Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) | First Time Watching | Movie Reaction

[@jcortese3300]

During the scene where Chekov was running from the Marines, they were actual Marines that had been used as extras during filming. The only direction that Nimoy gave them was, and I quote: "Get `im." Walter Koenig has said in interviews that he'd never run so fast in his life!

[@neneshubby]

My parents grew up in Alameda, and I don’t think they could’ve told you where the nuclear Wessels were

[@countgeekula9143]

The Voyage Home is just delightful from start to finish. So much fun. Refreshing to have a movie with no bad guys, nobody dies, just obstacles to overcome and things to make right. Wonderful.

[@newfate26]

One of the rare times when Trek managed to get comedy right.

[@Darkphoenix007A]

Here's ANOTHER Easter Egg and trivia for you: Madge Sinclair (1938-1995) played the Captain of the USS Saratoga; later in 1993, she would play the Captain of the USS Hera AND mother to LCDR (Lieutenant Commander) Geordi LaForge (LeVar Burton), Sylvia LaForge. BONUS: Ben Vereen played his father, Dr. (Commander) Edward M. LaForge in the TNG episode 'Interface'. What's the connection? ALL THREE OF THEM STARRED IN THE 1977 MINISERIES, ROOTS!!!

[@karlsmith2570]

@Darkphoenix007A I knew Lavar was in "Roots," but I didn't know that Ben Vereen and Madge Sinclair were also. But, then against, that miniseries was released when I was 6 years old

[@DataCab1e]

Moreover, Vereen played the grandson of Burton's character.

[@earnestmb2]

The Challenger commemoration is also notable because Nichelle Nichols worked with NASA and two of her recruits were among the crew.

[@carm3d]

Fun fact: Mark Leonard was also the Klingon commander in the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. So he's played a Romulan, Klingon and Vulcan.

[@LesterManley-s9n]

@@carm3d he was also in the short-lived Planet of the Apes tv series in the 70s under a bunch of make-up playing Gorilla Ape general Urko.

[@cleekmaker00]

01:57 That's Madge Sinclair; she was the first Live Action depiction of a Female Federation Starship Captain in all of Star Trek.

[@silkwesir1444]

Not if you allow for a depiction² of a Female Federation Starship Captain to count as well ;)

[@RetroRobotRadio]

40:00 Spock simply saying "I feel fine" to his mother has great impact when you realize that the question that tripped him up at the beginning of the movie was "how do you feel" and his mother tried to explain it to him. He finally understood the question!

[@coreymoore2719]

Fun fact... Scientists have discovered transparent aluminum... It's actually aluminum oxynitride made into an incredibly hard transparent ceramic.

[@luminiferous1960]

J.W. McCauley received the first patent for producing aluminum oxynitride in crystalline form in 1980, but it was not transparent. R.L. Gentilman, E.A. Maguire, and L.E. Dolhert received patent US4520116A for transparent aluminum oxynitride and method of manufacture in 1985, which was originally assigned to Raytheon Company and then to Surmet Corp in 2009. This patent has expired. The Raytheon Company commercialized transparent aluminum under the trademarked brand name ALON and used it for military applications before transferring the trademark and manufacturing to SURMET Corp. SURMET now manufactures ALON in sizes up to 8 square feet.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

Aluminum is an interesting metal.

[@coreymoore2719]

@@luminiferous1960 huh, thanks for the info.... So it was already invented by the time the movie was made, I wonder could this material possibly be what they are actually talking about?

[@luminiferous1960]

@@coreymoore2719 They probably did not know about the real transparent aluminum when making the film based on the following information from Memory Alpha: According to an early draft of Star Trek IV, transparent aluminum was invented in the mid-2130s. The novel Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (likely based on a later draft) indicates that Dr. Nichols is the credited inventor of the formula - Scott concludes that his being in San Francisco and needing transparent aluminum when this "breakthrough" occurs is a predestination paradox. The diagram Scott prepared seems to suggest it is made of hydrogen, silver, and aluminum. The real transparent aluminum is made of nitrogen, oxygen and aluminum.

[@tulinfirenze1990]

@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 Aluminium moreso.

[@synaesthesia2010]

fun fact: the woman Chekov and Uhura asked for directions who said she wasn't sure was someeone who had parked their car near by which had been towed because she didn't move it for the filming in time. when she found out they were filming Star Trek, she happened to be a huge fan and asked if she could be an extra in the scene to earn some money to get her car back. Now, unless you're in the Screen Actors Guild, which she wasn't, extras are not supposed to speak, but she improved the line and in editing they couldn't find a way to make the scene work without it, so they had to track her down and induct her into the guilld so they could use her line and it remains her one and only acting credit. Also, Gillian Taylor's work when she gets to the 23rd century pioneers the use of ocean mammals to navigate starships, it's a division called Cetacean Operations. The Enterprise D has Cetacean Ops but we only hear of it, the only time it's been seen is in the Star Trek Lower Decks animated series

[@askaniuk]

I believe Star Trek prodigy refers to them as well

[@sergioaccioly5219]

ST: Prodigy also shows a lot of Cetacean Operations in the second season. One of the whales is called Gillian.

