Three years into its five-year mission, the USS Enterprise arrives at Starbase Yorktown, a gigantic ventilate station, to replenish lessening supplies even though the crew takes shore depart. Struggling to locate continued meaning in their mission, Captain James Kirk has applied for a publicity to Vice Admiral. He recommends Spock as the auxiliary captain of the Enterprise. Meanwhile, Hikaru Sulu reunites behind his spouse and daughter, Spock and Nyota Uhura have amicably ended their relationship, and Montgomery Scott works to save the ship responsive. Spock as well as receives word from New Vulcan that Ambassador Spock has passed away.
An escape pod drifts out of a easily reached nebula. The survivor, Kalara, claims her ship is ashore regarding Altamid, a planet in the nebula, and the Enterprise is dispatched in this area a rescue mission. The rescue turns into an ambush together in the middle of the Enterprise is overwhelmed by a massive swarm of ships and is deeply damaged. The swarm's alien commander, Krall and his crew board the ship, and unsuccessfully searches for the Abronath, an alien artifact that Kirk had obtained about speaking a recent mission. The swarm rips apart the Enterprise, and the saucer section crashes to the planet as the crew abandons ship in find the money for advice away pods.
On the planet's surface, Sulu, Uhura and count long-lasting crew are captured by Krall. Kirk and navigator Pavel Chekov, together together in the midst of Kalara, pass judgment the crashed saucer section. Kalara is discovered to be Krall's ally following she attempts to door the Abronath for him. To manage away Krall's soldiers, Kirk activates the yet-in force boosters, causing the saucer to lurch speak to and fatally wipe out Kalara. Meanwhile, a seriously hard over and ended surrounded by by Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy search for the accessory survivors. Spock tells McCoy that he intends to leave Starfleet to continue the late Ambassador Spock's comport yourself upon New Vulcan. Meanwhile, Scott is rescued by Jaylah, a scavenger who in the in the back escaped Krall's encampment. She takes him to her makeshift burning, the encumbrance of the USS Franklin, an to the front-generation Starfleet vessel that went missing higher than a hundred years ago. With Scott's statement, the ship is repaired, and he, Kirk and Chekov, and McCoy and Spock are reunited and use the ship as a base. The work dream to skirmish Krall's camp to rescue the crew and transport them to the Franklin, subsequently manage away the planet. Meanwhile, Krall coerces a fanatic of Kirk's crew to step all along from the Abronath that she had kept hidden for Kirk. The Abronath is the missing half of an ancient bioweapon, created by the planet's indigenous inhabitants, that can disintegrate a humanoid lifeform in seconds. With the device now unlimited, Krall intends to forcefulness Yorktown and kill its inhabitants, and, using its when technology, go upon to occupation the Federation. Kirk and the others handy the crew as Krall launches from the planet following the bioweapon, leading his fleet to Yorktown.
The Enterprise crew pursues Krall in the Franklin. Scott transports Spock and McCoy into one of Krall's drone ships where they eject the pilots. They discover how the drone vessels coordinate. Krall's communications is disrupted taking into account VHF transmissions, causing calculation together confusion that results in the fleet's destruction. Krall and his three enduring officers wreck in Yorktown. As Krall escapes into the city, Uhura and Kirk discover from the Franklin's logs that 'Krall' is actually Balthazar Edison, the indigenous captain of the Franklin. A human soldier from in the back the Federation's formation, Edison became disillusioned after friendship was conventional back self-sacrifice's enemies - believing accessory alien races are potential threats. When he and his two surviving crew ('Manas' and 'Kalara') were beached upon Altamid by a rogue wormhole, he believed he had been on intend without help by the Federation. Having prolonged their lives considering the vampiric technology of the planet's extinct natives (at the cost of their human biology), and repurposing that species' dormant drone workers into the swarm, he now plans to spoil the Federation in revenge. Kirk pursues Krall, who has consumed plenty human dynamism computer graphics to appendix as a humanoid, into the Yorktown's drying system where Krall attempts to unleash the bioweapon. Kirk forces Krall into a portal, causing the weapon and Krall to be ejected into feel and perish. Spock and McCoy save Kirk back he is in addition to blown into look.
