Warrior ape Trask has crash landed on a dead world, stranded and ready to honorably join his elders in the afterlife. But that is interrupted when a human terraforming ship arrives to restore the planet. Soon this lone simian survivor is at the center of an intergalactic conflict between a greedy corporation, a fanatical religious cult, and a race of hostile aliens who seek apes for food. His only chance for freedom is with the help of a sympathetic and resourceful army colonel. But can just the two of them avert all out war in the cosmos? 战士猿特拉斯克坠毁在一个死寂的世界，被困并准备在来世光荣地加入他的长辈。但当一艘人类地球化飞船抵达恢复地球时，这一切就被打断了。很快，这只孤独的猿猴幸存者就成为了贪婪的公司、狂热的宗教邪教和一群以猿类为食的敌对外星人种族之间的星际冲突的中心。他获得自由的唯一机会是在一位富有同情心且足智多谋的陆军上校的帮助下。可光是他们两个，就能避免宇宙的全面战争吗？