[@itubeutubewealltube1]

this movie led to the international banning of whale hunting. Only movie, other than Godjira, to have an immediate and world wide impact on saving the planet. Only about two to three thousand humpbacks were still alive when this movie was made. Today, there are over a hundred thousand along with all the other species it helped save. Fascinating, eh?

[@Serai3]

And now they're in jeopardy again from all the noise pollution in the oceans from our presence.

[@logandarklighter]

This movie wasn't SOLELY responsible for the ban on whale hunting. But it most certainly HELPED. A great deal! The "Save the Whales" movement was already underway. But Star Trek IV gave it a BIG boost in visibility and people curiously looking up the facts for themselves (as much as possible pre-internet). When people understood the true stakes of extinction they tended to write (real PHYSICAL LETTERS) to their Congressmen and representatives in both the US and around the world. That convinced enough people to vote the bans in. Arguably the hunting bans might already have happened eventually - whaling was beginning to die out because so much of what was harvested from whales was no longer NEEDED because of advances in material and chemical science and technology. Whales overall might've been saved without Star Trek 4. But specific species like the Humpbacks got FAR TOO CLOSE to extinction. And the ramp up in visibility for the cause and the accelerated pace of legislation that this movie caused arguably saved THEM specifically!

[@JedWhitten]

Commercial whaling was banned in 1982 but the ban didn't take effect until 1986, shortly before the movie came out. The movie had nothing to do with it. But you're right that we were successful in bringing back the species from near-extinction.

[@itubeutubewealltube1]

@@JedWhitten sorry, but other bans on whale hunting were enacted AFTER this movie was released..Not only that, the ban from 82 was NOT enforcable.. most whale hunting countries were going to ignore it, but this movie scared the crap out of those governments. To this day , the ban is still not followed by Japan, Iceland and Norway!!!! Norway being the country of the people in the whaling ship trying to kill the humpbacks in this movie!!!

[@itubeutubewealltube1]

@@logandarklighter please, it was by far the most impactful and scared the living crap out of the elites who run the world. Without it, most whale species would of gone extinct... no doubt about it. I lived through it, no one gave a sht about whales and saving them other than unknown environmentalists. Look at what is happening with fracking all across the country? Its unbelievable...and sonar... and the poisons in the water supply... Lets hope the logic of Ai can solve all these problems, its our only hope.

[@RobXHEphotosPs37.29]

The old lady was cracking me up "I grew a new kidney, I grew a new kidney!" enjoyed your reaction Courtney!

[@this.is.a.username]

Eve Smith was born on 31 August 1905 in DeLand, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Romancing the Stone (1984) and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988). She died on 28 August 1997 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

[@j.chappel1160]

This is one of my favorite things in the movie.

[@vincentsaia6545]

My friend Pat met Jayne Wyatt. She said to him, '"You know, I was on the TV show once. I was in the movie like that [clicks imaginary camera] and yet I get more mail for playing Mr. Spock's mother than anything I've ever done."

[@FloridaMugwump]

Yeah, they never had fan conventions for 'Father knows best".

[@FloridaMugwump]

​@@THEPATRIOT1000Reagan was married to Jane WYMAN. Hilarious.

[@Capohanf1]

@@THEPATRIOT1000 SHE WAS NEVER MARRIED TO RONALD REAGAN! That WAS Jane Wyman!

[@Capohanf1]

@@FloridaMugwump And yet that IS where I remember her best!

[@peterjohnson1091]

It was Jane Wyman who was married to Ronald Reagan​@@THEPATRIOT1000

[@LesterManley-s9n]

I love the Spock-Sarek scene at the end when Sarek admits he may have made a mistake in objecting to Spock joining Starfleet. That closes a story thread left open all the way back in 'Journey to Babel'❤😊😊

[@RetroRobotRadio]

And closed it in the best way possible with Sarek implying that Spock was right and he was wrong, without either of them showing emotion.

[@DEEJAYWAL]

In the novelisation, Spock tells Kirk about Sarek's remark that "Your associates are people of good character". Kirk thinks "Sarek's getting effusive in his old age". TNG shows that remark to be prophetic.

[@ddiamondr1]

This was such a fun movie and was a Christmas release. It was a gift to the fans after the darkness of two and three. Several critics reacted to how the actors work together after knowing each other for so long. They especially point out the scene with Kirk and Spock in the truck with Jillian trying to decide whether to go for Italian food. The timing in that scene was priceless. Love this movie! Great reaction!

[@karlsmith2570]

2:01 Fun Fact for you, Courtney: The actress that played the captain of the USS Saratoga is Madge Sinclair, who played Simba's mother, Sarabi, in "The Lion Kin," and Eddie Murphy's mother in "Coming To America", both roles co-starring James Earl Jones as her husband

[@Serai3]

The first female Starfleet captain!

[@askaniuk]

And I believe she played Geordi la Forge’s mother and was also a captain ?

[@BarronK-kb8td]

@@Serai3 She is ! Janeway is the first female captain to get her own show!

