Yay! A younger person who actually understood the joke about Chekov being Russian asking about "nuclear wessels". And understanding it was filmed during the cold war.
Yeah, so often those born after the Cold War do not get how suspicious and dangerous the time was. It's especially noticeable when they are watching _Top Gun_ or _The Hunt for Red October_ and they don't understand how such events could trigger a 26 minute countdown to the end of EVERYTHING.
@robertanderson6929 I was stationed in West Berlin from 1983 - 1990 at a SIGINT intercept site, and was at Checkpoint Charlie on 9 Nov 89. There was even a traitor STASI spy who worked down the hall. www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dy8SUURPusJ4
Yep, that was real nice to see.... H.D.A has some intelligence & worldliness, often lacking from other Millennial Reactors, really lovely & refreshing reaction!
@@robertanderson6929 Indeed. I was stationed at a top secret SIGINT intercept facility in West Berlin from 1983 - 1990. The Cold War movies are pretty accurate. In fact, a turncoat who worked down the hall was a STASI spy, was caught years later, and did years in Leavenworth. ua-cam.com/video/y8SUURPusJ4/v-deo.htmlsi=lntwys6WUG1r7SRT
At a Trek convention in Atlanta, late '80s, I met Mr. Doohan, and got him to autograph my TOS photo of Scotty. He looked at it, smiled and responded, "Oh! That's back when I was handsome!" I replied, "You're still a good-looking guy!" He chuckled and playfully punched my shoulder. Fans standing in the autograph line, asked him to say his iconic words from Trek IV...He got into character and thrilled us all, by shouting out, "Admiral! There be whales here!" The room exploded with cheers and applause! An unforgettable memory.
Of course the whales he was talking about were the rich fans willing to empty their wallets for merch :P Just joking around of course. You can't say enough good things about Doohan. I absolutely loved his appearance on TNG also.
@@jerodast Oh, wow!... But at least in '88, the autographs were free. Now, fans pay for admission + signatures. I haven't been to a Dragon Con in 10 years. Felt exploited.
Now they've really earned their name: they _h****ed themselves back_ out of threat of extinction! (Ridiculous that this platform keeps deleting messages all the time, we always have to re-phrase and use innuendo for the most simple things...)
Certain states lend their citizens well to space travel. IIRC, the bulk of Apollo astronauts were from Ohio. Ranking the Moon higher than Ohio on travel destinations.
Walter Koenig still delights in telling the story of the chase on the naval vessel. Those were not actors, but actual Navy security guys, and they were INTENSE. The director told them to chase him full tilt, and he was terrified of them catching him!
it was great to see another Enterprise, that looked exactly like the refit old one. Many of people bought the NCC-1701-A model kit, and just didn't put the "A" decal on it...and then added battle damage from Khan to it.
George & Gracie: "Hello." Probe: "Oh, hey! You're back! What happened? Haven't heard from you for a while." G&G: "It's been a weird day..." Probe: "Okay. Well, I'll just be going then."
Kirk: Start your computations for "time warp". Spock: It's just a jump to the left, and a step to the right.... Riff & Magenta: Let's do the time warp again!
He definitely left a 23rd-century Klingon phaser in the hands of the US Navy, though. Even if the radiation disruption caused permanent damage, studying it would cause some pretty enormous alterations to the timeline. (apparently this oversight is fixed in a novel by having Gary Seven send Terri Garr's character to Area 51 to retrieve the phaser and communicator before they could be studied).
The story is extremely kooky but the movie will forever have a place in my heart!❤️ When it came out I was actually in the navy and stationed on the USS Enterprise in Alameda, California. Fun fact the aircraft carrier in the movie is actually the USS Ranger and one of the last non nuclear powered carriers. They wanted to use our ship but we were out to sea when they were filming.
I had a similar experience. My mother took me to see it on Christmas day if memory serves. The audience was cracking up through the whole film and people stood and cheered when they revealed the Enterprise A at the end.
@@bjgandalf69The original BBC radio play was AMAZING. Many, many years Iater someone put it on an old file sharing site - and I still have it in MP3 format.
Originally, Saavik was intended to be pregnant with Spock’s child from their Pon Farr mating in ST3. This was planned as a way to explain why she stayed behind on Vulcan while the Enterprise crew returned to Earth. That idea was dropped. "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" has been credited with increasing public awareness & inspiring a new generation of environmentalists and conservationists. Following the film’s release, there was a noticeable uptick in Greenpeace donations for whale conservation efforts.
I remember when they were filming this when I lived in SF. Those two Chinese people who came out of the yellow pages door were aunt and uncle of a friend of mine. They did local commercials way back in the 80's,
This movie was so great because every single actor/crew-member got their moment to shine. Each storyline was interesting and had great tension. It also has a great ecological message. Just an overall great movie that ties these elements together in a fantastic way! I loved your react!
I guess George Takei is still sore that some of his scenes in IV were cut for time, though there has been bad blood between he and Shatner and Nimoy for some time. Just move on, George! You were playing a side character just like Chekov.
Scotty's exclamation of "ADMIRAL! .... THERE BE WHALES HERE!" has to be the greatest one liners in StarTrek history! I was in the second grade when the original series premiered and was a fan of the franchise since and yes, I watched every ST movie in the theaters. Love your reactions Miss Ames.
@JayM409 You can hear water sloshing after he beams the whales up, which means he left room at the top of the tank for air. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to hear the water sloshing.
My mom, who never watched an episode of Star Trek in her life, went to see this movie and she absolutely LOVED it! Just goes to show you can be a success for ANY audience if you have the right characters and stories to tell.
@@Otokichi786 They're not even trying. They've hijacked the industry to rub their ideology into their "enemies'" faces...and since everyone who isn't in their ideological camp is their enemy they hate over 90% of the world. They don't want the people they hate to have fun.
I also have memories of people that weren't ST fans going to this and loving it. I think that it's because it's the most accessible Star Trek movie. It's not about space battles, villains and geeky things that primarily interested boys and young men in the 80s. Instead, it's about relationships, heart, humor and ethics, i.e. things that most people, even grown women who weren't into sci-fi, could appreciate.
I loved this watchalong with you getting all giddy and enthusiastic! And without hyperbole, this outing in the series really is aging like fine wine and just keeps getting better as time goes by.
The sixth film brings the story back around to the events of Star Trek III. It's the motivation for Kirk's dismissal of the peace process. It's the fifth film that is pretty much stand alone aside from The Motion Picture.
It is proof that by respecting and understanding what came before, you can make a great trilogy without planning anything out ahead of time and with the first two movies made with no clear intention of making another movie.
@@doorofnight87 Yea, I heard that Nimoy only agreed to do The Wrath of Khan if they killed off Spock. He had no intention of revising the character, but thankfully he did.
The scenes at the fictional Sausalito Cetecean Institute were actually filmed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, instantly recognizable to anyone who's been there. The dedication to the Challenger victims is there at least in large part because Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) had been working for some time at recruiting people to NASA, knew everyone on the Challenger, and had personally recruited about half of them.
And I believe one of those whale models has a six-pack of beer in it. My mother worked there while they were being built, and I guess the people making them thought it was funny.
I saw this movie in the theater in Orlando, FL when there was a huge Naval training base nearby. The audience was about half Navy trainees. During Spock's line "Nuclear power was frequently used in Naval vessels" and Chekov's line "Admiral we have located the Nuclear Wessel and Admiral, it is the ENTERPRISE!" the entire theater ERUPTED in CHEERS and APPLAUSE. It was amazing!
