Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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
- Video80
- Audio80
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
... it's a very good track, though hardly demo
- Extra90
- Movie80
... possibly the biggest selection of any of the discs in this release
... it really is a very light, frothy and frivolous affair but that turns out to be precisely what the franchise needed
- Total80
... a frivolously fun time travel romp to cleanse the palate
- Video80
- Audio90
.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...
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....
- Extra100
- Movie100
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:...
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....
- Total90
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...
- Video85
- Audio85
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....
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...
- Extra80
- Movie85
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...
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...
- Total84
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....
- Video80
- Audio80
While encoding struggles against the hazier, smokier cinematograohy in spots, the clarity excels considering the thicker grain structure....
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....
- Extra60
- Movie80
Five production featurettes detail various elements in the production, even one on Chekov himself....
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....
- Total75
A playful delight with genuine global stakes, Star Trek IV is the easiest watch of the series and arguably the best for it...