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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
In the late 23rd century, ca. stardate 7412.6, a powerful alien force - in the shape of a massive energy cloud - is detected in Klingon space and is believed to be heading for Earth. The cloud destroys starships and other objects it encounters en route. Starfleet decides to dispatch the starship USS Enterprise to intercept the "thing", requiring that its lengthy refit process be quickly finished and tested while in transit.
As part of this plan, Admiral James T. Kirk assumes his old command of the ship, angering Commander Willard Decker, who had been overseeing its refit as its new captain. With many of the former crew members of the ship aboard, the Enterprise embarks on its journey, but testing of its new systems goes poorly, resulting in further stress between Kirk and Decker. Many problems are resolved by the addition of science officer Commander Spock, who had been on his homeworld of Vulcan undergoing the kolinahr ritual. His failure to complete kolinahr led him to conclude that his destiny lay with humanity and Starfleet.
The Enterprise intercepts the alien cloud, survives its initial assault, and journeys inside the cloud, finding a vast alien vessel, which the crew learns is named V'ger. The ship gradually journeys to the center of V'ger, suffering some casualties along the way, as well as experiencing the strange transformation of navigator Lieutenant Ilia into a robotic probe. It all leads to a transcendent finale at the center of V'ger.
V'ger is revealed to be the unmanned scientific probe Voyager 6, which was part of the Voyager program, and (fictitiously) launched in the 1980s or 1990s. The damaged probe was found by an alien race of living machines that interpreted its programming as instructions from God to "learn all that is learnable" and return that information to its creator. These machines made V'ger into something capable of fulfilling that mission, and "on its journey back it gathered so much knowledge that it achieved consciousness itself!" However, Spock realizes that what V'ger lacks is the ability to give itself a purpose other than its original mission to learn all that is learnable. Having learned all that is learnable on its journey home, which took V'ger across the Universe, V'ger finds itself empty and without a purpose. Only through the creator can Vger begin to explore illogical things, such as God, other dimensions, or higher planes of being. In the climax of the film, V'ger (in the person of the Ilia probe) merges with Commander Decker and then vanishes into a higher realm of being, and thus the Earth is saved by the crew of the Enterprise.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
In the Star Trek episode "Space Seed", the USS Enterprise encountered Khan Noonien Singh and his followers in cryogenic freeze aboard a "Sleeper ship" named SS Botany Bay. The Enterprise crew revived Khan, who examinations revealed was genetically engineered as both physically and mentally superior to normal humans. When the senior officers discovered that Khan was the same tyrant who escaped in the late 20th century, Khan was imprisoned in his "guest" quarters. He subsequently escaped from confinement and revived his followers, other "supermen" who had helped him control a quarter of Earth until the 1990s. They were joined by Enterprise officer Lieutenant Marla McGivers, who fell in love with Khan and helped them seize control of the Enterprise. After defeating Khan and his crew, the episode concluded with Captain James T. Kirk exiling them to the inhospitable but survivable Ceti Alpha V, where they could build their own civilization, rather than their talents going to waste in a Federation penal colony.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan begins fifteen years later as Admiral James T. Kirk is spending his birthday reviewing a training exercise. As expected, Lieutenant Saavik has lost the "no-win" Kobayashi Maru Scenario, "a test of character" every cadet is expected to fail. Questioning over her failure, Kirk assures her with the advice that "A no-win situation is something every commander may face." Further, he counsels, "how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life."
Outside the training room, Kirk thanks Captain Spock for the antique copy of A Tale of Two Cities that Spock (who now commands the Enterprise) has given him as a gift. Spock returns to the Enterprise to prepare for Kirk's inspection, and Kirk returns to his San Francisco, California apartment. Dr. Leonard McCoy arrives, bringing illegal Romulan ale for refreshment, and antique reading glasses as a gift; the latter are also practical, since Kirk is allergic to the usual medication that would treat his age-related vision problems. In front of his guest, Kirk resumes brooding. The sombre "party" prompts McCoy to demand why they're treating his birthday like a funeral. He charges that Kirk is using his birthday as a pretense. The truth is that Kirk regrets no longer commanding a starship, and he finds his duties as an admiral unsatisfying.
