Star Trek III: Redemption

Star Trek III: Redemption is a forthcoming fan-produced CGI film, produced by Brandon M. Bridges as a sequel to the film Star Trek: Retribution and the final entry in the Specter series. Work on the new movie's plot began as early as March 8, 2012, and writing officially commenced on July 17, 2012. At least a preliminary plot outline seemed to have been completed as of July 24, 2012, as the first teaser trailer was posted on YouTube on that date.

Summary
Early script notes made available on 3DGladiators.com (in the Retribution project thread) indicated that the story is set in the year 2399, a few days before the end of the calendar year. The story begins with the USS F. Scott Fitzgerald about to be decommissioned, docked at the Starfleet Museum Annexe, the majority of the ship's crew reassigned. The night before the decommissioning ceremony, some of the senior officers--Captain Kendra Ronston, First Officer Jennifer Hargrove, Dr. Elizabeth Falwell, Commander Renee Mitchell, and Lesley Kal, now a civilian--are aboard for one last look around, when the planet suddenly begins to break apart. The ship barely manages to power up in time to avoid being destroyed.

Unable to raise Starfleet Command, the Fitzgeraldraces to Earth, only to find it a ravaged volcanic wasteland devoid of life. Another ship arrives soon after, carrying Merv Ronston and a team from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, and he reveals that the space-time continuum throughout Federation space has been shattered, and planets all across the quadrant are being torn apart by the temporal distortions just as Earth was. While he conducts a survey of the Federation to learn more about the phenomenon and search for survivors, the Fitzgerald tracks the distortions to their source: the destroyed ruins of a laboratory the Vandor IV planetoid. When they beam down to investigate, they discover Admiral Bradley Prentice and Dr. Braiyon Garr already there, having arrived hours earlier by shuttlecraft. Garr explains his discovery that the fractures in time were caused by a massive detonation of Omega particle energy, likely involved in some form of time travel, and that the effect is by now so widespread that it can't be reversed in the present. Mitchell, meanwhile, discovers something disturbing: days-old DNA traces spread around the lab that apparently belongs to Dr. Garr himself, and impossibly, to Captain Gaius Reyf, killed seventeen years prior while on a mission into Dominion space.

Preparations are quickly made to take the Fitzgerald back in time, but the only remaining expanse of intact space large enough to make the attempt lies within Cardassian territory. When the Fitzgerald begins its run, three Cardassian warships attack, and although the attempt to travel back in time is successful and the crew finds themselves in the year 2378, the Fitzgerald is all but crippled, and with replicators inoperative, Mitchell is unable to conduct repairs. With life support failing, the crew is forced to scavenge compatible parts from the nearest source: the USS Fitzgerald native to this time frame.

Boarding the past version of the Fitzgerald, the crew is able to retrieve the parts they need, and Dr. Garr is able to determine what his alternate self--the man Admiral Prentice knew as Drakus--is doing, but before they can return to their own ship, they are discovered by their past selves. At first, the past crew is suspicious, but Captain Ronston is able to convince Captain Reyf that they are telling the truth, and convince him to let them go. After tearful goodbyes, the future crew return to their ship and make repairs, and then Garr reveals what he discovered: Drakus came to this time frame to obtain information, but his true goal lies in 2367, when a single Borg cube invaded Federation space. The damage inflicted by Prentice near the end of the previous film left his nanoprobes unable to fully sustain him, and by 2399 his human form was deteriorating rapidly. With death imminent, he was forced to locate a new supply of nanoprobes to heal himself, and with the Borg all but eradicated by 2399, the only place to get them was in the past, and the best opportunity is the brief window when the Borg were rendered "asleep." In the meantime, the alternate Admiral Reyf has begun construction of a new ISS Voyager, with which Drakus intends to wipe out the Fitzgerald and its crew in the past, so that they would not be able to interfere with his plans.

With the Fitzgerald repaired, the crew intercepts the ISS Voyager of this time frame at the Alcawell Mineral Refinery, to enlist the aid of the original Braiyon Garr, as he possesses the scientific knowhow to prevent the disaster in the future. Though skeptical at first, Garr agrees to assist when he learns that Reyf will be killed in the future as a result of his actions. With the ISS Voyager in close formation, the Fitzgerald makes another time jump back to the year 2367, unaware until after the transition that the Fitzgerald from 2378 has followed them the entire time. Working together, Garr and the two crews locate the construction site of the new ISS Voyager, but are too late to prevent the new starship from coming on-line. Their only remaining option is to follow Drakus to Sector 001, and kill him when he boards the Borg cube to retrieve the nanoprobes he needs. Hiding in the shadow of the Borg cube along with the new ISS Voyager, the three ships avoid detection, and a combined away team locates Drakus and kills him. The away teams return to their respective ships, leaving the alternate Reyf aboard the cube, and he along with Drakus and the new ISS Voyager are incinerated when the Borg ship self-destructs minutes later.

With Drakus gone, the entire timeline resets itself. In 2368, Garr accompanies Reyf to the Antilles; in 2373, the two serve together aboard the USS Daystrom; and in 2378, as Reyf first assumes command of the Fitzgerald, Garr accompanies him as chief science officer. The film ends with the Fitzgerald embarking on the first mission of exploration into the Gamma Quadrant.