Hopefully there will always be a tradition of naming ships Enterprise in the US Navy. CV-6 certainly was a legend. CVN-65 was a unique and storied ship as well. Since then, Star Trek came along and added a bit to the name's shine. Hopefully CVN-80 lives up to the legacy as the 9th of its name.
Ames asking if they were going to kill off Chekov kinda stung given what happened to Anton Yelchin... The Character of Chekov will live forever - Long live Walter Koenig, and RIP Anton Yelchin.
Walter Koenig may be most famous as Pavel Chekov, but his finest work was as Alfred Bester (not _that_ Alfred Bester). "I'm-- a _telepath._ Figure it out!"
@@BogeyTheBear Agreed, Walter's Chekov was a cross between Davey Jones from the Monkees and comic relief. But as Bester, he OWNED every scene he was in. ^5 Edit: you just reminded me that I'm STILL miffed that JMS never had the chance to film The Telepath War. now THAT would have been Walter's Coup de Grasse.
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@@user-dv6gt5iw4b Oh especially if it went the same route as the novels and we got him on the run after and having Garibaldi hunting him down.
I read them when they came out, but left my book collection in the US when I moved back to Canada. Been trying to find them in used bookstores for the last few years with little luck :(
When this movie aired the humpback whale was nearly extinct, population was under 20K, after this movie the outcry for conservation was so high, today humpback whales are no longer facing extinction and number in the hundreds of thousands.
as much as I'd LOVE to believe that ST4 made a huge difference, we HAVE to give greenpeace their due. People literally put their lives on the line to protect whales. However, I KNOW this film struck a chord with everyone who saw it.
@@user-dv6gt5iw4b Greenpeace was just a small actor and couldn't have done anything without people "knowing" and supporting. ST4 was exactly what Greenpeace needed, it made the problem known to the world and people sarted to get interested and involved. So yes, it was actually Star Trek that saved the whales, GP was just a tool.
@@Vurt.451 Yikes.. how old are you ? The movie only made 139 million world wide. Yes, it's beloved by fans, but 99% of the world's population never saw it when it came out. Greenpeace started in 1971 and had gotten so much press ALL over the world, you HAVE to give them the credit they're due.
@@user-dv6gt5iw4b Green peace are a bunch of hippies that have caused massive issues, way more than they've ever helped anyone or anything. The film, on the other hand, has been directly lauded for helping the cause and bringing awareness to the general public. The fact it was the most successful of the classic Trek movies is a testament to its accessibility. It's not the first time a Bennett/Meyer film had an effect in the 1980s. "The Day After" also deeply affected Ronald Reagan and his policies on nuclear deterrence.
Audiences in the theater reading the bit at the beginning about the Challenger would have remembered back to the end of January. This was released in December. So, it was only thinking back to the beginning of the year.
And there's a strong connection between Nasa, and the Shuttle program in particular, and Star Trek. The first shuttle to be built, was never launched. It was used to test re-entry gliding only. While technically not a space ship, it was the first of a series of vessels capable to be lauched and return to Earth (bigger than a mere capsule). The name was Enterprise. And NASA made sure to dispel any doubt at to why, they invited the cast of Star Trek and played the ST theme when moving the ship out of the hangar.
@@briannaamore1383 Same here. 5th grade, watching it with some other classes in the school library. For those who aren't aware, the Challenger shuttle mission was a big deal for schools all over, because a teacher (Christa McAuliffe) was going into space on that shuttle, and they had live lessons from space planned, and other things. For many of us, it was the first time seeing such a disaster live. Kinda of a crappy start to 1986, we had the Challenger disaster on Jan 28th, and then shortly after that was Chernobyl in April.
This is my favorite "original crew" movie. The Crew in the 1980's was great. I liked the dedication to the space shuttle Challenger at the beginning too. So far, this is the only time that I've seen anyone reacting to this movie who actually got the joke of Chekov (a Russian) asking where to find a nuclear ship during the Cold War lol.
Crazy fun fact: "Transparent Aluminum" (also known as aluminum oxynitride) was first synthesized at Raytheon back in the 1960s. So it actually already existed.
Corundum (the clear mineral that is the base material of sapphires and rubies) is a crystalline aluminum oxide. The watch-face crystal of many timepieces are a form of transparent aluminum.
Whales? Check. Time travel? Check. This was the first Star Trek movie I loved as a kid. My parents tried to show me Wrath of Khan a couple of years earlier, but I was bored. I was a Star Wars kid. But after this, I watched every episode of TNG, DS9, and Voyayer as they aired. I went back and watched the original series and the animated series.
Catherine Hicks was outstanding as Dr. Gillian Taylor. 👍👍 She has had a modest career in films but a very successful career in television. A very good actress!
@@slytheringingerwitch I think they thought of bringing her back for Star Trek VI, but the writers thought there was too much going on with the plot anyway. Originally, Saavik was going to be the main antagonist, but that just didn't feel right given she was so good in the two films she was in.
Hicks was in the WB TV Series "7th Heaven". Her on screen husband was played by Stephen Collins, who played Captain (Commander) Will Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
@@Ryan_Christopher They filmed The Final Countdown on the USS Nimitz, which is nuclear. Unless they changed the rules between the times the two films were made, the only thing that would have been off limits would have been anything to do with the reactor.
@@Ryan_Christopher They had permission for the Enterprise, she was simply not avalble. So they used the Ranger, because she was identical in exterieur.
@@thomasnieswandt8805- The Ranger is not identical in exterior to the Enterprise. The Enterprise CVN-65 is the only ship of its class. One of a kind. They went to the Nimitz class after that.
@@thomasnieswandt8805 probably more accurate to say they just decided "A ship is a ship" and used what's available. I'm a little surprised (retroactively) that they at least used the right TYPE of ship, even for the exterior shots...
I think the message from the humpbacks at the end is something like "Humans of the past hunted us to extinction. Humanity's future risked themselves to bring us back."
William Shatner and Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson will be on a cruise to the continent of Antarctica late in December 2024. My eco journalism colleague Betsy Rosenberg and her husband will be on that trip with them.
@@alfredroberthogan5426 I wonder if Shatner and Tyson will have anything in common. Its brutal down there, even on a cruise and Shatner is in his nineties. I hope they keep him safe and tied down lol. His sence of adventure and wonder is beyond many half his age, matched only by Tyson no doubt.
On my bucket list too! Hundreds of thousand$ cheaper, a weekend at Space Camp, Huntsville, Al.,no wanted to be mission controller, so dare-devil me volunteered & we survived the mission.
That was the original actor who played Spock's mother in TOS. She ruled as "America's TV Mom" throughout the 1950s to around 1970. She lived into this century, in her 90s. If you noticed poor Chekov was injured in all four of the first ST films.
Fun trivia: The famous punk-on-bus was Leonard Nimoy's assistant, Kirk Thatcher. He devised the look, clothes & wrote/performed the song on his ghetto blaster. The woman who says 'I think they're across the bay'...about the 'Noo-clear wessels' wasn't supposed to say anything. The look of surprise on Nicholls/Koenig's faces is probably real but they stayed in character. The Cetacean institute is Monterey Bay Aquarium, the whale-on-surface scenes were apparently done in a flooded car park at the studio. In the UK cut, in the montage of scenes in the end credits, Scotty (Doohan) slips off the Bird of Prey & falls into the water.
What is more is the lady that said across the bay was also an addition by the director to earn her the money to get her car back from the tow company because she parked on set by accident and was towed.
19:41 Fun Fact : She wasn't an actress, their filming had blocked her from getting her car out so they offered her a scene, that wasn't scripted, it was improvised. 31:16 That was the real crew, the movie makers were really impressed cos they all hit the deck immediately when it was shouted.
