How to make sense of Star Trek: Into Darkness

I saw Star Trek: Into Darkness recently. For a long time, it seemed really stupid. Why is Kirk acting batshit crazy? Why can’t Spock control his emotions for a moment? What is Khan trying to achieve? How is there a deep space transporter? And so on, and so on, and so on! Then it hit me. Nothing is what it appears… After figuring this out about half-way through the movie, the rest of it made so much more sense!

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