The crew of the Starship Enterprise is called back home and finds that an unstoppable force from within its own organization has destroyed Starfleet and everything it stands for, leaving Earth in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Capt. James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) leads his people (Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban) on a manhunt to a war-torn world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction, thereby propelling them all into an epic chess game of life and death.