[@logandarklighter]

@@Serai3 A qualified "Yes" to this - however, I think there are a few sources (Non-canonical) that there were others in the back history of the Trek verse - BUT - it is true that Madge Sinclair's Saratoga Captain was the first one to be CAST and SEEN ON SCREEN. It's a bit of an oversight, to be sure that it hadn't happened before. But to be fair - the culture at the time of the TV series was ground-breaking for even showing a black female officer on the Bridge and leave it uncommented on. And the movies up to this point had focused solidly on Captain Kirk and crew. This was likely the first opportunity they HAD to do this and they immediately jumped on it!

[@Serai3]

@@logandarklighter I have no interest in "non-canonical" sources. I could write a fanfic that said every captain before Pike was a woman. Would it count? No, of course it wouldn't.

[@tofersiefken]

When Kirk gives the order to prepare for the "Time Warp", "Let's do the time warp again" played in my head in Richard O'Brien & Patricia Quinn's voices.

[@LordVolkov]

Hit the switch to the left And then you warp to the ri-i-ight!

[@logandarklighter]

"It's just a JUMP... to the left! And then a step to the right..." 🤣

[@phr3dmcc0y]

it would have been so funny if Sulu or Checkov had just let slip "Preparing to do the time warp again"

[@kivimik]

One of the things I love about this film (and there many great BTS stories) was that despite Paramount pushing for subtitles during the Probe's conversation with George and Gracie, Nimoy was adamant that no subtitles be used and allow the audience use their imaginations.

[@this.is.a.username]

It is, however, in the book afaik

[@kivimik]

@@this.is.a.username Well, that's unfortunate, but I guess an untranslated passage in whale song would be a challenge to convey on paper. Probe: "Wee-wah." Gracie: "Wooh. Weeerg."

[@this.is.a.username]

@@kivimik the translated conversation is in the book :eyeroll:

[@kivimik]

@@this.is.a.username Well, obviously. I'm just joking around.

[@tulinfirenze1990]

@@this.is.a.username Which is lame. The inclusion of subtitles, that is. Vonda N. McIntyre's movie novels were AWESOME!

[@mattmarkowitz8894]

"hello computer?" possibly the most memorable line of the entire series...nice reaction :)

[@CourtReacts-zm9yv]

Thank you!

[@this.is.a.username]

RIP Leonardo Nimoy and Mark Lenard, I hope you both feel fine in that undiscovered country. That scene is so beautiful and painful to watch now.

[@emilmlodnicki3835]

Dr. Jillian and Commander William Decker from Star Trek 1 were in 7th Heaven together, a family sitcom on the WB that also starred Jessica Biel. In the last 10 years we have invented Transparent Aluminum. Basically it's powdered alum that is compressed into a brick. It's also horribly expensive to make. But it is now a real thing.

[@Otokichi786]

"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home": Save the Whales! A movie with Humor, great jokes, and memorable quotes. The rest of the cast got to do something in this movie. This movie was practically a recruiting film for Greepeace.

[@snorpenbass4196]

The female San Francisco HQ Starfleet officer with the wacky hairdo giving damage reports is Jane Wiedlin, one of the members of the classic girl rock/pop band The Go-Go's. She's also in the comedy Clue, as a singing telegram. Edit: The time travel method is in fact one used in The Original Series, more specifically in the episode Tomorrow Is Yesterday (and they go back home using it, too, so they'd used it twice before).

[@clearsmashdrop5829]

This one is special for us citizens of the Bay Area. I saw it in a theater in Hayward and there is a decent chance there was a Sailor or Marine from Alameda NAS in the audience. I remember lots of laughter when that lady said "....its across the Bay in Alameda.." hahaha

[@GregInHouston2]

I once thought of this movie during an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries". "Dr. Gillian Taylor", despondent over the release of 2 whales, left the institute and vanished" Her truck was found at golden gate part abandoned.

[@richardjohnson9543]

There's a Trek novel called "Lost To Eternity" that was just released, and it uses the very scenario you describe as the jumping off point. Only it's about a podcaster in 2024 investigating her disappearance instead of Unsolved Mysteries

[@krdragon6950]

Star Trek 2,3, and 4 kind of makes up their own little trilogy.

[@Paul_1971]

Loving your reactions to.the classic Trek movies - you are indeed right, the Enterprise-A was a re-christened Constitution class ship, which I believe was the Yorktown - am sure I will be corrected if I am wrong LOL.

[@adamcohen233]

This movie came out in celebration of TOS's 20th Anniversary, and it captures the characters perfectly. I saw it twice on opening day, made my grandma sit through it with me, and it's one of my favorite childhood memories of going to the movies. Nimoy was in full effect on this one.

