Review: 'Star Trek 4' is a breezy trip through time to the bay area

Star Trek IV   The Voyage Home   PG         

            Leonard Nimoy and Nick Meyer join forces again for the final chapter of the "Genesis" story, taking our heroes back into time to 1986 on a captured Klingon ship to save the whales and bring them back to save the future. It's enjoyable for many repeat viewings. The jokes even worked, "I love Italian and so do you", and "He did a little too much LDS.", ha. Classic Trek.When a strange alien probe threatens to destroy Earth, because it is looking for whale song, the returning crew of the Enterprise, on their capture Klingon ship, attempt time travel back to 1986 to try and find some humpback whales to go back to the future, to tell the probe what to do with itself. The story was a fun travel adventure to the San Francisco area, which the reviewer is quite familiar with, and also some people he knew of were cast as extras in the movie, but he was not. So there is a certain extra level of enjoyment. The film is fun, although saving the whales seems a little dated today. So there are paradoxes such as transparent aluminum and the disappearing glasses that will appear in the future. The only real mention of Genesis is during the Klingon scene in the command center. And Kirk gets a new Enterprise in the end. 
Review by Adam Browne