企业号宇宙飞船遨游在太空，在人类和外星人中间传播好意，同时也在防范敌对星球有可能的攻击行为，因为有迹象表明，星际联盟的老对头罗木兰星球有可能发起新一轮的攻击。皮卡特船长和他的船员们也在小心翼翼的观察着事态的进展，时刻准备投入战斗。

　　柯克船长（克里斯·派恩 Chris Pine 饰）和企业号的船员们来到了银河系中未知的一个区域，开始完成他们5年的任务——探索新世界，寻找新物种。却在途中滞留异星，遭遇了当地种族追杀，他们必须找到方法离开这个星球。

　　Meet the world's first 'cyborgs' - a quadriplegic, a blind man, an amputee, a bio-hacker, and a woman with Parkinson's - the scientists who help them, and one entrepreneur who will stop at nothing on his quest to unlock the brain.

Robbins is sentenced to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison you leave only when you die. Since nobody ever leaves the prison, nobody knows what the prison is like. The prison manager realizes this and buys himself an island playground called Absolom, where the worst prisoners are free to create an isolated barbaric society, and where the strongest men rule...a living hell. Robbins is sent to Absolom after he almost kills the prison manager.