[@danielceo4694]

I still remember when this movie came out, I was totally excited, it was the 20th Anniversary of Star Trek, a huge deal and I absolutely loved it. All the reviews in all of the magazines and newspapers said how good it was. When it premiered in the theatre in the little town I grew up in, everybody I knew went to go see it; the place was packed, because everyone had heard about how good this movie was--even people in town who I knew weren't Trek fans were there! All of McCoy's lines and Scotty's lines got laughs. Everyone was laughing at the first shot where we see Kirk and crew trying to walk down the streets of San Francisco. Every time Spock was trying to swear, everyone was laughing. And once Scotty beamed up the whales everybody was laughing and cheering. And it was the first time I remember all of us in the audience clapping at the end! Here's a couple of fun facts: Catherine Hicks, who played Dr. Gillian Taylor, and Stephen Collins (Commander Decker from ST: TMP), both went on to star as husband and wife/mother and father in the popular TV show Seventh Heaven. Kirk Thatcher, who was the Associate Producer and played the punk on the bus, does a delightful podcast, called The Weirded Beardos. He's also done a lot of work with Disney, Pixar and The Muppets! The fun continues with Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier. Even though, it's a pretty divisive movie within the Trek community, I've always enjoyed it. The best scenes are the character moments!

[@karlsmith2570]

13:57 Not only was Sulu born in San Francisco, but George Takei, the actor who plays Sulu, was also born in San Francisco

[@noahrobin1941]

It’s a lovely thought, but according to Wikipedia he was born in Los Angeles.

[@cwell510]

Fun fact: There was a scene where Sulu ran into his a couple of his ancestors during the SF sequence that was left out.

[@karlsmith2570]

@cwell510 it was filmed, but the little boy that played one of Sulu's ancestors got to crying excessively, and the scrapped the scene

[@MartinBeerbom]

George wasn't, but his mother was.

[@DrakeAurum]

Trek's always been good at doing comedy when it wants to, and as the only predominantly comedic Star Trek movie (so far) this one's always been a stand-out. It's also the conclusion to what I think of as the Genesis trilogy. Star Trek movies II to IV make up the best piece of sustained storyline for the original series cast.

[@tulinfirenze1990]

Completely agreed. I was BESOTTED by these movies as a teenager.

[@Polymathically]

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 80s and 90s, so this has always been one of my favorite movies. I've hiked across nearly all of SF over the years, so seeing all these familiar places is always a fun experience. The idea that they could just leave a cloaked spaceship in the middle of Golden Gate Park never fails to get a chuckle out of me; it was actually Will Rogers State Park down in LA. 15:12 I've walked across that intersection hundreds, if not thousands of times. 16:16 That's a few more blocks more northwest, and Columbus and Mason, by the North Beach Library. 17:21 The "Cetacean Institute in Sausalito" was actually the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and this film was the reason I wanted to visit it. 19:25 Same goes with Fort Point, the area where they walk near the Golden Gate Bridge; I saw this in the movie as a kid, and knew I had to see it in person someday. I did so as a photographer decades later, and it became one of my favorite shots. 20:16 This is at Marina Green and the Yacht Harbor, just a short walk away from the Palace of Fine Arts and Fort Mason. Nice place for a morning walk. 27:48 This whole bit with Chekov's capture and rescue is still one of the funniest parts of any Star Trek film. Kirk's trial and "punishment" is such a fitting ending. How this will affect the story later on... Well, you'll see.

[@joemasters2270]

This was def one of my personal favorite TOS movies. "One damn minute Admiral" cracks me up every time. 🤣 A few years later, my family & I went to San Francisco on a cruise to Alaska. We saw whales. Beautiful, majestic creatures.

[@s.henrlllpoklookout5069]

Probe: "Oh, hey! You're back after 200 years! What happened?" George & Gracie: "It's been a weird day..." Probe: "Well, I'll just head home now." TBH, this is one of those few good movies that doesn't have an actual bad guy. There's no malice behind the probe's intentions

[@ZeroOskul]

So the only scene juxtaposed by the whales communicating with the probe at the end is Spock undergoing his testing at the start. Also there was a scrapped plot idea that Savik was supposed to be pregnant, which was scrapped but if they had kept it, *Next Generation* would definitely have featured or starred Spock's son. But that would have directly juxtaposed the whales, returned to life after being extinct and expecting a child, with Spock. So the probe asks a bunch of general questions and the final question it asks is "How do you feel?" to which the whales in joyful dance reply: "We feel fine." which is translated by Spock as his message to his mother, Amanda Grayson, that he entrusts to Sarek.

[@meredithsmyth7059]

The censors for TV were very strict in the '60s. The one and only "cuss" word in the original series was at the end of "City on the Edge of Forever" when Kirk says "Let's get the Hell out of here!".

[@SJHFoto]

That was actually the first foul word on Canadian television. So sad that the world has deteriorated so much since then

[@bobbuethe1477]

Kirk's closing line in "The City on the Edge of Forever": "Let's get the hell out of here." That's as bad as it got in TOS. 😊

[@vincentsweargen8436]

Fun fact: The guy playing the punk rocker on the bus was Leonard Nimoy's personal assistant.