That's a myth/misconception. The woman was hired on as an extra, but she was only supposed to walk on and off the shot. Only her dialogue was improvised.
I tell this on every reaction to this movie, but back in Evansville in the mid-ish 90’s, Jimmy Doohan was here for a convention, and we asked him what his favorite line was, and he gave us a full performance of the “Admiral, there be whales here”. Since he’s moved on, every time I hear it now, I get a little misty eyed.
Sasvik and David were quite close too and talked alot (off screen) I always had a feeling that she was pregnant with David's child and she wanted to tell Kirk at 6:52 but decided not to because it's something she could only tell him in private.
@@the_releaser In the novelization of ST3, Saavik and David were a couple while aboard the Grissom. It even had a scene of them in bed, discussing work after sex. As one does.
chills every time the Bird Of Prey decloaks in front of of that waling ship. Dunno about you but I would retire immediately! While the concept of humpbacks being extinct is hard, know this…. around this time it was almost a reality with only around 1000 remaining. This film played NO SMALL PART in being the final push to swing public opinion into action. So close to extinction, This film may very well have saved them. Now last year, we went on a boat, were surrounded by 3 pods of at least 30, with one coming up and clearly waving.. then tapped the boat lightly almost like a “hello”. Humans don’t have many environment victories, but this was definitely one we should be proud of. The species WILL live long and prosper!
I always wanted them to blast that whaling ship with a big fat Klingon torpedo… ;-) but that would’ve lead to some serious trouble with the bureau of temporal investigations…
This movie is probably my favorite of the Star Trek films. It carried a positive message, generally uplifting movie, great effects and sound design (the probe is terrifying to hear), so many fun interactions with the crew, and brought back Spock!
Saw this in the theater opening day. When the Enterprise A was revealed, the entire theater roared and cheered. It was so loud. Never will forget that. It was awesome. 😁
Being a local, the geography of the movie is a little funny. They cross the Golden Gate Bridge to go to Sausalito in Marin County. But afterwards when they’re walking and getting picked up by Gillian, they want to get back to San Francisco. However, they are clearly already in San Francisco.
"Star Trek logic", as they say "Close enough for Government work", as we said in Jr. High School, that year made a "Phaser", Flash cubes, magnifying glass, toilet tissue cardboard roll covered with Aluminium foil, won 3rd prize in the Washington, DC Science Fair!
This was the first Star Trek ANYTHING I watched, back when I was…eight? Back then I was hell bent on being a marine biologist, and I wanted to watch every movie and TV show and read every book that mentioned whales and dolphins. So, this is going to age me: my dad took me to Blockbuster Video, and pointed out this movie. “This one’s got two humpback whales in it. And it’s Star Trek!” “What’s Star Trek?” “Science fiction. Really good series.” So not only was this movie my first step on my journey to becoming a Trekkie, it was a huge bonding experience with my dad. Good memories. 😊 And it’s such a good movie too! The premise is so OUT THERE in a very Trek way-time travel to pick up whales to communicate with a power-sucking alien probe. It’s goofy, charming, lighthearted, earnest, and full of heart. I’m glad you spent most of your reaction giggling your way through it.
The trilogy of Star Treks II-III-IV will forever have a special place in my heart. I grew up with them and young me fell in love with the Enterprise A and the original crew (Bones especially). After all the heavy drama of Search for Spock (death, sacrifice, exploding planets etc) they decided to have some fun with Voyage Home - the results speak for themselves, I believe it remains the highest-grossing Star Trek theatrical release
LOL I came here to say this: Specifically, the part in the middle of the device was the inner piece of a part from the updated (K'tinga class) cruiser shown in the Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan.) I have built several of each, and the part is molded in a single piece (and looks a bit different) on the original series D-7 kit.
26:15 "Couldn't you find that out?" - actually Scotty was asking a rhetorical question, so basically he's saying it is the same guy who invented the formula. Scotty is very knowledgeable when it comes to engineering, and in his field, we can see him in the old show him reading the book on the history of his specialty. There's a reason why he's the miracle worker. He earned that title. So he knew it was him.
Star Trek 3 is the exception that proves the rule. Although I didn't mind Star Trek VII or IX as much as some people, and Star Trek X is so terrible it shouldn't be canon (I call that the multiples of 5 rule).
The most fun of the Star Trek movies. Spock as a Berkley burn-out, and there be whales! (I live in the Southeast Alaskan Panhandle, so humpbacks are beloved here.)
I was in high school when this movie was released, and I remember all of us high schoolers being very fond of this movie, using many lines from it where appropriate, especially the "special" form of cursing practiced by Kirk and Spock. 😁
@@deegee6863 In the novel "Spock's World" by Diane Duane, it's explained that Sarek and Amanda had Spock by 'in vitro' fertilization; Spock was essentially a test-tube baby. The Vulcan medical staff who performed the procedure were uncharacteristically smug (for Vulcans) that they succeeded.
In a recorded interview, RECORDED as in a 33 Long Playing Vinyl Record Gene Roddenberry explained what he has envisioned as how Spock came to be born. He said conception came naturally but Spock had to be taken out of Amanda's womb before birth, treated genetically and then re-implanted.
The time travel technique they are using was one that they found by accident in the original series episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday." It is a great episode to go back and look at.
Loved this movie. The Navy ship they said was the Enterprise which would have been USS Enterprise CV65 was actually the USS Ranger (CV-61) was the third of four Forrestal-class carriers. Non-nuclear. Totally different classes of ships. The scene where Chekoff is running around the ship and eventually falling off the elevator was actually filmed on the Ranger. It was my first ship. Met Ms. Nichols and Mr. Koenig. They were very nice. They even had lunch on board. Signed autographs. She was a true lady, very elegant and classy. She spoke to anyone who wanted to meet her. So did Mr. Koenig.
You never fail to delight me, Ames. I saw this film when it first came out with my then-fiancee (now spouse), who was and is a scholar of gender & women's studies. When we got to the scene where Kirk asks for Gillian's phone number, and she says, "Never mind, I'll find you," spouse burst out laughing and said, "Captain Kirk meets feminism!" Kirk is supposedly from the future, but of course his character was crafted in the 1960s, with the gender politics of the Silent Generation. By the time this film came out (17 years after the series had canceled), gender politics in the U. S. had undergone such a change that Kirk's orientation toward women just didn't work. So Kirk (from the future) is surprised by the independence of a woman from the "past" (1986). It's a completely self-aware, meta joke, and I love it.
In the novelization it's mentioned that the Constitution class ship at the end used to be the USS Yorktown but they changed the name to Enterprise in thanks to the crew.
7:50 The reason Saavik remained on Vulcan was in early scripts she was pregnant with Spock's child from his pon farr on the Genesis Planet. Unfortunately due to re-writes and editing of the shot film, this sub-plot was completely eliminated. Robin Curtis made hints toward it during press interviews prior to the release, and some fan's head-canon is that it did happen - in fact several non-canon Star Trek novels refer to Spock and Saavik getting married in later years - but as far as being official it is one of those things that is never again mentioned.
@@rory_pond1701 Likewise, that video is a fan-created production. Yes, very high and professional production standards, but still a fan film and not considered canon.
@@travisboyle285 it was produced under the conditions imposed by CBS/Paramount under the settlement of the Axanar suit. It was not made by CBS or Paramount. It's a fan film.
