Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Retrospective / Review

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[@GregsGameRoom]

I visited the aquarium just to see the spots where they filmed the movie. I thought there’d be a plaque on the wall but there was nothing. Even the employees had no idea Star Trek had been filmed there. I was shocked. But I was pretty excited to walk down the same stairs and stand near the same “water tank” that Shatner and Nimoy did!

[@laurarules3642]

you probably wont believe this but I visited Chi Omega Sorority House , the place were Ted Bundy committed one of his most known grizzly and savage attacks and murder sprees and the people living or working in the building had absolutely no idea what had taken place all those years ago. I know its NOT exactly something people want to remember and its best forgotten but time and new generations of people seems to wipe the pages of history clean sometimes

[@KasumiKenshirou]

They have mentioned it a few times on social media, but it seems the last time was in 2017. (Search for "Monterey Bay Aquarium" and "Star Trek")

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@laurarules3642 I can see why they wouldn't brag about the Ted Bundy thing. The location where a movie was filmed my attract more visitors, though.

[@zoidberg444]

Yeah. I visited there in 2015. I had no idea what they actually used and I knew it was from Star Trek as soon as I was outside. It was pretty cool.

[@John-ct9zs]

It happens, sometime when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s (when Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was more well known), some older people told me there was a lesser known Steven Spielberg movie with Goldie Hawn filmed in parts of town where I live called "The SugarLand Express", I'm sure they all thought I was a young punk with my blank stare and "huh?". I would have easily known Jaws, Close Encounters, E.T. or another famous Spielberg movie, but not Sugar Land Express. So I get it that current kids or younger generations don't know or care about a movie from the 80s, over 35 years ago, when I didn't care about a movie over 15-20 years ago when I was a teenager/early 20s.

[@Otokichi786]

Comparing "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986) to the current "ST:D" and "Picard" series is like comparing Cecil B. DeMille to Ed Wood, sigh.:(

[@lancebaylis3169]

So true.

[@bonghunezhou5051]

Ed Wood was a master filmmaker compared to those making "ST:D" and other contemporary Trek series.

[@mjwbulich]

Ed Wood was a heavy drinker making B-movies on a shoestring budget. There are no such excuses for how bad the current series are.

[@majorhemroid]

STD is definitely what it is. I took penicillin. It was effective.

[@SimonAshworthWood]

I enjoy the movie and those TV shows.

[@gunnarolbrand2242]

I was in my early teens when I first saw The Voyage Home. It is still one of my favourites in the franchise.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

Gunnar my mom saw this in thetres with my grndpa and my uncle when ther wre in Hawaii

[@srky4346]

My favorite Star Trek movie. I still use the whale dream during my meditations. Maybe folks that are younger than me have forgotten save the whales and how stressed it was during growing up in the 80s.

[@1francosvizzero]

I have to say that in my taste the score works really well, very uplifting, without it we may had a very different movie. Nothing memorable, but fresh, simple and perfect for this particular adventure.

[@davidaston5773]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a film you will never see now because of the studios and executive suits inability to take risks. It is a film and director allowed to do what he wants and the results across the board are rewarding to the audience. Another point people over look is 1986 would've been the 20th anniversary of the original series. Not the first pilot because that was 1964. So, the film perfectly echoed the past and moved the story forward. From the results of this you can see how great part 5 would've been if it weren't for the writer's strike preventing final touches to the script and ILM doing effects. I had always thought they filmed the whales for real but YET AGAIN I discover that movie magic has completely worked a sleight of hand over my film goer's eye. Amazing. Thank you for the review.

[@vcdonovan5943]

>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a film you will never see now because of the studios and executive suits inability to take risks. It is a film and director allowed to do what he wants and the results across the board are rewarding to the audience. In the studio's defense, I wouldn't trust any of today's hack writers and directors to take risks with my money either.

[@paulheap1982]

You say that, but it's not entirely true though.

[@davidaston5773]

​@@vcdonovan5943 On a different note, I've just heard that Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters has passed away at 50. Your comment gave me a much needed chuckle because it means that you can't win these days. Studios hire the hacks. Hollywood is all MTV like production and nothing that connects on a human level. No one wants to slowly build tension, evolve the characters and their relationship with each other. One of the GOLDEN rules: If the audience doesn't care about the characters then they're not going to care about anything they go through or the world they're in. What makes it odd? Writers, directors and all the other creatives would keep it simple to a point. Now? It's over complicated. Suits interfering. What's the point of hiring ANY creative people if you're going to over rule them? Taylor Hawkins RIP Another flame of music who has drummed his last beat way too early.