[@paulsander5433]

The punk on the bus: His name is KIRK!!! Kirk Thatcher is quite accomplished in all aspects of TV and cinematic production. He's an Emmy winner, he worked with ILM for several years, he's done extensive work with the Muppets, and he did much of the creature designs for the "Dinosaurs" TV series. He wrote and sang the song that he played on the bus, and (spoiler alert) he'll still be listening to that song more than 3 decades later! In "Spiderman: Homecoming", he had a part as a bearded punk on the street holding a boom box. He also has credits as creator, producer, and writer for the "Travelin' Time" TV movie that will release next week on Sept. 23, 2024. The location of that nice shot with Spock on the rock at sunset was filmed at "Kirk's Rock" at the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park where the "Arena" episode was filmed. The original series caught a lot of flack from the network for profanity when Kirk spoke his final line in "City on the Edge of Forever". The scenes on the aircraft carrier involved active Navy personnel, including speaking roles of the sailors who detected the power drain in the control room. The story was inspired in part by Humphrey the humpback whale who ventured in to San Francisco Bay and became stranded in the Sacramento River delta. He was eventually lured back out into open water. A few years later he wandered in again and became beached near Candlestick Point. While Scotty, McCoy, and Sulu were wandering the streets just before finding the ad for the Yellow Pages, Sulu peaked through the window to some random bar then walked away with a smile. The bar was open for business during filming at 10am, and the hard-core alcoholics were already giving their patronage. One well-endowed lady was aware of the filming, and flashed George when he peaked in. That bar, and the place where Kirk was nearly run over by the taxi, are located in the old Barbary Coast district of San Francisco. Did you notice Rand in the control center on Earth, where the window blew out?

[@WanderingCactus]

Don't for get that Mr Thatcher is the singer for the song playing, he came up with everything from the character to the music himself, and has done a follow up on... ST: Picard IIRC.

[@dwmadroxxide5090]

My favorite of the movies. So lighthearted and the only Trek movie where nobody dies.

[@miguelvelez7221]

Huh... Never noticed that. Even most episodes of TOS don't pull that off.

[@TheodoreWeiser]

At the end of "The City on Edge Of Forever" Jim says: "Let's get the hell out of here". That was a BIG deal for network TV in the 60s.

[@capnpooter]

Your love for your Pumpkin warms my wee bairns, or something - and always gives me a smile. Also, YES, learn to swim-life is short-learn everything you can!

[@SixshotRevan]

For years, one of the biggest arguments between Star Trek fans was "which movie was better, Wrath of Khan or Voyage Home?" Both are fantastic movies that appeal to different people for different reasons. My fun fact for the movie is that the "punk rock guy on the bus" was Leonard Nimoy's personal assistant during filming. A lot of that scene was his idea.

[@LordVolkov]

I'm a Voyage Home guy. It's such a wholesome story, nobody dies, and they save a species from extinction 😊 Khan comes in right behind for the literary references and Spock's sacrifice.

[@SJHFoto]

Both movies are good, but they don't measure up to the awesomeness of Final Frontier! (Joking)

[@One.Zero.One101]

What I like about Voyage Home is the bravery to make it an all-out comedy. It's easy to see its success in hindsight, nut during that time they were taking a huge risk.

[@Serai3]

Fun fact: The only real whales in this film were in the distance shots of the whale breaching at the end. All the other shots were of puppets, either miniature or life-sized parts. The effects were so good that animal rights organizations were up in arms about whales being "mistreated" during the filming! There was a Sulu scene planned where he met his own grandfather as a child in San Francisco. Sadly, the little boy playing him ended up getting too tired and not cooperating, so the scene had to be scrapped.

[@cwell510]

I've been a huge Star Trek fan since I was a kid. My uncle grew up watching the original series and when I grew up in the 80's I watched reruns of TOS as well as the animated series and of course the movies. I'm a fan of the "even numbered" films, as many Trekkies are.

[@childof70s1]

Hello Court Reacts, I'm glad you enjoyed Star Trek IV. I want to clarify that if I'm not mistaken the BRAND-NEW Constitution II-class that we saw at the end of the movie was meant to be commissioned the new USS Yorktown because the original was lost because of the probe but Starfleet decided to make her the Enterprise A. At this point in time Starfleet was still building Constitution II-class starships which is a proven platform thanks in no small part to one of the chief designers, Chief Engineer Officer one Captain, Montgomery Scott. So, our crew got a Brand-New Constitution II-class starship at the end of the movie I don't even think they had time to complete the sea trials and do the shakedown cruise that every new vessel needs.

[@JamesC1981]

i believe when we watched this movie in the 80s or early 90s we expected the humpbacks to actually go extinct by 2000. looks like we finally did the right thing they're still here

[@no_rubbernecking]

@@JamesC1981 Yeah but only because of this movie. People who wouldn't touch them because of this film would still happily dispatch any number of other species including other whales.

[@IntergalacticDustBunny]

Fun fact: The Chevy Truck that Dr. Gillian Taylor drove in this film went up for auction on Ebay back around 2002 "ish". I bid on it, almost won it too.

[@SJHFoto]

How much did it go for?

[@IntergalacticDustBunny]

@@SJHFoto around 13,000 USD

[@alanmaxwell5932]

Thats awesome. Ive actually always wondered what happened to that truck, in story and in real life.

[@MarkHarvey-uh8oc]

A lovely film. Very thoughtful and emotional. These people are family, not just crewmates. I love the final interaction between Spock and Sarek. Do you have a message for your mother? Yes, tell her, I feel fine. Beautiful..

[@acidbotgd5018]

I now look forward to your Sunday Star Trek movie uploads, great reaction! Thank you, very genuine, love watching along with you!

