The third part of the central trilogy in the Star Trek films as our heroes return home, well return home via a spot of time travel and whale kidnapping.
This is of course the series very much in comedy mode as the crew find themselves coming face to face with 1980's San Fransisco in an attempt to recover a pair of whales to save the future Earth from an alien probe which is looking for the creatures for some reason.
Chekov is of course looking for "nuclear wessels", Scotty tries talking to the computers, McCoy is outraged by the barbaric medicine and Spock tries to get the hang of colourful metaphors. Everyone has a decent sense of comedic timing but as always its the two man team of Shatner and Nimoy that entertain the most in their scenes together as one tries to explain strange human ways to the other. The "Do you like Italian?" conversation is one highlight.
It is of course also very much an eco-friendly message before such things became common place as the plight of the whale is highlighted and a finger wagged at mankind's folly in hunting the species to the edge.
And of course by film's end the Enterprise returns in all her glory (though you wonder who had their ship taken off them, renamed and given to someone else), as effects works is as strong as even making the dip in quality all the more disappointing in the next outing.
So there you have it, the end of a three film series which I basically grew up with and still enjoy immensely and Khan is and always shall be a classic (to crib a line slightly)
And as special treat we have Chekov's rescue from the hospital in German!
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