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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

1986 1h 58m
Science Fiction Adventure
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7.2/10
1,714 reviews
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.

"Star date: 1986. How on Earth can they save the future?"

Top Billed Cast

William Shatner
William Shatner
Admiral James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy
Captain Spock
DeForest Kelley
DeForest Kelley
Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
James Doohan
James Doohan
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
George Takei
George Takei
Cmdr. Hikaru Sulu
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig
Cmdr. Pavel Chekov
Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols
Cmdr. Uhura
Mark Lenard
Mark Lenard
Sarek

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

G GenerationofSwine Verified TMDB Critic
2023-01-10

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....

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2024-05-30

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...