During a Berlin press conference for Star Trek Into Darkness, director J.J. Abrams was asked about Michael Giacchino’s score for the movie, as well as who might be scoring his next movie, Star Wars Episode VII.

While it’s very early in the process still, Abrams did say that he believed that the man you’d most expect to be scoring the movie, John Williams, would be the man that does score the movie.

Continue below to see a video of the press conference.

Sometimes it pays to be a little bit subtle, but when it comes to something like the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, it doesn’t because people want answers now. So leave it to Playboy to ask the questions, and leave it to J.J. Abrams to stand his ground and skirt around questions that everyone wants to know.

Check out what he had to say about both franchises here after the jump.

While the director wouldn’t talk about plot specifics, he did talk about how he would approach making Star Wars: Episode VII:

We are less than a month away from the release of the long-in-the-works tentpole sequel Star Trek Into Darkness and now that the last of the trailers has been released it is time for the tricking out of short clips from the movie to begin. Today we have one that those of you lucky enough to catch the nine-minute preview last December before IMAX 3D screenings of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will remember.

You can watch it here below.

Two trailers and a viral campaign later, we have our third trailer for the upcoming J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek Into Darkness. Though it is a bit of a retread on what we have seen before, this trailer puts emphasis on just how vulnerable the Starship Enterprise really is, and just how eager Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) is to avenge the glorious Federation after it has been hit by numerous interstellar terrorist attacks.

Hit the jump to check out the final trailer for the film.

Just what does it mean to be outgunned, outmanned, and outmatched in the Star Trek universe? Well, based on this trailer, it looks like the people of the starship Enterprise have their work cut out for them. But no matter what stands before our heroes, Captain Kirk knows what he has to do to put an end to the villainous John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch). So, we will see how strong Kirk’s will is to put a stop to Harrison when Star Trek Into Darkness opens in theaters on May 17, 2013.

It’s pretty well-known that if J.J. Abrams is going to be attached to anything, we won’t know much about it until we see the actual film. It’s something of a standard practice for the filmmaker to keep the audiences interested throughout the production of his projects, and although Star Trek Into Darkness is just under two month away, we are still nowhere closer to finding out the details of Benedict Cumberbatch’s villainous character in the sequel. But some new pictures from Empire should be more than enough to whet our geek appetite until the film’s release.

Check out some of the new images below.