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You used domestic for Star Wars, while using worldwide for Star Trek. In reality, it's more like this (all the following is using your source, Box Office Mojo):

Star Wars (1977): $775,398,007
The Empire Strikes Back (1980): $538,375,067
Return of the Jedi (1983): $475,106,177
The Phantom Menace (1999): $1,027,044,677
Attack of the Clones (2002): $649,398,328
Revenge of the Sith (2005): $848,754,768

Star Trek (2009): $385,680,446


So, yeah, Star Trek has nothing on Star Wars, when the least grossing of the series is one-and-a-half the gross while being 26 years older. And then you have to account for inflation. Using a cheap Google Search for an inflation calculator, you get the following:

Star Wars (1977): $2,836,911,315
The Empire Strikes Back (1980): $1,446,515,253
Return of the Jedi (1983): $1,055,963,798
The Phantom Menace (1999): $1,369,560,867
Attack of the Clones (2002): $804,987,182
Revenge of the Sith (2005): $966,640,488

Star Trek (2009): $403,215,022


While this not only proves the utter mega-succes of the original Star Wars (Avatar can eat s**t) and the original trilogy, it also increases Star Trek's loss to half of the least selling Star Wars movie. Also, the 2009 Star Trek is by far the most successful Star Trek movie, when First Contact (which I find the best personally) comes in second with just $146,027,888 total gross (The Voyage Home has higher domestic gross though, but lacks worldwide)

So to conclude, it is extremely unlikely that Star Trek Into Darkness will outgross the 2015 Star Wars movie, as I don't see evidence of Star Wars's popularity being in any substantial decline.

That said, I'm always as big a Star Trek fan as I am a Star Wars fan though, so I'm highly anticipating the new Star Trek movie. I think it's going to be awesome !

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Off topic EDIT: Just for fun I looked up two other monumental movies to see which wins:

Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937): $184,925,486 or a staggering $2,858,146,670 in today's money and Gone with the Wind (1939): $400,176,459 which equals to an amazing $6,394,305,143! Damn, guess we know what movie wins .