Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

"Star date: 1986. How on Earth can they save the future?"

1986 1h 58m EN

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When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.

“Star date: 1986. How on Earth can they save the future?”

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Cast

William Shatner
Admiral James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy
Captain Spock
DeForest Kelley
Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy
James Doohan
Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott
George Takei
Cmdr. Hikaru Sulu
Walter Koenig
Cmdr. Pavel Chekov
Nichelle Nichols
Cmdr. Uhura
Mark Lenard
Sarek

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Leonard Nimoy
Writers: Steve Meerson, Nicholas Meyer, Harve Bennett
Languages: English, Finnish
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 6.3× over at the box office.

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ERA

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40 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Finnish.

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4 / 8

CAST

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Part of the "Star Trek: The Original Series Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Leonard Nimoy, shot by Donald Peterman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Leonard Rosenman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Peter E. Berger shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Leonard Nimoy directs. Donald Peterman behind the camera. Leonard Rosenman scores. Peter E. Berger cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Finnish.

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1Made its money back 6.3× over at the box office.
240 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Finnish.
4Part of the "Star Trek: The Original Series Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Leonard Nimoy, shot by Donald Peterman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Leonard Rosenman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Peter E. Berger shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Star date: 1986. How on Earth can they save the future?".
10IMDB entry: tt0092007 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 36 themes, including "spacecraft", "saving the world", "teleportation", "san francisco, california".
12Released under 23 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Donald Peterman
Original score: Leonard Rosenman
Editing: Peter E. Berger
Production design: Peter Landsdown Smith
Costume design: Robert Fletcher
Makeup / hair: Jeff Dawn
VFX supervisor: Ken Ralston
Sound: Noyan Coşarer
Stunt coordinator: R.A. Rondell
Runtime: 118 min · 1h 58m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $21,000,000
Box office: $133,000,000
Return: 633% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Awards

Genesis Award

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Part of

Star Trek: The Original Series Collection

Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection contains the first six Original Series films starring the U.S.S. Enterprise's cast and crew from the 1960s TV series of the same name.

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GenerationofSwine2023-01-10
★ 1/10
I guess when I was 6 i liked it, and every generation needs it's time travel movie doesn't it? But, no, bringing them back to contemporary 80s earth just doesn't work. It's sort of too close to home to be good. Star Trek is Sci-Fi, sure, but this just doesn't work. They live in a future that COULD be, with it's own history, it's own mythology, and taking the crew of the Enterprise back to our world just makes them feel more out of place than the comedic tone of the film intended.
CinemaSerf2024-05-30
★ 7/10
Probably my favourite of these sci-fi adventures. Having revived "Spock" to something akin to his previous, pompous old self; the crew of the now destroyed "Enterprise" set sail for home in their captured Klingon Warbird. Meantime, unbeknown to them, a probe is wreaking havoc on the galaxy as it emits odd pinging sounds on it's way to Earth. Our explorers approach the planet to discover that the probe has polarised the atmosphere and even the sophisticated Starfleet Command has no idea what's going on... Well, it turns out that the probe is pretty fluent in humpback whale-song but we have long since hunted them into extinction. What's required now is some legerdemain and a bit of time travel to go get some from back in 20th century California. What follows is a fun series of escapades as they set about their tasks - and all of the crew have their own roles to play. It touches on the ecology issues in a humorous but pointed manner and all round delivers an enjoyable 2 hours of entertainment.