10 Most Trippy Star Trek Scenes
6. Disembodied!
Regarded as one of topical Star Trek's finest movies, The Voyage Home concludes the so-called Genesis Trilogy with allegory and classic time travel.
But what can this cornerstone of the franchise have possibly done to step into the realms of trippiness?
It's all going well right up to the point that the HMS Bounty takes its initial slingshot around the sun and back to 1986. At this point, we descend into Kirk's mind as he envisages wax heads of the crew emerging from the mists and speaking lines from the movie. Some of these lines come from later in the movie, something viewers might not realise until subsequent voyages. Not trippy enough perhaps?
Then backed with whale song and a floating featureless body, the viewer descends into rippling water and finally to wind-swept rushes. Kirk awakens and the thrusters have fired, confirming that the Bird of Prey has returned to the 20th Century.
To this day it remains open to interpretation and is a totally unique moment for the movie. Take this sequence out of The Voyage Home and it makes no difference to the film at all, although its inclusion is a rare glimpse directly into Admiral Kirk's mind.