Meanwhile, the starship USS Reliant believes they have found a suitable test planet for Project Genesis. Over subspace communications, molecular biologist Dr. Carol Marcus head of the project team, which is located aboard Spacelab Regula One emphasizes that the planet must be completely lifeless: "There can't be so much as a microbe, or the show's off." Captain Clark Terrell and first officer Commander Pavel Chekov beam down to the planet to confirm, but lifeless it is not. They discover cargo containers with signs of human habitation, but no people. When Chekov discovers a seatbelt with "Botany Bay" as an inscription, he grows terrified. Realizing who is on the planet, he tells Terrell they have to leave immediately but Khan and his followers are outside and capture them. Khan's history is briefly laid out in an exchange with Chekov, whom Khan remembers (see below, "Space Seed" actually was before Koenig joined the cast). When Khan says that Kirk marooned them "here," Chekov accuses him of lying, because they were left on Ceti Alpha V. Khan angrily bursts out, "This is Ceti Alpha V!" He explains, "Ceti Alpha VI exploded, six months after we were left here." The shock shifted Ceti Alpha V's orbit such that it went from inhospitable to nearly unsurvivable. Khan now realizes the Reliant mistook the planet as Ceti Alpha VI and that thus, Chekov and Terrell hadn't been expecting to find him there at all. He therefore questions Terrell and Chekov about their actual mission was, but they remain silent. Khan then uses the slug-like young of "Ceti Alpha V's only remaining indigenous inhabitant" the ceti eels to gain control over Terrell and Chekov. The creatures burrow through their victims' ear canals to their brains, leaving them in a highly suggestive state. Khan nods with satisfaction, once again addressing Terell and Chekov: "That's better. Now tell me, why are you here? And tell me where I may find . . . James Kirk."
As Kirk inspects the trainee crew on the Enterprise, which has set out on a training cruise, the Enterprise receives a garbled and enigmatic message transmitted to Kirk from Carol Marcus at Regula One. The message complains of Kirk's apparent order relayed by the brainwashed Chekov aboard the Reliant at Khan's direction that the Genesis Device be immediately transferred to Reliant upon the starship's arrival at the spacelab. When communications become completely jammed, he assumes command from Spock and orders the Enterprise to divert course to Regula to investigate.
En route to Regula One, the Enterprise encounters the Reliant, which is unresponsive to hails. Saavik starts to quote General Order Twelve, but Spock interrupts her: "Lieutenant, the admiral is well aware of the regulations." In a serious lapse of judgment, Kirk neglects to raise Enterprise's shields as it continues hail the Reliant. The Reliant then responds with a voice message, claiming that the starship's chambers coil is overloading its communication's system a claim that Spock's scans immediately refute. With the ships nearly on top of one another, the Reliant both raises her shields and locks phasers on the Enterprise. Kirk orders the shields to be raised, but is too late: the Reliant has fired a direct hit on the Enterprise's engine room, causing severe damage. The crippled Enterprise is then hailed to discuss terms of surrender. On visual, a smug Khan can hardly contain his glee as he declares he is avenging himself on Kirk. Kirk offers to surrender himself and beam over, if Khan will let the Enterprise and its crew go. Khan accepts if Kirk also turns over all information the Enterprise has on Project Genesis a good sign, notes Spock, as it means Khan didn't find any Genesis data at the Regula station. Kirk stalls, claiming difficulty in retrieving the data. This allows Kirk and Spock precious few moments to instead retrieve the Reliant's security access prefix code from the Enterprise's computers the Enterprise transmits the code, ordering the Reliant's computer to lower the starship's shields. The Enterprise uses its last bit of phaser power for precise shots that damage the Reliant and force its retreat.
(In the Director's Edition, Peter Preston's death scene in Sickbay is extended to include an exchange between Kirk and McCoy, wherein Kirk laments his earlier lapse of judgment: "We're alive only because I knew something about these ships that he [Khan] didn't."). The Enterprise limps its way to Regula One. Kirk, McCoy and Saavik beam onto the station and find the staff brutally murdered, all memory banks erased, and Terrell and Chekov in stunned shock. Discovering that something was beamed into the center of the Regula planetoid (which the station orbits), Kirk calls the Enterprise and receives a very grave damage report. He instructs Spock that if the landing party doesn't signal within one hour, the Enterprise crew must restore what power they can and head for the nearest starbase. The five beam to those coordinates and discover three survivors, including Carol and David Marcus.
