Star trek, IV, the voyage home / Paramount ; Paramount Pictures presents a Harve Bennett production ; a Leonard Nimoy film ; executive consultant, Gene Roddenberry ; executive producer, Ralph Winter ; story by Leonard Nimoy & Harve Bennett ; screenplay by Steve Meerson & Peter Krikes and Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer ; produced by Harve Bennett ; directed by Leonard Nimoy.
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FilmPublisher number: 071964 | ParamountLanguage: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Series: Star trek, original motion picture collectionPublisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (118 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 1415750505
- 9781415750506
- 1415750475
- 9781415750476
- Star trek four, the voyage home
- Voyage home
- Star trek IV, the voyage home (Motion picture)
- Kirk, James T. (Fictitious character), 2233-2371 -- Drama
- Spock, Mr. (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- McCoy, Leonard (Fictitious character) -- Drama
- Scott, Montgomery, 2222- -- Drama
- Sulu, Hikaru -- Drama
- Outer space -- Exploration -- Drama
- Interplanetary voyages -- Drama
- Enterprise (Imaginary space vehicle) -- Drama
- Space ships -- Drama
- Space flight -- Drama
- Science and civilization -- Drama
- Human-alien encounters -- Drama
- Enemies -- Drama
- Music by Leonard Rosenman ; edited by Peter E. Berger ; production designer, Jack T. Collis ; director of photography, Don Peterman.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) concludes the story arc begun with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but on a wholly new, different, and upbeat note. As the movie opens, months have elapsed since the events in Star Trek III; Admiral Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Scott (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and Chekhov (Walter Koenig) are marooned in self-imposed exile on Vulcan, along with the resurrected and regenerated Spock (Leonard Nimoy, who also directed). While Spock tries to sort out the Vulcan and human halves of his resurrected psyche, the others prepare to return to Earth to face a brace of charges by the Klingon Empire and Star Fleet over events on Genesis. Taking off in their commandeered, jerry-rigged Klingon ship, they head to Earth, not knowing that a new crisis could destroy their home world -- a huge, immensely powerful alien probe has entered the galaxy and established a position near Earth, disabling every vehicle and installation in its path with its energy and communication output, and has ionized the entire atmosphere and started vaporizing the oceans, leaving the planet only hours to survive. Spock determines that the probe is sending out signals to another intelligent terrestrial life form, humpbacked whales, which no longer exist. Using the gravity slingshot time-warp effect (established early in the original series) to travel back into Earth's 20th century, Kirk and company land in 1980s San Francisco to try and bring humpbacked whales to the 23rd century, to respond to the probe. Thus starts a surprisingly breezy, light-hearted, yet serious odyssey through the past (comparable to the best work of the original series), as the crew learns to deal with exact-change buses, angry drivers, punk-rock enthusiasts and other elements of '80s life, and Kirk tries to persuade a scientist (Catherine Hicks) of his good intentions for two whales in captivity. The screenplay, co-authored by Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer, and Harve Bennett (from a story by Nimoy and Bennett), is the cleverest and most sophisticated of all the Star Trek movie screenplays, recalling some of the elements of Meyer's earlier time-travel movie Time After Time and also anticipating the feel and tone of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (which would be on the air not quite a year later). Nimoy's direction offers a combination of brisk pacing and a deep love of the characters and the actors, as well as a serious appreciation of the humorous aspects of the script, and Shatner gives his best performance of any of the movies. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 Ex, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Dolby Digital Mono.
English, dubbed French, dubbed Portuguese, or dubbed Spanish dialogue with optional English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Mark Lenard, Jane Wyatt, Majel Barrett, Robert Ellenstein, John Schuck, Brock Peters, Robin Curtis, Catherine Hicks.
Music by Leonard Rosenman ; edited by Peter E. Berger ; production designer, Jack T. Collis ; director of photography, Don Peterman.
Based on Star trek created by Gene Roddenberry.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1986.
MPAA rating: PG.
Branded as fugitives by the Federation they swore to protect, the crew dutifully returns to Earth to face charges for crimes committed in the course of rescuing a resurrected Spock, but while en route, they learn that Earth is being ravaged by a strange alien probe demanding a response from a life form that no longer exists.
Special features: Commentary by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman; "Starfleet Academy SCISEC Brief 004: The Whale Probe" featurette; "Star Trek for a cause" featurette; "Star Trek: three picture saga" featurette; "Pavel Chekov's screen moments" featurette.