The Missing Vulcan Trilogy: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) 4K Restoration
- Sun, Sep 8
Director: Leonard Nimoy Run Time: 119 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1986
Starring: DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner
Country: United States
Language: English, Finnish
About the film:
Nominated for four Academy Awards.
Living in exile on the planet Vulcan, the ragtag former crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise steal a starship after receiving a planetary distress call from Earth: a space probe has entered into orbit around Earth, disabled global power on the planet and evaporated the oceans. Captain Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the officers travel back in time to retrieve now-extinct humpback whales, which Spock has deduced will communicate with the probe and send it away from Earth.
“This is easily the most absurd of the Star Trek stories—and yet, oddly enough, it is also the best, the funniest and the most enjoyable”
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
About the filmmaker:
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, poet, musician, and photographer who was most well known for his portrayal of the stoic, cerebral Spock in Star Trek. Nimoy was the son of Jewish immigrants from what is now Ukraine. He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, where he spent his youth acting in community theatre productions before moving to California to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. Some of his earliest roles included appearances in Queen for a Day (1951) and a starring role in Kid Monk Baroni (1952). After briefly serving in the military, Nimoy returned to California and secured various small roles on television programs. One of these programs was a Gene Roddenbery-produced series called The Lieutenant (1964)—while producing this show, Roddenberry was also developing a brand new sci-fi show for which he thought Nimoy would be perfect: Star Trek.
After appearing in the Star Trek television series until its conclusion (1966-1969), Nimoy appeared in the Mission Impossible TV series as well as a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). In 1979, Nimoy returned to the screen as Spock for Star Trek: The Motion Picture as well as its subsequent sequels, of which he directed two. Nimoy directed a handful of other films in his career, including the commercially successful Three Men and a Baby (1987), and he also ventured into voice acting with his role as Galvatron in Transformers: The Movie (1986).
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