When they showed the Challenger dedication in the theater where I saw this, the audience, which till that point was still a bit chatty and settling in, gasped. If you could hear the sound of eyes tearing up, that was the moment.
@@DLZ2000the loss of the space shuttle Challenger with her seven crew. It was that loss and subsequent enquiry which saw the end of the space shuttle programme.
I saw the movie twice at the theater. I don't recall it being too impactful. Not as much as Godzilla 2014's challenge roar in IMAX... that theater shook.
Even though Star Trek IV is one of my favourite Star Trek movies, I was a bit disappointed that we never found out the probe's origin. It comes to Earth, vaporises the oceans until Kirk and crew go back in time to bring two whales back to communicate with the probe and then the probe leaves. But they never actually tried to discover where the probe came from and if there are anymore out there (which is actually what Spock said about the planet killer in TOS "The Doomsday Machine). This is what they could have of done in Star Trek V instead of the finding God concept. But then I guess it would have been a similar storyline to Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
I gotta admit that was weird seeing the Humpback Whale and the Whale probe moving almost in synch like that was the weirdest thing I had ever seen in a Star Trek movie.
I always wanted to see the Whale Ship vs the Borg. We are the borg you will be *Wubwubwubwubwubwubwubwub* MEEEERRR!?! Muuur! No power shutting.... Dooooown.....
That was the backstory to the novel "Probe" by Margaret Wander Bonanno. Spoiler: turns out the Borg aren't the pushover the Federation was when it comes to the Probe's stereo system.
@@adamlove3295 I Don't know how considering how hilarious terrible they are at everything. Or as someone pointed out just kill them with stupid things repeatedly until they adapt themselves into obsolescence. Like with acid until they become blocks of plastic. Or like... Stairs. Or just have a deck that is a hydraulic press slowly walk away from them down the smashing corridor
in Star Trek VI they have the Enterprise in spacedock in no condition to go anywhere but at the end of this movie we see it fly away. & yeah his vid did contain things that weren't ships lol
This very special event took place 794 years ago in 2286 which is in the historic archives dome on alpha Centauri prime circ 3080 The whales have repopulated on earth prime, alpha Centauri prime, and several other inter galactic fleet worlds
since when aliens look for whales in a distant planet in a distant galaxy :P and need to topple all Earth all over with storms using a penis shaped light probe LOL
11:12 - "Alright cadets! Captain Kirk and his staff are on their way. Engineering ready? -Ready! Electrical ready? -Ready! Life support systems ready? -Ready! Transporter systems ready? -Ready!" (Nothing is ready...)
johntheechidna1 Kirk: We must destroy the probe before it destroys Earth. Spock: To attempt to do so would be futile admiral the probe could render us neutral easily. Besides, do you see the size of that thing? It dwarfs the Earth Starbase!
OpenMawProductions I didn't say the alien probe. I meant the boat and the people hunting the whales. I would have blasted their murdering ass and sent them to hell.
Y siempre quedará la incógnita de "De dónde proviene y quienes construyeron la nave ballenera" Queda a la imaginación, pero es algo que siempre me ha fascinado.
a mi también!! es tan extraña..su apariencia..sus formas..es fascinante y todo un misterio. quien sera el creador de esa nave?..quiza los que sembraron la vida en la tierra..o quiza esa nave este viva y sea un organismo que saca su cerebro afuera para conectarse con sus ancestros ballenas..repito...es fascinante...Saludos!!!!
gabriela pereyra Son de esas cosas que solo quedan para la imaginación. Alguna especie evolucionada de las ballenas sumamente avanzada. Quien sabe. Saludos también. ;)
I'm just wondering what would happen if the captured Klingon Bird of Prey HMS Bounty's cloaking device happen to fail? What would happen if the our U.S Government found out about the Klingon Bird of Prey Ship that just landed in Golden Gate Park? Would they arrest the crew for being Russian spies? Or would they try to destroy or study the ship mistaking it for a Russian Aircraft?
+James Williams 777 since humans or various other space faring races couldent communicate and get through to it let alone stand even a snails chance of getting one shot at it. Only the Humpback Whales and yea being counted as ships they were the more living ships that could get through to the mysterious probe.
