Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

My Rating: 70%

The fourth Star Trek movie, nuff said.


Plot: Shortly after defying Starfleet Command in order to rescue Spock, the exiled former crew members of the USS Enterprise begin to come back to Earth to face their charges (except for Saavik for some reason.) But along the way, a mysterious probe that sends out a signal disabling any electronic thing in it's path, heads to Earth with the intention to destroy it. Spock finds out that the only way to communicate with the probe and stop it from destroying Earth is to find some humpback whales which are extinct in the 23rd century. So Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Chekhov, Sulu, and Scotty go back in time to the year 1986 to bring back two humpback whales in order to save Earth.


Now this was no Wrath of Kahn, but it's still a rather enjoyable film. There was no action at all but in a way making this particular kind of film worked in the idea of keeping things like they were in the original series. So in this case they've done it by having the former members of the USS Enterprise once again go back in time (or go to a planet that just happens to be inhabited with a culture exactly like one from the past.) So while there was no big space fighting or...really being in space a whole lot to begin with, it still became a very cute comedy to enjoy.


Actors/Characters
William Shatner/Admiral James T. Kirk: Kirk did a pretty good job.
Leonard Nimoy/Spock: I kinda like how they set up Spock in this movie. I mean I didn't like how he didn't remember everything from before he died, but it still was cute how he was reacting to the things he saw in the year 1986.
DeForest Kelley/Leonard McCoy: Well McCoy was the same as ever. Yapping at Spock about his logic and all that. I liked how he was going crazy at the hospital with what doctors did back then compared to the 23rd century.
Catherine Hicks/Dr Gillian Taylor: She was a nice character to put in during the events of the film.

Music: The music was nice. nothing noticable aside from the theme music but it was nice.


Editing: *shrugs* good editing, nothing special.

And that's my review for Star Trek IV: It was not the best of the series but it still was a nice film that kept the series true to what it's been since the original series.