Fun fact: Aluminum Oxynitride, a ceramic polycrystal, has been recently developed that meets and/or exceeds all the specifications that Scotty gives here... Welcome to the future :)
Kirk Thatcher (Appropriate first name, huh?) He later reprised his role in the 2nd season of ST:Picard, but was VERY apologetic about his loud music, and turned it down immediately. Guess the memory of being pinched by Spock made a lasting impact on him.
Fun fact: Some biologists theorize that Octopi, or an early biological ancestor, perhaps even as a simple, unevolved species, may have originated elsewhere and arrived on Earth on space debris like a meteorite.
Cite a single reputable biologist who theorizes that, please. There's a fringe paper from a few years ago where someone tried to suggest the possibility of panspermia, with them exploring the idea that an alien virus somehow modified a squid, but that was rejected by all reputable biologists. Support your claim.
In Star Trek III (1984) Christopher Lloyd played Kruge the Klingon. Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future (1985) invents a time machine. In Star Trek IV (1986) Kirk uses Kruge ship to time travel. Coincidence?
Another great 'Star Trek' reaction on your part. Glad that you had a whale of a time with this one because your cinematic analyses always create very much of a splash.🌊
Yay! A younger person who actually understood the joke about Chekov being Russian asking about "nuclear wessels". And understanding it was filmed during the cold war.
Yeah, so often those born after the Cold War do not get how suspicious and dangerous the time was. It's especially noticeable when they are watching _Top Gun_ or _The Hunt for Red October_ and they don't understand how such events could trigger a 26 minute countdown to the end of EVERYTHING.
@robertanderson6929
I was stationed in West Berlin from 1983 - 1990 at a SIGINT intercept site, and was at Checkpoint Charlie on 9 Nov 89. There was even a traitor STASI spy who worked down the hall.
www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dy8SUURPusJ4
Yep, that was real nice to see.... H.D.A has some intelligence & worldliness, often lacking from other Millennial Reactors, really lovely & refreshing reaction!
@@robertanderson6929
Indeed. I was stationed at a top secret SIGINT intercept facility in West Berlin from 1983 - 1990. The Cold War movies are pretty accurate. In fact, a turncoat who worked down the hall was a STASI spy, was caught years later, and did years in Leavenworth.
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We kind of went full circle and it would be a great joke now too.
At a Trek convention in Atlanta, late '80s, I met Mr. Doohan, and got him to autograph my TOS photo of Scotty. He looked at it, smiled and responded, "Oh! That's back when I was handsome!" I replied, "You're still a good-looking guy!" He chuckled and playfully punched my shoulder. Fans standing in the autograph line, asked him to say his iconic words from Trek IV...He got into character and thrilled us all, by shouting out, "Admiral! There be whales here!" The room exploded with cheers and applause! An unforgettable memory.
Of course the whales he was talking about were the rich fans willing to empty their wallets for merch :P
Just joking around of course. You can't say enough good things about Doohan. I absolutely loved his appearance on TNG also.
@@jerodast Oh, wow!... But at least in '88, the autographs were free. Now, fans pay for admission + signatures. I haven't been to a Dragon Con in 10 years. Felt exploited.
Fun fact: Since whale hunting was banned, humpbacks have made a remarkable recovery, numbering more than 135,000, and are no longer endangered.
Also they’re now plotting their revenge….
Another one is TRANSPARENT ALUMINIUM was actually created in the last few years.
Because whaling ships are scared of cloaked BOPs.
So you're saying they *_humped themselves back_* to healthy numbers?
Now they've really earned their name: they _h****ed themselves back_ out of threat of extinction!
(Ridiculous that this platform keeps deleting messages all the time, we always have to re-phrase and use innuendo for the most simple things...)
"No I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space" my favorite quote
That reminds me of: "Is this Heaven? No, it's Iowa." from "a mere, 1989 Baseball movie."
Certain states lend their citizens well to space travel. IIRC, the bulk of Apollo astronauts were from Ohio. Ranking the Moon higher than Ohio on travel destinations.
@@motorcycleboy9000to be fair, The Moon might one day be able to support human life, which is more than can be said for Iowa 😛.
One Damn minute Admiral and There be whales here are the best lines.
My, god, Jim! Where the hell are we?
Out of control, and blind as a bat!
This is my favorite StarTrek movie. The sense of humor in this one lifts me up.
It's most people's favorite!
It's mine too.
It's mine too.
There's just something about the even-numbered Trek films. I still remember watching Voyage Home in the theater. Audience was laughing and cheering.
It's the Star Trek movie that people who didn't like Star Trek responded well to.
My favorite scene is when Scotty tries to talk to a now-a-days computer. Hilarity ensues.
@@TopCornerOffice i had an old wav file of scotty saying "hello computer" when my PC started up. I'm others did
@@TopCornerOffice Wonder who they stole that patent from...
Alexa, launch photon torpedoes.
That "now-a-days" computer is now 40 years old.
And then he mashes the keyboard 100% like an old man who doesn't actually use a computer
Walter Koenig still delights in telling the story of the chase on the naval vessel. Those were not actors, but actual Navy security guys, and they were INTENSE. The director told them to chase him full tilt, and he was terrified of them catching him!
Best line in movie: "Spock, where's that power you promised me? - One damn minute Admiral"
Another movie I saw in the theater when it first came out. The audience cheered and applauded at the end.
Yes, we did!
Exactly!
At the beginning too, when the Challenger dedication came on screen. ❤️
it was great to see another Enterprise, that looked exactly like the refit old one. Many of people bought the NCC-1701-A model kit, and just didn't put the "A" decal on it...and then added battle damage from Khan to it.
George & Gracie: "Hello."
Probe: "Oh, hey! You're back! What happened? Haven't heard from you for a while."
G&G: "It's been a weird day..."
Probe: "Okay. Well, I'll just be going then."
The producers _did_ consider adding subtitles for that conversation.
I WISH I were joking.
Next time answer the dang phone!
@JMUDoc well, at least they decided against it...
I get the feeling that the "Probe" would have had a few things to say to the "Human Race"
Say goodnight, @s.henrlllpoklookout5069
Kirk: Start your computations for "time warp".
Spock: It's just a jump to the left, and a step to the right....
Riff & Magenta: Let's do the time warp again!
That’s a term one must be careful using!
Here til Thursday, try the veal!
It's astounding
Time is fleeting
Madness takes its toll 🤪
In the velvet darkness
Of the blackest night
Burning bright
There's a guiding star
No matter what or who you are
@@lucasvincent2875 but skip the Meat Loaf.
My favorite gag in the movie is the Chekov’s gun doesn’t go off.
He definitely left a 23rd-century Klingon phaser in the hands of the US Navy, though. Even if the radiation disruption caused permanent damage, studying it would cause some pretty enormous alterations to the timeline. (apparently this oversight is fixed in a novel by having Gary Seven send Terri Garr's character to Area 51 to retrieve the phaser and communicator before they could be studied).
@@garygarrow2718 It was picked up and noted at the start of the scene. Successful firing is not inherent in the proposition.
The story is extremely kooky but the movie will forever have a place in my heart!❤️ When it came out I was actually in the navy and stationed on the USS Enterprise in Alameda, California.
Fun fact the aircraft carrier in the movie is actually the USS Ranger and one of the last non nuclear powered carriers. They wanted to use our ship but we were out to sea when they were filming.
"If my calculations are correct, when this Bird of Prey hits Warp 8.8... You're gonna see some serious shit"
Well, it WAS Doc Brown’s Ship! 😂
(Christopher Lloyd played Cmdr Kruge in ST3.)
*Prey
@@colormedubious4747 Fixed
Oh that's heavy Spoc
Great Scotty!!
