Lasky (Martin Sheen) arrives aboard the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier under the command of Yelland (Kirk Douglas) before it sets off on a voyage. Before very long the ship is caught up in a mysterious storm, afterwards all of the radio channels and data links are dead. However, this isn't due to the Soviets but because the Nimitz has travelled back in time to 1941.
In fact they have arrived back in time to just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Yelland knows his modern super carrier carries the firepower to defeat the Japanese fleet, but historian Commander Owens (James Farentino) warns against changing history. When the crew rescue a couple of 1941 Americans (Charles Durning and Katharine Ross) and a Japanese pilot (Soon-Tek Oh) things get more complicated...
Despite the set-up this isn't much of an action film (though when there is action it is well done) but poses some interesting ethical dilemmas and has lots and lots of cool US Navy footage.
