Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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1986

1h 58m

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Living in exile on the planet Vulcan, the ragtag former crew of the USS Enterprise steal a starship after receiving a planetary distress call from Earth: a space probe has entered into orbit around Earth, disabled global power on the planet and evaporated the oceans. Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the rest of the officers travel back in time to retrieve now-extinct humpback whales, which Spock has deduced will communicate with the probe and send it away from Earth.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is perhaps the lightest and most purely enjoyable entry of the long-running series, emphasizing the eccentricities of the Enterprise's crew.

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Victoria Mather

Daily Telegraph (UK)

01/22/2025

This adventure is harmless enough in its save the (mechanical) whales way. However, it is slow to get going on the glittering repartee and over-long.

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David Stratton

Sydney Morning Herald

05/27/2021

Much of the fun to be found in the quite witty screenplay involves the bemused citizens of the future trying to cope with 20th-century life.

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Michael Wilmington

Los Angeles Times

09/07/2016

If most movies today are doomed to be sure-fire, presold properties--with ideas leached from our recent TV or cinematic past--let's hope they're all as good at the game as "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home."

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Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

07/06/2025

3.5/4

The high level overview of the environmental concepts in the film helped The Voyage Home easily become the top-grossing original series Star Trek picture.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

01/22/2025

While still claiming "to bold go where no man has gone before," Kirk is here following a well-beaten trek.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

09/05/2023

4/4

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home may be the most important film within the franchise, as it demonstrates how the potential of its venerable characters transcends space and time.

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mathmom

09/13/2022

As expected, Star Trek never fails to produce an A+ movie!!

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Patrick

4h

One of my all-time favorite movies. Absolute classic.

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DanTheMan 2

@DanTheMan2150AD 6d

Whoever said the human race was logical? The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe... sounds like the goddam Spanish Inquisition to me. A much-needed breath of idiosyncratic levity after the sombre, elegiac drama of the previous two instalments, The Voyage Home downshifts into the realm of wonderful absurdist comedy, rounding off the Genesis trilogy in incredible fashion. Warm, funny and ridiculously charming, it's rife with colourful metaphors and plenty of sledgehammer environmental messaging; there be whales here! A lightweight and decidedly heartfelt piece of comic fantasy, The Voyage Home is one of the most effortlessly endearing adventures of the entire franchise, returning to the simplistic morality-play format that gave the original series its strength but with a beautifully buoyant and fantastically farcical time-travel twist to the whole escapade. My friends. We've come home.

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bruce F

@bruce999 Aug 14

this is my favorite star trek movie, as it has real emotion, and is funny too, and there's suspense. this is a don't miss movie.

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Tyler S

@tylerking24 Jul 21

This was easily the most unlike Star Trek movie with the most obscure plot. But I actually thought it was alright.

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diogo13 T

@Tua_mera Jul 11

Você consegue imaginar um quarto filme de uma franquia lucrativa dando uma guinada brusca para a comédia como essa hoje em dia? Embora seja certamente irregular, já que ainda tem uma aventura de ficção científica boba, expositiva e "relevante" para lidar, se você me der algumas cervejas, eu começo a defendê-lo como um filme de encontro típico do Hawks, nascido inadvertidamente da familiaridade nostálgica e do puro fanservice.

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Synopsis

Living in exile on the planet Vulcan, the ragtag former crew of the USS Enterprise steal a starship after receiving a planetary distress call from Earth: a space probe has entered into orbit around Earth, disabled global power on the planet and evaporated the oceans. Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and the rest of the officers travel back in time to retrieve now-extinct humpback whales, which Spock has deduced will communicate with the probe and send it away from Earth.

Director: Leonard Nimoy
Producer: Harve Bennett
Screenwriter: Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett, Nicholas Meyer
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Rating: PG
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action, Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 26, 1986, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 16, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $104.7M
Runtime: 1h 58m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Surround, Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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