After escaping the dark planet, Richard B. Riddick has been in hiding for five years, evading most of the bounty hunters and mercenaries that are set to capture him because of his high price on his head. His latest hideout is a Planet U.V., a world lit only by ultraviolet light.
In the year 2293, retired Captain James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Federation starship USS Enterprise-B, under the command of the unseasoned Capt. John Harriman. During the voyage, Enterprise is pressed into a rescue mission to save two El-Aurian ships from a strange energy ribbon. Enterprise is able to save some of the refugees before their ships are destroyed, but the starship becomes trapped in the ribbon. Kirk goes to deflector control to alter the deflector dish, allowing Enterprise to escape, but the trailing end of the ribbon rakes across Enterprise 's hull, exposing the section Kirk is in to space; he is presumed dead.
In 2154, Earth is overpopulated and polluted. Most of the earth's citizens live in poverty, on the edge of starvation, and with little technology and medical care. The rich and powerful live on Elysium — a gigantic, terraformed space habitat located in Earth's orbit. Elysium is technologically advanced; such technology includes Med-Bays: medical machines that can cure all diseases, reverse the aging process and regenerate new body parts. A long-running feud exists between the wealthy residents of Elysium and the citizens of Earth, who want Elysian technology to cure their medical ailments.
In the future all plant life on Earth has become extinct. A few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet of American Airlines space freighters, currently just outside the orbit of Saturn. Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern), one of four crewmen aboard the Valley Forge, is the resident botanist and ecologist who carefully preserves a variety of plants for their eventual return to Earth and the reforestation of the planet. Lowell spends most of his time in the domes, both cultivating the crops and attending to the animal life.
In the future, Federal Marshal William O'Niel (Sean Connery) is assigned to a tour of duty at the titanium ore mining outpost 'Con-Am 27' operated by the company Conglomerates Amalgamated, on the Jovian moon of Io.
Six membres de l'équipage de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) réceptionnent une sonde revenant de Mars et contenant un échantillon de sol, qui pourrait contenir des signes de vie extraterrestre. L’exobiologiste Hugh Derry relance une cellule dormante de l'échantillon, et il se développe rapidement en un organisme multi-cellulaire. La mission est suivie sur Terre par la population. Un concours est même lancé pour donner un nom à l'organisme. Des écoliers américains le nomment Calvin.
Shortly after escaping the planet from Pitch Black, Riddick, Jack, and the Imam are picked up by a Mercenary spacecraft. Although Riddick attempts to conceal his identity from the mercenaries by impersonating William J. Johns (in Pitch Black) over the intercom, they quickly voice-print and identify him.
In response to taxation on trade routes in the Galactic Republic, the Trade Federation organizes a blockade of battleships around the planet Naboo. Supreme Chancellor Valorum dispatches Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi to negotiate with the Trade Federation leadership to end the blockade. Darth Sidious, a Sith Lord and the Trade Federation's secret adviser, orders Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray to kill the Jedi and invade Naboo with an army of battle droids. The Jedi flee to Naboo, where Qui-Gon saves Gungan outcast Jar Jar Binks from being killed during the invasion. Indebted to the Jedi, Jar Jar leads them to an underwater Gungan city. There the Jedi try but fail to persuade the Gungan leader, Boss Nass into helping the people of Naboo, though they are able to obtain transportation to Theed, the capital city on the surface. They rescue Queen Amidala, the ruler of the Naboo people, and escape the planet on her royal starship, which is damaged as they pass the Federation blockade.
In 1958, two U.S. Air Force pilots and aspiring astronauts, William "Hawk" Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones) and Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), are testing a modified X-plane when Hawk decides to try to break a height record. The plane stalls and they are forced to eject, narrowly missing a B-50 Superfortress piloted by navigator "Tank" Sullivan (James Garner) as they parachute to safety. On the ground, Frank punches Hawk for putting their lives at risk, but their fight is broken up by engineer Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland). Their supervising officer, Bob Gerson (James Cromwell), chastises Hawk for his recklessness, before taking them to a press conference, where it is announced that the Air Force will no longer be involved in space flight tests as this has now been handed off to the newly created NASA, ending the four's dreams of reaching space.
