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Benedict Cumberbatch Lathers Up in New 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Deleted Scene

Brace yourselves, Cumberbitches.

A portion of that deleted Benedict Cumberbatch shower scene from "Star Trek Into Darkness" Alice Eve was teasin' earlier this month was just served up last night by director J.J. Abrams.

Yep, there's ole' Benny shirtless and Khaning it up. All that intensity plus some sudsies! Aaaaaah and such! If you wanna just watch that on loop (totally normal), here you are.

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We do recommend using Conan's sexy sound bite as background music.

Now for why this came out so soon instead of in the eventual Blu-ray combo pack super duper extra special features teaseage which will surely come later, well, here's the deal: Earlier this week, "Trek" screenwriter and producer Damon Lindelof publicly answered criticisms about the film's "gratuitous" display of Eve's voluptuousness (that's just fancy talk for "zoomz on the bazoomz"), so while on "Conan" last night, Abrams himself decided to weigh in with his two cents on the matter.

Like Lindelof, he was quick to remind viewers that his male beauty Chris Pine was also unclothed on-screen because that makes everything different (read: equal opportunity sexposition), but he also offered up his take on the purpose of the Alice Eve bra scene.

Alice Eve bra scene in Star Trek Into Darkness

"The intent was, it's Kirk who was always a sort of womanizing character. So, the idea was have a beat like that in the midst of all this action and adventure, have a beat where he looks and then looks away," he explained. "I don't think I quite edited the scene in the right way, but look, to me, it was a sort of balance. There's a scene earlier where he's not dressed either, so I felt like it was a sort of trade-off, but some people did feel like it was exploiting her and while she is lovely I can also see their point of view."

That's when he extended an olive branch by putting this shot of Cumberbatch's dripping torso out there.

Is all forgiven yet?

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