This was my first movie as a kid. I will never forget the scene seeing the Enterprise at the end. The theater cheered!
You made this movie as a kid? Wow, you're amazing!
I had a similar experience. My mother took me to see it on Christmas day if memory serves. The audience was cracking up through the whole film and people stood and cheered when they revealed the Enterprise A at the end.
@@sparhawk0723 Yeah; that ending was great. With the original series theme playing in there as the Enterprise A is leaving Space Dock.
fun fact: transparent aluminum exists in our world is named after the material in this movie
_"However, the transparent state lasted for only 40 femtoseconds, until electrons returned to the material."_
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
One damn minute, admiral.
That was an excellent book series. The shows made didn't do it justice. I never laughed so much reading a book.
@@CrazyLife2112 don't forget your towel
@johnnygood4831 I still think the BBC series was WAY BETTER than the Hollywood film ever hoped to be.
@@bjgandalf69The original BBC radio play was AMAZING. Many, many years Iater someone put it on an old file sharing site - and I still have it in MP3 format.
Originally, Saavik was intended to be pregnant with Spock’s child from their Pon Farr mating in ST3. This was planned as a way to explain why she stayed behind on Vulcan while the Enterprise crew returned to Earth. That idea was dropped.
"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" has been credited with increasing public awareness & inspiring a new generation of environmentalists and conservationists. Following the film’s release, there was a noticeable uptick in Greenpeace donations for whale conservation efforts.
I remember when they were filming this when I lived in SF. Those two Chinese people who came out of the yellow pages door were aunt and uncle of a friend of mine. They did local commercials way back in the 80's,
This movie was so great because every single actor/crew-member got their moment to shine. Each storyline was interesting and had great tension. It also has a great ecological message. Just an overall great movie that ties these elements together in a fantastic way! I loved your react!
I guess George Takei is still sore that some of his scenes in IV were cut for time, though there has been bad blood between he and Shatner and Nimoy for some time. Just move on, George! You were playing a side character just like Chekov.
@@dan_hitchman007 George just gets wackier in his old age
A good example showing that a movie does not need a villain to be good.
@jturner7771 The villain, collectively, was man and his stupidity in destroying the planet and not respecting nature.
@@MrAitrainingLike Shatner had no ego back then - I’m betting Takei was right.
Scotty's exclamation of "ADMIRAL! .... THERE BE WHALES HERE!" has to be the greatest one liners in StarTrek history!
I was in the second grade when the original series premiered and was a fan of the franchise since and yes, I watched every ST movie in the theaters. Love your reactions Miss Ames.
Good thing they can hold their breath for so long. He didn't beam up any air with them.
Yep, its a goodie but I really like B'Ellana in an episode of Voyager : 'Get the cheese to sick bay'...only in Star Trek.
@JayM409 You can hear water sloshing after he beams the whales up, which means he left room at the top of the tank for air. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to hear the water sloshing.
My mom, who never watched an episode of Star Trek in her life, went to see this movie and she absolutely LOVED it! Just goes to show you can be a success for ANY audience if you have the right characters and stories to tell.
She had a whale of a time?
@@pistonburner6448 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Something that the "modern audience-obsessed" post modern "writers" at LucasFilm and Jar Jar Abrams' crew can't seem to grasp/understand/practice.
@@Otokichi786 They're not even trying. They've hijacked the industry to rub their ideology into their "enemies'" faces...and since everyone who isn't in their ideological camp is their enemy they hate over 90% of the world. They don't want the people they hate to have fun.
I also have memories of people that weren't ST fans going to this and loving it. I think that it's because it's the most accessible Star Trek movie. It's not about space battles, villains and geeky things that primarily interested boys and young men in the 80s. Instead, it's about relationships, heart, humor and ethics, i.e. things that most people, even grown women who weren't into sci-fi, could appreciate.
The best special effect in this movie is William Shatner's hair under water towards the end. 😂
"Where the hell is that power you promised me!?!?
"One damn minute, admiral."
I loved this watchalong with you getting all giddy and enthusiastic! And without hyperbole, this outing in the series really is aging like fine wine and just keeps getting better as time goes by.
I love how the 2nd through 4th films are intertwined with each other, but completely separate films. I'm glad you enjoyed this one.
The sixth film brings the story back around to the events of Star Trek III. It's the motivation for Kirk's dismissal of the peace process. It's the fifth film that is pretty much stand alone aside from The Motion Picture.
The Genesis Trilogy. Possibly my favourite movie trilogy of all time.
A close second to Planet of the Apes / “Caesar” trilogy/reboot
It is proof that by respecting and understanding what came before, you can make a great trilogy without planning anything out ahead of time and with the first two movies made with no clear intention of making another movie.
@@doorofnight87 Yea, I heard that Nimoy only agreed to do The Wrath of Khan if they killed off Spock. He had no intention of revising the character, but thankfully he did.
The scenes at the fictional Sausalito Cetecean Institute were actually filmed at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, instantly recognizable to anyone who's been there. The dedication to the Challenger victims is there at least in large part because Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) had been working for some time at recruiting people to NASA, knew everyone on the Challenger, and had personally recruited about half of them.
And I believe one of those whale models has a six-pack of beer in it. My mother worked there while they were being built, and I guess the people making them thought it was funny.
@richardzinns5676 Excellent knowledge. Thank you.👴🏾👍🏾🤓👏🏾🍺
Fun Fact: George and Gracie was an homage to the comedic couple, George Burns and Gracie Allen.
George was still alive. I wonder if he was flattered.
“Say goodnight, Gracie.”
And then there was the one about the girl in the nudist colony, who nothing looked good on?
@@thefamilydad8635 "Goodnight Gracie"
The shows are on UA-cam. You can do a search for The George and Gracie show
I saw this movie in the theater in Orlando, FL when there was a huge Naval training base nearby. The audience was about half Navy trainees. During Spock's line "Nuclear power was frequently used in Naval vessels" and Chekov's line "Admiral we have located the Nuclear Wessel and Admiral, it is the ENTERPRISE!" the entire theater ERUPTED in CHEERS and APPLAUSE. It was amazing!
It's only a shame that the Big E was at sea during filming so its sister ship U.S.S Ranger stood in as the Enterprise.
Hopefully there will always be a tradition of naming ships Enterprise in the US Navy. CV-6 certainly was a legend. CVN-65 was a unique and storied ship as well. Since then, Star Trek came along and added a bit to the name's shine. Hopefully CVN-80 lives up to the legacy as the 9th of its name.
Ames asking if they were going to kill off Chekov kinda stung given what happened to Anton Yelchin... The Character of Chekov will live forever - Long live Walter Koenig, and RIP Anton Yelchin.
thanks for reminding me that we only have 3 of the originals left now 😞
Walter Koenig may be most famous as Pavel Chekov, but his finest work was as Alfred Bester (not _that_ Alfred Bester).
"I'm-- a _telepath._ Figure it out!"
@@BogeyTheBear Agreed, Walter's Chekov was a cross between Davey Jones from the Monkees and comic relief. But as Bester, he OWNED every scene he was in. ^5 Edit: you just reminded me that I'm STILL miffed that JMS never had the chance to film The Telepath War. now THAT would have been Walter's Coup de Grasse.
@@user-dv6gt5iw4b Oh especially if it went the same route as the novels and we got him on the run after and having Garibaldi hunting him down.
I read them when they came out, but left my book collection in the US when I moved back to Canada. Been trying to find them in used bookstores for the last few years with little luck :(
My favorite STAR TREK movie. Love the interrogation of Chekov.😊❤
Same here. I like that it has nothing to do with conflict or war.
