A new version of "Superman III" where Lex Luthor tricks the US Government into trusting him with planetary defense when Earth is threatened by a giant Kryptonite meteor. After banishing Lex to the Phantom Zone, Superman finds himself against a super-intelligent biomechanical being with a digital network consciousness, the Interactive Construct of a scientist known as Vril Dox from the planet Colu, who searches the cosmos endlessly for civilizations to capture, shrink, and add to its collection.