Boldly running where I've never gone before

The latest in the Star Trek movie franchise is called “Into Darkness” and features this excellent poster in its publicity campaign:

Have you ever felt like that?  Like you’re the only one standing, surrounded by masses of smoldering rubble, on the precipice of something potentially horrible and wonderful at the same time?  It’s called life.  And all too often we find ourselves at such a crossroad.

Survival is job one at these moments; living, moving forward and making progress trumps all else.  You can’t really make plans because you know neither what lies ahead nor what you are going to do with it.  You just know you will succeed because, like starship captains have been saying back as far as the 20th century, failure is not an option.

That’s 2013.