The most successful and widely appealing of the Star Trek films, The Voyage Home is also the most idiosyncratic… some of the most humorous and humane moments in the Trek canon.
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06/24/03
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... [More]
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks
Director: Leonard Nimoy
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Reviews for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Mr. Nimoy directed this Star Trek installment, and indeed he should probably direct all of them. His technical expertise leaves much to be desired. But his sincerity is unmistakable, and it counts for a lot.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe Voyage Home isn’t as dramatically powerful as the two previous Trek films, but it gives the characters plenty of time to show off their lighter sides.
03/21/03
One of the most purely enjoyable of the Star Trek films.
03/19/03
The plot is totally cornball but amazingly it works extremely well
02/24/03
Star Trek IV has all the elements people love about this series, and it earns its reputation as one of the long-running franchise's standout entries.
11/07/02
Best of Trek
09/22/02
Funny back-to-the-future adventure spiced with a save-the-whales theme.
09/01/02
No review available.
08/14/02
No review available.
08/13/02
The original cast appears to be having more fun than they ever had before.
10/28/01
One of the series' strongest episodes.
09/26/01
An effective and enjoyable sample of entertainment -- not good science fiction, but a lightweight piece of comic fantasy utilizing characters so familiar that they feel like old friends.
01/01/00
Top CriticBetter than the previous two films in the series.
01/01/00
Immensely pleasurable.
01/01/00
A happy, heartfelt chapter that reunites the original cast with the original TV format, shying away from the cold and epic scale of the preceding movie adventures.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis is easily the most absurd of the Star Trek stories -- and yet, oddly enough, it is also the best, the funniest and the most enjoyable in simple human terms.
01/01/00
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