huffington Post earlier this year. "I splashed onto the TV screen at a propitious historical moment. Black people were marching all over the South. [Martin Luther King, Jr.] was leading people to freedom, and here I was, in the 23rd century, fourth in command of the Enterprise."

In fact, Nichols later revealed in an interview with NPR, King was actually a driving force in persuading her to stay on the show when she was mulling other career opportunities. This happened in the 1960s, at anNAACP fundraiser in Beverly Hills. Nichols was approached by King, who claimed to be a "Trekkie" himself, as well as her "greatest fan." 

Nichols confessed she was thinking of leaving Star Trek. 

" 'You cannot do that,' " King said, in Nichols' recollection. "And I was stunned. He said, 'Don't you understand what [series creator Gene Roddenberry] has achieved? For the first time, we are being seen the world over as we should be seen.' He says, 'do you understand that this is the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch.' I was speechless," Nichols remembered.

In the end, she decided to stay – and the television world, nor the galaxy itself, was ever the same again. 

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