Why Was Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Actually So Successful?

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  @Relius70 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I have always been confused by the fact that subsequent Star Trek movies would try so hard to recapture the appeal of Wrath of Khan, but never try to duplicate the appeal of Voyage Home, the much more financially successful entry in the franchise

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  @seraphjohanson3402 · 2 years ago

  Sulu charming some random dude into letting him borrow a helicopter? Legend behavior

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  @dataportdoll · 2 years ago

  What I love about The Bounty is that it's so perfectly tailor-made for the plot of Voyage Home. The Enterprise could never land like a shuttle, couldn't cloak to hide from contemporary tech, and its disposable and doesn't have to survive the end of the film for your dramatic crash scene. It baffles my writer's brain that the team made such a perfect fitting story with the elements that existed at the end of The Search For Spock.

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  @hannahlarge5738 · 2 years ago

  fish out of water comedy, great ensemble cast who all get a bit, and has a really poignant message.<br>&quot;they are not, the hell, your whales&quot;

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  @brianbaker2455 · 2 years ago

  This film is the only one I ever saw in a movie theater with my dad. He needed to get away from mom for a bit, and I asked him if he wanted to go see a movie. He agreed, and we went to The Voyage Home.<br><br>Dad and I didn&apos;t get along for various reasons, but I remember him laughing during the film, and enjoying the movie. It&apos;s one of my best memories from my very early adulthood. <br><br>Nimoy was a great director, which he proved in his other work, and while ST:TUC is my favorite film from the original cast, this is way up there.

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  @CelticShrew · 1 year ago (edited)

  My mother, a dyed-in-the-wool Trekkie (she programmed the VCR to tape TOS episodes off a Canadian station when they aired at 2am so that she could have them to watch whenever she wanted) died in 1988, and this was the last Trek film she ever got to see. <br>I remember her finding excuses to quote it every chance she got. <br>Anyone asked her for something &quot;One d*mn minute, Admiral!&quot; <br>Fat cat shows up for dinner &quot;Admiral, there be WHALES here!&quot; <br>EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. <br>This is the one I can REMEMBER watching with her, and where my own Trek-loving heart found it&apos;s way to the fore.<br>This film will always have a special place, for and because of her.

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  @itsOasus · 2 years ago (edited)

  To add to your point about ST4 being a comedy: This movie also contributed the most hilarious and ridiculous insult I&apos;ve ever heard: &quot;Well double dumbass on you!&quot;<br><br>EDIT: HAHA! YES! Im so glad you used that in your ending.

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  @davidyoung5114 · 2 years ago

  One thing that I think helped connect THE VOYAGE HOME to audiences was the dedication at the start of the movie to the memories of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew! &nbsp;When I saw the movie on it&apos;s opening weekend, when the dedication came on-screen, the whole audience applauded!

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  @randomhank · 2 years ago

  &quot;Dialysis?! What is this, the Dark Ages?&quot; Well said Bones.

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  @cuniving7831 · 2 years ago

  &quot;Trekkies bash new movie as &apos;fun&apos; &apos;watchable&apos;&quot; That was one of my favourite onion articles hahaha

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  @ShinGallon · 2 years ago (edited)

  &quot;No I&apos;m from Iowa, I only work in outer space&quot; remains one of my all time favorite Kirk lines. It&apos;s up there with &quot;What does God need with a starship?&quot; and &quot;I AM KIROK!&quot;<br><br>I do remember in the novellization that Gillian was apparently going to die in a car accident like a week after the events in the 86 portion of the movie, which is why Kirk agrees to take her with, but I can totally see Kirk just going &quot;eh fuck it, let&apos;s screw up the timeline!&quot;

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  @cassiedevereaux-smith3890 · 2 years ago

  One of my favorite lines from Futurama was, while returning from a past they realllllly made a mess of, Professor Farnsworth give the line, &quot;choke on that, Causality!&quot;

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