Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home

Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (1986)

  • 84% of critics liked it
    (38 reviews)

  • 77% of users liked it
    (64,517 ratings)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) concludes the story arc begun with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but on a wholly new, different, and upbeat note. As the movie opens, months have elapsed since the events in Star Trek III;… More

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PG,
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Genres
Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
In Theaters
Nov 26, 1986 Wide
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Latest excursion is warmer, wittier, more socially relevant and truer to its TV origins than prior odysseys.

  • Pat Graham, Chicago Reader

    I suspect the unconverted will want to be beamed up pronto.

  • Stephen Garrett, Time Out

    Kirk & Co return to present-day San Francisco to save the whales in the most enjoyable film of the series so far, also returning to the simplistic morality-play format that gave the original TV series its strength.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    Mr. Nimoy directed this Star Trek installment, and indeed he should probably direct all of them. His technical expertise leaves much to be desired. But his sincerity is unmistakable, and it counts for a lot.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    This is easily the most absurd of the Star Trek stories -- and yet, oddly enough, it is also the best, the funniest and the most enjoyable in simple human terms.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • KJ P


    Taking a unique turn for the franchise, Kirk's team must go back in time to find Humpback Whales who can communicate with a found foreign species, causes for some belief issues among the human race and some hilarious understandings between Spock and humans. It was a very odd… More

  • Universal D


    If Star Trek is, as many fans critique it, the second cousin to "real" space operas (a George Lucas concern comes to mind, I forget the name) then this is the best of that series, the series spawned from the first Roddenberry television show. Why? Because its less… More

  • Phil H


    This was the first Star Trek movie I saw at the cinema, and to top that I think I saw it whilst in the US of A too :) So the story continues from where it left of in 'The Search for Spock' with Nimoy again at the helm. What can one say about this Trek outing, it certainly… More

  • AJ V


    My favourite Star Trek picture, this one has the crew going back in time (as they sometimes did on the show) to get a bunch of whales so they can save the future. I love this movie, it's very funny and it has a message too.

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