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

New York: ` 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. ANI