Mr. DuLac’s review published on Letterboxd:
You're proposing that we go backwards in time, find humpback whales, then bring them forward in time, drop 'em off, and hope to Hell they tell this probe what to do with itself?!
-McCoy
With 24 seasons over 5 television series and 12 feature films, The Voyage Home has to have the most ridiculous plot in Star Trek's over 45 year history and yet it ends up being one of it's greatest films. Not only does the film feature no real villain, but it's a lighthearted comedy featuring the Enterprise crew time traveling back to 1986 San Francisco to try and locate a couple of Humpback Whales to bring back to the 23rd century to save Earth. The concept is ridiculous and it works brilliantly.
After struggling for over a decade to turn a canceled 1960s television series into a successful franchise, Paramount Pictures stumbled a bit with the first feature film, but bounced back with two successful back to back sequels. So what's the logical thing to do next? They turned to Leonard Nimoy offering him the chance to do whatever story he wanted if he took the director's chair again. What other studio would do that? What other studio would keep the offer on the table after finding out said director wanted to do a time travel comedy?
While Nimoy developed the story with Harve Bennett yet again, the duo's next move is what made this film so good in my view and fixed what was lacking in Search for Spock: They brought back Nicholas Meyer. The director of Wrath of Khan proved he had an incredible understanding of what made these characters work with his first outing in the Trek universe and here he proves it again. Tasked with writing the entire 1986 segment of the film, Meyer shows he knows how to keep the crew of the Enterprise true to form in any situation and be entertaining at the same time. While William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForet Kelley portray my favorite characters in this franchise, they can only be as good as the script that was written for them.