[@davepowers3194]

It’s funny hearing Scotty saying reading Klingon is hard since James Doohan helped create the Klingon language 😂 Edit: most of the remaining Constitution class ships were refit into the Constitution II, but specifically the Enterprise-A is the USS Yorktown renamed

[@ChrissonatorOFL]

Well, the Yorktown origin is one of many origin stories for the -A haha

[@davepowers3194]

@@ChrissonatorOFL true, though by virtue of it being the most popular origin story, it was worth mentioning

[@nedzed3663]

This was peak Star Trek at the time. With Star Trek 4 being the highest grossing film of the movies, being both critically and commercially successful, and showcasing that Star Trek wasn't just some sci-fi series for nerds like me, but a franchise that had achieved mainstream success at the box office for now the 3rd time in a row, what's next you ask? Well when Star Trek 5 released, Leonard Nimoy was now an accomplished director, having directed 3 successful Star Trek films and a hit comedy with 3 Men and a Baby, Star Trek was just a pool brimming with talent. Star Trek, the Next Generation, had premiered on television at this time, introducing a brand new crew to Star Trek fans and television audiences so of course Paramount had to close out the year with a brand new Star Trek feature film right? And who would ve tasked to direct this film? Well, none other than William Shatner himself, and what we get is.......well, I'll be here for the next reaction to see your thoughts on it because it's something. Not to spoil anything but to me upon rewatching it over the years, it feels the most like the television series out of all the other movies, like the tone, the story.

[@silikon2]

Bones and the Spanish Inquisition: I really liked that though he thought 20th century medicine barbaric, he could still meaningfully communicate with the doctors he encountered, especially the one about to operate on Chekov. That means our medicine might still be clumsy in practice but largely correct in theory. Also, that was a particularly nice prop he used to fix Chekov.

[@AlpineWoods]

This is the first Star Trek movie I can remember seeing in the theater when I was a little kid.

[@SJHFoto]

I saw them all in the movies, but the first one I remember seeing was Wrath of Khan (Apparently, I slept thru Motion Picture (I know there's a joke in there, but I was also very young))

[@luminiferous1960]

According to Memory Alpha: In 2286, the Enterprise-A was commissioned at the San Francisco Fleet Yards on stardate 8442.5. It was launched from Spacedock One on the order of the Federation Council in appreciation of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew's efforts to prevent the Whale Probe from devastating Earth. Externally, the Enterprise-A was virtually identical to the Enterprise in its Constitution II-class configuration. The hull was a gun-metal grey colour, compared to the pearlescent finish of the original Enterprise.

[@markbade565]

The captain of the Saratoga is Madge Sinclair. She had the honour of portraying the first female captain in Star Trek.

[@GamerKatz_1971]

I was in Junior High when the Challenger exploded and it was a very upsetting and weird day. In a lot of ways it was the 9/11 of that year. Because Christa McAuliffe was a teacher a lot of schools across the country had students in auditoriums watching the launch and then of course the explosion happening so quick the staff had no time to switch it off. I was in computer class and just suddenly being aware of the teachers and staff running back and forth down the halls, they were setting things up to inform us and call in counselors.

[@LesterManley-s9n]

I saw the Challenger explode live on television. I was also watching live very early in the morning in San Francisco when they lost all contact with the Columbia during re-entree. After 2 minutes of no contact my heart sank as I knew the only thing that could have happened. I tried to hold back my tears but as they keep calling over and over couldn't hold back anymore and the tears started flowing.... As they tried to figure out what went wrong I called my job and told them I wouldn't be in today. 😢😢😢

[@dlove032002]

I was in junior high too and lived in Central Florida. We would go outside and watch the shuttle launches. It was about 27 degrees F that morning. Our social studies teacher applied to be a teacher in space. We knew right away there was something wrong having seen so many launches before. They closed school and sent us all home. RIP Challenger crew.

[@SJHFoto]

I was in grade 5 in Canada. Teacher wheeled a TV in for it (a RARE treat back then) and when it blew up, it was the first time I remember seeing an adult cry (the teacher)

[@jamesbrown4092]

I was in college at the time. A bunch of us in the technical department were gathered around a tv that was tied in to the NASA satellite feed. I can't articulate how shocked we were.

[@GamerKatz_1971]

@@SJHFoto You knew back then when the TV got wheeled in that it was going to be an easy class. :)

[@bernie472]

I still remember seeing this in the theater, when I was 10 years old. It was a double feature, with the movie little shop of horrors.

[@kojiattwood]

"Where the hell is that power you promised me?!?" "One damn minute Admiral." *double take* Classic

[@ianaherne9041]

So glad you are enjoying your Star Trek journey,it's so nice to see a younger generation appreciating the stories the chemistry between the cast "I know some of them didn't get along" but as a whole I think star trek with the original crew is just so good.I hope you keep enjoying your trek journey.

[@tommc4916]

Trek lore has it that the two feline aliens seen in Starfleet uniforms near the end of the film (one resembles a lion and the other a black panther) are Caitians, the same species as Lieutenant M'ress from The Animated Series.