William Shatner's enraged scream of "Khan!" in this film has become a staple of pop culture.Terrell and Chekov suddenly pull out their phasers, order them all not to move, and call the Reliant. Khan orders Terrell to kill Kirk, but Terrell struggles with the order. After vaporizing the third Regula staff member, he turns his phaser on himself. Chekov collapses as the mind-controlling slug exits his body. Kirk then challenges Khan to come down to kill him, but Khan simply beams up Genesis, and the following, widely parodied exchange ensues (see YTMND):
Khan: "I've done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her: marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet, buried alive. Buried alive."
Kirk: "KHAAAAAN! KHAAAAAAN!"
Carol suggests to her son that he show McCoy and Saavik the "Genesis cave," with food "enough for a lifetime, if necessary," to ensure an opportunity to talk privately with Kirk. Her subsequent dialogue with Kirk reveals she was his old love, and that David is their son. She held custody because she wanted him with her, "not chasing around the universe like his father." David grew up resenting his father, possibly for the mere fact that Kirk was too occupied with command. When David says, "Mother, he killed everybody we left behind!" (believing the worst in his father), he apparently recognizes Kirk, but Kirk doesn't realize the young man is his son. Kirk asks Carol, "Is that David?" with such surprise that he probably hasn't seen David in years, perhaps not since birth.
Saavik and McCoy are amazed when David shows them how the Genesis Device transformed the interior of the Regula planetoid into a life-rich environment. But now unable to hail the Enterprise, they worry more for the ship and crew than for themselves. After relating the tale of how he was the only cadet to beat the Kobayashi Maru, Kirk surprises everyone by contacting Spock: their exchange before beaming down was a ruse to trick Khan, who they knew was intercepting any transmissions. Spock beams the party aboard, and Kirk begins thinking of how they can escape the Reliant, which is not as badly damaged and still has more firepower.
Kirk manages to outwit and outmaneuver Khan in the nearby Mutara Nebula. With the Reliant disabled and about to be boarded, Khan sets the Genesis Device to detonate. The Enterprise has lost warp power since the first battle, and on limited impulse it has no chance to escape. Spock, unnoticed in the desperation, goes down to Engineering. He is about to enter the reactor room when McCoy stops him, saying "No human can tolerate the radiation that's in there!" Spock replies that McCoy himself knows he isn't human; he then distracts McCoy and nerve-pinches him, apologizing that he has "no time to discuss this logically." Spock enters the room and successfully makes repairs amidst heavy radiation streams. On the bridge, a cadet monitoring the Engineering station announces the main engines have come back on line. With seconds to spare, Kirk orders Commander Hikaru Sulu engage the warp engines, and the Enterprise narrowly escapes just as the Genesis Device detonates.
The Enterprise in the Mutara NebulaThe final victory over Khan comes at a tragic price: even Spock's half-Vulcan body cannot withstand the lethal dosage of radiation he has suffered. Kirk races to engineering, arriving only in time to exchange a few brief words with his first officer and closest friend. After Spock satisfies himself that the ship is out of danger, he declares his friendship for Kirk, and dies. At the very emotional funeral, Kirk eulogizes his old friend, and Spock's body, encapsulated in a photon torpedo, is launched onto the newly formed Genesis planet. Afterward, David comes to his father's quarters to make peace: "I'm proud, very proud, to be your son." The final scene features a captain's log voiceover entry by Kirk (indicating the Enterprise will head to Ceti Alpha V to rescue the Reliant's stranded crew), followed by a brief conversation between Kirk, McCoy, and Carol on the Enterprise bridge as they whimsically watch the new Genesis Planet on the viewscreen. Both the log entry and the conversation are steeped in symbolism, and muse provocatively about how Spock's death is not an end, but a beginning:
Kirk (voiceover): "Captain's log, stardate 8141.6. Starship Enterprise departing for Ceti Alpha V to pick up the crew of U.S.S. Reliant. All is well. And yet I can't help wondering about the friend I leave behind. 'There are always possibilities,' Spock said. And if Genesis is indeed life from death, I must return to this place again."
McCoy: "He's really not dead . . . as long as we remember him."
Kirk: "It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. Its a far better resting place that I go to than I have ever known."
Carol: "Is that a poem?"
Kirk: "No. Something Spock was trying to tell me on my birthday."
McCoy: "You okay, Jim? How do you feel?"
Kirk: "Young (voice cracking). I feel young."