[@davidaston5773]

@@paulheap1982 I don't care. My opinion isn't changing because you don't agree. And if you can't cope with that go and hide in your safe space.

[@vcdonovan5943]

@@paulheap1982 The very very few exceptions hardly make up for the difference. Unless your bar for what constitutes talent and creativity is set extremely low. Now, the problem isn't that there aren't talented and creative people around. The problem is that these "creative" industries (music, movies, publishing, games, etc.) wouldn't know actual creative talent if it walked up and slapped them in the face. While it does happen, not as much executive meddling takes place as people believe. Most of the reason why things suck is because of the directors, the writers, the performers... All the executives do is promote untalented hacks with a loose understanding of creativity at best.

[@BenDowdy]

I saw this movie in a theatre in Montgomery Alabama when I was 10 years old. I loved it. I still love it.

[@Fbeast01]

The end credits freeze frame with the symphonic score is so very endearing. It’s so spectacularly 80s. Shatner was great in this film.

[@jacobdodd9065]

I attended the screening of the film last summer at my local Regal theater. It was one of three 1986 films alongside Labyrinth and Transformers: The Movie I got to experienced in the theater.

[@Perfection-ME-01]

I was lucky enough to watch it on the big screen in a town called Nuneaton in the U.K. It was the tiniest cinema i’d ever been in but gorgeous. I’m so happy i watched it as I’d seen all of them up to that point at the pictures.

[@johnironz5676]

#3: The search for Spock was good, with the planet Genesis. But this one looks a lot fun, I gotta recap on this.

[@SimonAshworthWood]

This is still my favourite Star Trek film.

[@LostWarriorPoet]

Nimoy, Meyer, Bennett, really the saviours of Star Trek 👊 Love your reviews, sir!

[@nikob7428]

Oliver, I love this movie and can’t tell you how much I enjoyed your retrospective of it! Really informative and nicely put together, as always, while being a nice love letter to the film too. Thanks!

[@marklechman2225]

The soundtrack is one of my favorites, I absolutely love the main theme.

[@Semaj4747]

36 years old...it has been that long? I remember seeing this in the theater.

[@sfighter0085]

Excellent as always. I think I caught parts of this movie whenever it was TV, however I never took any time to watch this installment in its entirety. I did see a review by James Rolfe, and he seemed to like it too. Even though I barely seen the old TV series and mostly seen the JJ Abrams movies, this does look like a fun installment. I'll probably check this movie out, along with "Wrath of Kahn" and "Search for Spock", as I've heard those were the most memorable of the original cast.

[@WhiteChocolate74]

Yes and Star Trek VI (Undiscovered Country) is really good too

[@TheMarcHicks]

As a teenager at the time of this film's release, this one was actually my 2nd favourite Star Trek film for the longest time!

[@chiefmegadeth]

My fav Star Trek movie!

[@mrmeerkat1096]

I agree It wasn't the one I looked forward to as a kid, I wanted the space battles and everything else. But as I've got older I began to appreciate the film more. One of its strengths I think is it's a perfect follow up from the previous movie with the circumstances there in. They have to go travel back in time and get the whales but they don't have there usual resources with the enterprise and it's crew, instead there in a old/small bird of pray that's crystals are drained and the only one thing they have going for them is the cloaking device. I'm glad Nimoy didn't have them in a starship somehow and kept them in the Bird of prey.

[@laurarules3642]

Do you know if 2 , 3 and 4 were carefully planned out? because it all played out perfectly and flowed

[@mrmeerkat1096]

@@laurarules3642 I don't think it was because they rejected alot of script ideas. I really like it that 2,3,4 are not just stand alone movie's but follow on from each other. That the events in the previous film have a big effect on the next. They just don't press the reset button. I wish the TNG movie's would have followed the same plan, they might have done better. The genesis device and the death of Spock connect 2 and 3, and I like that Kahns revenge on Kirk started this whole chain of events off that Kirk and the crew haven't recovered from even in the 4th movie. I've always really liked the search for Spock. I never understood why people wasn't that keen on it. It's the second part of what I see as a trilogy.