[@SomeCallMeTim47]

It's actually the USS Ranger as the USS Enterprise was at sea during the filming.

[@miller-joel]

My friends, we've come home.

[@jdlewis3706]

FUN FACT: In the original draft of the script, while in San Francisco, Sulu meets a little boy that turns out to be Sulu's great-grandfather, but due to production issues, they never got to film the scene. Great reaction today! Can't wait for your future reactions! ❤

[@TheodoreWeiser]

In one of the Star Trek novels, they explained that there was a new Constitution Class Starship in the space dock ready to be named, and after the events of the movie, they elected to name her Enterprise NC1701A and assign her "Captain" Kirk

[@visionaryventures12]

They actually did discover transparent aluminum in real life. Also, there was a planned scene where Sulu runs into a child who turns out to be an ancestor. The child couldn’t perform well on camera, so they just skipped it. Also, they were trying to get Eddie Murphy in this movie. As much a Star Trek fan as he was, he had to move on to make The Golden Child instead.

[@kimsikoryak3830]

I agree that it's all about the family. So much fun to see all of them interacting. Thanks for your fun reactions.

[@floydlooney6837]

They aren't even close to extinct now, made a big comeback

[@terryv2006]

I was born in 1961 and grew up on all things Star Trek. This movie is my favourite of any of them. The new reboot movies are absolutely fantastic too.

[@tomtortolani8082]

Great reaction, thanks. Based on the reaction in theaters (yes I saw them all in the day) at the time and critical reviews, this was the best and most entertaining of all Trek movies. Nimoy really put a lot into this, with every detail impeccably done.

[@arraymac227]

'Gracie is pregnant.' The best line in _Star Trek_, beating out 'The needs of the many...'

[@jerrychouinard9005]

His next line is: Gracie knows

[@karlsmith2570]

16:27 Fun Fact for you, Courtney: That extra wasn't originally intended to have a speaking part in this scene, thus the expression on Chekov's face. So, the production team had to catch up with her and make a part of SAG so they could keep her dialogue in the movie

[@Serai3]

If you're talking about the street scene, that wasn't an extra. They were talking to real people on the street. The cameras were placed far away shooting with long lenses, and they improv'd with folks who were there. Thus the cop staring at Chekov - we didn't have good relations with Russia at the time, so he was extra suspicious about this guy asking about "nuclear wessels".

[@jamesdamiano8894]

Such a fun installment. One funny thing is that in the last one you had Christopher Lloyd playing a Klingon and in this one the Klingon at the beginning blaming Kirk is played by John Schuck. He was most famous for playing a goofy android in an old tv show called Holmes and Yo-yo. Interesting casting that somehow worked. The one time there was any cursing in the original series was in The City On The Edge Of Forever at the end when Kirk says let’s get the hell out of here.

[@benprewitt4600]

For what it's worth I'm active duty in Africa and I appreciate the shout out!

[@RetrofanFilms]

When writing the story for Trek IV, Nimoy along with producer Harve Bennett wanted to make the film lighter in tone; coming off of the seriousness of II and III. That being said, when it comes to the scenes in San Francisco, screenwriter Nicholas Meyer (who directed Trek II) based the scenes with the crew in 20th century San Francisco in part to a film he wrote & directed: Time After Time (1979); it was a story involving if H.G. Wells really did invent a Time Machine and travelled from 19th Century London to 20th Century San Francisco.

[@KenMinor-ek1xs]

It's amazing how the bad guy isn't your conventional villan , but mankind

[@ZeroOskul]

3:41 and we never see that paint or hear the name, ever again.

[@alasdairgardiner2313]

U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A - previously, the U.S.S. Yorktown NCC-1717, which featured earlier in the film, where the Captain is giving his report. I screamed with joy when I saw this scene, though, if my memory serves me correctly, I already had my model of the Enterprise-A before I saw The Voyage Home.

[@sergioaccioly5219]

Being a bit of a nitypicker, I must say that this is one of the versions for the ship's origin. There are a few others I know of. The canon was never clear on this. That said, there's a in-joke on yourversion. When the 60s show was in pre-production, an early draft called the ship the Yorktown, not Enterprise.

[@krazycp]

My dad said that when he saw this in the theaters, everyone in the theater cheered when the Enterprise went to warp at the end.

[@blacktronlego]

8:97 Interesting they mention Leningrad, they had not gone back to it being St. Petersburg at this point. One has to wonder what might happen in the future for it to be called Leningrad again by the 23rd Century. This future may have been averted already, with many countries agreeing on a ban on whaling. 27:24 They should have transported Chekov first, they had forgotten about the Cold War! Unfortunately two whales is not enough to produce a breeding population. Even four, with two being offspring of the other two, are extremely unlikely to breed true for long. if at all. A black, woman, offiicer was groundbreraking in the 1960s .Uhura and the actress Nichelle Nichols did a lot for black people and black women especially, it is not surprising she hold a special place in your heart.

