Paramount Pictures has released the announcement teaser for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness which you can watch below! A longer teaser trailer will come online on December 17.

Opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on May 17, the film stars John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve and Peter Weller.

In Star Trek Into Darkness, when the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis.

With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

UPDATE: The Japanese version of the same video has also been uploaded to the iTunes Movie Trailers website and it contains an additional 14 seconds of footage along with a final shot that should be hauntingly familiar to "Star Trek" fans. Check it out in the player beneath the domestic version.