[@matusfekete6503]

Shatner not keen on time traval storie? Inconceivable! Though I can relate not being keen on them myself. But Voyage home is still one of my favorite original series movies (maybe just behind Undiscovered country).

[@michaelwills1926]

Brilliant film loved it then now and always

[@nealwhaley63]

I saw this in the theater, but I honestly don’t remember the Challenger dedication at the beginning. I wonder if it was included on all the prints.

[@franl155]

I had the first six films on DVD, but I've only kept 2-4, being a serial as much as a series. I like them all, but really like TVH; Nimoy was a great director.

[@chrislondo2683]

Love to see a retrospective of the 2009 Trek because I saw it at the Puget Park drive-in alongside Revenge of the Fallen which was shown first.

[@windsweeper8002]

1986 was a great year for films: Star Trek 4 Aliens Big Trouble in Little China Transformers The Movie (also starring Leonard Nimoy)

[@kevinwestrom4775]

I'm surprised, (that I could find via a search) that this channel hasn't done one of the highly iconic Clint Eastwood 80s movies,.. Firefox. . I'd love to see your thoughts on it.

[@edkwon]

Bus punk makes a return cameo in the latest episode of Star Trek Picard 👍🏻

[@lancebaylis3169]

The movie's success was also the reason Paramount decided to return Star Trek to the small screen -- twenty years on from the original TV show there were already rumblings that the show could return to its television roots, but The Voyage Home indisputably confirmed to the executives at the studio that the gamble could be worth it. And that's how Star Trek The Next Generation came into existence.

[@zoidberg444]

I actually like the score, I find it light and refreshing in stark contrast to jerry goldsmith and james horner. Film apppropriate. This film really is brilliant. Its such an innocent adventure. It was great to visit San Francisco in 2015 and seeing some of the locations. I had this on VHS when I was 10.

[@edvaira6891]

I absolutely adored this movie! It’s still quite wonderful

[@fusionspace175]

Apparently the whale biologist does show up again in some of the books or comics for the odd adventure with Kirk, but nothing onscreen.

[@skeletorrobo]

One of the few Star Trek movies I've seen. Not bad.

[@alexrebmann1253]

Captain I found a nuclear vessel, and it is the Enterprise.

[@andrewbyrne7321]

I love this movie so much everyone all has a great deal to do in this

[@dynaman7329]

Could you do a retrospective on the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy?

[@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

I've been waiting for this. My favourite Trek movie!

[@martimusmcfly2686]

Is there a release date for “Here comes a new challenger” yet?

[@TRUTHISABSOLUTE777]

At 5 minutes and 37 seconds. Where can we find the original footage of this part, where they explain why widescreen format is essential to properly display videos? This should be required viewing for this generation of vertical filming zombies.

[@NoName-eo2mv]

My favourite

[@langleychannelvideos]

Another awesome retrospective really enjoyed this one yeah shame about the score though

[@jweinrub]

Great video!!!

[@p.s6742]

I demand a Young Sherlock Holmes review damn it. 😭😭😭

[@jamesl.anderson1384]

3:46

[@jeffbebe5085]

I seen it in the theaters. As i did #3 and #5 (sucked) #6 as well.

[@donaldduck7461]

Only like 2 & 6 due to Meyer.

[@stevenlornie1261]

Really? So sad.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

6 is overrated.

[@srstriker6420]

Do Space Jam 1996, Looney Tunes Back in action, Deep Blue Sea, Cutthroat island, Amazing Spider-Man 2012 and the Island (2005) as retrospectives?

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Ugh, my stomach.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

Sr striker have you seen star trek piczrd yet

[@srstriker6420]

@@ricardocantoral7672 what?

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@@srstriker6420 youbdiidnt answercmy question

[@srstriker6420]

@@zacharyjochumsen9677 no I have not, so there’s your answer

[@Polymathically]

I watched The Voyage Home on VHS as a child. The one scene that I always remembered was Kirk and Spock walking near the Golden Gate Bridge. It's a distinctive shot in a specific location, and I knew that someday I'd see it in person. A couple of decades later, I spent my days off hiking, photographing, and wandering around San Francisco. I eventually sought out that precise location and took one of my best photos. And I never would've known about that location had not seen this movie.

