While the frame remained mostly out of sight behind Abrams, the screen behind the director clearly shows a character with his or her face covered by some kind of mask, one that didn't appear anywhere in the previous "Star Trek" film. Since we don't have much context for the shot, it's difficult to say who might be under the mask, but from the looks of it, the character doesn't appear to be a member of Starfleet.
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Most sites are reporting that this is most likely our first look at a Klingon. We do know that J.J. Abrams had included the Klingons in his 2009 Star Trek film, but left those scenes on the cutting room floor. Take a look below at one of those scenes and compare those Klingons with the figure from above. What do you think?
"Star Trek 2" stars Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Karl Urban, John Cho and Alice Eve. The film is expected to be in theaters
May 17, 2013.