It's so fun to see the Monterey Bay Aquarium as it was in the 1980's. It's like my own time travel adventure (I work down the street from it).
When this movie aired the humpback whale was nearly extinct, population was under 20K, after this movie the outcry for conservation was so high, today humpback whales are no longer facing extinction and number in the hundreds of thousands.
as much as I'd LOVE to believe that ST4 made a huge difference, we HAVE to give greenpeace their due. People literally put their lives on the line to protect whales. However, I KNOW this film struck a chord with everyone who saw it.
@@user-dv6gt5iw4b Greenpeace was just a small actor and couldn't have done anything without people "knowing" and supporting. ST4 was exactly what Greenpeace needed, it made the problem known to the world and people sarted to get interested and involved. So yes, it was actually Star Trek that saved the whales, GP was just a tool.
@@Vurt.451 Yikes.. how old are you ? The movie only made 139 million world wide. Yes, it's beloved by fans, but 99% of the world's population never saw it when it came out. Greenpeace started in 1971 and had gotten so much press ALL over the world, you HAVE to give them the credit they're due.
@@user-dv6gt5iw4b Green peace are a bunch of hippies that have caused massive issues, way more than they've ever helped anyone or anything.
The film, on the other hand, has been directly lauded for helping the cause and bringing awareness to the general public. The fact it was the most successful of the classic Trek movies is a testament to its accessibility.
It's not the first time a Bennett/Meyer film had an effect in the 1980s. "The Day After" also deeply affected Ronald Reagan and his policies on nuclear deterrence.
And Leonard Nimoy wanted a Trek movie with no "bad guy", and cared about environmental issues, which is how this script & story came to be.
This was the only movie I've ever seen where almost the entire theater audience stood, clapped and cheered at the end of the movie.
IN Washington, DC, opening night of "Star Trek-The Motion Picture", the crowd cheered seeing the cast names & theme song!"!
Simpler times.
I love how every “welcome to the big city” scene from 80’s movies had the same music.
Without listening to the scene over again from either movie, I’m getting strong Crocodile Dundee links in my head.
Cue the Crocodile Dundee New York street music
"Red Heat" as well.
As a fan of the Jazz Fusion band, "Yellowjackets," I found "Market Street" to be familiar and on point for the time.
Audiences in the theater reading the bit at the beginning about the Challenger would have remembered back to the end of January. This was released in December. So, it was only thinking back to the beginning of the year.
And there's a strong connection between Nasa, and the Shuttle program in particular, and Star Trek.
The first shuttle to be built, was never launched. It was used to test re-entry gliding only.
While technically not a space ship, it was the first of a series of vessels capable to be lauched and return to Earth (bigger than a mere capsule).
The name was Enterprise. And NASA made sure to dispel any doubt at to why, they invited the cast of Star Trek and played the ST theme when moving the ship out of the hangar.
I remember watching the Challenger explode live on TV. It was the JFK moment for our generation.
@@briannaamore1383 Same here. 5th grade, watching it with some other classes in the school library. For those who aren't aware, the Challenger shuttle mission was a big deal for schools all over, because a teacher (Christa McAuliffe) was going into space on that shuttle, and they had live lessons from space planned, and other things. For many of us, it was the first time seeing such a disaster live. Kinda of a crappy start to 1986, we had the Challenger disaster on Jan 28th, and then shortly after that was Chernobyl in April.
@@TheMule71Nichelle Nichols also worked with NASA recruiting minority candidates and some of her recruits were on the Challenger.
@@briannaamore1383 And then we had our Pearl Harbor moment with 9/11 15 years later.
This is my favorite "original crew" movie. The Crew in the 1980's was great. I liked the dedication to the space shuttle Challenger at the beginning too. So far, this is the only time that I've seen anyone reacting to this movie who actually got the joke of Chekov (a Russian) asking where to find a nuclear ship during the Cold War lol.
Crazy fun fact: "Transparent Aluminum" (also known as aluminum oxynitride) was first synthesized at Raytheon back in the 1960s. So it actually already existed.
It's only composed of about 30% aluminum so depending on what the composition is in Star Trek, it may or may not be the same thing though
What real-world "transparent aluminum" is is a lit different than what Star Treks version is.
Corundum (the clear mineral that is the base material of sapphires and rubies) is a crystalline aluminum oxide. The watch-face crystal of many timepieces are a form of transparent aluminum.
Whales? Check. Time travel? Check.
This was the first Star Trek movie I loved as a kid. My parents tried to show me Wrath of Khan a couple of years earlier, but I was bored. I was a Star Wars kid. But after this, I watched every episode of TNG, DS9, and Voyayer as they aired. I went back and watched the original series and the animated series.
Whales? Check.
Time travel? Check.
Pavel? Check. Ov.
The joke was right there.
Catherine Hicks was outstanding as Dr. Gillian Taylor. 👍👍
She has had a modest career in films but a very successful career in television. A very good actress!
I was always sad that nothing more was done with her character.
@@slytheringingerwitch I think they thought of bringing her back for Star Trek VI, but the writers thought there was too much going on with the plot anyway. Originally, Saavik was going to be the main antagonist, but that just didn't feel right given she was so good in the two films she was in.
Hicks was in the WB TV Series "7th Heaven". Her on screen husband was played by Stephen Collins, who played Captain (Commander) Will Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
@@cleekmaker00 Oof, he ended up being a real creep.
She's a total cutie.
Fun fact: The carrier featured in the movie is actually the USS Ranger. The Enterprise was deployed at the time of filming.
Not that they would have allowed filming on the Enterprise. Nuclear Carriers are off-limits. Ranger was Conventional.
@@Ryan_Christopher They filmed The Final Countdown on the USS Nimitz, which is nuclear. Unless they changed the rules between the times the two films were made, the only thing that would have been off limits would have been anything to do with the reactor.
@@Ryan_Christopher They had permission for the Enterprise, she was simply not avalble. So they used the Ranger, because she was identical in exterieur.
@@thomasnieswandt8805- The Ranger is not identical in exterior to the Enterprise. The Enterprise CVN-65 is the only ship of its class. One of a kind. They went to the Nimitz class after that.
@@thomasnieswandt8805 probably more accurate to say they just decided "A ship is a ship" and used what's available. I'm a little surprised (retroactively) that they at least used the right TYPE of ship, even for the exterior shots...
As a kid, this was my favorite Star Trek film.
I was obsessed with the ocean / Jacques Cousteau.
Perfect marriage of my childhood fandoms.
So happy you're enjoying the series. Most adorable scene in the movie was the old lady happy her kidney is fine.
Her *new* kidney!
I always loved that scene, too!
He melted the lock!
I think the message from the humpbacks at the end is something like "Humans of the past hunted us to extinction. Humanity's future risked themselves to bring us back."
As youre a fan of Bill Shatner now, you may be excited to know that of all the cast, he is the only one who has actually gone to space. A true legend.
William Shatner and Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson will be on a cruise to the continent of Antarctica late in December 2024. My eco journalism colleague Betsy Rosenberg and her husband will be on that trip with them.
@@alfredroberthogan5426 I wonder if Shatner and Tyson will have anything in common. Its brutal down there, even on a cruise and Shatner is in his nineties. I hope they keep him safe and tied down lol. His sence of adventure and wonder is beyond many half his age, matched only by Tyson no doubt.
On my bucket list too! Hundreds of thousand$ cheaper, a weekend at Space Camp, Huntsville, Al.,no wanted to be mission controller, so dare-devil me volunteered & we survived the mission.
