Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
The one with the Whales. When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize earths oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.
- Leonard Nimoy
- Frank Capra III
- Douglas E. Wise
- Pat Kehoe
- Steve Meerson
- Nicholas Meyer
- Harve Bennett
- Peter Krikes
- Harve Bennett
- Leonard Nimoy
Rating: 7.1/10 by 1473 users
Alternative Title:
Star Trek 4 - US
Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home - US
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home - US
Star Trek IV. Misión: salvar la tierra - ES
Jornada nas Estrelas – A Volta para Casa - BR
Star Trek IV Cesta domů - CZ
Стар Трек IV: Пътуване към дома - BG
Star Trek IV: Powrót na Ziemię - PL
Star Trek IV: Regresso à Terra - PT
スター・トレック4 故郷への長い道 - JP
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home - BE
Star Trek 4. - A hazatérés - HU
Стар Трек 4 - UA
Star Trek IV - Rotta verso la terra - IT
Star Trek IV: A hazatérés - HU
星际迷航4:抢救未来 - CN
星际旅行4 - CN
Star Trek IV - Retour sur Terre - FR
Zurück in die Gegenwart - DE
Zurück in die Gegenwart - Star Trek IV - DE
Powrót na Ziemię - PL
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
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Runtime: 01 hour 58 minutes
Budget: $21,000,000
Revenue: $133,000,000
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I guess when I was 6 i liked it, and every generation needs it's time travel movie doesn't it? But, no, bringing them back to contemporary 80s earth just doesn't work. It's sort of too close to home to be good. Star Trek is Sci-Fi, sure, but this just doesn't work. They live in a future that COULD be, with it's own history, it's own mythology, and taking the crew of the Enterprise back to our world just makes them feel more out of place than the comedic tone of the film intended.
Probably my favourite of these sci-fi adventures. Having revived "Spock" to something akin to his previous, pompous old self; the crew of the now destroyed "Enterprise" set sail for home in their captured Klingon Warbird. Meantime, unbeknown to them, a probe is wreaking havoc on the galaxy as it emits odd pinging sounds on it's way to Earth. Our explorers approach the planet to discover that the probe has polarised the atmosphere and even the sophisticated Starfleet Command has no idea what's going on... Well, it turns out that the probe is pretty fluent in humpback whale-song but we have long since hunted them into extinction. What's required now is some legerdemain and a bit of time travel to go get some from back in 20th century California. What follows is a fun series of escapades as they set about their tasks - and all of the crew have their own roles to play. It touches on the ecology issues in a humorous but pointed manner and all round delivers an enjoyable 2 hours of entertainment.