Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (6/10) Movie CLIP - Hard Luck Cases (1986) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Dr. Gillian Taylor (Catherine Hicks) grills Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) on their strange behavior.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) concludes the story arc begun with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but on a wholly new, different, and upbeat note. As the movie opens, months have elapsed since the events in Star Trek III; Admiral Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Scott (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and Chekhov (Walter Koenig) are marooned in self-imposed exile on Vulcan, along with the resurrected and regenerated Spock (Leonard Nimoy, who also directed). While Spock tries to sort out the Vulcan and human halves of his resurrected psyche, the others prepare to return to Earth to face a brace of charges by the Klingon Empire and Star Fleet over events on Genesis. Taking off in their commandeered, jerry-rigged Klingon ship, they head to Earth, not knowing that a new crisis could destroy their home world -- a huge, immensely powerful alien probe has entered the galaxy and established a position near Earth, disabling every vehicle and installation in its path with its energy and communication output, and has ionized the entire atmosphere and started vaporizing the oceans, leaving the planet only hours to survive. Spock determines that the probe is sending out signals to another intelligent terrestrial life form, humpbacked whales, which no longer exist. Using the gravity slingshot time-warp effect (established early in the original series) to travel back into Earth's 20th century, Kirk and company land in 1980s San Francisco to try and bring humpbacked whales to the 23rd century, to respond to the probe. Thus starts a surprisingly breezy, light-hearted, yet serious odyssey through the past (comparable to the best work of the original series), as the crew learns to deal with exact-change buses, angry drivers, punk-rock enthusiasts and other elements of '80s life, and Kirk tries to persuade a scientist (Catherine Hicks) of his good intentions for two whales in captivity. The screenplay, co-authored by Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer, and Harve Bennett (from a story by Nimoy and Bennett), is the cleverest and most sophisticated of all the Star Trek movie screenplays, recalling some of the elements of Meyer's earlier time-travel movie Time After Time and also anticipating the feel and tone of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (which would be on the air not quite a year later). Nimoy's direction offers a combination of brisk pacing and a deep love of the characters and the actors, as well as a serious appreciation of the humorous aspects of the script, and Shatner gives his best performance of any of the movies.

CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1986)
Cast: Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Catherine Hicks
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Producers: Harve Bennett, Brooke Breton, Kirk R. Thatcher, Ralph Winter
Screenwriters: Harve Bennett, Nicholas Meyer, Peter Krikes, Steve Meerson, Leonard Nimoy, Gene Roddenberry

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[zechmerquise]

The 80s was such a great decade that even Kirk and Spock had to visit.

[vivianbenoitdouglas]

Spock: "Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?" Best. Line. Ever.

[Littlepup]

This scene taught me two things:
1. "Colorful metaphors" work wonders.
2. When you reach an awkward silence, announce pregnancy.

[chrispeplinski]

I love how Kirk and Spock argue over Italian food.

[christopherchris]

I saw Star Trek IV with a friend of mine who had graduated from Berkeley a few years earlier. He couldn't stop laughing from the LDS line.

[michaelgarwood]

Best line in That movie:"Jim! We've got to save Chekhov from the HORRORS of 20th century medicine!"
Got huge laugh from the theater audience. ...ah, theaters, Remember them?

[TriumvirSajaki]

Kirk: "He did a little too much LDS"

Me: Spock's a Mormon?!

[PAGOEVER]

Ah, what about the Italian part, that was too funny, "Do you guys like Italian, NO! YES-No!! NO! YES!! NO!!! YES!!
I love Italian, so do you, YES."  CLASSIC!!! William Shatner was great too, but Leonard Nimoy just stole every moment in that scene, even this Hard Luck Case clip, he's so awesome and funny in this wonderful sequel. GOD, I'm going to miss him, so much!!! He's part of the reason I still love Sci-Fi. We love you, Leonard, God Bless... RIP

[jonmt]

I like the part where McCoy visits the hospital and is appalled by dialysis. Also when Scottie visits the factory and McCoy tells Scottie not to lose himself in the role.

[SarahCookefilms]

1:36, Just noticed, that's not the only time he's been called: "farm boy". Uhura calls him that in the 2009 reboot.

[musclecarbubba]

"Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?" lol

[Eljacob]

“No ma’am no dipshit” haha and the look on his face too. This is one of the few good Star Trek movies.

[desotowrong]

Catherine Hicks is adorable, love her in this movie.

[aisyahnabila]

Spock : Gracie is pregnant.

Gillian : OK, Who the hell are you and how do you know Gracie's pregnant ? Nobody knows that!

Spock : Gracie does.

[johnholliday]

One of the best films of the entire franchise.
II, III and IV the perfect movie trilogy.

[palaguin]

I've heard LDS is rampant in Utah. :D

[Retaile]

What's great about Leonard Nimoy's performance is how he can go from nerdy alien to scientific genus and his credibility is never questionable.

[tgbotg]

Spock had a notorious case of the Mormons.

[jessicagibson]

Without context, the “Gracie is pregnant” line would be incredibly funny.

[joemasters]

Catherine Hicks was a cutie back then :)