One of my fave films, them going back in time and having McCoy in the hospital kills me every time.
That was the original actor who played Spock's mother in TOS. She ruled as "America's TV Mom" throughout the 1950s to around 1970. She lived into this century, in her 90s.
If you noticed poor Chekov was injured in all four of the first ST films.
Standard Chekov screaming in pain follows...
If you put a Chekov in Act I, he has to get injured in Act III.
Yeah, 23rd Century medicine! Insert injured part in the Replicator (3-D Printer of the 20th Century)
Loved your reaction, and I love how passionate you are about Star Trek.
Fun trivia: The famous punk-on-bus was Leonard Nimoy's assistant, Kirk Thatcher. He devised the look, clothes & wrote/performed the song on his ghetto blaster.
The woman who says 'I think they're across the bay'...about the 'Noo-clear wessels' wasn't supposed to say anything. The look of surprise on Nicholls/Koenig's faces is probably real but they stayed in character.
The Cetacean institute is Monterey Bay Aquarium, the whale-on-surface scenes were apparently done in a flooded car park at the studio.
In the UK cut, in the montage of scenes in the end credits, Scotty (Doohan) slips off the Bird of Prey & falls into the water.
What is more is the lady that said across the bay was also an addition by the director to earn her the money to get her car back from the tow company because she parked on set by accident and was towed.
Your expressions give the whole review
"You want to do what, with what?"
This movie was off the rails and I loved it!
You have one of the BEST movie reaction channels on UA-cam. Thanks for the awesomeness.
19:41 Fun Fact : She wasn't an actress, their filming had blocked her from getting her car out so they offered her a scene, that wasn't scripted, it was improvised.
31:16 That was the real crew, the movie makers were really impressed cos they all hit the deck immediately when it was shouted.
They had to run after her to get her to sign a release so they could use the footage. So many great stories behind the scenes on this one!
That's a myth/misconception. The woman was hired on as an extra, but she was only supposed to walk on and off the shot. Only her dialogue was improvised.
I tell this on every reaction to this movie, but back in Evansville in the mid-ish 90’s, Jimmy Doohan was here for a convention, and we asked him what his favorite line was, and he gave us a full performance of the “Admiral, there be whales here”. Since he’s moved on, every time I hear it now, I get a little misty eyed.
Which state? There is more than one Evansville.
@ Indiana
Kudos to Admiral Cartwright, but I just wanted a serving of Joseph Sisko's jambalaya.
Are you kidding? (Spoiler alert) Cartwright is a traitor!
@@everettbateman4741y would you post that don't do that😐
7:03 There was a deleted scene stating that Saavik was pregnant with Spock’s child. This was confirmed in the recent short film, 765874 - Unification.
*aborted scene
@@pistonburner6448 Lol.
Sasvik and David were quite close too and talked alot (off screen)
I always had a feeling that she was pregnant with David's child and she wanted to tell Kirk at 6:52 but decided not to because it's something she could only tell him in private.
@@the_releaser In the novelization of ST3, Saavik and David were a couple while aboard the Grissom. It even had a scene of them in bed, discussing work after sex. As one does.
Oh snap.@@pistonburner6448
This is my favorite Star Trek movie. Period.
chills every time the Bird Of Prey decloaks in front of of that waling ship. Dunno about you but I would retire immediately! While the concept of humpbacks being extinct is hard, know this…. around this time it was almost a reality with only around 1000 remaining. This film played NO SMALL PART in being the final push to swing public opinion into action. So close to extinction, This film may very well have saved them. Now last year, we went on a boat, were surrounded by 3 pods of at least 30, with one coming up and clearly waving.. then tapped the boat lightly almost like a “hello”. Humans don’t have many environment victories, but this was definitely one we should be proud of. The species WILL live long and prosper!
I always wanted them to blast that whaling ship with a big fat Klingon torpedo… ;-) but that would’ve lead to some serious trouble with the bureau of temporal investigations…
This movie is probably my favorite of the Star Trek films. It carried a positive message, generally uplifting movie, great effects and sound design (the probe is terrifying to hear), so many fun interactions with the crew, and brought back Spock!
You built a time machine!? out of a Bird of Prey!
The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a spaceship, why not do it with some style?
@@Parallax-3D GREAT SCOTTY!!!
@@Parallax-3D Building a time machine into a spaceship _is_ the smartest move. The Earth will be in another spot in the galaxy when you make a jump.
"Jezus Christ, Scotty, you disintegrated George and Gracie!"
Simple Klingon Physics, the ol' Back-Lif Sling Shot Principle.
Saw this in the theater opening day. When the Enterprise A was revealed, the entire theater roared and cheered. It was so loud. Never will forget that. It was awesome. 😁
Being a local, the geography of the movie is a little funny. They cross the Golden Gate Bridge to go to Sausalito in Marin County. But afterwards when they’re walking and getting picked up by Gillian, they want to get back to San Francisco. However, they are clearly already in San Francisco.
"Star Trek logic", as they say "Close enough for Government work", as we said in Jr. High School, that year made a "Phaser", Flash cubes, magnifying glass, toilet tissue cardboard roll covered with Aluminium foil, won 3rd prize in the Washington, DC Science Fair!
Really enjoying these reactions vicariously through you. Perhaps the best Star Trek reactions out there.🖖
“Are You Sure It Isn’t Time for a Colorful Metaphor?” This is the best Star Trek movie of them all.
Loved it better when Kirk said to the kid, "That's What You Wanted "'A Piece of the Action!!"'
This was the first Star Trek ANYTHING I watched, back when I was…eight? Back then I was hell bent on being a marine biologist, and I wanted to watch every movie and TV show and read every book that mentioned whales and dolphins.
So, this is going to age me: my dad took me to Blockbuster Video, and pointed out this movie. “This one’s got two humpback whales in it. And it’s Star Trek!”
“What’s Star Trek?”
“Science fiction. Really good series.”
So not only was this movie my first step on my journey to becoming a Trekkie, it was a huge bonding experience with my dad. Good memories. 😊
And it’s such a good movie too! The premise is so OUT THERE in a very Trek way-time travel to pick up whales to communicate with a power-sucking alien probe. It’s goofy, charming, lighthearted, earnest, and full of heart. I’m glad you spent most of your reaction giggling your way through it.
The trilogy of Star Treks II-III-IV will forever have a special place in my heart. I grew up with them and young me fell in love with the Enterprise A and the original crew (Bones especially). After all the heavy drama of Search for Spock (death, sacrifice, exploding planets etc) they decided to have some fun with Voyage Home - the results speak for themselves, I believe it remains the highest-grossing Star Trek theatrical release
34:50 "Looks like a spaceship on his head!"
- that's exactly what it is! It came from a model kit for a Klingon warship!
Yep! Rear shuttle bay of a Klingon D-7 cruiser.
LOL I came here to say this: Specifically, the part in the middle of the device was the inner piece of a part from the updated (K'tinga class) cruiser shown in the Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan.) I have built several of each, and the part is molded in a single piece (and looks a bit different) on the original series D-7 kit.
@@Parallax-3D - D-7 or K'tinga?
Captain Kirk goes back three centuries and still has the rizz to fascinate women. What a man.
26:40 "Don't fall 🍁 in love with him, he's from the future."
Just now ... after 30+ years of watching this, I cannot unsee the Vulcans in the beginning looking like smurfs with red hats ...
26:15 "Couldn't you find that out?" - actually Scotty was asking a rhetorical question, so basically he's saying it is the same guy who invented the formula. Scotty is very knowledgeable when it comes to engineering, and in his field, we can see him in the old show him reading the book on the history of his specialty. There's a reason why he's the miracle worker. He earned that title. So he knew it was him.
