Finished watching the one with the whales. Here’s my review:
Overall, 10 out of 10. I can see why the Star Trek fan base loves the film.
There are some bits that have to do with previous films, which I haven’t seen. That was probably the only part that was hard to understand, but I was able to piece it together from context.
Iconic quotes. That’s all I have to say.
This is a movie with a very high-stakes plot, but it’s also very fun. Just the classic Star Trek crew getting up to time travel shenanigans in San Francisco.
I’m also impressed with how on-the-nose Star Trek IV was with the environmental themes. Not even a tiny bit subtle about it. The extinction of humpback whales in that timeline was due to human activity— and if it weren’t for Kirk and company’s trip to the 1980s and back, all life on earth would have been toast.
We never did learn where the probe came from or where did it go (insert Cotton-Eyed Joe joke here), but that’s fine by me. This is Star Trek. A weird alien probe making whale noises and unintentionally messing with Earth’s weather is not the weirdest thing I’ve seen since I became a Trekkie.
The movie is serious, but also silly enough to be a proper piece of Star Trek content. Heck, I wouldn’t even say it’s a movie. It’s more like if you just watched a super long Trek episode, and I love that.
I think I need to raise my rating of this movie to 100/10, because it definitely lives up to the hype, and I love the TOS crew. And any film or series with an environmental theme is an automatic two thumbs up from me.
Finch out.
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12/7/23
STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME, directed by Leonard Nimoy, 1986.
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star trek fans, i need some advice... i wanna watch star trek iv: the voyage home with my sister because it's my fave tos movie but i'm not sure if you need the context of the previous movies to follow the plot since she hasn't seen them... it's been a while since i watched them and i can't judge whether it'd be confusing without the context of the previous movies
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Up next on my 80's Fest Movie and TV Marathon...Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #scifi #actionadventure #StarTrek #ripnichellenichols #uhura #NichelleNichols #StarTrek4 #StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome #WilliamShatner #LeonardNimoy #RIPLeonardNimoy #GeorgeTakei #DeForestKelley #ripdeforestkelley #JamesDoohan #ripjamesdoohan #walterkoenig #CaptainJamesTKirk #MrSpock #drmccoy #bones #scotty #MrScott #mrsulu #chekov #vintage #vhs #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas4thannual80sfest
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Fuckers stole the whales. Can't have shit in San Francisco
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Watching Star Trek IV
Whale biologist: why do you hang around with that weird guy who calls you admiral and why are you so close?
Kirk: *hesitates*
Whale biologist, who lives in San Francisco in the 80s and is rapidly drawing many correct conclusions: that’s okay we don’t have to talk about it.
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