Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Leonard Nimoy directs and stars in the follow-up to The Search for Spock , as the re-born Spock. With the USS Enterprise destroyed, he, Kirk, Scotty and Dr McCoy have been in exile on Vulcan, awaiting trial for disobeying orders. However, as they near Earth, a mysterious probe wreaks havoc with the planet’s climate. The probe’s message, interpreted by Spock, is meant for humpback whales only, a species long extinct. The planet’s only hope is for Spock and his team to travel back in time, in a stolen Klingon craft, to bring back a pair of whales. The script allows for a lot of fish-out-of-water jokes as the crew find themselves in 80s San Francisco, with Spock’s inability to master swearing a running gag, but there’s also tension, as the clock ticks down in the future, with marine biologist Gillian Taylor their only hope of finding suitable whales to save a future Earth., Science fiction adventure in which Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise must travel back in time to the 1980s to save a pair of whales., Captain Kirk and crew of the Enterprise land in 1980s San Francisco and try to save Earth by transporting whales to the 23rd century., Kirk and his crew time travel back to the late 20th century to save the Earth from being destroyed by a space probe., Admiral Kirk and his crew time travel back to the late 20th century to save a future Earth from being destroyed by a space probe. Their mission – to find a pair of humpback whales to communicate with the probe. The bemused crew’s adventures in 1980s San Francisco make for a more tongue-in-cheek big-screen outing than previous entries in the series., Science fiction adventure in which Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise must travel back in time to the 1980s to save a pair of whales which hold a key to the future of human life., Leonard Nimoy directs and stars, as the re-born Spock, in this follow-up to The Search for Spock . With the USS Enterprise destroyed, he, Kirk, Scotty and Dr McCoy have been in exile on Vulcan, awaiting trial for disobeying orders. However, as they near Earth, a mysterious probe wreaks havoc with the planet’s climate. The probe’s message, interpreted by Spock, is meant for humpback whales only, a species long extinct. The planet’s only hope is for Spock and his team to travel back in time, in a stolen Klingon craft, to bring back a pair of whales. The script allows for a lot of fish-out-of-water jokes as the crew find themselves in 80s San Francisco, with Spock’s inability to master swearing a running gag, but there’s also tension, as the clock ticks down in the future, and marine biologist Gillian Taylor is their only hope of finding suitable whales to save a future Earth., Science fiction adventure in which Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the USS Enterprise must travel back in time to the 1980s to save a pair of whales which hold a key to the future of human life., Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) concludes the story arc begun with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but on a wholly new, different, and upbeat note. As the movie opens, months have elapsed since the events in Star Trek III; Admiral Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Scott (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and Chekhov (Walter Koenig) are marooned in self-imposed exile on Vulcan, along with the resurrected and regenerated Spock (Leonard Nimoy, who also directed). While Spock tries to sort out the Vulcan and human halves of his resurrected psyche, the others prepare to return to Earth to face a brace of charges by the Klingon Empire and Star Fleet over events on Genesis. Taking off in their commandeered, jerry-rigged Klingon ship, they head to Earth, not knowing that a new crisis could destroy their home world — a huge, immensely powerful alien probe has entered the galaxy and established a position near Earth, disabling every vehicle and installation in its path with its energy and communication output, and has ionized the entire atmosphere and started vaporizing the oceans, leaving the planet only hours to survive. Spock determines that the probe is sending out signals to another intelligent terrestrial life form, humpbacked whales, which no longer exist. Using the gravity slingshot time-warp effect (established early in the original series) to travel back into Earth’s 20th century, Kirk and company land in 1980s San Francisco to try and bring humpbacked whales to the 23rd century, to respond to the probe. Thus starts a surprisingly breezy, light-hearted, yet serious odyssey through the past (comparable to the best work of the original series), as the crew learns to deal with exact-change buses, angry drivers, punk-rock enthusiasts and other elements of ’80s life, and Kirk tries to persuade a scientist (Catherine Hicks) of his good intentions for two whales in captivity. The screenplay, co-authored by Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer, and Harve Bennett (from a story by Nimoy and Bennett), is the cleverest and most sophisticated of all the Star Trek movie screenplays, recalling some of the elements of Meyer’s earlier time-travel movie Time After Time and also anticipating the feel and tone of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (which would be on the air not quite a year later). Nimoy’s direction offers a combination of brisk pacing and a deep love of the characters and the actors, as well as a serious appreciation of the humorous aspects of the script, and Shatner gives his best performance of any of the movies., To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to 20th Century Earth to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with the aliens; the humpback whales.