Star Trek IV Fans Only!

[EnriqueH]

Star Trek III was my first favorite Trek film and then TVH and kinda took it over as my favorite.

What is it about TVH that makes it your favorite?

For me, I do love the film but I also love what it reminds me of.

I didn't get to see it in theaters for some reason the way I got to see TSFS in theaters, but my dad bought me the official movie magazine, and I just really enjoyed the whole idea of the Enterprise crew walking around outside in modern day San Francisco in the 1980s.

The movie reminds me of Friday afternoon dinners with my family and going to bustling book stores.

Of course, the film itself is a lot of fun. And I always thought it was interesting that the movie was so enjoyable and exciting, yet there's no photo torpedoes, phaser fights, fistfights, ships blowing out or anyone dying at all. I admire that.

Being 39 years old, TVH represents Star Trek at its peak for me.

The cast was getting older, but still young enough. There was a new Enterprise. I just love it.

 

[hux]

Voyage home is my favourite. Strangely, I think its probably because it's the least science fictiony and the most gentle in terms of plot. It's essentially a story about humanity, friendship, animal welfare and nostalgia for a past that wasn't even the past at that point

I think "insurrection" was the TNG attempt at doing that kind of gentler film (but it didn't quite work for them)

 

[MikeS]

I love the scene with a Russian asking a police officer for directions to the Nuclear Wessles. Of its time.

 

[Greg Cox]

"The One with the Whales" is still my second-favorite TREK movie (after KHAN, of course). It's a fun, feel-good movie that always leaves me smiling.

And it gets bonus points for being, arguably,the most accessible ST movie for general audiences. You don't have to be a hardcore Trekkie to enjoy the movie.

 

[Lucky]

It is my favorite. I love the camaraderie among the crew, and I feel the cast's chemistry was at its best here. The story and situations were funny and still are today. I pretty much just love everything about this great film.

 

[jaime]

It has that sentimental 80s cinema sci fi to it...like short circuit, flight of the navigator (with which it shared its ecological theme and time travel) or even cocoon or btteries not included. In fact, sod eddie murphy, steve gutenberg and jessica tandy should have appeared.

 

[jaime]

In fact, whilst cooking pizza, I have just mentally rewritten about half an hour of the movie to have gutenberg play a starfleet jag officer, who ends up staying back in the 80s with gillians character, and jessica tandy in as an aging greenpeace protester who comes back to the future. Kirk even gets his glasses back.

I should probably type it up.

But not on this tablet screen.

 

[Stoo]

Kirk passing Spock off as a burned out hippy is still pretty funny. So is Scotty talking into the mouse.

It's a greately entertaining movie with more of a comedic side after the relatively dark earlier installments. Now with added "Trek meets 1986" appeal.

 

[Jeyl]

Despite some misgivings over the ridiculous story of a killer message log, The Voyage Home is a nice entry in a series that so far has had two dark entries back to back. It was the right call for Nimoy to get everyone together and just have a good time. It's nice that while a comedy through and through, it doesn't feel out of place as a Star Trek entry and handles the series elements from the previous films very maturely.

I still think it's funny how the most family friendly Star Trek film in the entire roster just happens to be the only one with an official soundtrack release that contains music with explicit lyrics ("I HATE YOU!" song). Gosh, I'm so thankful for that release.

 

[Smellmet]

The humour in it was largely very well done without it overwhelming the storyline or going too goofy, which is the ball that TFF dropped.

 

[Maurice]

I still like the film for daring to be different. Yes, it's dated moreso than some of the others, but it's a nice story with a simple theme that doesn't rely on melodrama and violence to add excitement.

 

[Cyke101]

Star Trek IV gave us this wonderful character:



Oh, Madeline.

Source.

 

[Akiraprise]

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While not my favorite movie it did give us this scene between Sarek and Spock. Which is one of my favorite in all of Star Trek.

 

[Greg Cox]

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While not my favorite movie it did give us this scene between Sarek and Spock. Which is one of my favorite in all of Star Trek.

I love the scene,too, since it shows just how much both Spock and Sarek have evolved since "Journey to Babel."

Enough so that I was actually a little disappointed when, a few years later, TNG's "Unification" had Spock and Sarek estranged again, undoing all that progress.

 

[Akiraprise]

I agree. I had always thought that if this was to be the last time we saw both characters on screen together than this was the perfect closing scene on the Sarek / Spock relationship. Sarek and Spock both came a long way in their understanding of human emotions over the course of the series and this particular scene shows just how much they loved and respected one another.

"It was no effort. You are my son."

That's really all that needs to be said.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I love the feeling I get from watching this film. I love the scene with Spock and Amanda, "How do you feel?" Sarek is great. I absolutely love burned-out hippie Spock. "I Hate You" is brilliant. Scott talking to the mouse, the Saratoga scenes. Spock figuring out the nature of the whale probe is nice and tight. The psychedelic time travel scene. The epilogue in Spacedock. The VFX. I'm in the apparent minority that actually like the Rosenman score (spoken as one who loves his LoTR score); I always associate his TVH score with Christmas. It's just a fun movie.

 

[Kilana2]

This movie encouraged me to give a presentation on humpback whales back in school (1993/94).

I quoted Dr. Gillian Taylor as far as I remember.....

 

[Franklin]

It was so unpretentious. An almost perfectly pulled off farce in every good theatrical sense of that term. Only a veteran cast comfortable in their skin could've done that. I can watch it any time.

Of all the great laugh lines, what was really neat to me was when I finally realized that in Kirk's dream, trance, or whatever state he's in when they are in time travel back to the 1980s, there are lines from later in the movie. Some are even spoilers or at least heavily portend a future scene. "Admiral, there be whales here!" "I should never have left him," "It is the human thing to do," "My God, Jim, where are we?" "The mains are down, sir," and so on.

There's also probably one of the best short exchanges between Kirk and Spock in any Trek movie, in my opinion.

Kirk: Spock, where the hell is the power you promised me?
Spock: One damn minute, admiral.

It's supposed to be a tense moment, but it always makes me laugh.

 

[Cyke101]

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While not my favorite movie it did give us this scene between Sarek and Spock. Which is one of my favorite in all of Star Trek.

It's been awhile since I've seen IV admittedly, but something just has to be said about how great Mark Lenard was. I rewatched the JJ movies and it's pretty clear how intentionally they wanted to evoke Journey to Babel and this scene in particular; and that Ben Cross repeatedly watched Lenard's scenes as research.

Also, it's funny how Lenard's Sarek made more appearances outsides of TOS than in the show itself.

 

[tomalak301]

I love VH, which is my second favorite after TUC. I love the comedy, the fact that the movie takes place in modern day earth, and Cathrine Hicks was great as Taylor. I also really enjoy the bouncy music, which was a departure from the scores that came before, and a welcome one at that.