Now & Then fantasy

Moving into the realms of fantasy or science fiction, I came across this photographic gem -

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. From the movie 'Star Trek IV : the voyage home' starring Captain James T. Kirk and Mr Spock.

The movie poster art

The plot of the film follows on from 'Star Trek III : The search for Spock' with the characters returning to Earth in a captured Klingon Warbird, re-christened by Dr. McCoy as the "H.M.S. Bounty". A strange probe is also on course for Earth, transmitting signal that disables all the technology that it encounters. The crew of the Bounty realize the sprobe is attempting to communicate with the now long-extinct humpback whales. The only way to answer the probe's signals and save the world, is to travel back in time and obtain some humpback whales. 



The Bounty travels back to present day San Francisco, where the crew splits to accomplish three different missions: locate the whales, build a tank within the Bounty to transport the whales, and locate an energy source. This is where the humour really takes off with all the cultural & technological clashes - Spock diving to mind-meld with the whales; Scotty flexing his fingers on an archaic computer; Russian Chekov captured on the U.S.S. Enterprise nuclear 'wessel'; Spock's misuse of colourful metaphors; the need for 'exact change' bus fares...

The Enterprise's crew blending in

The idea of a 'Now & Then' photo of a time travel movie image just seems right somehow. I now need a Tom Baker one!