Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, collectively known in The Bicks home as "The One with the Whales." A classic 80s film, a classic Trek film, and a unique entry in the series all at once. We loved chatting about this one and hope you'll enjoy our wandering discussion of the most populist of Star Trek movies!
Notes:
<ul><li>It was Alan Silvestri who did the music for Back to the Future.</li>
<li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores'>Moores</a> is a Canadian men's clothing company. The <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Home_Depot'>Home Depot</a> is an American hardware and home improvement chain. These two pieces of information will help clarify the odd bit around the 36-37th minute of the podcast.</li>
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Episode Sponsor: Today's episode is brought to you by <a href='https://open.spotify.com/album/40mFpfXtJbM121Jss1TBB7?si=B_HJEaicR7qhV07QSMNBRg'>Whales Alive</a>, the very real album that really featured Leonard Nimoy really doing spoken word poetry over top of very real whale song. Please go listen right now.
Bicks Log: Was the success of The Voyage Home a template that could have saved the second fourth movie of Star Trek - 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis? Would a funnier, less dramatic and serious Next Generation movie have changed the trajectory of the Star Trek franchise?