Life and civilization is dying on planet Krantin. Distrusting the starship, the leader of the planet gets the crew members arrested. Data must save the crewmates or watch as the two worlds are destroyed.

While mapping a series of gravitational anomalies, the U.S.S. Enterprise™ is suddenly hurled millions of light-years through space, into a distant galxy of scorched and lifeless worlds...into the middle of an endless interstellar war.With no way back home, the crippled starship finds itself under relentless and suicidal attack by both warring fleets! And Captain Kirk must gamble the lives of his crew on his ability to stop a war that has raged for centuries -- and ravaged a galaxy...