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
A few weeks after the events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the USS Enterprise limps back to Earth, scarred from its battle with Khan in the previous movie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Once there, Admiral James T. Kirk is informed that the obsolete vessel's days are over (it is stated to be 20 years old, but official production timelines place it as about 40 years old, with Kirk's command of the Enterprise being about 20 years); it won't be refit, but will instead be retired, and its crew reassigned. Meanwhile, Dr. Leonard McCoy exhibits strange behavior, somehow related to the deceased Captain Spock.
Simultaneously, Kirk's son Dr. David Marcus and Lieutenant Saavik explore the Genesis planet, created at the end of the last film. Unknown to them, Klingon commander Kruge becomes interested in Genesis, and travels to the Genesis planet to learn its secrets.
Spock's father Sarek turns up on Earth and discovers with Kirk that McCoy possesses Spock's "katra" (soul), but that both his katra and body are needed to properly lay him to rest on his homeworld Vulcan, or McCoy could die. Disobeying orders, Kirk reunites his officers and steals the Enterprise to head to the Genesis planet, which is beginning to self-destruct.
Kruge arrives at Genesis first, destroying the research vessel USS Grissom there. His crew captures the scientists on the planet David, Saavik, and a Vulcan child and then the Enterprise arrives. The Enterprise strikes first, hitting the Klingon ship as it de-cloaks, but is unable to raise shields during the Klingon counterattack. The Enterprise is crippled, and Kirk is powerless to prevent the Klingons from killing David on the planet. Instead of surrendering, Kirk self-destructs the Enterprise to kill Kruge's men, and defeats Kruge in hand-to-hand combat on the planet's surface, which is rapidly disintegrating. Kirk tricks the lone Klingon on board the Bird of Prey into beaming Kirk and Spock up, then takes the ship over. The crew return to Vulcan, where Spock's katra is reunited with his body.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
A huge alien probe approaches Earth and begins boiling its oceans, causing widespread mayhem and draining the power from nearby ships. Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew return from their mission to revive Captain Spock on Vulcan, despite knowing that they will face court-martial for the theft of the USS Enterprise. Spock, who is still recovering mentally, discovers that the alien ship is trying to contact humpback whales, which unfortunately were hunted to extinction two centuries ago.
Kirk orders their hijacked Klingon Bird-of-Prey to slingshot around the sun in order to travel back in time to the late 20th century. Arriving in San Francisco, California in the year 1986, the crew hides their ship in Golden Gate Park. Thereafter, they attempt to find both the whales needed to communicate with the alien probe, as well as materials to repair the Bird-of-Prey's drives, which were damaged in travel. Kirk and Spock eventually recruit the assistance of Dr. Gillian Taylor, a cetacean specialist.
After rescuing two humpback whales and bringing them back (and saving Earth in the process), the crew is brought before the Federation Council facing numerous charges. Spock, though not accused, stands with his crewmates. All charges against the accused are dropped, except for those against Admiral Kirk. Pleading guilty of disobeying a superior officer, Kirk is demoted to Captain as a token reprimand, but as reward for his heroics is given command of the USS Enterprise-A. Dr. Taylor, who came to the 23rd century with the Enterprise crew, decides to join Starfleet.
A sub-plot, which is presented as a narrative frame, shows Spock gradually recovering both his memories and his previously-earned acceptance of his human heritage. At first, he does not understand the relevance of being asked his feelings; by the end, he is aware enough of their importance to humans that he asks his father to tell his mother that he "feel(s) fine".
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Following the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the crew of the USS Enterprise is enjoying some well-deserved shore leave. The newly-christened starship's shakedown cruise goes poorly and is in Earth Spacedock for repairs. In Yosemite, Captain James T. Kirk faces two challenges: climbing El Capitan and teaching camp fire songs to Captain Spock. Unfortunately their rest is interrupted when the crew is sent on an urgent mission to rescue hostages on a desolate planet called Nimbus III.
A Klingon commander named Klaa learns of the Enterprise's mission and pursues so that he can capture or kill Kirk, whom the Klingon people see as a criminal beacuse of his actions in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. 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 passage onto the Enterprise.
Sybok then 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. 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 entity (that could be God) 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. Together, he and the crew begin to search for this mysterious planet.
However, although they manage to pass through the Great Barrier and discover Sha-Ka-Ree, the entity there turns out to be a malevolent force, trapped on the planet aeons ago and using Sybok as a pawn to acquire a starship as a means for its escape. 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 and McCoy (who had accompanied Sybok during his meeting with the entity).