[@laurarules3642]

I know this probably sounds like a dumb question but was there anything there like a statue or something mentioning Star Trek? I know countless movies get filmed and they can't put up little notices on every location

[@laurarules3642]

Plaques ?

[@Polymathically]

@@laurarules3642 None that I saw, but I was focusing more on the view!

[@kelleighohara83]

Same. This movie on VHS was my introduction to Star Trek. I wouldn't be the fan I was today without my fond memories of it.

[@majorhemroid]

I watched it on Beta.

[@edwardtoal]

My favourite scene is the Scotty and Bones one in the glass factory. Scotty talking into the mouse like a microphone and then when he's forced to use the keyboard he says "how quaint". Then when Bones questions the ethics of giving the manager the formula for transparent aluminium and Scotty says "how do you know he didn't invent it" and Bones facial expression. Superb comic timing and performances from everyone.

[@dnasty312]

👨🖱"Hello, computer."

[@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

@@dnasty312 Just use the keyboard

[@RedHeadKevin]

I just hate that they basically had Scotty mashing the keyboard for comedic effect. Nobody types like that.

[@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

@@RedHeadKevin Alcoholic Scotsman do

[@jaypee9575]

NOT NOW MADELINE!!

[@guydavies1342]

Voyage Home was great that they didn't need an Enterprise for the story so the Klingon ship was a natural continuation and it appearing above the whale ship is one of my favourite shots of the film.

[@dnasty312]

They even named her, _Bounty_

[@laurarules3642]

It wasn't a question of needing one or having one they sort of blow it up in the previous movie. Don't know if it was carefully planned as 2, 3 and 4 are sort of one big story ( they have an arc anyway) or if the writers wrote themselves into a corner. But I thought it worked out so much better with the Bird of Prey . It must have been carefully planned because if they had the Enterprise they wouldn't have been able to cloak or land on. earth which was all needed

[@patterdalefilms711]

@@laurarules3642 It was never planned as a trilogy, it just happened that way, possibly due to Spock's death in Khan as the driving force behind the third film, and the destruction of the Enterprise an effort be another big event with the same impact as Spock's death. Come 4 all that was left was the Bird of Prey, so they had written themselves into a corner, but they used that to their advantage.

[@SammEater]

Me too, hell this movie was the reason I started to like the Bird of Prey ship, it has such a cool design.

[@jpaulc441]

Imagine what this film would have been like if the probe wanted to communicate with Tyrannosauruses instead of whales.

[@treadstone1970]

Surely they would be aware of the dinosaur ancestors from Voyager episode Distant Origin.

[@andrewhoward4471]

Imagine what this film would have been if the probe wanted to communicate with the Dodo bird. LOL

[@jamesbednar8625]

Imagine if the probe came to Earth in the current world situations we are experiencing. It probably would say, "Nope - I'm outa here!1 You people are too out of control!! See ya!!".

[@sophiewilder7803]

They'd have had to land at Isla Nublar.

[@kubrickenigma7977]

My brothers and I went to watch this downtown. I was a few months shy of six years old, and very frightened by the opening sequence, but when the Probe tilted downwards, my eldest brother leaned over to my ear and whispered: "It's a giant turd!" After that, I wasn't afraid. I recall very fondly how the audience was a riot of laughter. The intensity of the slingshot around the sun was thrilling. The heads coming out of the clouds was very surreal. Spock swimming in the whale tank really stuck with me, and the candles in the restaurant scene reminded me of a chicken restaurant my family would eat at from time to time. I've not watched this one in about 10 years, so I guess it's time for a rewatch.

[@humperdinkmagillacuttyiii4004]

I have to strongly disagree with the criticism of the music. This soundtrack is amazing and fits the movie PERFECTLY.

[@Dohsoda]

Agreed. It fits the light and fun tone of the story.

[@Digginjim]

Maybe, but it’s easily the weakest score of any of the original crew movies.

[@humperdinkmagillacuttyiii4004]

No. But agree to disagree

[@ricardocantoral7672]

I love this film but I must say, the soundtrack is terrible. Alan Silvestri should have scored the film instead.

[@ChrisRoth1972]

I wonder why James Horner didn’t score this movie? I think his music sounded better!

