It is stardate 84544.130 and Captain Kirk and most of his senior staff are an shore leave. Captain Kirk faces two challenges teaching Spock campfire songs and climbing Yosemite's El Capitan. Shore leaves are cut short when there is a hostage situation on Nimbus 3 where Kirk and his crew are sent to rescue the hostages with his newly commisiond U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701-A. Spock's half brother Sybok hijacks the Enterprise and sets course for the great barrior (Center of the galexy) to find the Vulcan god named Sha Ka Ree. Will Sybok find Sha ka Ree or will he find an evil entity? The answer is in the movie

Story by William Shatner & Harve Bennett & David Loughery

Screenplay by David Loughery

Directed by William Shatner

Produced by Harve Bennett