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
The Klingon economy is thrown into turmoil after the explosion of their homeworld's moon Praxis, a key Klingon energy production facility, ruins their homeworld's atmosphere. Estimates are made that the Klingon Homeworld has only a 50-year supply of oxygen remaining. No longer able to maintain a hostile footing, the Klingon Empire sues for peace with the Federation. Starfleet chooses to send the USS Enterprise to meet with Chancellor Gorkon to open negotiations, a decision that doesn't sit well with Captain James T. Kirk, who lost his son to Klingon commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Captain Kirk, upon rendezvousing with Gorkon's battle cruiser Kronos One at the Klingon border, invites the Klingon chancellor along with his guests to dinner aboard the Enterprise. The dinner does not go well, as the humans and the Klingons spar on the eventual course of the projected peace, discussing, among other things, the possible annihilation of Klingon culture. (Kirk, later: "Note to galley: Romulan ale no longer to be served at diplomatic functions...")
Whilst en route to Earth, some time after the ceremonial dinner, the Enterprise appears to fire upon the unguarded Kronos One with a pair of torpedoes. The hits are scored in strategic spots on the ship's underside, and, among other things, artificial gravity on board the Klingon vessel fails. During the calamity, two men wearing Starfleet atmospheric suits and magnetic boots beam aboard Kronos One, and fight their way through to the chancellor's private room. Chancellor Gorkon is assassinated, although General Chang is notably absent. Captain Kirk, after surrendering the Enterprise, beams aboard Kronos One with Dr. Leonard McCoy in an effort to save the chancellor's life. They fail, are arrested, accused of the crime (In Kirk's case, ordering the attack; in McCoy's case, failing to save the Chancellor's life.) and taken to Qo'noS for trial while Gorkon's daughter, Azetbur, becomes the new chancellor, and wishes to push forward with diplomatic negotiations, this time, for reasons of security, on a neutral world, the location of which is kept a secret from the general public and from most Starfleet and Klingon Defence Force officers.
Valeris, on bridgeKirk and McCoy, after a show trial on Qo'noS, are taken to the gulag planet Rura Penthe, a forced labor camp. After a brief time there, they meet a shapeshifter by the name of Martia, who conveniently offers them a method of escape. After making their way across the frozen wasteland that is the prison world, they are betrayed by Martia, who is killed by Klingon guards upon arriving at the scene. The Enterprise, however, manages to con its way past bored Klingon border guards, beam up the two in time, and escape across the border unmolested.
Kirk proceeds to contact the USS Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu. Unbeknownst to him, but revealed in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the Excelsior had just been forced to retreat from Klingon space after Sulu had also decided to stage a rescue attempt. Kirk learns of the location of the peace conference. Both ships, at opposite ends of Federation territorial space, head for the conference, at Camp Khitomer, at maximum speed. Shortly before reaching it, the Enterprise is intercepted by Chang's modified Bird of Prey, which can fire while cloaked, and was responsible for firing on Kronos One. Chang fires upon the Enterprise multiple times, and then upon the Excelsior when Sulu arrives midbattle, until a specialized torpedo, modified by Captain Spock and Dr. McCoy to track engine emissions from the Klingon ship, impacts Chang's vessel. The Excelsior and the Enterprise then fire repeatedly on the ship, which succumbs to the assault.
Parties from both ships beam to the conference, halt an assassination attempt on the Federation President, kill the assassin, and arrest several conspirators. Afterwards, the Enterprise heads back for Earth, to be decommissioned, but not before the crew takes one last defiant joyride.
Star Trek Generations
Not long after the USS Enterprise-A completed its final mission in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Captain James T. Kirk, Captain Montgomery Scott and Commander Pavel Chekov attend the christening of its successor, the USS Enterprise-B, commanded by Captain John Harriman. On its shakedown cruise, however, it goes to the rescue of a vessel being destroyed by an energy ribbon called The Nexus. During the efforts, the Enterprise-B hull is breached, Kirk disappears, and is presumed dead.
