Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home **** (1986, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 1921

After helming the successful 1984 outing The Search for Spock, Leonard Nimoy stays in control as director for this enjoyably light-hearted fourth 1986 save-the-whale episode. It represents an endearing, useful change of pace for Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and company, in which the crew of the starship USS Enterprise trek back to the present to save tomorrow’s planet Earth.

In a tour-de-force, Nimoy brings it off handsomely as actor playing Mr Spock of course, co-author of the story (with Harve Bennett) and director. And there’s an infectious mood as everyone appears to be enjoying themselves on screen, even if there might have been tensions off.

DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols are of course also aboard the USS Enterprise. Also in the cast are Jane Wyatt, Catherine Hicks, Robin Curtis, Mark Lenard, John Schuck, Brock Peters, Robert Ellenstein, Michael Snyder, Michael Berryman, Mike Brislane, Jane Wiedlin and Vijay Armitraj.