[@arraymac227]

'Oh, stop it!' Yes, that was a very good guess. +++

[@MaestroDrake]

The last time I watched Star Trek IV was on VHS and another odd, personal fact: the last time I saw any VHS tape was Star Trek 6 back in 2009 in November. The day after I watched, I learned Majel Barett Roddenberry passed away

[@mcbeezee2120]

Your mentioning of Sulu reminds me: Ever since the first movie with the new actors, I've always wondered if the writers of the "new crew" Star Trek already had plans to bring their story/time line back to the original's timeline. If we recall, in the new crew Star Trek, they very quickly let us know it was a different timeline than the Shatner/Nimoy timeline. In the Shatner/Nimoy timeline, Vulcan was not destroyed and Spock and Uhuru were not an item.

[@gregoryeatroff8608]

"It is the Enterprise." "What are the odds?" One in twelve.

[@tsntana]

They were supposed to expand on Sulu's backstory in this film. He was supposed to run into a kid who turned out to be, if I remember correctly, his great grandfather. But when they were trying to shoot the scene, the kid was being, in Walter Koenig's words, "a pain in the ass". So the scene never made it into the movie. However, it was preserved in the novelization of the film. I'm a little surprised with all the fan projects out there, no one has tried to recreate this scene.

[@Alexandrashepiro]

Part 3 of the Genesis Trilogy! They knew what they were doing. After the previous movies dark moments of loosing spock, Kirk's son and the enterprise, the writers wanted to do something light hearted for the fans, so they gave us Voyage home. A pure star trek light comedy. It's what was needed after WOK and SFP. Everything from the music to the jokes were perfect!!!

[@Serai3]

It's also the only ST film that has no discernible "villain". The whole thing happens due to a misunderstanding.

[@gailseatonhumbert]

"They" was Leonard Nimoy. He wrote the plot. It did help with stopping the hunting of whales and they are no longer endangered

[@RetroRobotRadio]

40:30 - Starfleet was upgrading the last of the Constitution class starships and because the Enterprise had been destroyed, they renamed the new ship the Enterprise A in its honor.

[@scottwells8064]

There was supposed to be a scene where Sulu meets one of his ancestors, but the child actor froze up and they couldn't film the scene.

[@megalictis9002]

Thank you, I'd never heard that before!

[@davidward9737]

33:45 my favorite part of the movie. I love the whole movie but as a kid. Darn. And the Space Shuttle Challenger. I was in 2nd grade when it blew up. C McAuliffe was a teacher. We watched it live on tv. My teacher Ms Wimbro. Just cut the tv off, went to our locker closet and wepted. Composed herself and all of us as kids, knew something was wrong. It was a group hug.

[@bluebird3281]

If you do hitch a ride on a starship, bring a towel and don't panic.

[@Samtheman85844]

One of the best Star Trek TOS Movies.

[@richardmark9161]

The way Bones told Spock “Are you out of your VULCAN mind?!!!” That was close to cussing 🤬

[@lazyperfectionist2]

14:06 "It's a foregone conclusion, none of these people have ever seen an extraterrestrial, before." "Oh. To cover his ears." Yeah. Personally, though, I don't think he really would've stood out. San Francisco in the '80's? A _very_ flamboyant time and place. 16:37 See? _Very_ flamboyant. 18:42 😊 Heh. Then again...

[@DurkMcGerk]

The Chekov mannequin always cracks me up 🕺 🤣

[@zairac2564]

Great call on the whale song! Now it's time for that first swimming class.

[@InterdimensionalCowlick]

The woman who told Uhura and Chekov that "I think its across the bay. In Alameda," was not an actress. In his second memoir Leonard Nimoy wrote about them hiding with the camera in the back of a truck and recording Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig interacting with passersby and they quickly got that wonderful moment.

[@MartinBeerbom]

IMDb says she just got her car towed, and walked over to the crew and signed on as an extra on the spot in order to get enough money to get her car back.

[@InterdimensionalCowlick]

@@MartinBeerbom Leonard Nimoy, the director, tells it differently in his memoir "I am Spock".

[@johnmguzman7491]

"I wasn't alive when that happened..." Way to make me feel old! Lol😅

[@miller-joel]

One damn minute, admiral.

[@SophiesDriver]

To my mind, Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home is the best Star Trek motion picture of any century

[@Otokichi786]

Um, I'd suggest that "Galaxy Quest" is a candidate for that title, as well.;)

[@no_rubbernecking]

So true, but let's cut her some slack, because she doesn't have the context of the year it came out, the fact it was the first wide release to be a shared experience in real time between the Soviets and the West, that it portrayed a Soviet whaling ship, and the additional context that the Soviets were the most adamant country about not limiting their whaling to the slightest degree.

[@christopherdobinson710]

Glad you appreciate the Enterprise like most of us do. The aircraft carrier in this movie was unfortunately not the actual Enterprise but was really the USS Ranger. The Enterprise was at sea at the time and was a different and even larger class of carrier. Still loved the idea that their beloved ships ancestor still helped them get home and that the Navy wanted let them film on a real ship.

[@pbroker]

"Now who are you"? That is the Queen of Zamunda! Actress, Madge Sinclair, who played James Earl Jones's wife in Coming to America! RIP Madge Sinclair and James Earl Jones. She's been in so many historical movies. I just chose coming to America because more ppl know that movie than some of her previous roles.