Heartwarming, funny film. Possibly the best ST film entry of all
Added 10/1/2009
I even prefer this one over Star Trek 2:The Wrath of Kahn. Ths story starts off on Vulcan (Spocks' home planet) but you'll forget that setting soon as then--via- a little time traveling-- most of the action takes place in 1986 San Francisco). Shatner and Nimoy (Kirk and Spock) have good often deliberately humourous chemistry and I love all of Kirk's scenes with that Gillian Taylor (Catherine Hicks) who works at an aquarium where the Enterprise needs to acquire a few whales.
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FAVORITE MOVIE IN THE TRILOGY!
Added 9/7/2009
I absolutely love this film! It takes place in my hometown, first of all (and Sulu's! Of course he's be from San Francisco...) and it's absolutely hilarious. The comedy in this film is TOO much, I was cracking up every five seconds. Spock's character is just incredible, I loved it. The first two films, Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock are nothing compared to Voyage Home. It's a good laugh, and I could watch this film over and over again!
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There Be Whales Here!
Added 8/29/2009
Star Trek IV takes a bit of the last film and a bit from the first one. We have alien invasion, an environmental message about the destruction of whales as a species and Man as well. We learn a lot more about Spock (as he becomes re-educated after his ordeal on the Genesis planet, last film) and time travel!
Lots of fun lines in this one. Only whales can communicate with a probe that sucks energy from anything in its vicinity and proceeds to evaporate the Earth's oceans. The problem is that there are no more whales. The Enterprise zips into the past (in a dubious fling around the sun -- as an aside, whenever some sci-fi films deal with time travel, they will go into the past by going the opposite direction of a rotating star or planet, ala Superman, but I digress), in an attempt to get whales from the past and bring them into their present.
Trouble is, the Enterprise crew is on the lam, having stolen a Klingon ship (from an earlier film). What to do?
So they sail into 1986 San Francisco where the area is as alien as any galactic planet they've ever been to. We hear Kirk with his double-damn on you in crossing a street, Spock giving a nerve pinch to a boom box Goth kid (the theater audience I watched the film with cheered at that) and trying to figure out what exact change means.
San Francisco treats like landing in Golden Gate Park ("don't forget where we parked"), the fictional whale institute in Sausalito (and our enjoyable one and only visit with the biological scientist Catherine Hicks) and Chekov's discovery of the "nuclear wessels."
Directed by Leonard Nimoy, and story by Nimoy and Bennett.
Has the charm and humor of the old TV series. Highly recommended.
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A must for Trek fans, but it's literally stuck in the '80s
Added 8/12/2009
The Enterprise crew travels back in time to... 1980s San Francisco. Not exactly the high point in American culture. The acting falls flat and the humor loses its novelty. I really liked this movie as a kid, but now it just seems silly and stuck with that 1980s vibe. It hasn't stood the test of time, in my opinion.
What do I mean by stuck in the 80s? Case in point: Kirk and Dr. Taylor go to a fancy Italian restaurant in San Francisco, at which their table is set with breadsticks, and Kirk orders a Michelob beer (as opposed to there being french bread, olive oil, and a fine wine). Is that an example of how tasteless "fancy" restaurants were in the '80s, or a case of bad '80s moviemaking? Or a joke? I don't know. Either way, I didn't appreciate the flourishes.
As a Trek fan though, you can't miss this one, and you'll just have to look over the movie's foibles. It certainly stands out from the other Trek movies with its attempted humor, especially after the darker and more cerebral Star Trek II and III movies.
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Star Trek
Added 7/17/2009
Not as good as Star Trek 2 (but then nothing is), this one has a scene with beer, a hot marine biologist and a grumpy McCoy growling about the primitive state of "modern" medicine. I really liked it.
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Heartwarming, funny film. Possibly the best ST film entry of all
Added 10/1/2009
I even prefer this one over Star Trek 2:The Wrath of Kahn. Ths story starts off on Vulcan (Spocks' home planet) but you'll forget that setting soon as then--via- a little time traveling-- most of the action takes place in 1986 San Francisco). Shatner and Nimoy (Kirk and Spock) have good often deliberately humourous chemistry and I love all of Kirk's scenes with that Gillian Taylor (Catherine Hicks) who works at an aquarium where the Enterprise needs to acquire a few whales.
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FAVORITE MOVIE IN THE TRILOGY!
Added 9/7/2009
I absolutely love this film! It takes place in my hometown, first of all (and Sulu's! Of course he's be from San Francisco...) and it's absolutely hilarious. The comedy in this film is TOO much, I was cracking up every five seconds. Spock's character is just incredible, I loved it. The first two films, Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock are nothing compared to Voyage Home. It's a good laugh, and I could watch this film over and over again!
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There Be Whales Here!
Added 8/29/2009
Star Trek IV takes a bit of the last film and a bit from the first one. We have alien invasion, an environmental message about the destruction of whales as a species and Man as well. We learn a lot more about Spock (as he becomes re-educated after his ordeal on the Genesis planet, last film) and time travel!
Lots of fun lines in this one. Only whales can communicate with a probe that sucks energy from anything in its vicinity and proceeds to evaporate the Earth's oceans. The problem is that there are no more whales. The Enterprise zips into the past (in a dubious fling around the sun -- as an aside, whenever some sci-fi films deal with time travel, they will go into the past by going the opposite direction of a rotating star or planet, ala Superman, but I digress), in an attempt to get whales from the past and bring them into their present.
Trouble is, the Enterprise crew is on the lam, having stolen a Klingon ship (from an earlier film). What to do?
So they sail into 1986 San Francisco where the area is as alien as any galactic planet they've ever been to. We hear Kirk with his double-damn on you in crossing a street, Spock giving a nerve pinch to a boom box Goth kid (the theater audience I watched the film with cheered at that) and trying to figure out what exact change means.
San Francisco treats like landing in Golden Gate Park ("don't forget where we parked"), the fictional whale institute in Sausalito (and our enjoyable one and only visit with the biological scientist Catherine Hicks) and Chekov's discovery of the "nuclear wessels."
Directed by Leonard Nimoy, and story by Nimoy and Bennett.
Has the charm and humor of the old TV series. Highly recommended.
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