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A massive energy cloud from deep space heads toward Earth, leaving destruction in its wake, and the Enterprise must intercept it to determine what lies within, and what its intent might be.

Khan Noonien Singh, whom Kirk thwarted in his attempt to seize control of the Enterprise fifteen years earlier (“Space Seed”), seeks his revenge on the Admiral and lays a cunning and sinister trap.

The plot picks up shortly after the conclusion of the previous film. When McCoy begins acting irrationally, Kirk learns that Spock, in his final moments, transferred his katra, his living spirit, to the doctor. To save McCoy from emotional ruin, Kirk and crew steal the Enterprise and violate the quarantine of the Genesis Planet to retrieve Spock, his body regenerated by the rapidly dying planet itself, in the hope that body and soul can be rejoined. However, bent on obtaining the secret of Genesis for themselves, a renegade Klingon and his crew interfere, with deadly consequences.

While returning to stand court-martial for their actions in rescuing Spock, Kirk and crew learn that Earth is under siege by a giant probe that is transmitting a destructive signal, attempting to communicate with the now-extinct species of humpback whales. To save the planet, the crew must time-travel back to the late 20th century to obtain a mating pair of these whales, and a marine biologist to care for them.

Spock’s half-brother believes he is summoned by God, and hijacks the brand-new (and problem-ridden) Enterprise-A to take it through the Great Barrier, at the center of the Milky Way, beyond which he believes his maker waits for him. Meanwhile, a young and arrogant Klingon captain, seeking glory in what he views as an opportunity to avenge his people of the deaths of their crewmen on Genesis, sets his sights on Kirk.

When Qo’noS’ moon Praxis (the Klingon Empire’s chief energy source) is devastated by an explosion, caused by over-mining, the catastrophe also contaminating Qo’noS’ atmosphere, the Klingons make peace overtures to the Federation. While on the way to Earth for a peace summit, the Klingon Chancellor is assassinated by Enterprise crewmen, and Kirk and McCoy are held accountable by the Chancellor’s Chief of Staff and sentenced to life on a prison planet. Spock attempts to prove Kirk’s innocence, but in doing so, uncovers a massive conspiracy against the peace process with participants from both sides.

Picard enlists the help of Kirk, who is presumed long dead but flourishes in an extra-dimensional realm, to prevent a deranged scientist from destroying a star and its populated planetary system in an attempt to enter that realm. This film also included original crew members Scotty and Chekov.

After a failed attempt to assault Earth, the Borg attempt to prevent First Contact between Humans and Vulcans by interfering with Zefram Cochrane’s warp test in the past. Picard must confront the demons which stem from his assimilation into the Collective (“The Best of Both Worlds”) as he leads the new Enterprise-E back through time to ensure the test and subsequent meeting with the Vulcans take place.

Profoundly disturbed by what he views as a blatant violation of the Prime Directive, Picard deliberately interferes with a Starfleet admiral’s plan to relocate a relatively small but seemingly immortal population from a mystical planet to gain control of the planet’s natural radiation, which has been discovered to have substantial medicinal properties. However, the admiral himself is a pawn in his alien partner’s mission of vengeance.

A clone of Picard, created by the Romulans, assassinates the Romulan Senate, assumes absolute power, and lures Picard and the Enterprise to Romulus under the false pretext of a peace overture.

In the 24th century, a supernova destroys Romulus. Piloting a one-man vessel, Spock attempts to contain the supernova by generating an artificial black hole, but is assaulted by a Romulan mining vessel captained by Nero, who is bent on vengeance for Spock’s failure to save Romulus; both vessels are pulled into the black hole and sent back in time to the 23rd century. Nero then captures Spock and uses the black-hole technology to destroy Vulcan. Spock’s present-day younger self, who is a Starfleet Academy instructor, and a volatile and arrogant cadet named James Kirk must then set aside their current differences, and join forces to prevent Nero from consigning Earth and the rest of the Federation worlds to similar fates.

A Starfleet special agent coerces an officer into blowing up a secret installation in London, shoots up a subsequent meeting of Starfleet brass in San Francisco, and then flees to Qo’noS. The crew of the Enterprise attempt to bring him to justice without provoking war with the Klingon Empire, but find there is much more to the agent’s mission, and the man himself, than what the Fleet Admiral has told them; the agent is none other than Khan Noonien Singh; his allegiance and his motives are initially not at all clear.

The Enterprise is ambushed and destroyed by countless alien micro-vessels; the crew abandon ship. Stranded on an unknown planet, and with no apparent means of escape or rescue, they find themselves in conflict with a new sociopathic enemy who has a well-founded hatred of the Federation and what it stands for.