Khan, a genetically engineered superhuman with highly developed intelligence, physical strength and ambition, had already met the Enterprise crew once before, but he and his men, determined to take over the ship, were stopped and left on the first habitable planet as punishment.
And now, 15 years later, Han has managed to escape from his forced hermitage. And he has only one goal - to destroy Kirk, whom he considers the culprit of all his misfortunes. The long-standing confrontation between the two strong personalities will now unfold against the background of the Federation's secret experiments on terraforming planets.
But this time Kirk will have to win, no matter what it takes, and he will have to start by defeating his own ego...