Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
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The Voyage Home is a little dated now, but it brilliantly managed to depict 20th century America as some barbaric foreign planet to Kirk & co. (I recall the movie posters reading something like "Join the Enterprise crew as they explore the strangest world of all ... ours")

If you'll recall, the economic model had already collapsed by the 23rd century Star Trek world. There's that scene where Kirk has that lunch date with the whale biologist trying to convince her that he's from the future, and when it came time to pay the bill she blurted "I guess you don't have money in the 23rd century either?" and Kirk replies "We don't!"

The movie did well at the box office because you didn't have to follow Star Trek to get it.
The Voyage Home was my favorite by a pretty fair margin. It didn't seem to take itself as seriously as the rest. But none of the Star Trek movies were great, IMO.