[@rmjmoviereviews6876]

My grandparents and I went to go see this when it came out, and it was so much fun. To this day I'll always remember The Voyage Home because of that.

[@Lestat21500]

I actually enjoy Kirk in this iteration. He acts more human, like a Dad.

[@shainewhite2781]

Best Star Trek movie ever made! Love it how Spock can't swear properly with colorful metaphors. Lol!!

[@Johnflaxman974]

"Well, double dumb ass on you !!" Admiral James T. Kirk 1986

[@lancebaylis3169]

"I suppose next you'll say you're from outer space." "No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space."

[@mikeyp2277]

This one is so special to me, I loved it as a kid, and still revisit it. And it still works, the plot is bananas, but it works. I love it.

[@moritzstrohriegel8724]

agree it is very funny.,

[@leninfranco9328]

Me too.

[@HellhammerSS]

I still adore Kirk's reaction to seeing Spock in the whale tank.

[@sinisterintelligence3568]

Probably my favorite Star Trek movie (tied with Wrath of Kahn). Loved the Christmas music theme, loved the overall pace and the message. I remember going to San Francisco back in 2019 and watched the movie the night before my flight. I also packed my Monster Maroon and wore it all around the city. I even cosplayed as the "Puck on the Bus", too. In some ways, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was the launching pad for Star Trek: The Next Generation. I even loved the small orbital space tugs; some of my favorite ships in the franchise. As someone who just graduated from film school and a fan of making model spaceships, boats, and airplanes, I was immediately in love the miniatures and models they used for the sets. It's sad that we don't do models anymore.

[@chrisheimva4857]

Wrath of Khan maybe the better movie, but I always felt Voyage Home was the better Star Trek movie. By far my favorite entry in the series.

[@stevenlornie1261]

Star Trek II-IV, the best trilogy that isn't Lord of the Rings. Star Trek V NEEDS a director's cut. They need to sort those special FX. Shatner's vision looks fantastic but the effects, man. It's a shame they were screwed over.

[@suttercane6]

Agreed on Star Trek but was never a fan of Lord of the Rings.

[@NYCQuint]

I love this film! The original cast is my personal favorite cast and they hold up the best. Great video!

[@gregmesemondo1401]

Perfect as always. Oliver’s voice, research, presentation and everything else. Better than anything else.

[@owie4070]

I agree. This is one of the best KZbin channels in my opinion.

[@200wattstudio8]

A great time to have lived. To have Nimoy, Mark Lenard, and Jane Wyatt together again in a classic Star Trek story

[@carycharlebois5965]

I still get hit hard whenever I hear "the late Leonard Nimoy".

[@yesillhaveanother2278]

Yea poor time keeping hits me hard too

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@yesillhaveanother2278 lol. I never understood how "late" came to mean dead.

[@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons]

I had to read that three times to realize you weren't getting hard

[@WilAdams]

For a film that's 36 years old it holds up pretty well. That quote by Oliver got me thinking. When we watch films like Body Heat (1981), The Maltese Falcon, Gone With the Wind, The Women (1939) or Auntie Mame we never use statements like the Oliver quote. Why? Because those films don't rely on PEOPLE. The performers (talented, and convincing), the writing (engaging and taut), and directing. Sure, lighting and set design, costumes and so many other film aspects count, but it the first 3 that really mark these films out as classics. These days we rely so heavily on cgi that in 10 more years people will be looking at the Infinity Saga and focusing on the cgi--does it hold up?--instead of on the talent of the performers, the writing and directors. I think we lost something.

[@TheGahta]

I love these for all the interplay that it shines light on, wouldve never known about the eddie murphy angle and that him refusing a part lead to him being in the golden child :D Glad it worked out that way, wouldnt want to miss that gem

[@pathevermore3683]

17:50 this is my personal favorite star trek theme. if i were to put one of my startrek ideas to series, this would be the theme i would use like rodenberry did with james horner's ST:TMP theme.

[@michiganjack1337]

1986 I was 4 years old and my dad took me to go see this in the theater. Thus began my love for space and of course Star Trek (we shall not speak of current trek). As the late great Jack Horkheimer would say, “Keep looking up.” 🖖🗽

[@Markos581973]

I remember watching this in the theatre...at the end when the Enterprise-A was revealed the crowd lost it, people standing and cheering, grown men brought to tears. Star Trek is a special phenomenon.

