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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Blu-ray delivers great video and superb audio in this exceptional Blu-ray release
In the 23rd century a mysterious alien power threatens Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In a frantic attempt to save mankind, Kirk, now a renegade, and his crew must travel back in time to save the Earth and its people from total destruction.
For more about Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and the Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Blu-ray release, see Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Blu-ray Review published by Martin Liebman on September 22, 2021 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.5 out of 5.
Paramount has released 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home' to Blu-ray with a remastered 1080p transfer. The disc replaces the imperfect 2009 issue. No new primary audio track or supplemental contents are included.
This
disc is available individually, unlike the concurrently released UHD, which is only available as part of a four-film boxed set.
With Mr. Spock recovered from his rebirth and once again a fully-capable Starfleet officer, the
Enterprise bridge crew votes unanimously to return to Earth to face the charges levied
against them. On their way home in a commandeered Klingon Bird-of-Prey, they learn that a
mysterious probe has arrived at Earth, sending out a signal that baffles Starfleet Command and
simultaneously causing a string of environmental disasters that threaten Earth's power
reserves. Spock surmises that the probe's signal may not be meant for humans, and verifies his
theory when he discovers that it is indeed a replication of the songs sung by humpback whales,
an extinct species in the 23rd century. The only solution is to slingshot around the sun in an
effort to travel back in time, retrieve a pair of whales, and return them to the 23rd century so
they may communicate with the probe before it destroys the planet.
This Blu-ray release of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home shares more in common with the look of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and less Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The old Blu-ray looked garishly
smooth
and inorganic. Here, the picture
is decidedly more filmic. Grain can be quite aggressive (look at the scene early in the film when Spock is taking the test and speaks with his mother).
Overall definition is not quite so finessed as the better remastered Blu-rays in this series, but essential clarity and filmic nuance are intact. Grain is
somewhat aggressive but fairly flattering, obviously far and away superior to the nonexistent grain on the 2009 disc. The picture does struggle in
extreme conditions (the Saratoga running on red emergency lights at the 12-minute mark shows some compression issues) but begins to
take shape once the action shifts to 1980s San Francisco where the more roughhewn and familiar textures push the image well ahead of the old
Blu-ray. It's sharp, approachable, and organic, all present in just about as much complexity, it seems, as the format can muster. It's quite nice and
amongst the nicest stretches in this or any of the previous films on Blu-ray.
Color output characteristics wildly vary, again with the demarcation point being everything before time travel and everything after. Prior, the film is
murky and dark, whether in the low power Starfleet headquarters interiors on earth or the dim, spartan, and utilitarian interiors around the Klingon
Bird of Prey.
There's not much opportunity for vivid color output but the low light tones and drab colorings are well represented, though the red Starfleet uniforms,
problematic for color depth and density in The Search for Spock, still look a little flat and washed out here. Once in San Francisco circa 1986,
the expressive tones around the city spring to life with definitive output and firmer depth. There is no shortage of bold, accurate coloring to be found,
perhaps not quite so expressive and perfectly punchy as one might expect (and lacking the UHD's brilliance) but well capable of squeezing quite a bit of depth from the
available tones. Whites are creamy but adequate and blacks are deep but not so true as the UHD has to offer. Skin tones appear accurate within any
given scene's lighting parameters and limitations. This is a good looking Blu-ray in total.
This Blu-ray release of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home recycles the existing Dolby TrueHD 7.1 lossless soundtrack from the 2009 Blu-ray.
Please
click here for a full review.
This Blu-ray release of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home contains the full suite of extras from the 2009 Blu-ray. Below is a list of what's
included. Please click here for full coverage. A digital
copy code is included with purchase, but a DVD copy is not. This release does not ship with a slipcover.
Audio Commentary: William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
Audio Commentary: Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.
Library Computer
Production
Future's Past: A look Back
On Location
Dailies Deconstruction
Below-the-Line Sound Design
Pavel Chekov's Screen Moments
The Star Trek Universe
Time Travel: The Art of the Possible
The Language of Whales
A Vulcan Primer
Kirk's Women
Star Trek: Three Picture Saga
Star Trek for a Cause
Starfleet Academy SciSec Brief 004: The Whale Probe
The Voyage Home remains the most fundamentally fun of the Star Trek films, though Khan is still the best film overall.
Paramount has
done
well by this one on remastered Blu-ray. The 1080p presentation looks good overall if not demonstrating some room for improvement (UHD is the place to be for this one). The studio has chosen not to upgrade audio
or supplements but the existing carryover content is very good. Highly recommended.
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