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Kirk is prepared to face the consequences of his actions in the [[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|previous movie]], but a powerful alien probe is making its way to Earth ([[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|yes, another one]]), wreaking havoc with the environment and shutting down anything with power. Deducing that the probe is searching for humpback whales, which are extinct in the twenty-third century, Kirk and crew use a Klingon Bird-Of-Prey they stole in the last film to [[Time Travel]] to [[The Eighties]] to retrieve some and save Earth. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Instead of the traditional [[Space Opera]], this movie is an outright comedy. It even lacks a villain, outside of the whale probe and a whaler boat.
The wild success of this movie was proof to Paramount that [[Star Trek]] can survive as an expanded franchise, and gave [[Gene Roddenberry]] the opportunity to create a new series, ''[[Star Trek: The
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* [[Brake Angrily]]
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: It's implied that maybe we didn't quite get all of Spock back at the end of the previous movie, that there's a certain... something missing. He gets better by the end though. Death apparently isn't something you can just get over straight away.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Hellllllo, Computer
* [[Catfolk]]: The Caitian admiral at Star Fleet headquarters.
* [[Changed My Jumper]]: The short notice for this particular mission results in the crew arriving in San Francisco in their 23rd Century clothes. As it's [[San Francisco]], they don't look that out of place. [[Truth in Television]] -- they had unknown crew walk around San Francisco in the outfits for a week before shooting started, and got no comments whatsoever. See [[City of Weirdos]] below.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** The Klingon Bird-of-Prey, which was just the enemy ship and later a means of escaping from the exploding Genesis Planet in the previous film, ends up being a vital part of this film's storyline thanks to its ability to cloak and land.
** Kirk's glasses are an unusual case of this; from the perspective of the audience and Kirk himself, this is the last time the glasses are seen. However, 298 years down the line, they're going to be very important once again.
** [[Just for Pun|Fails him at an important moment]], thanks to the effects of being next to a nuclear reactor.
* [[City of Weirdos]]: Most people are willing to accept the slightly out-of-touch Spock as a [[The Stoner|harmless stoner]], even as he does weird things like jump into the whale tank... until he says things about the whales that he shouldn't be able to know. [[Truth in Television]] as anyone who lives in San Francisco could tell you.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster "The Hell" Bomb]]
* [[Crapsack Only by Comparison]]: How the crew of the Enterprise see [[The Eighties]].
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: [[In-Universe]], the crew, knowing only the broad strokes of the sociopolitical environment of the late twentieth century United States, failed to realize that putting Chekov, a Russian, on the ground looking for "nuclear wessels" was a bad idea.
* [[The Eighties]]
* [[Everybody Lives]]: The only ''Trek'' film that can boast this.
* [[Every Helicopter Is a Huey]]: Sulu mentions he trained on Hueys at the Academy as a hobby to a helicopter pilot (though the pilot probably didn't know he meant ''Starfleet'' Academy). The [[Novelization]] expands on it.
* [[Expospeak Gag]]:
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* [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card]]: Starfleet can't really punish Kirk and crew ''too much'' just after they saved the world, can they?
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Multiple instances of profanity in a PG-rated movie, including [[Flipping the Bird]], some even [[Lampshaded]].
* [[Good Old Ways]]: A perfect example of the ways in which Bones ''subverts'' this trope. See [[We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future]] below.
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: The probe is causing bad weather in 23rd century Leningrad.
* [[Green Aesop]]: "To hunt a species to extinction is not logical."
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* [[Humans Are Morons|Modern Humans are Morons]]: Kirk states to his crew before exploring 20th Century San Fransisco that "this is an extremely primitive and paranoid culture" and believes that no one pays attention to you in the contemporary age "unless you swear every other word." Bones is shocked to find a woman in a hospital on dialysis, asking if this is [[The Dung Ages|The Dark Ages]].
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The Bridge Computer Sound Effects from ''The Original Series'' can clearly be heard in the background as Kirk says "Let's see what she's got."
* [[Name's the Same]]: "Sir! Ve have found the nuclear wessels! And Admiral.... it is the ''Enterprise''!
* [[No Antagonist]]
* [[Oh Crap]]: The whaler upon seeing the Bird-of-Prey decloak. Not only could the entire whaler fit in the Bird-of-Prey's ''torpedo launcher'', but these are late 20th century humans. They have never seen an alien (or even ''human'') starship of any kind before.
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* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Lampshaded. "Are you sure it isn't time for a colorful metaphor?"
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: Kirk flat out tells Gillian exactly who he is and where he comes from over dinner. Subverted in that Kirk tells her with utter conviction and she naturally thinks he's full of shit.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: The crew is absolved of all criminal charges and are given a new ship, a virtually identical Constitution class USS Enterprise: NCC-1701-'''A'''. The adventures of this ship are continued in ''[[Star Trek V: The
* [[Shout-Out]]: According to [[Word of God]], the probe is modeled after [[Rendezvous With Rama|Rama]].
** The Whales are named after [[George Burns|George Burns and Gracie Allen]].
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: A major source of humor from Spock.
* [[Space Whale]]:
* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: [[Trope Namer]]. Don't hunt whales to extinction or an alien probe will destroy us all!
** Only an example, though, if it's taken too literally. The intended Aesop is more along the lines of "you don't know what you've got till it's gone", specifically the permanence of extinction.
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'''Agent #2:''' He's a Russkie.
'''Agent #1:''' That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. Of course he's a Russkie, but he's a retard or something.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Cartwright Admiral Cartwright] for [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Harry_Morrow Admiral Morrow], who appeared in ''[[Star Trek III: The
* [[Time Travelers Are Spies]]: Chekov and Uhura, big time. Though it might have gone better if one of them wasn't Russian.
* [[Time Travel Romance]]: Kirk finds a [[Love Interest]] wherever and whenever he goes, doesn't he?
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* [[Wham! Line|Wham Reveal]]: {{spoiler|The first appearance of the ''Enterprise A''}}.
* [[Wiper Start]]: Sulu with the helicopter.
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''My friends....we've come home.''
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