Transparent aluminum actually exists now! 😃
As I`ve gotten older, I look at ST3 with greater appreciation. I think it`s fantastic and sort of puts a wrench in the "odds aren`t that good" idea.
ST3 is the one that gave us the Klingon language.
Star Trek 3 is the exception that proves the rule. Although I didn't mind Star Trek VII or IX as much as some people, and Star Trek X is so terrible it shouldn't be canon (I call that the multiples of 5 rule).
The most fun of the Star Trek movies. Spock as a Berkley burn-out, and there be whales!
(I live in the Southeast Alaskan Panhandle, so humpbacks are beloved here.)
"I think he took too much LDS" has got to be one the greatest lines in Trek history.
Next trip to Alaska Humpback Whales, first was "Huskie Sledding", not "Mush Mush"! Just say "Ready!" & they run!
Your enthusiasm about Star Trek is just delightful. I love it
The cast and writers hitting on all cylinders. ❤
I was in high school when this movie was released, and I remember all of us high schoolers being very fond of this movie, using many lines from it where appropriate, especially the "special" form of cursing practiced by Kirk and Spock. 😁
“How have humans and Vulcans been able to conceive?”
Never seen T’Pol, eh.
Enterprise, the bastard child of Star Trek's golden age.
I often wondered how a green blooded vulcan gestated in a red blooded human
@@deegee6863 In the novel "Spock's World" by Diane Duane, it's explained that Sarek and Amanda had Spock by 'in vitro' fertilization; Spock was essentially a test-tube baby. The Vulcan medical staff who performed the procedure were uncharacteristically smug (for Vulcans) that they succeeded.
Ask doctor Phlox.
In a recorded interview, RECORDED as in a 33 Long Playing Vinyl Record Gene Roddenberry explained what he has envisioned as how Spock came to be born. He said conception came naturally but Spock had to be taken out of Amanda's womb before birth, treated genetically and then re-implanted.
It's pretty cool that scientists are using A.I. to talk to whales now.
Thank you Ames! Love it when you're having fun and/or loving it!
33:55 & 35:09 That old woman is so sweet. You can see she enjoyed having that little part. :)
The time travel technique they are using was one that they found by accident in the original series episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday." It is a great episode to go back and look at.
Oh, Good. I was coming here to say this. I hope she reads your post and watches it.
Not to be pedantic, but the technique was accidentally discovered in "The Naked Time" and used deliberately in "Tomorrow is Yesterday."
Loved this movie. The Navy ship they said was the Enterprise which would have been USS Enterprise CV65 was actually the USS Ranger (CV-61) was the third of four Forrestal-class carriers. Non-nuclear. Totally different classes of ships. The scene where Chekoff is running around the ship and eventually falling off the elevator was actually filmed on the Ranger. It was my first ship. Met Ms. Nichols and Mr. Koenig. They were very nice. They even had lunch on board. Signed autographs. She was a true lady, very elegant and classy. She spoke to anyone who wanted to meet her. So did Mr. Koenig.
You never fail to delight me, Ames.
I saw this film when it first came out with my then-fiancee (now spouse), who was and is a scholar of gender & women's studies. When we got to the scene where Kirk asks for Gillian's phone number, and she says, "Never mind, I'll find you," spouse burst out laughing and said, "Captain Kirk meets feminism!" Kirk is supposedly from the future, but of course his character was crafted in the 1960s, with the gender politics of the Silent Generation. By the time this film came out (17 years after the series had canceled), gender politics in the U. S. had undergone such a change that Kirk's orientation toward women just didn't work. So Kirk (from the future) is surprised by the independence of a woman from the "past" (1986). It's a completely self-aware, meta joke, and I love it.
In the novelization it's mentioned that the Constitution class ship at the end used to be the USS Yorktown but they changed the name to Enterprise in thanks to the crew.
5:20 Well, Ames, when a mommy humanoid and a daddy humanoid love each other very much...
…and they have a special hug for each other…
And ears aren’t the only thing on a Vulcan that’s pointed!!😂😂😂
You did a great job in your commentary. Thiis was a special movie because it made us laugh . Yes. Amazing acting by all characters.
My favorite of the Star Trek movies. 😊
Thanks! Another excellent job! Love this movie!
Thanks so much !!!
7:50 The reason Saavik remained on Vulcan was in early scripts she was pregnant with Spock's child from his pon farr on the Genesis Planet. Unfortunately due to re-writes and editing of the shot film, this sub-plot was completely eliminated. Robin Curtis made hints toward it during press interviews prior to the release, and some fan's head-canon is that it did happen - in fact several non-canon Star Trek novels refer to Spock and Saavik getting married in later years - but as far as being official it is one of those things that is never again mentioned.
The recent Unification video does reference Saavik's pregnancy... and introduces the son she had with Spock.
@@rory_pond1701 Likewise, that video is a fan-created production. Yes, very high and professional production standards, but still a fan film and not considered canon.
@@peterkoester7358..not sure it would be a fan film. It was Paramount approved and done by Roddenberry Archive.
@@travisboyle285 it was produced under the conditions imposed by CBS/Paramount under the settlement of the Axanar suit. It was not made by CBS or Paramount. It's a fan film.
Wow, your whole episode is so entertaining. Keep up the great work. 😂
7:56 I gotta admit: I do LOVE the design of the Klingon Bird of Prey.
And there is nothing wrong with that opinion, because it is indeed a beautyful design.
34:46 That 'spaceship on his forehead' is actually a piece of a Klingon D7 ship model kit ! Well spotted/guessed !😂
Yasss! The best, reacted to by the best
Fun fact: Aluminum Oxynitride, a ceramic polycrystal, has been recently developed that meets and/or exceeds all the specifications that Scotty gives here... Welcome to the future :)
Welcome to "Back to the Future!"
Fun Fact: the punk rocker was also the singer lol and I think he was one of the producers or writers
Kirk Thatcher (Appropriate first name, huh?)
He later reprised his role in the 2nd season of ST:Picard, but was VERY apologetic about his loud music, and turned it down immediately. Guess the memory of being pinched by Spock made a lasting impact on him.
He also wrote the song his character was playing.
Been watching Star Trek since I was a young kid in 1988. Best series of all-time.
Fun fact: Some biologists theorize that Octopi, or an early biological ancestor, perhaps even as a simple, unevolved species, may have originated elsewhere and arrived on Earth on space debris like a meteorite.
and we're starting to think they are intelligent/sentient like whiles and dolphins.
Before or after single called organisms?
weeeee are from the Klatuuu Nebulaaaaa
Some biologists have been reading too much H.P. Lovecraft.
Cite a single reputable biologist who theorizes that, please. There's a fringe paper from a few years ago where someone tried to suggest the possibility of panspermia, with them exploring the idea that an alien virus somehow modified a squid, but that was rejected by all reputable biologists. Support your claim.
There is actually in universe reason why so many races are so similar in appearence and why all the different races can interbreed
In Star Trek III (1984) Christopher Lloyd played Kruge the Klingon. Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future (1985) invents a time machine. In Star Trek IV (1986) Kirk uses Kruge ship to time travel. Coincidence?
Another great 'Star Trek' reaction on your part. Glad that you had a whale of a time with this one because your cinematic analyses always create very much of a splash.🌊
Cut dialogue, Saavik is with Spock's child. From that Pon Farr on Genesis.
Once again your laughter is so precious. Thank you for your good-natured fun reactions.