78 years later, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D find themselves fighting the insane scientist Dr. Tolian Soran, who with the help of the renegade Klingon sisters Lursa and B'Etor, is attempting to reach the same energy ribbon so he can enter it and live in its simulated bliss forever. Soran's plan involves launching special projectiles into stars which destroy the stars, creating immense gravitational surges that steer the Nexus off its normal course through space toward the planet Veridian III, where Soran intends to meet the Nexus in person. In an initial attempt to stop Soran, Geordi is captured by the Klingons, who place a transmitter in Geordi's visor which allows them to use the visor like a video camera. When he eventually goes to Engineering, they learn the Enterprise 's shield frequency. They then alter their weapons accordingly and attack, causing severe damage. The Enterprise finally destroys the Klingon ship, but the accumulated damage leads to a massive warp core failure. The saucer section separates and attempts to escape, but the explosion caused by the warp core failure destroys the stardrive section and damages the saucer, causing it to crash-land on Veridian III. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who earlier had gone down to Veridian III to try to stop Soran, is engulfed by the Nexus along with Soran. The gravitational surge caused by the destruction of Veridian III's star annihilates the planet, along with the wreckage of the saucer and the survivors.
After realizing that he is in the Nexus, Picard is able to move from one dimension of the Nexus into another in order to find Captain Kirk (who, by Kirk's point of view, had just entered the Nexus from when the Enterprise-B was attacked). Picard enlists Kirk's help in stopping Soran on Veridian III. They use the Nexus to go back in time to the point before Soran launches the star-killing projectile at Veridian III's sun. Picard and Kirk successfully stop Soran, although Kirk is mortally wounded. Picard buries Kirk on a mountain, then is taken by shuttle to help rescue the surviving Enterprise-D crew.
Star Trek: First Contact
Following the destruction of the USS Enterprise-D in Star Trek: Generations, the bridge crew, with the exception of Worf, were transferred to a new Sovereign class starship, the USS Enterprise-E. Shortly before the beginning of the film, a Borg cube ship has entered Federation space on a course for Earth. However, instead of stationing their most advanced vessel among the fleet assembled to protect Earth, Starfleet has assigned the Enterprise to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone. Because of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's past experience with the Borg, Starfleet considered him too unstable to lead a ship into battle against them.
At the beginning of the story, Picard chooses to disobey his orders and takes the ship to Earth, where the Starfleet armada has engaged the Borg (see Battle of Sector 001). Upon arriving, the Enterprise takes part in the fighting and transports aboard survivors from the heavily damaged USS Defiant, including its commanding officer, Lt. Commander Worf. The cube ship is defeated by the fleet, but shortly before its destruction ejects a sphere ship, which the Enterprise pursues. The sphere heads toward Earth and opens and travels through a tunnel through time, through which the ship follows. The two arrive in 2063, and the Borg ship begins to fire on a former nuclear missile launch-facility in the northwest region of the United States. The Enterprise destroys the sphere; however, unknown at this time, a number of Borg drones including the Borg Queen managed to transport into a Jeffries tube aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E's engineering section.
Picard, realizing that the Borg were attempting to destroy the Phoenix, Earth's first warp-capable vessel, has an away team, including himself, transport in civilian clothes to the missile silo housing it. Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge and an engineering team work on the damaged vessel while Commander William T. Riker attempts to convince Dr. Zefram Cochrane, designer and pilot of the ship, to go through with the flight tomorrow, knowing that the time of his warp test is imperative to establishing first contact with the Vulcans. At the same time, Captain Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher return to the Enterprise with Lily Sloane, Cochrane's assistant, who was injured in the attack.
Meanwhile, the Borg begin to assimilate the equipment and crewmembers that they encounter on the Enterprise, taking over main engineering and moving upward through the decks. Realizing their presence, Picard leads the remaining officers against the Borg, during which Lt. Commander Data is taken by the Borg and Picard encounters Lily in a Jeffries tube, whom he informs as to what's happening. The two flee from a group of drones and take refuge in a holodeck, which Picard loads with a scene from a Dixon Hill holonovel in a crowded nightclub and configures it with safeties off. He then obtains a Tommy gun and kills the Borg with it; his manner indicates to Lily his great hatred for the Borg. He takes a chip from within a drone which stores the matters on the collective's schedule.
The two return to the rest of the crew and find that the Borg are building a communications antenna on the Enterprise's navigational deflector to call for assistance from the Borg of this time. Picard, Worf, and Lieutenant Hawk don space suits and magnetic boots and venture out on to the hull armed with phaser rifles. They make their way to the deflector dish and begin to switch on the three manual controls that release the central part of the dish. The drones building the antenna begin to move against the three. They manage to assimilate Hawk; Picard moves over to Hawk's control and activates it while Worf kills Hawk. The released plate, carrying several Borg and the antenna, begins to move away from the Enterprise and is destroyed with a rifle when a safe distance away.
