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The film was dedicated to the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which broke up 73 seconds after takeoff on the morning of January 28, 1986. The Voyage Home was released on November 26, 1986, in North America by Paramount Pictures, and became the top-grossing film at the weekend box office.
Outside of North America, the film's title was changed to The Voyage Home: Star Trek IV (see UK trailer below), and references to the Star Trek brand were consciously avoided. This was done largely because Star Trek III: The Search for Spock had suffered badly from competition with Ghostbusters outside of North America and only grossed just ...
Leonard Nimoy on set. Released in 1986, coinciding with the franchise’s twentieth anniversary, The Voyage Home remains the most successful of the Star Trek feature films. It is also the most lighthearted of the series, despite its lofty themes. Director Leonard Nimoy was responsible for both attributes. Back in time.
May 20, 2016 · There’s a wonderful lack of seriousness powering The Voyage Home, recalling Howard Hawks’ loopy genre exercises To Have and Have Not or The Big Sleep. It is the kind...
- Darren Franich
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales. Director. Leonard Nimoy. Writers. Gene Roddenberry. Leonard Nimoy. Harve Bennett. Stars. William Shatner. Leonard Nimoy. DeForest Kelley.
- Leonard Nimoy
- 4 min
May 7, 2009 · Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, or ‘the one with the whales’ as it’s sometimes, called was Leonard Nimoy’s second stint behind the camera on a Trek film and became the most popular...
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Living in exile on the planet Vulcan, the ragtag former crew of the USS Enterprise steal a starship after receiving a planetary distress call from Earth: a space probe has entered into orbit ...
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- Sci-Fi, Adventure
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