[@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx]

That event sadly I missed. Fortunately I've experienced an event like that in the previous film after Spock goes "Jim. Your name is Jim."

[@Markos581973]

@@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx The search for spock is very good in its self, very entertaining.

[@alexrebmann1253]

The the A should have been an Excelsior class.

[@CianODonnell]

Few people actually saw the Challenger disaster live on television. The flight occurred during the early years of cable news, and although CNN was indeed carrying the launch when the shuttle was destroyed, all major broadcast stations had cut away - only to quickly return with taped relays. With Christa McAuliffe set to be the first teacher in space, NASA had arranged a satellite broadcast of the full mission into television sets in many schools, but the general public did not have access to this unless they were one of the then-few people with satellite dishes. What most people recall as a "live broadcast" was actually the taped replay broadcast soon after the event.

[@ijuvatar]

i'd rather rewatch all of these golden classics than the generic shit hollywood churns out nowadays. it always feels like the golden age of filmmaking is long gone. long live practical effects

[@GregsGameRoom]

Hear, hear!

[@srky4346]

Amen!

[@RussellStarTrek007]

Can't wait for Oliver to review the TNG films, Star Trek First Contact is my second favorite film in the series.

[@izzynobre]

After all these years, still loving your channel! Keep up the excellent work, man!

[@suk6323]

Having Eddie Murphy in this would've been like having Richard Pryor in Superman 3...

[@nn-dj2nu]

i grew up in the Bay Area, man i do miss old San Francisco. I wish i could time travel.

[@Knightfall182]

The 'Late' Leonard Nimoy .... that still doesn't sound quite right 🤨

[@bsgtrekfan88]

Releasing this on Nimoy's Birthday . . . . nice ;) As always, great production and words as always sir! From across the pond - Plymouth, MA! Also the Oscars are Sunday...while I do not care for the politics, I tune in for the folks that win for sfx, audio, costume and so on but most of all the Montages....your's are always top-notch!

[@ELEKTROSKANSEN]

I really liked this one when I was younger, but the older I get the less I like it... It's currently my least re-watched Star Trek movie with the original cast. I honestly prefer The Final Frontier over it. TFF had ideas, was set in space, etc., and Voyage Home is, I feel, more a gimmick than a real Trek movie. I'm with Shatner on disliking time travel stories. Lots of scenes are cringe nowdays. The score sucks. I still love it, but oh what a weird relationship I have with it...

[@jyesucevitz]

8:29 somebody else by now must've mentioned it, but just in case. in the new Picard series S02E04 they travel back in time to I think our present. they take a bus in SF I believe. the guy that played the loud music punk reprised his roll. it was a fun callback scene.

[@debroeglenn4924]

Loved this movie and I’m very excited to check your review sir. Have a good Saturday

[@jamesl.anderson1384]

7:19 Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 7:24 The Golden Child (1986)

[@Mindbodyscan]

As a Trekkie not my favorite. Spock is too boring in this movie, liked him better in The Motion Picture and Wrhat of Khan. In the last three movies, he was different. Although in the Undiscovered Country, at some moments the old Spock was there again. It seems that Kirk has all the solutions and the rest of the crew just follows blindly. In TNG there was cooperation between the characters about the choices they made and sometimes they disagreed but in the original movies, there was no place for that.

[@rsr789]

You're incorrect that ST IV doesn't have a villain, it does: it's humanity. Stupid, selfish, greedy, shortsighted, murderous, and cruel Humans: without question the most evil villains to ever inhabit the earth.

[@wolfofthewest8019]

The whale effects in this movie are so good I didn't even realize they weren't actually whales until I watched this video. I feel dumb now, because duh, there are no captive whales, but you don't think about those sorts of things when you're watching a movie

[@ammosophobia]

If the TOS theme had appeared, Roddenberry would have gotten royalties for having written the lyrics. Seriously.

[@edwardbloecher4563]

The accidental extra is actually actress Madolyn Smith who played Chevy Chase's wife in Funny Farm. Research it

[@diogocatalano9557]

I watched once in the theater and dozens of times on VHS and on DVD. I love this film. Star Trek is part of my live.

