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The Incomparable Mothership

437: Whale Logistics Movie

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In this holiday season, what could be more emblematic of the spirit of Peace on Earth (of the past) and Goodwill toward men (who aren’t whalers or aquarium directors) than 1986’s “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”? We celebrate “the one with the whales”, an enjoyable romp through 1980s San Francisco that also features a soundtrack that sounds like a Christmas carol, nuclear wessels with terrible security practices, and Admiral Kirk’s to-go pizza box.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Incomparable, number 437, December 2018.

0:11.4

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

0:13.2

I am your host, Jason Snellan.

0:14.4

In this episode, we are going to go back to Star Trek, one of the things I love very much.

0:19.3

And in this, the holiday season,

0:26.1

I've chosen a movie that, I don't know, it feels just kind of warm and fuzzy and wonderful and even a little bit holiday-like for some reason. It did come out during the holidays in 1986.

0:32.2

And it's Star Trek 4, The Voyage Home, the one with the whales. And I i love it and it's delightful and fun and nice

0:39.4

and we are going to talk about it now some people may know that we uh didn't you cover this

0:46.3

before and the answer is no the incomparable hasn't covered it before now some guy named

0:50.1

scott mcnulty covered it on his podcast random track, and, you know, but that doesn't count.

0:55.4

Anyway, Scott McNulty is here. Hi, Scott. That episode is not canon, so this will replace it.

1:01.5

It's not the incomparable canon. It's just in the random track canon, which is totally different.

1:05.2

And also on that episode was Tony Sindelar, but we're going to talk about this movie again because

1:10.1

Tony loves his whales and doesn't like it when people say mean things about the whales. Hi, Tony. that episode was Tony Sindelar, but we're going to talk about this movie again because Tony

1:11.2

and doesn't like it when people say mean things about the whales. Hi, Tony. Hi. When would anyone say a bad

1:16.2

thing about a whale? I don't know what that, what would happen then. Now, Defocused also covered

1:21.3

Star Trek 4 and yet Joe Steele is here. Hello, Joe Rosensteele. Welcome to the canonical

1:26.1

incomparable episode about Star Trek 4.

1:28.3

Thank you. I'm glad I could bring over exactly the number of people who care about Star Trek

1:32.5

from T-focused to represent. I was invited to be on that episode, but it was late at night, and I'm

1:37.2

not good at that. So, yes, I'm going to have more comments later about the whaling ship at the end.

1:44.6

And also the stock footage of whales, but we'll get there.

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