One of the series' strongest episodes.
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09/26/01
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:31
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is perhaps the lightest and most purely enjoyable entry of the long-running series, emphasizing the eccentricities of the Enterprise's crew.
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: While back on Earth, standing trial for their hijacking of the starship Enterprise (see STAR TREK III), Kirk and his crew are thrust into a new adventure. A space probe threatens to destroy the... [More]
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Reviews for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Top CriticThe eco-themes are writ large, but are saved from smacking of cringe-worthy earnestness by the good humour of the whole endeavour.
05/19/08
Top Criticone of the more entertaining Trek outings
11/08/04
Kirk & Co return to present-day San Francisco to save the whales in the most enjoyable film of the series so far, also returning to the simplistic morality-play format that gave the original TV series its strength.
01/26/06
Top CriticI suspect the unconverted will want to be beamed up pronto.
06/06/07
This is easily the most absurd of the Star Trek stories -- and yet, oddly enough, it is also the best, the funniest and the most enjoyable in simple human terms.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe most successful and widely appealing of the Star Trek films, The Voyage Home is also the most idiosyncratic… some of the most humorous and humane moments in the Trek canon.
06/24/03
It's a lightweight, entertaining, relentlessly mainstream action-farce. A high old time, no question. Too bad it's such lousy Star Trek. Here's where the series 'jumped the shark' -- and found that it was a whale.
04/08/06
No review available.
06/26/05
The original cast appears to be having more fun than they ever had before.
10/28/01
The plot is totally cornball but amazingly it works extremely well
02/24/03
No review available.
08/13/02
Best of Trek
09/22/02
...Kirk has finally reached his full lounge lizard potential (it's as if the comedy has freed him from his remaining inhibitions).
04/03/09
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
06/30/04
Star Trek IV has all the elements people love about this series, and it earns its reputation as one of the long-running franchise's standout entries.
11/07/02
Mr. Nimoy directed this Star Trek installment, and indeed he should probably direct all of them. His technical expertise leaves much to be desired. But his sincerity is unmistakable, and it counts for a lot.
05/20/03
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