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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

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Reviews Counted: 37

Fresh: 31

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 6.8/10

Consensus: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is perhaps the lightest and most purely enjoyable entry of the long-running series, emphasizing the eccentricities of the Enterprise's crew.

Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Synopsis: While back on Earth, standing trial for their hijacking of the starship Enterprise (see STAR TREK III), Kirk and his crew are thrust into a new adventure. A space probe threatens to destroy the... While back on Earth, standing trial for their hijacking of the starship Enterprise (see STAR TREK III), Kirk and his crew are thrust into a new adventure. A space probe threatens to destroy the planet if it is not allowed to continue its longstanding communications with a certain species of Earth mammal -- humpback whales. Unfortunately, there is an obstacle to their simple demand; the whales are extinct in the 23rd Century. So Kirk, Spock and the gang travel back in time to San Fransisco, circa 1986, where they battle culture shock, as well as the clock, while trying to corral a few friendly whales to bring back to the future. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Cinematography, Best Original Score. [More]

Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks

Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols

Director: Leonard Nimoy

Director: Leonard Nimoy

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Mar 4, 2003

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...Kirk has finally reached his full lounge lizard potential (it's as if the comedy has freed him from his remaining inhibitions).

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04/03/09
Josh Larsen
LarsenOnFilm

the bad guys... are really my countrymen so... still great though

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07/05/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is

The eco-themes are writ large, but are saved from smacking of cringe-worthy earnestness by the good humour of the whole endeavour.

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05/19/08
Channel 4 Film

Latest excursion is warmer, wittier, more socially relevant and truer to its TV origins than prior odysseys.

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05/19/08
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12/11/07
John A. Nesbit
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By far the silliest and most self-mocking of the series.

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06/06/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide

I suspect the unconverted will want to be beamed up pronto.

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06/06/07
Pat Graham
Chicago Reader
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It's a lightweight, entertaining, relentlessly mainstream action-farce. A high old time, no question. Too bad it's such lousy Star Trek. Here's where the series 'jumped the shark' -- and found that it was a whale.

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04/08/06
Mark Bourne
DVDJournal.com

Kirk & Co return to present-day San Francisco to save the whales in the most enjoyable film of the series so far, also returning to the simplistic morality-play format that gave the original TV series its strength.

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01/26/06
Stephen Garrett
Time Out

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06/26/05
Emanuel Levy
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03/08/05
Mark R. Leeper
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12/07/04
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

one of the more entertaining Trek outings

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11/08/04
Rich Cline
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06/30/04
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

Allows the characters and relationships shine, but whales?

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04/03/04
Willie Waffle
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01/30/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
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01/06/04
Greg Maki
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10/10/03
Rebecca Murray
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
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The best until First Contact...

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07/03/03
Karina Montgomery
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