Emperor Ming the Merciless declares that he will first play with and then destroy the Earth using natural disasters. On Earth, New York Jets football star "Flash" Gordon boards a small plane, where he meets travel journalist Dale Arden. Mid-flight, the cockpit is hit by a meteorite and the pilots are lost. Flash takes control and manages to crash land into a greenhouse owned by Dr. Hans Zarkov. Zarkov, who believes the disasters are being caused because an unknown source is pushing the Moon towards Earth, has secretly constructed a spacecraft which he plans to use to investigate. Zarkov's assistant refuses to go, so he lures Flash and Dale aboard. The rocket launches, taking them to the planet Mongo, where they are captured by Ming's troops.
L'histoire commence alors que l'équipage du Romano Fafard tourne une vidéo destinée aux terriens concernant leur sonde #5. Quelques jours auparavant, le capitaine Patenaude et Serge-18 consultent les résultats de la sonde. Pendant leur analyse des planètes, la sonde percute un chevreuil spatial, ce qui la fait s'écraser sur la planète «Crème hydratante pour le visage soulage la peau sèche». Une fois sur la planète, à la suite d'une fausse alerte de Flavien et un problème avec Brad, l'équipage se fait encercler par les «Crémeux». À la suite d'un tir de charge débilitante par Brad (qui fait répéter à un soldat « On vote Mario Dumont »), l'équipage est contraint de se donner une fausse identité et leur explique leur problème. Une fois le gouverneur suprême informé de la situation, les terriens sont, à cause de Bob, obligé de leur dire la vérité, ce que le gouverneur dit ne pas se soucier, à la joie de ces derniers. Alors que le gouverneur est sur le point de leur révéler l'emplacement de la sonde, un attentat éclate et ce dernier est blessé et conduit à bord du vaisseau. Avant l'évacuation de l'équipage, Bob reçoit un mot de la messagère, que Bob croit être un mouchoir, qu'il utilise et garde sur lui.
Lors de l'opération du gouverneur, ce dernier parvient à articuler que la sonde est sur la planète des iraziens et que c'est la planète traversée par un anneau ("Le capitaine et Serge 18 ont sondé cette planète") . Le problème étant que le capitaine est très strict sur son éthique et ne veut pas attaquer une planète habitée, ce qui cause des conflits au sein de l'équipage, surtout avec Brad. Lors d'une nuit où le capitaine s'endort sur place (debout), Brad explique le fonctionnement des cartes du vaisseau et du canon au gouverneur. Cette nuit même, ce dernier parvient à tirer un missile vers les iraziens mais rate la cible, ce qui a été déjoué par Flavien. Alors que le gouverneur est en prison et que Brad est sur le point subir le même sort, Flavien informe l'équipage que le missile lancé était un «Génération X», ce qui signifie qu'il finit toujours par revenir vivre chez ses parents (il revient vers le vaisseau). Flavien tire donc un autre missile sur le premier. Le souffle de l'explosion propulse le vaisseau dans les limbes. À l'intérieur, des fantômes leur révèlent qu'il reste six mois de vie sur Terre, ce qui pousse le capitaine à laisser de côté ses principes et prendre de force la planète des iraziens.
Sur Terre, dans un futur proche, l’ingénieur et astronaute de la NASA Roy McBride s'occupe de la maintenance d'une antenne de 30 km de hauteur. Celle-ci est détruite lors d’une surcharge électrique venue de Neptune, qui cause des ravages également sur Terre.
Le 17 novembre 2016, Thomas Pesquet s'envole pour sa première mission à bord de la Station spatiale internationale. En orbite à 400 kilomètres de la Terre, durant ces six mois où le monde semble basculer dans l’inconnu, un dialogue se tisse entre l'astronaute et l’œuvre visionnaire de Saint-Exupéry qu’il a emportée dans la station spatiale.
In the future, mankind has discovered a way to travel faster than light and has built colonies on thousands of planets. With humanity fading and the resources of the universe starting to dwindle, some five hundred billion humans began the long journey back home, Earth. However, humanity has outgrown its capacity to repatriate that many people and thus began the "Homecoming War," where the many factions of humanity battled for a stake on Earth. The war was long and bloody, things wouldn't subside until an authoritarian universal government by the name of the Gaia Sanction declares Earth a sacred planet, and thus forbidden for humanity to repopulate.