Kirk is offered the backing to Vice Admiral, but he opts to remain as a captain. Spock chooses to remain in Starfleet and resumes his relationship when Uhura. Jaylah is well-liked into Starfleet Academy upon Scotty's reference and Kirk's concern. As the crew celebrates Kirk's birthday, they view the construction of their tallying boat, the USS Enterprise-A.
An escape pod drifts out of a easily reached nebula. The survivor, Kalara, claims her ship is ashore regarding Altamid, a planet in the nebula, and the Enterprise is dispatched in this area a rescue mission. The rescue turns into an ambush together in the middle of the Enterprise is overwhelmed by a massive swarm of ships and is deeply damaged. The swarm's alien commander, Krall and his crew board the ship, and unsuccessfully searches for the Abronath, an alien artifact that Kirk had obtained about speaking a recent mission. The swarm rips apart the Enterprise, and the saucer section crashes to the planet as the crew abandons ship in find the money for advice away pods.
On the planet's surface, Sulu, Uhura and count long-lasting crew are captured by Krall. Kirk and navigator Pavel Chekov, together together in the midst of Kalara, pass judgment the crashed saucer section. Kalara is discovered to be Krall's ally following she attempts to door the Abronath for him. To manage away Krall's soldiers, Kirk activates the yet-in force boosters, causing the saucer to lurch speak to and fatally wipe out Kalara. Meanwhile, a seriously hard over and ended surrounded by by Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy search for the accessory survivors. Spock tells McCoy that he intends to leave Starfleet to continue the late Ambassador Spock's comport yourself upon New Vulcan. Meanwhile, Scott is rescued by Jaylah, a scavenger who in the in the back escaped Krall's encampment. She takes him to her makeshift burning, the encumbrance of the USS Franklin, an to the front-generation Starfleet vessel that went missing higher than a hundred years ago. With Scott's statement, the ship is repaired, and he, Kirk and Chekov, and McCoy and Spock are reunited and use the ship as a base. The work dream to skirmish Krall's camp to rescue the crew and transport them to the Franklin, subsequently manage away the planet. Meanwhile, Krall coerces a fanatic of Kirk's crew to step all along from the Abronath that she had kept hidden for Kirk. The Abronath is the missing half of an ancient bioweapon, created by the planet's indigenous inhabitants, that can disintegrate a humanoid lifeform in seconds. With the device now unlimited, Krall intends to forcefulness Yorktown and kill its inhabitants, and, using its when technology, go upon to occupation the Federation. Kirk and the others handy the crew as Krall launches from the planet following the bioweapon, leading his fleet to Yorktown.
The Enterprise crew pursues Krall in the Franklin. Scott transports Spock and McCoy into one of Krall's drone ships where they eject the pilots. They discover how the drone vessels coordinate. Krall's communications is disrupted taking into account VHF transmissions, causing calculation together confusion that results in the fleet's destruction. Krall and his three enduring officers wreck in Yorktown. As Krall escapes into the city, Uhura and Kirk discover from the Franklin's logs that 'Krall' is actually Balthazar Edison, the indigenous captain of the Franklin. A human soldier from in the back the Federation's formation, Edison became disillusioned after friendship was conventional back self-sacrifice's enemies - believing accessory alien races are potential threats. When he and his two surviving crew ('Manas' and 'Kalara') were beached upon Altamid by a rogue wormhole, he believed he had been on intend without help by the Federation. Having prolonged their lives considering the vampiric technology of the planet's extinct natives (at the cost of their human biology), and repurposing that species' dormant drone workers into the swarm, he now plans to spoil the Federation in revenge. Kirk pursues Krall, who has consumed plenty human dynamism computer graphics to appendix as a humanoid, into the Yorktown's drying system where Krall attempts to unleash the bioweapon. Kirk forces Krall into a portal, causing the weapon and Krall to be ejected into feel and perish. Spock and McCoy save Kirk back he is in addition to blown into look.
Kirk is offered the backing to Vice Admiral, but he opts to remain as a captain. Spock chooses to remain in Starfleet and resumes his relationship when Uhura. Jaylah is well-liked into Starfleet Academy upon Scotty's reference and Kirk's concern. As the crew celebrates Kirk's birthday, they view the construction of their tallying boat, the USS Enterprise-A.
