Abrams recalled: It’s odd. But my favorite thing about it was the first week it was out there, the fans were going, ‘Star Trek Into What? I don’t understand it. It’s stupid.’
He added to Total Film magazine: “It definitely feels like the title’s appropriate. This is a story about these characters being challenged and tested and taken to a place that’s about sacrifice and life and death …”
Producer Damon Lindelof added: “If the first movie was about meeting and introductions, this movie is about becoming a family. The title of the movie is not just about the mission that the Enterprise is going on but what happens when you get to know each other a little better and the hurdles you must jump over in order to truly become family.”