Did Entertainment Weekly just reveal the 'Star Trek' villain's true identity?

Not only that, but it COMPLETELY shoots down the idea that this is an "Alternate Timeline" rather than a total reboot that ignores the original continuity. Unless Nero popping up in the 23rd century somehow radically altered the late-20th Century Khan was born in as well.

Meh.  I LOVED the last movie, but I gotta say, this Cumberbatch dude is highly unattractive and there's nothing interesting or intense about his face.  The idea of this guy playing Khan, does not compute with me at all....and I don't understand why they're even putting Khan in the movie in the first place!

The whole script from the first film was a complete joke. This sequel will be no different. I understand wanting to appeal to the audience that thought origonal trek was "boreing" but seriously; I really don't give a rats **** if the "thrill me with high tech action" crowd thought trek was boreing or they didn't posess an intelect that understood it. Why appeal to people who are "not fans?" I like the idea of an alternate timeline to a point. If they can manage to fix it back the way it was at the end of 3 or 4 movies then so be it. Kirk went back in time a lot to fix things and so also did Picard. They got so many things wrong with the first reboot it is clear that Abrams didn't care about the story and that "alternate" time explaination is just a bs cover really. Rodenberry would be ashamed of this movie; especially with Sulu fighting like a ninja master. One of the reasons for trek was because Gene wanted to paint a picture of how good humanity could be. He took great pains to eliminate stereotypes like this and that is why he really never had sulu in a position to take on the stereotypical role of the japanese samuri. The enterpise was never built in Iowa, it was built at the ship yards in california. There are not any canyons in Iowa as I can attest to that because I live 30 miles away from Riverside. Checkov would have never been there at that time considering that he didn't appear on the show until the second season. Uhura could not have ordered a cardassian sunrise as the Federation had not met their people until picards time. There were no Orion slave girls in star fleet or anywhere near earth for that matter. The federation was at war with the pirate cartels at that point and time. Old spock would not have simply accepted the fate of vulcan nor would he have simply chose to colonize a new planet and let this travesty to the normal course of history take place. He would have devised a way to go back to the future (which is possible because they have done it before with his computations) and he would have attempted to fix what went wrong rather than let this new timeline unfold naturaly. He wouldn't have allowed this to happen given that he could actually fix it. He wouldn't have allowed it because so much would be different. Picard would be different, Kirk, etc. He would care about these things because he was alive even in picards time (see Unification TNG). The romulans do not even look like romulans they look more like humans with crappy looking pointed ears. They couldn't even get that right which is pathetic. Captain Pike was not the first captain of the new enterprise after John Archer. Robert April was the first captain of the 1701 for several years before Pike took command. I find it hard to believe that the destruction of the ship that George Kirk was on; changed "all" of these things. It's a pathetic excuse for, "I'll just make it how I want it to be and if anyone asks, we'll just blame it on the alternate universe thing." What a joke. These movies were a complete insult.

This whole reboot is just pointless. I refuse to see the first one and this one. If this is Khan then I'm guessing that they look for Spock in the 3rd one and then look for whales in the 4th. Bring me a REAL Star Trek film or new series that actually continues what Gene Rodenberry started.

Of course it's Khan.  Or else it's a blatant ripoff.  Anything else would fail to trigger the nostalgia that the first movie relied upon so extensively.  They already tried to create a compelling, new villain in Nero and failed utterly.

It's not Khan you idiots,It's Gary Mitchell(from"Where No Man Has Gone Before").

there is one other person it could be there was a person in the first series that is could be other than khan i do not remember the name but he and a blond were changed by a energy field and given telekinetic ability it could be that person there was the i am better than you attitude to him too