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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
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Release Date:
26 November 1986 (USA)
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Tagline:
Beaming down to Earth December 12 1986 more
Plot:
To save Earth from an alien probe, Kirk and his crew go back in time to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 3 wins
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13 nominations
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NewsDesk:
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Leonard Nimoy Won't Direct a Star Trek Sequel
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'Star Trek,' 'Wolverine' Close
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A Vivid, Upbeat, Frequently Intelligent and Delightful Sci-Fi Adventure
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | William Shatner | ... | Admiral / Captain James T. Kirk |
 | Leonard Nimoy | ... | Captain Spock |
 | DeForest Kelley | ... | Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy |
 | James Doohan | ... | Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott |
 | George Takei | ... | Commander Hikaru Sulu |
 | Walter Koenig | ... | Commander Pavel Chekov |
 | Nichelle Nichols | ... | Cmdr. Uhura |
| Jane Wyatt | ... | Amanda |
 | Catherine Hicks | ... | Dr. Gillian Taylor |
| Mark Lenard | ... | Ambassador Sarek |
| Robin Curtis | ... | Lieutenant Saavik |
| Robert Ellenstein | ... | Federation Council President |
| John Schuck | ... | Klingon Ambassador |
 | Brock Peters | ... | Admiral Cartwright |
| Michael Snyder | ... | Starfleet communications officer |
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Runtime:
119 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
Dolby SR (35 mm prints)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Italy:T |
Canada:G (Canadian Home Video rating) |
Iceland:L |
South Korea:12 |
Brazil:Livre |
Sweden:11 |
Canada:G (Régie du Cinéma Québec) |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) |
Finland:K-12/9 (original rating) |
France:U |
Norway:10 (1988) |
Norway:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG |
West Germany:12 |
Netherlands:AL |
Singapore:PG
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According to George Takei, when McCoy, Scotty and Sulu are standing in front of the building with Yellow Pages advertisement, a door opens and an Asian woman appears. The scene in the movie ends at this point but originally this woman was to begin shouting for a young boy named Hikaru, who would run into Sulu. Sulu would realize that this boy was his great-great-(etc.) grandfather. The young boy hired for this scene began to cry on the set before the shot and they were unable to get him to do the scene. With no one to replace him, the scene was never shot.
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Goofs:
Factual errors: As the Bird of Prey accelerates toward warp factor ten when headed toward the sun, the ship would be traveling at nearly 21000 times the speed of light. At that speed, being that close to the sun (as can be inferred from the size of the sun) in the times it took to say their lines the ship would be well past, or though, the sun.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Saratoga captain: What do you make of it?
Saratoga science officer: It appears to be a probe, Captain. From an intelligence unknown to us.
Saratoga captain: Continue transmitting universal peace and hello in all known languages. Get me Starfleet Command.
Saratoga helmsman: Ready, Captain.
Saratoga captain: Starfleet Command, this is U.S.S. Saratoga patrolling sector five, neutral zone. We're tracking a probe of unknown origin on apparent trajectory to the Terran solar system. Attempts to communicate with the probe have been negative on all known frequencies.
Starfleet Command: Continue tracking, Saratoga. We will analyze transmissions and advise.
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Saratoga captain: What do you make of it?
Saratoga science officer: It appears to be a probe, Captain. From an intelligence unknown to us.
Saratoga captain: Continue transmitting universal peace and hello in all known languages. Get me Starfleet Command.
Saratoga helmsman: Ready, Captain.
Saratoga captain: Starfleet Command, this is U.S.S. Saratoga patrolling sector five, neutral zone. We're tracking a probe of unknown origin on apparent trajectory to the Terran solar system. Attempts to communicate with the probe have been negative on all known frequencies.
Starfleet Command: Continue tracking, Saratoga. We will analyze transmissions and advise.
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Referenced in Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005) (V)
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I Hate You
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The fourth entry in the "Star Trek" movie series is the most popular and unarguably the best-liked of these entertaining movies. It has a fine variety of scenes, intelligent comedy to leaven the more serious adventures. it is fast paced, beautifully directed by Leonard Nimoy who also plays "Spock". What prevented it from being even better perhaps appreciated is a deliberate attempt by the writers to write short, choppy-sentence dialogue that in some scenes does not work as well as more formally-structured words might have worked. The film is bright, the art direction is very good, the music by Leonard Rosenmann is outstanding. And the story line is one of the best that sci-fi filmmakers have yet devised, in my judgment, because it has everything. As Captain James T. Kirk of the 23rd century starship Enterprise, William Shatner acts with unusual intelligence and even strength to get by. As his half-alien First Officer Spock, just recovering from a traumatic experience that caused him to have to be reeducated from ground zero, Leonard Nimoy is even better. Everyone of Jim Kirk's crewmen, including James Doohan as Engineer Montgomer Scott, De Forest Kelley as CMO Leonard McCoy, Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura of Communications, talented George Takei as Helmsman Sulu, and Walter Koenig as Navigator Pavel Chekhov, have good scenes to perform and do them seamlessly and with professional style. Others in the cast including Brock Peters, Jane Wyatt, Mark Lenard, Grace Lee Whitney, Alen Henteloff, Robert Ellenstein and a relative unknown as the earthwoman who becomes enmeshed in the Enterprise officers' mission,are given telling moments. There are many memorable visual moments, including the departure of a stolen Klingon warbird from the planet Vulcan, the near-wreckage of Starfleet Headquarters, the landing of an invisible vessel in Golden Gate Park, a slingshot run around the sun, a descent from the invisible craft to the ground, scenes around the Alameda Navy Yards, a chase in a hospital and scenes at the cetacean Institute all make themselves hard-to-forget. It is the sheer fun and adventure of the storyline--sending a starship back in time to rescue two hump-backed whales and save the earth from alien destruction--that sets this film apart. Ignored by critics who have nearly always ignored sci-fi achievements, this cinematic attainment set a standard for future sci-fi to which hardly any film's maker has yet approached. The revelation of character could have been deeper, but the relevance of every moment to the plot line could hardly have been bettered. Harve Bennett deserves some of the credit for this script's excellences; so do the special-effects creators, since for once in Hollywood, every such effects serve to further the progress the central character and his helpers are making. This is probably a film to be watched over and over; I wish there were more such adult sci-fi efforts that eschew pretension and present so much intelligent dialogue, acting and intriguing "differences".