You gotta love when the harpoon hits the cloaked ship, the twang and the music stops. It's funny.
Ikr. Best part
When they showed the Challenger dedication in the theater where I saw this, the audience, which till that point was still a bit chatty and settling in, gasped. If you could hear the sound of eyes tearing up, that was the moment.
that challenger dedication before the movie began is how Hollywood reacted to the biggest story of 1986.
Chernobyl?
@@DLZ2000the loss of the space shuttle Challenger with her seven crew. It was that loss and subsequent enquiry which saw the end of the space shuttle programme.
i love how the whales counted as ships LOL
Well....they are considered as a type of a vessel lol
Ya kinda have to in a movie without alot of space scenes. :P
The pounding sound of that probe must have been real good on theater speakers.
I saw the movie twice at the theater. I don't recall it being too impactful. Not as much as Godzilla 2014's challenge roar in IMAX... that theater shook.
Really?!?!
Even though Star Trek IV is one of my favourite Star Trek movies, I was a bit disappointed that we never found out the probe's origin. It comes to Earth, vaporises the oceans until Kirk and crew go back in time to bring two whales back to communicate with the probe and then the probe leaves. But they never actually tried to discover where the probe came from and if there are anymore out there (which is actually what Spock said about the planet killer in TOS "The Doomsday Machine). This is what they could have of done in Star Trek V instead of the finding God concept. But then I guess it would have been a similar storyline to Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Andrew Chapman You should look up the book Star Trek: Probe. It takes place right after this.
Actual message from the probe: "Hello! We've been trying to get in touch with you about extending your warranty..."
2:05 Bloody hell, I just realized how huge that probe is, since it completely dwarfed Earth Spacedock.
It's almost as large as V'Ger.
I always thought it looked like a cigar with a volleyball stuck to it.
Oh yeah. I'd never noticed that before because Spacedock is so dark.
Then you look at it compared to the Saratoga and wonder how the scaling was supposed to work in this movie.
Things that are not ships: whales, clouds, San Francisco
Things that are ships: USS ENTERPRISE aircraft carrier!!
@@cloverfield911even if the actual Enterprise wasn't available (she was at sea).
I gotta admit that was weird seeing the Humpback Whale and the Whale probe moving almost in synch like that was the weirdest thing I had ever seen in a Star Trek movie.
I always wanted to see the Whale Ship vs the Borg. We are the borg you will be *Wubwubwubwubwubwubwubwub* MEEEERRR!?! Muuur! No power shutting.... Dooooown.....
That was the backstory to the novel "Probe" by Margaret Wander Bonanno. Spoiler: turns out the Borg aren't the pushover the Federation was when it comes to the Probe's stereo system.
@@adamlove3295 I Don't know how considering how hilarious terrible they are at everything. Or as someone pointed out just kill them with stupid things repeatedly until they adapt themselves into obsolescence. Like with acid until they become blocks of plastic. Or like... Stairs. Or just have a deck that is a hydraulic press slowly walk away from them down the smashing corridor
FORGOT THE SARATOGA? BUT GREAT NEVER THE LESS!!!
I just noticed that no one gives credit to the captain of the Saratoga for being the first female captain
7:15 Scotty! You told me you replaced the Klingon food packs!!🤭
You forgot the scene showing Sulu's helicopter lowering the thick lucite/transparent aluminum panel into the cloaked _Bird o' Prey._
in Star Trek VI they have the Enterprise in spacedock in no condition to go anywhere but at the end of this movie we see it fly away. & yeah his vid did contain things that weren't ships lol
Enterprise-A is a different ship. They took another ship and gave it the Enterprise designation.
@@peterp2153some fans claim she was the USS Yorktown
It blew my mind when I learned that industrial light and magic actually created the whales for this movie
This very special event took place 794 years ago in 2286 which is in the historic archives dome on alpha Centauri prime circ 3080
The whales have repopulated on earth prime, alpha Centauri prime, and several other inter galactic fleet worlds
since when aliens look for whales in a distant planet in a distant galaxy :P and need to topple all Earth all over with storms using a penis shaped light probe LOL
11:12 - "Alright cadets! Captain Kirk and his staff are on their way.
