jacobjohntaylor1 This is one of the best movies I have seen. It has a great story line and great acting. It is better then the show. It is also better then the first Star Trek movie. Star Trek V is better. But still this a great movie.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" (1986)Producer Harve Bennett (1930-2015) onboard since "The Wrath of Khan" keeps promises by raising production budget with Paramount Picture executive for a Thanksgiving releae of year 1986, where any favoring "Star Trek" spectator gets pushed onto Planet "Earth" of the Californian San Francisco bay area, when the solidly-directed movie by Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) must give in to comedic cultural clashes between the rebel-to-conservative loving 20th century versus 23rd century knowledge, which may not present itself in supense-driving visual splendors of its predecessors.The screenplay feels highly constructed and at times over-written as centered eco-save-the-whale-mission over slapstick confrontation at a hospital with fame-seeking white-dressed surgeons and rag-jacket-wearing "Bones" McCoy, portrayed by DeForest Kelley (1920-1999) in performances of a life-time, who alongside "Spock" character reprising Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) and the ease-of-a-peaking-career pushing leading actor William Shatner, at age 55, run through scenes of obstacles with sidekicking ecologist/zoologist character Gillian, peformed by Catherine Hicks, when a bunch of century-bridging characters must bring a pair of two humpback whales back to the 23rd century to save the future from an alien-invading phantom threat in the eye of annihilation.Production values are intact with "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" in order to remain quality motion picture entertainment, especially with Academy-Award-nominated visual and sound effects coming from an emerging always boundaries-pushing company of "Industrial, Light and Magic" (ILM) to well-paced 110-Minute-Editorial by film cutter Peter E. Berger (1944-2011) and an entertainment underlining score by Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), who together shape a fulminate success with the U.S. American box office in holiday season 1986/1987 by exceeding spectre attendance by more then 28 Million moviegoers, which comes in retrospective near the success concerning reinvention efforts of "Star Trek" produced and directed by J.J. Abrams in season 2007/2008 for the smash hit release of May 8th 2009.Nevertheless watching this particular "Star Trek" picture today, which seems to become even more out-of-place with nearly two thirds of screen-time staying in an unforgiven 1980s environment before the picture just finishes with promotion all along, coming out clean for each and every character presented to no further thrills given.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

frickabee The stupid plot of the movie is summed up in one line by Doctor McCoy: "Who would send a probe hundreds of light years to talk to a whale?" Spock then obviously infers in an exchange of dialog that whales not only have a entire language, but if only humans were smart enough to understand it, the Earth wouldn't suffer from global warming. Only a Hollywood activist like Leonard Nimoy would write preachy crap like that. No one seems to care that there's no plausible explanation presented as to why an alien civilization hundreds of light-years away would send a probe to destroy the entire Earth because of a single species no longer making the noises that they've become accustomed to hearing, even through space from that distance. Not only that, but it would happen 200 years after the fact. If it took that long for the probe to reach the Earth, despite being sent by a much more advanced civilization, wouldn't it have been encountered in space several times during its journey, disabling ships in its wake? Based on the vast majority of reviews, the only reason people seem to like this movie is because it's a fish-out-of-water story when the 23rd century clashes with the 20th century, which no doubt creates for a lot of humorous scenes. It is for that reason alone that I can enjoy this movie much more than any of its successors in the franchise while looking past all the gaping plot holes and unanswered questions, but it's nowhere near as good as Star Trek II or even Star Trek III.

FlashCallahan So the fourth film wraps up the narrative arc that begun with Wrath..... And this is widely regarded as one of the better Trek films because it's tone is considerably lighter, as the gang all travel back in time, and become metaphorical aliens.....A space probe appears over Earth, emanating strange sounds towards the planet, and apparently waiting for something. As time goes on, the probe starts to cause major storms on Earth and threaten its destruction. Admiral James T. Kirk and crew are called upon once again to save mankind. They discover the strange sounds are actually the songs of the humpback whale - which has been hunted to extinction. They have only one choice - to attempt to time travel back into the 20th century, locate two whales, and bring them back to 23rd century Earth to respond to the probe.....So it's the Eco-friendly one, the one where Kirk saves the whales, and sends everyone in audience a subliminal message telling us to 'look after our planet', but with a few laughs thrown in so it looks like Nimoy isn't preaching too much.And whilst the film is wonderfully entertaining when it's set in 1986, step back and look at the bigger picture, and you'll find that its nothing more than the film being about a big piece of liquorice who is lonely and can't speak any language apart from whale.The makers knew that the story wasn't the best, so they implemented the element of time travel to keep the series fresh and 'down with the kids'.Kelleys is easily the best thing here, his scenes in the hospital are hilarious, and some of his finest comedic scenes in the film series. In fact, everybody seems to be having such a good time, you can't help but go with the comedy.Back in space though, it's a pretty sombre affair. We start with the council watching the third act of Search For Spock, and we end with everybody slapping each other on the back.It's not deserved of its high regard in the Trek universe, but at least you see Kirk throw Spock playfully in the ocean.