STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
 
STARRING: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest
Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Catherine Hicks
1986, 119 Minutes, Directed by: Leonard Nimoy
 Description:
Star Trek IV returns to one of the favourite themes of the original TV
series--time travel--to bring Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, and
Chekov from the 23rd century to present-day San Francisco. In their own
time, the Starfleet heroes encounter an alien probe emitting a mysterious
message--a message delivered in the song of the now-extinct Earth species of
humpback whales. Failure to respond to the probe will result in Earth's
destruction, so Kirk and company time-travel to 20th-century Earth--in their
captured Klingon starship--to transport a humpback whale to the future in an
effort to peacefully communicate with the alien probe.
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This one sees the old-familiar 23rd
century Star Trek crew in 20th century San Francisco. Time travel plot devices
usually works - especially for the Star Trek series. This film is no exception.
Probably because the film does such a good job at focusing on the characters while pushing
them through a strong story-line that involves them not only getting back to their own
time-frame, but acquiring a whale in the process. (Go see the movie, it all makes sense
actually. . . )
A quirky sense
of humor, partly because we know the characters so well by now and because
the film refuses to take itself too serious makes this film better than
the previous two films in the series. Even non-trekkers (who
have a really tough time distinguishing between the various films) would
enjoy The Voyage Home.
Big screen sequels
include: Star Trek V: The Final
Frontier (1989), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country (1991), all of which featured the old crew of Kirk, Spock, et al. The baton was passed to the Next Generation crew in Star Trek - Generations
(1994), Star Trek - First Contact (1996), Star Trek - Insurrection (1998) and
Star Trek -
Nemesis (2002).
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