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John Harrison is thawed for a parole hearing and escapes from CryoPrison, starting a crime spree....

It's probably a red herring. I recently read somewhere that "John Harrison" was some kind of running gag on the TOS set or something like that. Minor characters with no real name would be identified with that name in scripts.

List of relevant things:
1. He's in the damn movie.
End of list.

My money is that he's "Gary Mitchell" and this Harrison is just a dodge. But, I joked on another thread that "Harrison" = "Harry's son" or Harry Mudd's son. Peter Weller is also in the flick so he might be Harry Mudd. The original pretty much played Harry for comic relief but there's nothing saying that the new Trek couldn't make him a dark villain. I think it would be a mistake but there you go. There's a lot of talk about it being Kahn as well. I hope not. Ricardo Montalban was so iconic that it would be criminal to recreate him as a young Brit.

You said everything I was going to say.

Why do villains have to have wacky names? Is it a union rule? Or are they villains because of the pressure the wacky name exerts on their psyche?

As it's been explained to me by people with a much firmer grasp on their virginity, John Harrison is a placeholder name that, in the original series, was used for many unnamed character, e.g. redshirts.

This made me laugh so hard ! The replies to your post are even flabbergasted-ly funnier: Are you guys being seriously offended, or is that toeing the specific brand of Pajiba-snark line too closely?

Whatever it is, "people with much firmer grasp on their virginity" is my all-new favorite reference to subtle sexy geekdom!

Slut!

ASSHOLE!

I will overlook all those plot problems just to keep seeing Cumberbatch look like that! Yesssss!

YESSSSSSSSSSS indeed. My god, he looks (and sounds, obviously) delicious in the trailer.

Hmmmm, Benedict Cumberbatch...*drools like Homer*

Someone wrote this on comment thread on Huffington Post:

"John Harrison is the legal name of Harcourt "Harry" Mudd - the Tribbles and Mudd's Women guy. He took a bunch of the drug he was given then women and it made him young, strong, handsome and powerful.

Benedict Cumberbatch is Harry Mudd. Only J.J. Abrams would do something like this..."

So if anyone wants to bother to find out if this is true or Bullshit more power to you.

True or bullshit? How about finding out if this was written by a crazy person tripping balls on acid who first scribbled it out in Filipino Tagalog and then translated it--badly--into English.

I can't even begin to comprehend what this means.

Yep and Alice Eve is Dr. Carol Marcus (the one night stand that resulted in Kirk's (AKA: T.J. Hookers) only "known" son David Marcus).

Not Mitchell and Denner (contrary to the haircuts).

As the timeline has changed in Abrahms Star Trek I'd be very happy in they only do original stories with a few familiar faces thrown in.

I agree. Actually, what I hated about the JJ version was that he didn't just go his own way from the get go instead of having this stupid dual universes with two Spocks nonsense. I love the new characters and would have been fine without the time travel.

Like this guy...

Or her...

Not a terribly evil-sounding name. really. It's no Cypher Raige, to be sure.

Um....are they being clever here and naming him after M. John Harrison, whose sf writing is certainly a lot more demanding intellectually than Trek.

Seriously. Read Light. It's glorious, but a bit of a head-scratcher.