My lord, we are survivors of a doomed expedition. This planet will destroy itself in

          hours. The Genesis experiment is a failure.

The third installment follows hotly on from the second film, with the USS Enterprise carrying the crews of the Enterprise and the USS Reliant back to earth. Once back on earth Kirk is told that the Enterprise will become obsolete and the crew reassigned. Menwhile Dr. Leonard McCoy's behaviour becomes rather strange....he seems to be channeling both Spock's behavioru and voice....yet as we know from the last film Spock is dead.....isnt he.

Simultaneously, Kirk's son Dr. David Marcus and Lieutenant Saavik are now on board the research vessel USS Grissom to explore the genesis planet, created at the end of the last film. The two transport down to the planet's surface to explore its terraforming progress. While there, they discover, much to their shock, that Spock's body has been resurrected by the Genesis effect, although his mind is no longer present and he operates on a purely child-like level. Marcus, pressed by Saavik, admits that he used unstable proto matter in building the Genesis device to solve certain problems. Without it, he claims that the Genesis Project could have been delayed by years or would have never been completed at all. The unstable matter puts the planet in a state of accelerated evolution that will conclude with the planet's premature destruction.

However a klingon commander, Kruge, has gained information about Genesis and develops an interest in it, so much so that he travels to the planet. Back on earth Spock's father (Sarek) discovers that McCoy possesses Spock's katra, or essentially his soul. Effectively Spock's body and soul must return to hishomeworld in order for him to rest in peace, and unfortunately McCoy could also die as well in the process. Disobeying direct orders prohibiting anyone from visiting the Genesis Planet, Kirk reunites with his bridge officers and steals the Enterprise and travels to the remote world, which is beginning to self-destruct due to accelerated aging. Scotty disables the pursuing USS Excelsior, a ship that is technically advanced with "Trans-Warp Drive", but easily sabotaged.....

Kruge arrives at Genesis first, destroying the USS Grisom. His crew locates and captures the scientists on the planet: David, Saavik, and a now-teenaged Spock. Kirk and the skeleton crew of the Enterprise arrive, unaware that the Klingon ship and its crew are cloaked nearby. The Enterprise detects the cloaked Bird of Prey and strikes first, hitting the Klingon ship as it de-cloaks, but is unable to raise its shields because after the two photon torpedoes were fired the automation systems had overloaded. During the Klingon counterattack, the Klingons fire one torpedo and cripple the Enterprise, disabling all bridge systems. Kruge demands that they surrender and orders his troops that he had sent to the surface of the Genesis Planet to kill one of the prisoners. David defends Saavik, who was to be the intended victim, and dies as a result. Kirk is devastated to hear his son has been murdered.

Rather than surrender, Kirk orders McCoy and Sulu to the transporter room. Kirk, Scotty and Chekov order the ship to self-destruct, and they escape the Enterprise for the last time. The computer counting down at first confuses the majority of Kruge's crew who had just beamed over to complete the ship's capture; they are all killed as the ship self-destructs. The crew of the Enterprise watches as their home for the last twenty years disintegrates as it enters the atmosphere. They find Saavik and Spock and free them from their captors. Moments later, Kruge beams to the planet and has everyone but Kirk and Spock beamed aboard his Bird of Prey. Still demanding the technology of the Genesis project, Kruge and Kirk engage in hand-to-hand combat on the disintegrating planet. Kirk defeats Kruge, who plunges into a volcanic rift. Kirk quickly grabs Spock, and, imitating Kruge's voice, shouts the order to beam them both aboard Kruge's ship.

The crew return to Vulcan, where Spock's katra is reunited with his body, which will reunite Spock's mind with his body. Dr. McCoy agrees to the ritual, knowing that it is quite risky for both him and Spock. The ritual is successful, and Spock is resurrected alive and well, though his memories are still extremely fragmented.

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