Excuse me... Excuse me... I just wanted to ask a question. What does God need

             with a starship?

After the occurrence of events in the last installment the crew of the USS Enterprise are enjoying some well deserved shore leave...and whilst the USS Enterprise remains in the spacedock for ongoin repairs Kirk attempts to climb the intimidating El Capitan and to teach campfire songs to Captain Spock. Unfortunately, their rest is interrupted when the crew is sent on an urgent mission to rescue hostages on the desolate planet of Nimbus III. Of course the Klingon's are not too pleased with Kirk's earlier capture of their vessel, and when a Klingon commander named Klaa learns of the Enterprise's mission he is in hot pursuit so that he can capture or kill Kirk. His actions are not authorized by the Klingon government, however, and he takes this quest on merely to obtain personal prestige as a warrior.

Upon their arrival at Nimbus III, the Enterprise crew discovers that a renegade Vulcan named Sybok, the emotionally-driven half-brother of Spock, has taken Klingon, Romulan and Federation representatives hostage. Sybok reveals that he used the hostage situation as a ruse in order to obtain a starship, being sure the government of one of the hostages would mount a rescue mission. Sybok uses his unique ability to share with and help conquer a person's greatest emotional trauma to gain the trust of most of the crew. McCoy accepts the experience, reliving his father's death. Spock also accepts the experience, reliving his birth. However, Kirk denies Sybok, telling him that the pain experience is what makes them Human.

Sybok then seizes control of the Enterprise, so he can breach a dangerous energy field known as the Great Barrier, to reach a mythical planet named Sha Ka Ree, where a mysterious, presumably God-like entity awaits. Sybok claims to have had visions from the entity of its existence, and feels compelled to follow those visions in order to experience the entity's possible wisdom and power first-hand. However, the planet is somewhere behind the Great Barrier, a mysterious region of space that has been walled-off from exploration since time immemorial and never breached.

Under agreement and cooperation, Sybok relinquishes the helm back to Kirk, and the Enterprise successfully crosses the Great Barrier, finding a planet in this uncharted region of space. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Sybok explore the planet, which seems completely barren until a strange outcropping of rocks rises from the ground in front of them and an entity appears to them. Masquerading as God, the entity asks the explorers how they got there. When told about the Enterprise, it demands passage aboard the ship in order to leave both the planet and the Great Barrier and to spread his knowledge to the rest of the Universe. When the skeptical Kirk questions the entity's motivation, it turns malevolent, harming Kirk. McCoy and Spock rush to his rescue, and even Spock has to ask for an answer to the question. Sybock then realizes that the alien entity is actually the manifestation of his own arrogance.

Realizing his mistake, Sybok sacrifices himself to delay the evil being long enough to allow Spock to convince the Klingon ambassador to order Klaa (who followed the Enterprise into the Barrier and to the planet) to rescue Kirk rather than kill him. Klaa's Bird-of-Prey suddenly de-cloaks and destroys the alien with a phaser blast. Kirk is beamed aboard, where he receives an apology from Klaa himself, who admits that his attack on the Enterprise was not authorized by the Klingon government.

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