Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

4K Ultra HD

Blu Ray

  • Score
    88
    from 4 reviewers
  • Star Trek IV: A fun time travel romp, visually impressive 2160p/Dolby Vision, Nimoy's finest directorial effort, and arguably the best in the series.

    Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
    1986
    119 min
    PG
    True 4K
    HDR10
    Dolby Vision
  • Video
    87
  • The Voyage Home's 4K rendition is a commendable improvement, boasting a satisfying 2160p/Dolby Vision presentation, gorgeous HDR-enhanced colors, and impressive clarity despite some encoding struggles with hazy cinematography and grain structure.

  • Audio
    88
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home UHD provides a solid Dolby TrueHD 7.1 soundtrack with a medium-wide soundstage, effective use of surround channels, and impactful subwoofer during time travel scenes; nonetheless, not quite demo-worthy.

  • Extra
    91
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home UHD release boasts a vast selection, including 2 commentaries and extensive Blu-ray extras. However, Trek fans might find Orci & Kurtzman's commentary controversial, while also enjoying informative featurettes such as one on Chekov.

  • Movie
    90
  • 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home' brings a light, frothy touch to the franchise, with its 2160p/Dolby Vision video and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio. Set after Star Trek III, Kirk and crew return home, embracing their offbeat oddball status within a more heady series than Star Wars.

    True 4K
    HDR10
    Dolby Vision

    Director: Leonard Nimoy

    Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley

    Plot: To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

    Disc Release Date: 6 September 2022

    all scores

    • Video
      80
    • Given what we've had to endure before, The Voyage Home's 4K rendition is a marked and commendable improvement and easily the best the film has ever looked

    • Audio
      80
    • ... it's a very good track, though hardly demo

    • Extra
      90
    • ... possibly the biggest selection of any of the discs in this release

    • Movie
      80
    • ... it really is a very light, frothy and frivolous affair but that turns out to be precisely what the franchise needed

    • Total
      80
    • ... a frivolously fun time travel romp to cleanse the palate

    Blu-ray.com review by Martin Liebman
    • Video
      80
    • .Rather than take a backwards step, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home slingshots ahead onto the UHD format with a very satisfying 2160p/Dolby Vision presentation. While it lacks the finesse of Star Trek: The...

    • Audio
      90
    • This UHD 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....

    • Extra
      100
    • This UHD release of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home contains two commentary tracks on the UHD disc and the full suite of extras on the included Blu-ray. Please click here for full coverage. UHD:Audio Commentary:...

    • Movie
      100
    • CBS/Paramount brings 'Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home' to the UHD format with a new 2160p/Dolby Vision video presentation; the studio has chosen to repurpose the existing Dolby TrueHD 7.1 lossless soundtrack....

    • Total
      90
    • The Voyage Home remains the most fundamentally fun of the Star Trek films, if Khan isn't still the best overall film. Paramount has done well by this one on UHD. The 2160p/Dolby Vision presentation looks...

    The Digital Bits review by Bill Hunt
    • Video
      85
    • The film’s palette is gorgeous though thanks to the wider-gamut of HDR, with richly-saturated colors and greater nuance in the various shadings....

    • Audio
      85
    • The soundstage is medium-wide across the front, with pleasing use of the surround channels for music, ambient spatial effects, and occasional directional cues and panning (the pulsing signal of the probe...

    • Extra
      80
    • Unfortunately, longtime Trek fans may have a more difficult time listening to the second commentary with Orci and Kurtzman, given the direction the latter in particular has taken the franchise in recent...

    • Movie
      85
    • Set immediately after the events of Star Trek III, it begins with Kirk and his crew preparing to return home from Vulcan to face the music with Starfleet for having stolen and destroyed Enterprise in their...

    • Total
      84
    • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a great film, one that holds up just as well today as it did when it was first released in theaters back in 1986, and it’s arguably Leonard Nimoy’s finest effort as a director....

    • Video
      80
    • While encoding struggles against the hazier, smokier cinematograohy in spots, the clarity excels considering the thicker grain structure....

    • Audio
      80
    • When Kirk’s crew time travels, the air pressure builds a sustained power in the subwoofer, this as the ship erupts, spreading metal and glass into the rears....

    • Extra
      60
    • Five production featurettes detail various elements in the production, even one on Chekov himself....

    • Movie
      80
    • Always considered the headier series compared to a Star Wars, there’s a definite offensiveness to treating these iconic characters as out-of-place oddballs....

    • Total
      75
    • A playful delight with genuine global stakes, Star Trek IV is the easiest watch of the series and arguably the best for it...