Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) | How Woke Is It?

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home1986

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What We Think

While Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home has a clear save-the-whales message, it mostly sticks to sci-fi fun and character-driven storytelling without heavy-handed modern wokeness. Its mild preachiness is more a product of its time than anything resembling today’s ideological agenda.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

Not Woke

What is this?

Star Trek IV focuses on the crew's efforts to save Earth by communicating with whales. While it has environmental themes, characters are written with depth, and narrative is mostly driven by established personalities rather than identity politics or forced representation.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

Mildly Woke

What is this?

The environmental message is strong and sometimes borders on preachy, but the film does not attack family, tradition, or religious values. There is no overt subversion of gender roles or excessive rewriting of cultural heritage, just a very 1980s-style ecological perspective.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

Mildly Woke

What is this?

The film leans heavily into a singular environmentalist mindset, and there is little debate or room for alternative views. Still, it avoids openly mocking or villainizing traditional perspectives, keeping the ideological uniformity less in-your-face than modern blockbusters.

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