After all, it's these two countries who will surely bring about the extinction of whales. In fact, the only thing that could improve this film would be if the probe had aimed its venegeance entirely at Japan and Norway in retaliation for the sins of these countries' backward twenty-first century 'ancestors'. When I first watched this as a child, I wished Kirk would come and let me join him in the twenty-third century. It is very light-hearted at times but I imagine this is the film Gene Roddenberry is most proud of given the way it portrays the best of all our favourite characters and reaches the heart of the ethos of 'Star Trek'. They are clueless about exact-change buses, pizzas and why 1986 doctors think it's a good idea to drill into someone's head. As well as the non-too-subtle eco-message ('don't allow any animal be hunted to extinction as they may save us all in the future!'), there is much fun to be had as Kirk, McCoy, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty and the ever-logical Spock struggle to integrate themselves into most alien situation they have ever been in. It could be provoked by a prolonged absence, similarities between ones home and another location, or the real possibility that one would not be able to go home in the near future or ever again. The news got scary, goods became scarce, but the long slow slide was hard to appreciate from the ground.
When the Burn came upon the galaxy, for most people it was a distant, incomprehensibly vast problem. The whales are the key to communicating with an alien probe that is in the process of destroying Earth. Homesickness, or feeling homesick, was an acute longing for ones home. Explore Far from Home Living through collapse is just living, in the end. Not only does it appeal to both fans and non-fans of the show but it revels in the spirit of what Trek has always been about: how perfect and Utopian the citizens of the twenty-third century are compared to their Neanderthal ancestors of the late twentieth century! The film sees Kirk and his crew, in disgrace after disobeying Starfleet orders to save Spock following the events of 'Star Trek III: The Search for Spock', travel to 1986 San Francisco to retrieve a pair of hump-back whales, a species extinct by Kirk's era. 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home' is the most popular of the Trek films and quite right too.
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