The story behind the Star Trek IV punk on bus: Kirk Thatcher Q&A
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Kirk Thatcher and Leonard Nimoy star in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Paramount Studios 1986
The “punk on bus” is the real hero of the 1986 movie “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.”
The Muni-riding rebel gives William Shatner the middle finger did any actor in the “Trek” universe deserve it more? on the Golden Gate Bridge. He shares his art with his fellow passengers. (It turns out the punk wrote that “I Hate You” song playing on the boom box.) And he created, with apologies to the “Bullitt” car chase, the most purely crowd-pleasing moment in San Francisco movie history.