Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Director:

Leonard Nimoy

Screenplay:

Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer

Story by:

Leonard Nimoy & Harve Bennett

Released:

26^th November 1986

Stardate:

8390

Synopsis:

A probe of unknown alien origin is on a direct heading for Earth. Every vessel it comes in contact with loses all electrical power, because it is transmitting a signal on all frequencies at very high energy levels.

Meanwhile, Kirk and the rest of the crew all vote to return to Earth and face court-martial for their actions in rescuing Captain Spock. En route, however they receive the probe's signal and determine that when heard underwater, it would be the call of humpback whales, a species which was hunted to extinction in the early 21^st century. In order to prevent Earth from being completely paralysed by the call of the probe, they decide to go into timewarp and travel back to a time when humpback whales were still around, and bring them back to the 23^rd century to answer the call of the probe. Once they travel to the twentieth century, however, their power is depleted, and they must also devise a way to contain the whales when they transport them to the Bird-of-Prey.

They are successful in extracting high-energy photons from a nuclear reactor on the U.S.S. Enterprise, a US Navy warship, but Chekov is unable to be beamed out, and is pursued and sustains a critical injury. Kirk and Spock, however, have better luck - they find the Cetacean Institute in San Francisco, where the two whales - George and Gracie - are about to be released back into the Pacific Ocean in Alaska. They enlist the help of Dr. Gillian Taylor, assistant director of the Cetacean Institute, who helps them rescue Chekov from a 'primitive' twentieth century hospital.

However, their prospects of completing the mission drop when the whales are released into the ocean ahead of schedule. They find the whales by tracking their radio transmitter frequency, and arrive just in time to stop a whaling ship from killing the whales. They beam them onboard - 400 tonnes including water - and prepare to return to the 23^rd century, but they don't have as much power as they did on the outward trip, and they almost don't make it.

However, they are eventually successful after their return, as they crash into the Pacific Ocean, and manage to release the whales, who respond to the probe, and it returns to where it came from, and restores power to all the vessels it deprived of power. In an act of gesture from the Earth, all but one of the charges against the crew are dropped in gratitude for saving the Earth, and the last charge, disobeying a senior officer is directed at Admiral Kirk solely. He is reduced in rank to Captain, and given command of a ship again: the newly commissioned U.S.S. Enterprise, N.C.C. 1701-A.

Rating:

A

Notes:

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Director:	Leonard Nimoy
Screenplay:	Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer
Story by:	Leonard Nimoy & Harve Bennett
Released:	26^th November 1986
Stardate:	8390
Synopsis:	A probe of unknown alien origin is on a direct heading for Earth. Every vessel it comes in contact with loses all electrical power, because it is transmitting a signal on all frequencies at very high energy levels. Meanwhile, Kirk and the rest of the crew all vote to return to Earth and face court-martial for their actions in rescuing Captain Spock. En route, however they receive the probe's signal and determine that when heard underwater, it would be the call of humpback whales, a species which was hunted to extinction in the early 21^st century. In order to prevent Earth from being completely paralysed by the call of the probe, they decide to go into timewarp and travel back to a time when humpback whales were still around, and bring them back to the 23^rd century to answer the call of the probe. Once they travel to the twentieth century, however, their power is depleted, and they must also devise a way to contain the whales when they transport them to the Bird-of-Prey. They are successful in extracting high-energy photons from a nuclear reactor on the U.S.S. Enterprise, a US Navy warship, but Chekov is unable to be beamed out, and is pursued and sustains a critical injury. Kirk and Spock, however, have better luck - they find the Cetacean Institute in San Francisco, where the two whales - George and Gracie - are about to be released back into the Pacific Ocean in Alaska. They enlist the help of Dr. Gillian Taylor, assistant director of the Cetacean Institute, who helps them rescue Chekov from a 'primitive' twentieth century hospital. However, their prospects of completing the mission drop when the whales are released into the ocean ahead of schedule. They find the whales by tracking their radio transmitter frequency, and arrive just in time to stop a whaling ship from killing the whales. They beam them onboard - 400 tonnes including water - and prepare to return to the 23^rd century, but they don't have as much power as they did on the outward trip, and they almost don't make it. However, they are eventually successful after their return, as they crash into the Pacific Ocean, and manage to release the whales, who respond to the probe, and it returns to where it came from, and restores power to all the vessels it deprived of power. In an act of gesture from the Earth, all but one of the charges against the crew are dropped in gratitude for saving the Earth, and the last charge, disobeying a senior officer is directed at Admiral Kirk solely. He is reduced in rank to Captain, and given command of a ship again: the newly commissioned U.S.S. Enterprise, N.C.C. 1701-A.
Rating:	A
Notes:

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