YOU ARE ACCESSING THE LCARS COMMAND INTERFACE - ORIGINAL SERIES DATABANK
James T. Kirk:
William Shatner
Spock: Leonard Nimoy
Leonard "Bones" McCoy: Deforest Kelley
Chekov: Walter Koenig
Sulu: George Takei
Uhura: Nichelle Nichols
Kruge : Christopher Lloyd
Lt. Saavik: Robin Curtis
Dr. David Marcus: Merritt Butrick
Vulcan High Priestess:
Dame Judith Anderson
Klingon Prisoner:
John Larroquette
Heading home, the Enterprise receives no replies from Starfleet regarding the
Genesis planet. Most of the trainees have been reassigned to other
ships by now, and Kirk is still mourning the death of Spock. Arriving
at space dock, the crew also sees the USS Excelsior, a ship much
larger than the Enterprise which has the faster transwarp propulsion
system. But before the ship can rest easy, someone breaks into Spock's
cabin, which Kirk had declared off-limits. Kirk goes there himself and
hears Spock's voice asking why his body was left on the Genesis
planet. Kirk finds that McCoy, on the edge of a nervous breakdown, is
the trespasser. On arrival, Admiral Morrow reveals that the Enterprise
is to be decommissioned instead of repaired, and also tells the crew
that the Genesis device has become a hot topic in the Federation and a
topic not to be discussed openly. Scotty is made Captain of
engineering for the Excelsior, and the rest of the crew are promised
extended leave.
Klingon Captain Kruuge, having obtained an illegal copy of the Genesis
proposal from a pirate vessel (which he then destroyed), orders his
ship, a new Klingon Bird of Prey armed with a cloaking device, to the
Genesis planet to investigate the device's potential as a weapon for
the Klingons. At the same time, the USS Grissom, with its new science
officer Saavik and Genesis specialist David Marcus, arrives at the
planet and detects life signs near the torpedo tube in which Spock's
body had been disposed.
Kirk and his officers,
minus the hospitalized McCoy, relax at Kirk's home when Sarek, Spock's
father, visits. Sarek mind-melds with Kirk in search of Spock's katra
- his spirit. Revealing that Vulcans can pass their spirits on to
others when their bodies are near death, Sarek admits that Kirk does
not possess Spock's spirit. Kirk checks ship's logs and sees that
Spock did, in fact, pass his katra on - to McCoy. Sarek tells him that
McCoy must be taken to Vulcan so that Spock can be released into a
body of his own.
After arguing with Captain
Esteban, Saavik and David get permission to beam down, where they find
that the life form is a kind of giant slug, probably having developed
from microbes on the torpedo's surface. But they also find the body of
Spock missing, and the planet seems very unstable, with extreme
weather conditions isolated in random geological locations.
Kirk tries to get
permission from Admiral Morrow to return to Genesis and retrieve
Spock's body, but is unable to convince Morrow of the validity of
Vulcan mysticism. McCoy, in the meantime, tries to hire a private ship
from an alien merchant in a bar, but is removed by Starfleet agents
when he begins to argue loudly with the alien about going to Genesis.
McCoy is put in detention, where Kirk visits him, and, with Sulu's
help, distracts the guards and smuggles McCoy out of the holding area.
Uhura, having taken an assignment at a transporter station, beams
Kirk, McCoy and Sulu to the Enterprise, where Chekov is waiting.
Scotty, in the meantime, has divided his time between sabotaging the
Excelsior's warp drive and preparing the Enterprise for operation by a
minimal crew. Kirk and the others, minus Uhura, who plans to travel to
Vulcan with Sarek, steal the Enterprise from space dock. Captain
Stiles and the Excelsior are ordered to pursue, but Scotty has
disabled the larger ship's supposedly superior capabilities.
The Enterprise continues
unchecked toward Genesis. On the planet, Saavik and David follow more
life form readings through a zone of Arctic cold until they hear the
cries of a child, who turns out to be a very young Vulcan male. They
contact the ship with a theory that the Genesis wave may have
resurrected Spock. Before allowing the landing party to return,
Captain Esteban tries to contact Starfleet but communications are
jammed.
Kruuge's ship uncloaks and attacks, and the Grissom, a small
vessel meant only for scientific duties, is destroyed with a single
shot, leaving David, Saavik and the young Spock marooned. Kruuge and a
party of his men beam down to find them and interrogate them about the
Genesis device. While trying to elude the Klingons, David reveals to
Saavik that he took some shortcuts with the development of Genesis,
resulting in the planet's abnormalities and a dangerous acceleration
of the age of the planet as well as all life-forms present during the
Genesis detonation - meaning the childlike Spock. Spock's rapid aging
means that the male Vulcan's mating drive that normally strikes every
seven years of adulthood will occur with greater frequency in his
accelerated development and will also bring periods of instability to
the planet.
The Enterprise arrives at
Genesis, where it is awaited by Kruuge's Bird of Prey, which cannot
fire while cloaked. Sulu detects the ship despite the cloaking device
and fires before the Klingons can attack. Kruuge beams up from Genesis
and takes charge of the battle. firing back at the Enterprise and
destroying most of Scotty's automatic systems. Kruuge - after one of
the Klingons remaining on the surface kills David - forces a
grief-stricken and enraged Kirk to surrender. Kirk sets the Enterprise
to self-destruct and, with the others, abandons ship and beams down to
Genesis just as most of Kruuge's men board the Enterprise. Kruuge
realizes what is about to happen, but not in time to save his crew.
The Enterprise destroys itself and the Klingons aboard, and the debris
plunges into the atmosphere of the Genesis planet as Kirk and the
others do away with the Klingon guards left on the surface. Kruuge has
the last remaining member of his crew beam him to the planet, where
Kirk promises to give him the secrets of Genesis in exchange for
beaming the others to Kruuge's ship. Kirk and Kruuge fight furiously
as the planet begins to tear itself apart, and Kirk manages to kick
his Klingon opponent off a cliff and beams up to the Bird of Prey. The
last Klingon is taken prisoner, and the ship is set on a course for
Vulcan.
Sarek and Uhura greet Kirk
and the others on Vulcan, now carrying Spock's body which had, before
leaving Genesis, grown to roughly the same age as it was when Spock
died. McCoy and Spock are taken to the Vulcan High Priestess, who
performs a dangerous ritual to return Spock's mind to his body and
free McCoy from the effects of Spock's katra. The process is
successful, and McCoy is restored to health. Spock, however, will have
to be re-educated on Vulcan, and will never be exactly the same again.
Kirk and the others decide to stay on Vulcan for a time and receive
political asylum from Sarek.
Last edited by Adge - April 2018