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Friday 2 May 2014

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

During a return voyage to face the music after stealing the Federation’s flagship, the close-knit group find themselves in temporal trouble.
TVH has its detractors, but it’s one of my guilty pleasures. There's something absurdly entertaining in seeing the ship's crew wander around San Francisco like a retirement home science club on a field trip. The comedy isn't targeted specifically at fans, but they’ll get more out of it than a casual viewer.
Depending on your disposition, you can think of it as a Trek movie with an ecological message or an ecological message movie with some Trek. Both viewpoints work and both are equally as effective.

3½ nuclear wessels out of 5

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