There are a few things to be gleaned from these pictures. The first is that the villain seems to be human. He had no ear make-up or prosthetic pieces of any kind indicating he's some sort of alien villain. I like this is idea mostly because whenever Star Trek tries to create a new species of villain for a movie they tend to screw it up terribly (such as Star Trek Insurrection). Granted this doesn't stop them from also screwing up a human villain, but there are less chances of it.
Another thing I (along with all the sites reporting these pictures) noticed was the Starfleet logo on the villain's shirt. Is/was he a member of Starfleet? Or is he some other villain who has taken a Starfleet uniform? A lot of people are speculating that he's Gary Mitchell, an old friend of Kirk's from the Academy in the original series.
Personally, the most telling thing about these photos is how well the villain is able to handle himself against Spock. If you remember from the first movie when Kirk attempted to defend himself against Spock it didn't too well for him. Here though it seems that Cumberbatch has not only escaped a Vulcan nerve pinch, but is seen even holding Spock in his own death grip.
To me, this could mean that our villain is part of the Eugenics, or rather the type of augmented human that Khan was. Of course then the question is: couldn't this be Khan? Certainly, it could be a different interpretation. I would hope that Abrams and crew wouldn't try to re-interpret Khan and simply opt to go for an original villain instead of being bound by the old lore.
So what do you guys thing? Do you guys have any wild ideas about who or what the villain could be?
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(All photos by Eric Ford of On Location News)
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