Star Trek saves the whales. It could have been silly, but in a surprising twist, The Voyage Home ended up being the most successful Trek movie till J.J. Abrams came along. When a probe of unknown origin seemingly attacks Earth, the crew of the Enterprise take their spaceship-jacked Klingon Bird of Prey back in time to the late 20th century to find the humpback whales, a species long since extinct in the 23rd century, that the probe is trying to communicate with. Leonard Nimoy sits in the director’s chair again and nimbly guides his fellow castmates through the complexities of punk rockers, exact change buses and why sending the Russian guy to steal nuclear particles from an American aircraft carrier at the height of the Cold War is not such a good idea. Great dialogue, a simple fish-out-of-water story, and the wonderful charisma of the main cast make this Trek a delightful voyage home indeed.
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