'Star Trek Into Darkness' screenwriter regrets Alice Eve's underwear scene

'Star Trek Into Darkness' screenwriter Damon Lindelof has apologized for the "gratuitous" scene that showed Alice Eve stripping down to her underwear.

"I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress," the New York Daily News quoted him as posting on Twitter.

Lindelof, who co-wrote the script with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, is under heavy criticism over a scene that has the 31-year-old actress' Dr. Carol Marcus stripping down to her underwear on the flimsiest of pretexts.

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