Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (4K Ultra HD)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a two-disc 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray Disc/Digital set, first released on , featuring the 4K UHD release version of the . As is currently usual with UHD/Blu-ray double releases of older productions, all special features (excepting the audio commentaries and isolated music score tracks, which are present on the 4K UHD disc as well) are only included on the Blu-ray disc of the release. The two discs are mounted in a standard plastic snapcase, which itself was for the North American release issued within a matching softboard slipover sleeve. The other releases came without the sleeve.
The 4K UHD standalone version of the film was released on the occasion of the completion of the long awaitedTalks of a High Definition release of the Director's Edition had been floating around since April 2013, but various reasons conspired against such a release for nearly a decade. For further background information on this subject matter, see main article. in remastered version of the in 2022, and was simultaneously released as part of the 4K UHD set. The remastering of The Search for Spock had actually already been completed a year earlier along with the other first three original crew films, and the 4K UHD version was then released as part of the preceding 55th anniversary . And while an individual downscaled standalone Blu-ray version was, it was decided to wait with the individual releases of the standalone 4K UHD versions until the remastering of the last two original crew films was completed a year later.
File:Star Trek IV The Voyage Home UK 4K UHD back cover.jpg|UK box back cover (notice lack of the digital download option)
File:Star Trek IV The Voyage Home New Zealand 4K UHD cover.jpg|New Zealand cover (notice lack of digital and Blu-ray options)
As usual with these releases (geo-restricted to North Amrica only, as the – former Blu-ray Region BThe Region geo-restricting encoding had, for all intent and purposes, been dispensed with all together by the industry upon the advent of the UHD format, even though that policy change has never been made public officially. This incidentally, has also applied for the Blu-ray disc format, whose region encoding was since late 2009 silently, but gradually, abandoned as well – which in Star Treks case started with the Blu-ray releases of TOS Season 2 and – only to pick up speed from the mid-2010s onward. – European/Australasian releases do not have these) a redeemable code is included to download the film in 4K resolution digitally.
As is increasingly becoming commonplace, no DVD counterpart was issued for this particular release. Those dwindling number of DVD customers still wanting one, had to make do with the original release from 2003.
== Special features ==
As well as the extras originally featured on the prior Special Edition DVD, excepting the text commentary by Mike and Denise Okuda, the release also included the special features in high definition, as originally done for the 2009 Blu-ray release.
* Commentary by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy 
* Commentary by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
* Pavel Chekov's Screen Moments† 
* The Three-Picture Saga† 
* Star Trek for a Cause† 
* Starfleet Academy: The Whale Probe† 
* Library Computer
* BD Live: Star Trek I.Q.
* Future's Past: A Look Back 
* On Location 
* Dailies Deconstruction 
* Below-the-Line: Sound Design 
* Time Travel: The Art of the Possible 
* The Language of Whales 
* A Vulcan Primer 
* Kirk's Women 
* From Outer Space to the Ocean 
* The Bird of Prey 
* Original interviews with Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, and DeForest Kelley 
* Roddenberry Scrapbook 
* Featured Artist: Mark Lenard 
* Production gallery 
* Storyboards 
* Theatrical Trailer†
† - in 1080p HD (others in standard definition)
== Background information ==
* Contrary to the Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition and last two original crew films, Scandinavia waived the standalone version release of The Voyage Home, as it had already seen a release a year earlier, albeit as part of their Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection only, but that was not much of an issue for the customer base over there as any import would do.
* In similar fashion, the two Australasian (Australia and New Zealand) releases had dispensed with the separate Blu-ray disc in the set, but which was not that much of an issue either as Blu-ray versions had all become region-free as well by this time, meaning that any import would also do in the territory.
* Fathom Events organized two theatrical showings on 19 and 22 August of the just completed 4K Ultra HD version of The Voyage Home in select North American cities. The choice of this film for the event was not only motivated by the 's 55th anniversary, but also by the film's own 35th anniversary. Aside from the film itself, the 2009 The Three Picture Saga special feature was also shown. Fathom had four years earlier already organized a similar event for the Director's Cut of Wrath of Khan.
== Footnotes ==
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