- Some network broadcasts are noticeably truncated. In particular, the scene where Kruge destroys the female mercenary for looking at the Genesis information is deleted. The scene ends instead with the two characters expressing love for each other. The scene where McCoy refers to "that green-blooded son-of-a-bitch" is also censored.
- The German version has overdubbed most of the Klingon spoken scenes with normal German. Therefore, subtitles are not necessary. The Klingon language with subtitles was restored for the German DVD Special Edition.
- DVD and Blu-ray releases are missing a loud, high-pitched cracking sound effect as the Genesis Planet breaks apart and the Bird-of-Prey flies away (though this can be heard under the audio commentary by Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Charles Correll and Robin Curtis).
- Some versions have no subtitles in the Klingon spoken scenes.
- In some UK daytime network television showings, Kirk's line "You Klingon bastard, you killed my son, you Klingon bastard you killed my son" has been slightly edited so now he says "you......you killed my son, you killed my son".
- An early ABC-TV broadcast had the flashbacks of Spock's death and the opening scene of Admiral Kirk on the Enterprise bridge deleted for time constraints. Instead, the opening fades in on Spock's tube being loaded for launch and then after the opening credits, it switches straight to the scenes between the freighter and the Klingon warship followed by the Enterprise's arrival on Earth.
- On pan-and-scan VHS releases, the opening credits are chyroned in, looking compressed. This is done so the background picture would not be compressed.
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By what name was Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) officially released in India in English?
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