Okay, I'm not a Trekker, but I knew Leonard Nimoy when he was Lenny Nimorovsky. This is a one of a kind Star Trek Movie. No Klingons, Borgs (wasn't that a scale), no real bad guys. The Enterprise is just trying to help out an endangered species. Leonard Nimoy gave the directing performance of his career by letting his actors go with the flow of the characters they had spent years developing. For once, Roddenberry allowed the story to be as much funny as it was technowizzy. The only other Star Trek that bore as fine a sense of humor was David Gerrold's masterpiece, "The Trouble With Tribbles". So why not put aside the space opera for a little bit of harmless fun. This film has so many great lines it would take more words than I am allowed to account for them all. My favorite was Chekov asking a 1980's San Francisco policeman if he knew where there were any nuclear wessels. Also the scene in the bus when Spock uses his neck pinch to silence an annoying punk was a highlight. When I originally saw it in the theater the entire audience applauded. Enjoy this film for what it is. A romp and not a bad one either.
Review of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
