>Star Trek IV: The Voyage HomeAside from the over-the-top "save the whales" messaging, this one is a lot of fun. Star Trek had already been done time travel several times by this point, but it was really enjoyable to see the Enterprise crew trying to blend in with locals in '80s San Francisco and I found the more humorous approach to be a welcome one. I liked the way the secondary crew members split up to focus on tasks away from the rest of the ship. It gave it kind of an ensemble feel. Sulu didn't have much screen time, but I'm not going to complain about seeing less George Takei. Speaking of him, I felt like it was both appropriate and unintentionally funny that Sulu mentions that he was born in San Francisco.
What's the difference between an astronaut and a residence of San Francisco?
An astro's not likely to catch AIDS.Anyway, The Voyage Home is my favorite movie in the series.
>Star Trek V: The Final FrontierI don't understand the hatred this one gets. The special effects are bad and it's definitely silly, but Star Trek in general is pretty silly. I enjoyed the character-focused parts especially. The Spock-Sybok connection is more of the typical soap-opera-tier stuff that the series had already done with Kirk and David in The Wrath of Khan, but Sybok is my favorite of all the villains the movies had. The idea of a Vulcan going rogue and becoming a desert messiah is one I find interesting. I find him more compelling than Khan, who benefits from Ricardo Montalban's scenery chewing but didn't feel like the genius he was supposed to be. Sybok's motivations make his character feel less flat than a eugenically created superman who's driven by rage toward Kirk.
The Final Frontier isn't some great classic of cinema, but I don't think any of these movies are.
>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryIt's basically a political thriller in space. It really didn't do much for me, and the heavy-handed anti-"prejudice" agenda (a Klingon woman even complains about the Federations "racism" when the phrase "human rights" is used) lowers the movie in my estimation. I also didn't like the way Kirk "corrects" himself to "no one" in the politically correct TNG style when repeating the famous "where no man has gone before" line. I found Chang constantly quoting Shakespeare to be annoying too, although I guess that was
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