Benedict Cumberbatch

Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, and Zoe Saldana are outgunned and outnumbered in the full trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the new baddie, and this trailer gives a lot more details about his mysterious character than the last teaser. He's a former top agent out for vengeance after his commanders commit a crime he apparently cannot forgive. Thus, he takes out his anger by attacking London, then assures our old Star Fleet friends that none of them is safe. The new trailer also gives us a lot more footage of Cumberbatch's well-laid plans and the action that follows.

Star Trek Into Darkness, with its murderous villain, looks like it has a more serious undertone than its 2009 predecessor. I can't wait to see Cumberbatch go into full-on bad-guy mode — while some are used to seeing him as the snarky Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock, he seems to have the evil thing down pat. The movie is due in theaters May 17, and you can watch the new trailer after the jump.

It's no secret that we're quite fond of our British brethren across the pond, but can you blame us? So many stars of geek film and TV call the UK home, and it just so happens that most of our favorites are appearing — together! — in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Neverwhere by fantasy-fiction legend Neil Gaiman.

Has the universe exploded yet?

Benedict Cumberbatch of Sherlock, Natalie Dormer who plays Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings's Sir "Saruman" Christopher Lee, James McAvoy aka Professor X, and Sophie Okonedo, David Harewood, and Bernard Cribbins — all of whom have appeared in our beloved Doctor Who — are lending their voice talents to the six-part radio play.

Neverwhere is a drama about an alternative subterranean world called London Below, and the average-man-turned-extraordinary-hero Richard Mayhew (played by James McAvoy) who happens upon the dark and dewey confines below the United Kingdom's largest city.

BBC Radio 4 is streaming all the episodes from the radio play on the web. The show premiered on March 16, and you can catch up with the series on demand until March 29. Neverwhere's finale, "The Key," airs March 22.

Listen to the star-studded cast of Neverwhere bring Neil Gaiman's miniseries/novel/comic book to life, and let us know what you think of the dramatic audio adaptation.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, stars of BBC's Sherlock, kept it professional during a read-through of the show's third season, which premieres Fall 2013. Cumberbatch also revealed that our favorite Sherlock duo would be reprising their roles for a fourth season!

Production and filming of the new Sherlock episodes are in full swing, and we can't wait to how director Steven Moffat's mysterious tease words ("Rat. Wedding. Bow.") for series three — as they say in the UK — will play out.

But don't fret, fans of geek TV! You don't have to wait until September to watch your favorite shows on the small screen. This month marks the return of Doctor Who, who is ready to take your interstellar call on March 30 at 8 p.m. EDT on BBC America.

And don't forget about the Iron Throne-hungry cast of Games of Thrones, who will continue to deceive and pillage for power and dominance starting March 31 on HBO.

Earlier this month, we got a sneak peek at Star Trek Into Darkness, which essentially indicates that our old pals Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) are in for some trouble, courtesy of a brand-new bad guy played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Now we've got another trailer to dissect, which offers up a little more information. Namely, we see that Spock is still going strong with Nyota (Zoe Saldana), and that he's forced to make a decision for the good of his family — but we don't see exactly which family member is in danger. Overall, it's a little more scary, and a lot more intense, which should hold us over until a full trailer arrives.

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The Star Trek Into Darkness poster that we saw the other day hinted that villain Benedict Cumberbatch was going to have a taste for destruction, and this brand-new footage confirms just how nasty he's going to be. In this teaser, we finally get a look at the Star Trek sequel and what Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) will be up to, and by the looks of things, it's running from Cumberbatch's character. He's the only person who has any dialogue in this peek, and as he preaches about vengeance and the world not being safe, we see the characters we got to know in the first film, including Uhura (Zoe Saldana), and Sulu (John Cho), along with new faces like Alice Eve.

It's fun to be reunited with the familiar characters, but everyone's in such mortal danger that I'm hoping that there's some fun to this sequel. I can't complain too much — this does look pretty exciting, and I'm curious to get a better look at the insane creature director J.J. Abrams has come up with this time. Star Trek Into Darkness comes out May 17, and you can watch the teaser after the jump.

Star Trek Into Darkness will descend into theaters next Spring, but there's still a lot we don't know about the sequel, like Benedict Cumberbatch's role (we know he's the villain, but we don't know who his character is — or how bad he is). This new poster, however, gives us a little bit of insight, showing Cumberbatch's character standing over a destroyed London (framed by the iconic Star Trek symbol). The imagery is also evocative of the sequel's title — if that's not darkness, I don't know what is. This is getting me excited for the movie's May 17 release, and I want to hear your thoughts and theories about this poster, too. Weigh in and see a bigger version after the jump.

With season two of BBC and Masterpiece Theater's Sherlock complete, fans have too long to wait for new episodes of the detective and his trusty sidekick. Thankfully, the Internet always comes through for us, this time as a stop-motion animation of the season's climactic final scene with the role of Sherlock played by a cape-wearing Lego.

Watch the Lego-fied, spoiler-filled last nine minutes of the finale "The Reichenbach Fall" below. Again, spoilers ahead!