Kirk had romantically wooed Dr.Taylor to receive her assistance - and eventually, she was very cooperative, providing him with the radio frequency (401 mghz) of the whales"" location - and she herself was beamed aboard the Klingon ship as it prepared to depart when she threw her arms around him; the pair of whales were also beamed onboard just before being threatened by whale-hunters - when Kirk decloaked the Klingon vessel above the whaling ship; reverse time-travel returned the crew to a crash-landing in San Francisco Bay (under the Golden Gate Bridge) of the 23rd century, when the ship was rendered powerless by the probe; the whales were released from the cargo hold, and their response to the probe""s signal saved Earth as the probe retracted back into the cylinder and it retreated into deep space.Brooks withTerms of Endearment (1983), Kevin Costner withDances with Wolves (1990),and Sam Mendes withAmerican Beauty (1999).The comedic action-oriented film had a surprising number of bloody shootouts - and a high bodycount by film""s end, as well as Murphy""s surprising swearing with the F word at a young park visitor." She promises to tell her mother to call back.Her father, Joseph Newton (Henry Travers) arrives home from work and gives his young daughter a tentative kiss.