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Dulfite on 26 June 2016
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Review

Ok, what a weird movie! This movie definitely stands out (a LOT) compared to the first three movies. It, once again, leads off right after the third movie, with the Enterprise crew ready to go back to Earth and accept the consequences for their actions. You think, based on the opening diplomatic scene, that this movie is going to have to deal with the looming political fallout between the Klingons and the Federation (which would be fascinating), only to discover that some random ship like structure is coming towards Earth destroying anything in it's past to find... you guessed it... whale noises. If that isn't left field enough for you, they go back to a "primitive" time, capture the whales (while rescuing them at the same time), bring a lady back with them (which seems like it would have significant time altering impacts, but the movie doesn't seem to care), save the day, and all basically get pardoned and Jim gets "demoted" to a position that he really loves anyway, being a Captain. So... basically this movie leaves the crew off to where they were at the end of the first movie (and it appears that Spock is now also Kirk's first officer again and not a Captain, because why have two Captain's on one ship?). There are a lot of questions after watching this movie that I'm sure won't be answered in the next ones (What is the origin of that space ship? What are the Klingon ramifications? Did anything get altered by going back in time, changing things, then bringing someone back? And why was the Federation building a new Enterprise in the first place and how did they have time to do that if this movie takes place right after the 3rd movie?). The plot of this one was overall garbage compared to it's predecessors and clearly focused on animal rights leftist agenda, yet it had something the first three movies lacked in comparison; humor. This movie was filled with moments where I was just cracking up, so great job there!

4/10