Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1986
	Director: Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
	Actors: William Shatner (Loaded Weapon 1, Airplane 2), Leonard Nimoy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon), DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks (Child's Play)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 07.08.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: After three months of exile on Vulcan, the crew of the Enterprise decides to go back to Earth. When almost arrived, they discover a gigantic vessel near the Earth sending signals that may destroy the planet.
Review: I was wondering how a whole movie could be required to describe "The Voyage Home", and I didn't expect that answer: the crew goes back in time to about 1986 (how convenient for the filmmakers) to capture two whales that could save the planet in the future where they are extinct. Time travel is a classic plot used in almost all SF series (I remember the episode from Stargate S.G.-1) and this gimmick seems to have been used extensively in the Star Trek series and films (see the list on this page). We get to smile at the usual misunderstandings between the people from the future and the 1986 world, and the movie turns more to Comedy than to SF at some point. But it is otherwise well done (I could see the much improved optical effects since the previous movie) and the ending wraps up nicely the films II to IV.
Rating: 6 /10