On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last
stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was looking for Ambassador
Spock, who is a child on Vulcan at that time, disdained by his neighbors
for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young
troublemaker inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in
Starfleet even as he annoys his instructors like young Cmdr. Spock.
Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS
Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu,
Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself thanks to Leonard McCoy's medical
trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier
where the old legend is altered forever even as the new version of it is
just beginning.
When the Romulan mining ship Narada attacks the Federation starship US
Kelvin, Captain George Kirk substitutes his captain, who is going to meet
the Romulan Captain Nero in his vessel to negotiate a cease fire, in the
command of the US Kelvin. He orders the evacuation of the damaged starship,
including his wife that is in labor; while she delivers their son James
Tiberus Kirk in the hospital shuttle-craft, George Kirk crashes the US
Kelvin against the Narada. The reckless and troublemaker Kirk grows up and
when he meets Capt. Christopher Pike in a bar fight, he is invited to join
the Starfleet. Meanwhile in Vulcan, the outcast Spock grows-up
discriminated by his half-human condition. They meet each other in the
Starfleet Academy, where Spock accuses Kirk of lack of ethics, cheating a
test of command. The trial is suspended with the information that Vulcan is
under attack and the Federation starships head to Vulcan, including the
recently commissioned USS Enterprise. Kirk, who is a stowaway, foresees an
alien attack and advises Captain Pike; however, the Enterprise is damaged
and when Captain Pike travels to meet Captain Nero, Spock assumes the
bridge and has a serious friction with Kirk after the destruction of
Vulcan. Kirk is accused of mutiny and stranded in the desert planet Delta
Vega. Out of the blue, he is saved from an attack of an alien animal by an
old Spock that explains to him that Captain Nero blames him and the
Federation for the destruction of his home planet Romulus by a supernova.
Spock explains that he had failed with the creation of a black hole with
red matter to consume the supernova and Nero is seeking revenge. Now Kirk
has to find a way to save Earth, the next destination of Narada.