Ironically, the Star Trek D-A-C downloadable PC and console game from the first film ended up scoring higher across the board on Metacritic (50 PC, 53 Xbox Live) than the much more expensive shooter that had such promise.

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The writer and director, John Singleton, is a twenty-three-year-old graduate of the U.S.C. film school.

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