Only Star Trek could pull off the absurd premise of saving the world by bringing back extinct humpback whales from the past. The Kirk-Spock banter on Earth is always a treat.
What’s with the trope of arriving by garbage trucks after time traveling? A funny reference to Terminator.
Kirk: “Everybody remember where we parked.”
Kirk: “Him? He’s harmless. Back in the ‘60s, he was part of the free speech movement at Berkeley. I think he did a little too much LDS.”