Meanwhile, the Phoenix has been repaired and Cochrane convinced to make the attempt. The vessel is launched on April 5, 2063 as it is supposed to be and exits Earth's gravity without incident.
On the Enterprise, the Borg have continued to climb upward. Worf advocates setting the ship's self-destruct function and abandoning the ship via escape pods. Picard refuses to allow the Borg to cause the loss of the Enterprise. The two argue this heatedly until Lily convinces Picard that his hate of the Borg is clouding his reasoning. He agrees to destroying the ship. As the crew are escaping the ship, he doesn't join them, instead going down into engineering to recover Data.
Meanwhile, Data has been taken to the Borg Queen, who has been attempting to entice him to join her through replacing pieces of his skin with human skin and connecting them to his nervous system, helping him in his goal of becoming human. When Picard enters main engineering, the Borg queen says that Data may leave with him if he wishes; Data refuses. The queen then has Data deactivate the self-destruct program, which he does, and fire on the Phoenix; he fires, deliberately missing the Phoenix, however, and then kills the queen by breaking open a tube carrying a coolant that dissolves organic tissue on contact. The death of the queen causes the collective onboard the ship to fail. Picard saves himself by climbing up on tubes dangling from the ceiling until the gas has drained from the room. Data, his patches of real skin gone, reveals that he had considered her offer of joining her for only 0.68 seconds - although "to an android, that can be an eternity."
The Phoenix test is a success. Shortly after Cochrane returns, the Vulcan survey ship T'plana'hath lands in the camp to make first contact with humans, having detected the warp signature from the Phoenix. The Enterprise crew returns to the ship, and it returns to its own time using the means that the sphere ship did.
Star Trek: Insurrection
During a diplomatic mission, the USS Enterprise receives a communication that Lt. Commander Data has gone berserk during an observation mission on the Ba'ku homeworld. After capturing and fixing Data they return to the Ba'ku village on the planet's surface to find out what caused him to malfunction. They find a Federation ship which contains a holodeck reproduction of the Ba'ku village, apparently so the Ba'ku can be unwittingly relocated without their knowledge.
The peaceful Ba'ku, whose planet offers regenerative radiation and therefore incredible lifespans, live in harmony with nature and reject any kind of technology. Their planet and their culture is studied by the Federation and the associated Son'a - in secrecy.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew discover that the Briar Patch (the area of space in which the planet Ba'ku is located) is filled with metaphasic radiation particles, which impart fountain of youth qualities that the Federation and the Son'a wish to harvest. However, harvesting the particles would cause the planet to become uninhabitable, hence the need for the holoship.
Against orders, Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew return to the planet's surface to prevent the relocation of the Ba'ku. When Picard is captured by the Son'a and the Federation, he reveals to Admiral Matthew Dougherty that the Son'a are actually Ba'ku who were exiled from the planet a century ago and are simply out for revenge.
The Son'a, lead by Adhar Ru'afo, intend to abduct the Ba'ku in order to take the planet for themselves and for the Starfleet officials who would like to regenerate their bodies. But they did not anticipate the Enterprise crew's loyalty to the Prime Directive.
Star Trek: Nemesis
While the crew of the USS Enterprise prepares to bid farewell to first officer Commander William T. Riker and Counselor Deanna Troi, who have married each other in Alaska, they find the remnants of an android resembling Lt Cmdr Data on a planet close to the Romulan Neutral Zone called Kolarus III. When the android is reassembled, it reveals its name as B-4, a predecessor to Data.
The ship is then ordered by Admiral Kathryn Janeway to a diplomatic mission to Romulus, the homeworld of the Romulan Star Empire, which has undergone a military coup and is now controlled by a mysterious young Reman named Shinzon. The Romulan Praetor Shinzon proves to be a clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who appears to want peace but has some nasty plans for both the Romulans and the Federation.
The Enterprise crew detects a break-in on the ship's computer systems, and Picard is captured by the Romulans because Shinzon needs him as his only matching supplier of genetic material, which he needs to repair his rapidly degenerating body as a result of the cloning process used to make him. The crew finds out that B-4 is a spy who helped transfer information from the Enterprise to Shinzon, and is able to replace him with Data to rescue Picard. Picard and the crew can escape only to find themselves battling Shinzon's completely cloaked Warbird, the Scimitar, which is Shinzon's custom-built weapon designed for one purpose: the complete destruction of Earth.
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