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A Dying Planet, A Fight For Life
It is the 23rd century The planet Genesis has been born but at a great and terrible price. As the battered Starship Enterprise heads home, diminished by the death of the beloved Captain Spock, Lt. Saavik and Dr. David Marcus arrive on the now-forbidden Genesis planet to begin their research. What they find astonishes them, for Genesis has evolved in highly unusual and unforeseen ways. The wonders of Genesis are of import to others as well, among them the malevolent Battle Commander Kruge, a great Klingon warlord who will stop at nothing to gain control of the secrets of the new world and pervert them to the nefarious ends of his empire. Thus, Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise set out on their most personal and dangerous journey-a mission in which they will confront the final frontiers of evolutionary science and the arcane rituals of Vulcan mysticism. Genesis looms, holding the key to life ... and death.