Star Trek: First Contact
1996 Directed by Jonathan Frakes
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Resistance is futile.
While on routine patrol, Captain Jean-Luc Picard gets word from Starfleet Headquarters that the Borg, an insidious race of half-machine, half-organic aliens, have entered Federation Space and are on a direct course for Earth. Violating direct orders to remain uninvolved, Picard leads the newly commissioned USS Enterprise E into Starfleet's massive assault against their deadliest foe. Captain Picard and his crew pursue the Borg back in time to stop them from preventing Zefram Cochrane from initiating first contact with alien life.
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They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here!
-PicardThis is much more like it. After directing several episodes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, Jonathan Frakes makes his feature film directing debut for a franchise that he'd been working on for almost a decade. He knew the characters, he knew how to work with a budget constraint and hopefully he knew what made Star Trek work.
The script was written by long time Next Generation writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore. Moore of course would go on to re-image Battlestar Galactica with great success. Having written some of the…
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awww I remember seeing this for the first time!
My dad came and pulled me out of school telling the front office I had a dentist appointment..once we left the school he was like "not really we are going to see a movie! " aww it was great
he would do this for all the films that came out while I was in school :)
I remember this just being amazing to me with the borg and the main borg lady just being a head and spine ...NOSTALGIA!
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I grew up on Star Trek (minus TOS), watching it religiously for years on BBC2, but now can only vividly remember chunks of each and every series. First Contact (along with Nemesis) is one of those chunks. It terrified me before, I was literally too afraid to watch parts of it. "Don't Let Them Touch You!" still gives me nightmares.
That said, I hadn't seen it in years. Super excited to get back into Trek and watch it with my now (mostly) grown mind, and make sure I'd seen all the episodes, I couldn't resist just skipping to First Contact first because I had liked it so much when I was little, and was eager to see how well it…
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I remember seeing this in theaters at about eleven years of age. It was a hell of a lot darker than I had come to expect from your typical Next Generation premise. At the time, the Borg scared me to death, and I was genuinely frightened at moments. Today, seventeen years later, First Contact doesn't serve to scare me, but the visuals hold up pretty well, and it is a truly enjoyable watch.
My father picked up the Next Generation Blu ray pack, so I will likely go through all of them in the coming weeks; but there was something about Picard (Patrick Stewart) in this film that really stands out. His performance is really something to behold, as he…
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The best Star Trek movie.
The nasty Borg travel back in time to prevent humanity's "first contact" with the Vulcans, and only Picard and the crew of the Enterprise can stop them.
Brilliant story, humour, history and great action.
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The best Next Gen movie yet. Perfectly combines the wonder and joy of watching an episode of Next Gen, while adding solid doses of action and horror. The Borg are such a terrifying villain and Patrick Stewart offers a multilayered version of Picard; prioritising his crew, but slowly becomes blinded by his hate of the Borg. Fantastic Trek offering.
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They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here!
-PicardThis is much more like it. After directing several episodes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, Jonathan Frakes makes his feature film directing debut for a franchise that he'd been working on for almost a decade. He knew the characters, he knew how to work with a budget constraint and hopefully he knew what made Star Trek work.
The script was written by long time Next Generation writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore. Moore of course would go on to re-image Battlestar Galactica with great success. Having written some of the…
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Pretty cool Star Trek film.
I love the opening battle sequence with the Borg ship-great effects work here.
The time travelling was a good idea considering what point in history they travel back to. The point of first contact with an alien species that pretty much creates the Star Trek Universe we've been watching since the 60's. The problem with this idea is that it never really makes sense as to why the Borg do this. Okay so they want to stop first contact...but why? Just because it's easier to simulate Earth in the past? Because in the present they have to deal with the Federation or any other alien government's resistance? They're the Borg-if they really wanted to simulate…
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some very good ideas that ultimately does not work; this series have gone from complex to just complicated but fortunately STEWART and WOODWARD still make this work.
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Just a wonderful popcorn movie that can please every Next Generation fan. Sure it rips off from previous Trek movies (back in time to save earth, Picard channelling Kahn's blinding revenge), but it does it all very well. So many cameos (Adam Scott is in this?!?) and nods to other Treks (Robert Picardo, Dwight Schultz) are a blast. The only cringe scene is Alfre Woodard confronting Picard about his Ahab-ness. But it doesn't really matter because...James Cromwell!
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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A great improvement over Generations. Patrick Stewart really gets to shine as grime Captain Picard, and what's great about him is that he is not as sympathetic as Kirk.
This does sometimes slip a tad too much into the Trek-cheeseballz, and I dunno about that bland black lady, but the second half really picks the story up. And the Borg are absolutely awesome!
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Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: First Contact has long since been a favorite of mine. Maybe it’s because I love seeing the TNG crew on the big screen. After all, I can say without reservation that more TNG is better than less. Having just finished my latest viewing of it earlier today, a lot of the nostalgia holds up, but there are some glaring issues that keep First Contact from being the be-all-end-all TNG movie it could have been.
For starters, time travel. Again. Dammit. I’ll just get it out of the way early: First Contact fares no better than The Voyage Home when it comes to traveling back through time. In The Voyage Home, Kirk tells Spock to…
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From what I've heard, this is the best Next Generation film, and it certainly is pretty good.
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The best of all the old Star Trek films. A brilliant storyline with multiple strands, humour, originality & exciting. Excellent!