Star Trek 4 : The Voyage Home (DVD 2001)

Star Trek IV picks up where Star Trek III: The Search for Spock left off, and forms the final segment of the motion picture trilogy begun in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The crew of the destroyed starship Enterprise has been in exile on Vulcan while their resurrected shipmate, Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy), is re-trained in the ways of logic. Once Spock has recovered sufficiently to travel, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his fellow officers must go back to Earth to answer a battery of charges leveled against them for stealing the Enterprise and nearly provoking a war with the Klingon Empire.

However, before Kirk and company can return home, a mysterious probe enters orbit around Earth and wreaks havoc on the planet's climate. Nothing seems capable of stopping the probe, and a planetary distress call is issued. Spock, analyzing the probe's transmissions, determines that they match the songs of humpback whales, an extinct species of ocean-dwelling life. For Earth to survive, the crew of the former Enterprise must travel back in time to 20th Century Earth, capture a humpback whale, confine it in their stolen Klingon spaceship, then return to the future. Soon, Kirk and his friends are wandering around 1986 San Francisco, every bit out-of-place as Crocodile Dundee was in New York City.

The tone of The Voyage Home is considerably lighter than that of its predecessors; in fact, this is as close as Star Trek gets to being a straight comedy. At times, the proceedings become overly silly to garner cheap laughs, and the characters suffer as a result. Kirk, McCoy, and especially Spock, flicker back and forth between resembling the heroic figures we know and acting like caricatures of themselves. There's a running gag about Spock's inability to master profanity that, while undeniably amusing, is a little too cute.

If you are a trekkie - like myself - then if you don't have this film you really should by now. Probably one of the best movies with The Origanol Series Enterprise crew. Well worth it, absolutley fantastic.

When you buy items such as film dvd's you have to be prepared,especially when bidding for something you may win for less than a couple of pounds that the risk of the quality of the item may not be there.This is part and parcel of the whole process and there must be an aspect of give and take,if it is badly scratched then that is different,make enquiries to the seller and see how it goes.However the quality of this particular film was fairly good,a good message for the future about our attitude towards our planet and those who share it with us and guess who are the baddies in this one,yes,US,no not the U.S,us human kind,and the Whales is just the tip of the icberg,but that is a different issue along the same lines though,and the message is quite clear don't wait for it to happen do something now and we may not get a visit in the futre by our great,great,great grandchildren or something else.There is nothing really to dislike about this film except that it might be a little dated now and the tongue in cheek comedy moments and one of the few times our spock charector smiles,check it out towards the end,a cultured moment.
That's your lot dot com Charles

The best Star Trek movie - ever - if not the best movie ever made, completing the trilogy of 2 The Wrath of Kahn and 3 The Search for Spock, and 4 when Kirk saves the earth again - but this time from its own folly in the 20th century.