[@purefoldnz3070]

ironically they are remaking Star Trek 4 now with season 2 of Picard and its about as bad as you would expect.

[@VinzKlortho]

24:36 I wish we got to see more of this bridge. Clean white with all the touch panel okudagrams! They even had the old TOS sensor sound too

[@shaggycan]

Worst score of any Star Trek film. It sounds like a Hallmark Christmas special.

[@nebohtes]

I love all of the first 4 movies, but Motion Picture has become my favorite. Every time I watch it, I like it more.

[@Cre80s]

I hear that. It seems to me that 2-4 are like a trilogy in and of themselves and the other 3 films are the only ones that each stand on their own.

[@nebohtes]

@@Cre80s Yeah, 2-4 is an awesome 6 hour movie. I don't get the love for 6 or the hate for 5 -- they're long episodes years apart, but 1 is the cat's meow. High stakes, the technology is terrifying, and the characters are all portrayed as more than Starfleet officers, while still being pro. I just love that movie.

[@Cre80s]

@@nebohtes Yes, 5 is a mess for sure, but gashdangit if I don't like the thing anyway, but it's obviously the weakest of the 6 (someone had to be it, so whatever, right?). Pretty much all 6 movies in my head are a lot nearer a level line of appreciation than many who typically have this massive up and downing of faves and hates. I love 6, but I agree with Roddenberry’s aversions to it being so militarized, the ships being so like warships, but it was meant to fit into a statement that was ultimately very anti-war. But I think that 1 just has to be my favorite. It really felt like it was taking the series' vision to the next level, and it was a future so full of hope and progress. The level Trek has fallen to in the past few streaming abominations just makes me physically ill in comparison. It may have been ages ago, but I will never forget the over-all feeling that future felt like when leaving the theater as a kid.

[@joeshittheragman6252]

A Russian running around town looking for nuclear vessels during the Cold War is fucking hilarious

[@mrscruffy8045]

Why do writers work so slowly? Cause they know, once they are finished, the shooting starts.

[@KevaNRice-hh6yh]

My mother-in-law called mevery time each movie came out she's dead now there hasn't been a #7yet

[@ColdWarAviator]

I was stationed at Ft Ord California during filming...Ft Ord was an Army Base just north of Monterey. I remember the Monterey Bay Aquarium had just been built in 1984 when I arrived there and they used the aquarium as the filming location for the fictitional "Cetacean Institute" in the Voyage Home. I have always been a big trek fan and so I tried to get down to the aquarium during filming but it was closed to the public and pretty much impossible to sneak into with all the film crew and security around... Lol. I too enjoyed this movie greatly. It's Tied for 🥇 first on my list with Wrath of Khan. And Nimoy was a far greater director and actor than he got credit for. There is a one man performance titled Vincent, where Nimoy plays VanGogh's brother and recounts letters between he and his brother. It's about 90 minutes long but is IMO the best acting performance any man on earth has ever given. Worth watching if you have the time.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

Falcon films so wre you jat a cadet atb ft ord

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@@zacharyjochumsen9677 I started as a PFC in the US army. Attack helicopter crew chief. (AH-1S, Cobra). When I left there to go to Korea in 1987 I was a Sergeant (E-5). We operated out of Fritzche Army Airfield which had since been turned into the Marina Airport. They shut down Fort Ord in the early 90s when Clinton was president.

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@@ColdWarAviator yeh did you ever got the area starflet acdemy is beucse its techinly an acthual building that's bernnoither things beyond star trek

[@ColdWarAviator]

@@zacharyjochumsen9677 when I left the Army in 1992 I was a staff sergeant stationed at Fort Eustis Virginia..I was an instructor at the U.S Army aviation logistics school. (USAALS) and taught the new helicopter mechanics when they got out of basic training. Fort ord was my favorite assignment though. Beautiful area. We would go down to Carmel on the weekends, hang out at the beach... Or up to Santa Cruz... Sometimes go cruise main street in Salina... Lol

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@@ColdWarAviator yeh fun fact djd you know this film was t one pint to unvvoleve JFK time travel plot at one point

[@trickykid73]

I always thought when i was a kid that the probe looked like a xtra large long can of dog food .

[@PondoSinatra680]

My second favorite Trek film, right after Kahn.