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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 24206
Released: November 9, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Widely considered the best movie in the "classic Trek" series of feature films, Star Trek IV returns to one of the favorite 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. The plot sounds somewhat absurd in description, but as executed by returning director Leonard Nimoy, this turned out to be a crowd-pleasing adventure, filled with humor and lively interaction among the favorite Star Trek characters. Catherine Hicks (from TV's 7th Heaven) plays the 20th-century whale expert who is finally convinced of Kirk's and Spock's benevolent intentions. With ample comedy taken from the clash of future heroes with 20th-century urban realities, Star Trek IV was a box-office smash, satisfying mainstream audiences and hardcore Trek fans alike. --Jeff Shannon
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home Reviews:
Synopsis 
2009-11-24 - Str Trk 4 : Whales
The crew of the innrprize are on sporks planet and they hear that there is this big piece of poo in space that is headed to earth and is going to blow it up a lot. this is like vag'na from the first movie but instead of a mind melt they need whales. Spork is still out of it and is wearing a bathrobe and they all decide that they are going to hang a u-turn around the sun to go back in time to 1980s where there are lots of whales cause there aren't any humpbacks in the future. THIS WORKS! They end up in San Fran and land their invisible plane in the park and someone sees them and is all like "WHAAAAA" but he's a bum so noone will believe him. they hang out in San Fran for awhile and spork makes a headband so he's all like Rambo now and kills a punk rocker on the bus cause his music is TOO LOUD! Kork flirts with this 80s chick and Scotchy speaks into a mouse and then everyone is freaked out that Checkoff is a russian. Spork swims with the whales and then they go back to the future and the big thing is like "FINE!" and then it leaves.
Heartwarming, funny film. Possibly the best ST film entry of all 
2009-10-01 - 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.
FAVORITE MOVIE IN THE TRILOGY!
2009-09-07 - 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!
There Be Whales Here!
2009-08-29 - 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.
A must for Trek fans, but it's literally stuck in the '80s 
2009-08-12 - 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.