Engineering ready?
-Ready!
Electrical ready?
-Ready!
Life support systems ready?
-Ready!
Transporter systems ready?
-Ready!"
(Nothing is ready...)
The dirty little secret of Star Trek V is that Captain Styles sabotaged the new Enterprise to get even with Kirk.
When the ship lands the trash can compacts flat and the ground is pushed down.
Gotta love how the whales are counted as ships.
The land got depressed but the grass itself did not get pressed down.
Those blades of grass were made of transparent aluminum diamond combine. Strong enough to support a Bird of Prey.
Captain!!!...there'll be wales here. LOL!!!
lol...humpbacked people
“To hunt a species to extinction is not logical”
i thought the alien probe was a very battered Newtonian telescope....
I always thought the probe looked like a big log of space dookie.
with a bit of fungus growing at the end? XD
no thats earth spacedock.
I always thought it looked like a paper towel tube covered in tin foil
I don't know about any of you, but if I were Kirk, I would have blasted that whaling ship out of existence.
johntheechidna1
Kirk: We must destroy the probe before it destroys Earth.
Spock: To attempt to do so would be futile admiral the probe could render us neutral easily.
Besides, do you see the size of that thing? It dwarfs the Earth Starbase!
OpenMawProductions
I believe he means the one that's going to kill the whales.
StonedDestroyer Indeed, I did.
OpenMawProductions I didn't say the alien probe. I meant the boat and the people hunting the whales. I would have blasted their murdering ass and sent them to hell.
johntheechidna1 That's not the way of the Star Trek crew though. Uncloaking and scaring the piss out of them likely will suffice.
And the joggers died horrible deaths from radiation poisoning due to being exposed to the Bird of Prey's thruster exhaust...
Does anyone know why the Bluray has the first storm wall shot repeated instead of having both?
Who did the effects on 4? Was it ILM? Because these are gooooood.
The sound of the alien probe is Leonard Nimoy with ambient sound effects added
Kudaan The Great That sound really unsettled me as a kid. Something about it that feels very intimidating.
Y siempre quedará la incógnita de "De dónde proviene y quienes construyeron la nave ballenera" Queda a la imaginación, pero es algo que siempre me ha fascinado.
a mi también!! es tan extraña..su apariencia..sus formas..es fascinante y todo un misterio. quien sera el creador de esa nave?..quiza los que sembraron la vida en la tierra..o quiza esa nave este viva y sea un organismo que saca su cerebro afuera para conectarse con sus ancestros ballenas..repito...es fascinante...Saludos!!!!
gabriela pereyra Son de esas cosas que solo quedan para la imaginación. Alguna especie evolucionada de las ballenas sumamente avanzada. Quien sabe. Saludos también. ;)
What are you guys saying?
When they land cloaked in GG park & the garbage can gets flattened...why don't the blades & tufts of grass?
Frances Larina Also (now that I've watched the rest) who hunts humpback whales???
+Frances Larina because the people of the past made trapdoors there,because they had a feeling a spaceship might come back in time
I'm just wondering what would happen if the captured Klingon Bird of Prey HMS Bounty's cloaking device happen to fail? What would happen if the our U.S Government found out about the Klingon Bird of Prey Ship that just landed in Golden Gate Park? Would they arrest the crew for being Russian spies? Or would they try to destroy or study the ship mistaking it for a Russian Aircraft?
Gee when you say ships only I didn't think you meant it so literally. lol.
i love how the whales counted as ships LOL
+James Williams 777 since humans or various other space faring races couldent communicate and get through to it let alone stand even a snails chance of getting one shot at it.
Only the Humpback Whales and yea being counted as ships they were the more living ships that could get through to the mysterious probe.
This film made no sense and was kind of stupid but also kind of fun.
Ships only (...and whales 😁)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (ships & whales only)
I take it back
You forgot the CVN-65 Enterprise.
There seems to be another constitution ship near the 1701 A
where?
Thank you
Cylinder Earth theory. Hear me out... :{J
why did they belly flop the bird of prey into the sea and not just beam the whales into the water ?
Power loss, the probe shut everything down.