Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home -- Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and the Enterprise crew travel back to 1986 San Francisco to retrieve two humpbacked whales that may be the key to saving Earth from alien destruction. Director Leonard Nimoy makes an entertaining mix out of sci-fi fantasy, ecological advocacy and satiric jabs at contemporary pop culture. Documentary footage of whales being slaughtered and a few coarse words bring home some of the realities of environmental waste. (A-II) (PG) ( 1986 )




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