The crew goes back in time to save some humpback whales to bring to the future and save humanity. It's even crazier than it sounds.
For some reason, an alien probe sent a message 100 light years to contact the humpback whales. Why they would do that, I don't know. How a whale is supposed to send a message back without technology, I don't know. How it's somehow an efficient means of communication (how long does it take to send something 100 light years???), I don't know.
And they go back in time and later forward in time, and nobody finds this unusual. Which makes you wonder if it's this easy why people aren't doing it all the time. They create some time paradoxes and infinity loops (Scotty gives a guy a formula, Scotty will in the future learn that formula... but he learns it from a textbook based on a guy who learned it from Scotty. This means nobody ever invented it!!) This film, obviously funded by Greenpeace, is hilarious. The crew goes to 1986 San Francisco where they talk about the evils of money, nuclear power, smog and species extinction. Swearing is evident, Spcok pretends to be Japanese. This is classic.
This sort of greatness was all over The Next Generation, but this film proves that the classic crew had a few funny bones in their bodies, as well. Well played, crew. Well played.
For some reason, an alien probe sent a message 100 light years to contact the humpback whales. Why they would do that, I don't know. How a whale is supposed to send a message back without technology, I don't know. How it's somehow an efficient means of communication (how long does it take to send something 100 light years???), I don't know.
And they go back in time and later forward in time, and nobody finds this unusual. Which makes you wonder if it's this easy why people aren't doing it all the time. They create some time paradoxes and infinity loops (Scotty gives a guy a formula, Scotty will in the future learn that formula... but he learns it from a textbook based on a guy who learned it from Scotty. This means nobody ever invented it!!) This film, obviously funded by Greenpeace, is hilarious. The crew goes to 1986 San Francisco where they talk about the evils of money, nuclear power, smog and species extinction. Swearing is evident, Spcok pretends to be Japanese. This is classic.
This sort of greatness was all over The Next Generation, but this film proves that the classic crew had a few funny bones in their bodies, as well. Well played, crew. Well played.