Cast:
William Shatner as James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard McCoy
James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov
Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
Mark Lenard as Sarek
Merritt Butrick as Dr. David Marcus
Robin Curtis as Saavik
Christopher Lloyd as Lord Kruge
Story:
As the
U.S.S. Enterprise returns to spacedock for repairs
following the battle with
Khan in 2285.
Kirk continues to mourn
Spock's death.
McCoy suddenly enters the
Vulcan's sealed quarters, babbling incoherently. Upon reaching
Earth, McCoy is hospitalized.
Scotty is reassigned to the
U.S.S. Excelsior and the newly formed Genesis Planet is
decreed off-limits by Starfleet Command. Kirk is then informed that the
U.S.S. Enterprise is to be decommissioned.
In Kirk's quarters,
Sarek, Spock's father, confronts the Admiral, saying that Spock's
body should have been returned to Vulcan so that his katra could have
been stored in an ancient Vulcan repository on Mount Seleya. Sarek tells
Kirk that he must retrieve the coffin from the Genesis planet and, since
Spock performed a last-minute Vulcan mind-meld with McCoy, thus
transferring his "katra" or spirit, the doctor must also return to
Vulcan.
However, Starfleet refuses to allow the antiquated U.S.S. Enterprise
to leave spacedock. Released from the hospital and faced with this news,
McCoy tries to hire a craft to go back to the Genesis planet. He then
starts a brawl and is subsequently arrested, pending further psychiatric
examination. The arrest proves futile, though, when McCoy escapes with
the help of Kirk, Scott,
Sulu,
Uhura and
Chekov. The crew then beams aboard the deserted U.S.S. Enterprise.
To avoid pursuit, Scotty removes an integral engine part from the
U.S.S. Excelsior and, knowing that they've all probably destroyed
their careers, the six friends take the Enterprise out for one
final voyage.
Meanwhile, the
Klingons have
learned of the new
Genesis Device
and planet, and fear that it could be a new Federation
weapon. Lead by the treacherous
Captain Kruge, the Klingons set out to either destroy
or capture the valuable device.
On board the U.S.S.
Grissom, David Marcus and Lt. Saavik arrive at the Genesis
Planet for scientific observation. They quickly discover a lifeform
reading coming from the surface. Intrigued, the two beam to the
planet's surface to find Spock's empty coffin. Tracing the lifeform
reading, the two then find the living body of a child-Spock, aging
with erratic rapidity but lacking a consciousness or spirit.
Suddenly, the Klingons
arrive, destroying the Grissom and taking Saavik, Marcus, and the
young Spock prisoner. Shortly thereafter, the U.S.S. Enterprise
arrives in the Mutara Sector and is crippled by Kruge and his
Klingon cohorts. With the Klingons threatening the lives of their
prisoners, Kirk tries a bluff to regain control of the situation,
but is unsuccessful. David Marcus is killed by the Klingon landing
party. Faced with no other choice, Kirk surrenders the Enterprise
to the Klingons, yet in a last-ditch effort to gain the upper hand,
activates the starship's self-destruct mechanism. The small
U.S.S. Enterprise crew then beams to the surface of the Genesis
Planet, watching as their historic starship is destroyed in a streak
of light, taking with it most of Kruge's nefarious crew.
Kirk and party rescue
Spock and Saavik from the Klingons and learn that an unstable
element used in the Genesis Device threatens the stability of the
planet, which is likely to explode within minutes. One factor of
this instability, however, is the rejuvenating effect it had on
Spock's body. With the planet reaching critical mass, Spock finally
achieves the age he was just before his death on the U.S.S.
Enterprise. Kruge, still alive on the Klingon Bird-of-Prey and
angry at the death of his comrades, beams down to the planet. There,
he fights one-on-one with Kirk, eventually falling to his death. The
Enterprise crew, Saavik, and Spock then escape in the
Bird-of-Prey, just as the planet violently explodes, a victim of its
own dangerous growth.
Under Sarek's
diplomatic protection, the Klingon ship then speeds to Vulcan. Once
there, the risky ceremony fal-tor-pan is performed, fusing Spock's
katra, which resides in McCoy's mind, with the Vulcan's body. With
the ceremony seemingly successful, a revived Spock begins the long
journey of remembering his past and his friends. He questions why
the Enterprise crew risked their lives and careers to rescue
him. As his friend Jim reminds him, sometimes the "needs of the one
outweigh the needs of the many."
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