Fatherless James T. Kirk grew up in the cornfields of Iowa, fighting to escape his life of aimlessness and obscurity. Spock grew up on the jagged cliffs of the harsh Vulcan desert, struggling to reconcile the logic he was taught with the emotions he felt.
A machine of war bursts into existence in a place and time it was never meant to be. On a mission of retribution for the destruction of his planet, the half-mad captain of a Romulan mining ship redesigned for destruction, seeks the annihilation of every Federation world.
Emotional Kirk, and logical Spock, two completely different and unyielding personalities with the unlooked-for-help of a Vulcan marooned in time and space, must find a way to lead the untried crew of The Starship Enterprise in a frantic race to save their home worlds and the Federation. As Spock, Kirk and McCoy fight each other and the Romulans, rescue their captain, and plumb the geniuses of Uhura, Sulu, Chekov, and Scottie, they build the foundation of a legendary friendship.
