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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★½ 10

  The one that kicks ass.

  This is the hardest Trek movie outside of II. Picard straight up smokes a couple Borg with a hologram Tommy Gunn like Albert Finney in Miller's Crossing. Credit to the boy Jonathan Frakes for directing this one. Probably the most successful because it gets that it's a movie and has a plot that starts right away, steadily raises the stakes and keeps the momentum and action going all the way to the end. A lot of the other Trek movies end up replicating the pacing and beats of a one hour TV episode, so much so you can almost feel when the commercial breaks are supposed to happen, and then have an extra 20-30 minutes…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½ 7

  Probably looks more like a Very Special Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation than it should, but on the scale of Very Special Episodes, it’s a pretty special one.

  I like James Cromwell as Zefram Cochrane, the reluctant engineer who invents warp technology, and Alfre Woodard as his assistant Lily, who has several excellent and intense scenes with Patrick Stewart about the fate of humanity and his blinding hatred of the Borg. (I don’t think I’ve seen this movie from start to finish in 23 years, but I still remember Stewart’s big monologue: "The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they done!”)

  That said, the best part of…

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  Review by Branson Reese 5

  Finally little eight year old Branson has entered the chat. This is the first Star Trek movie I remember seeing trailers for. I had only the vaguest sense of what Star Trek really was at this age even though I had already seen Voyage Home and a handful of TNG episodes. I knew about Worf and had absorbed the idea that Patrick Stewart was one of the great living actors through cultural osmosis, but otherwise Star Trek was just this complicated and technocratic thing that existed as 90s ephemera to me. Sort of like the X Files or Sublime, I knew it was huge and kids who were a grade or two above me were obsessed with it in a…

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  Review by Mister Cap ★★★★ 14

  "Borgs!"
  "Klingt schwedisch"
  
  "Star Trek: First Contact" lässt die Herzen aller Captain Picard- und Borg-Fans höher schlagen und nimmt uns mit auf eine abenteuerliche Reise durch Zeit und Raum.

  Bevor wir in die Tiefen von Raum und Zeit eintauchen, muss ich gestehen, dass Captain Picard mein Lieblingscaptain ist. Seine Intelligenz, seine Integrität und seine Fähigkeit, heikle Situationen mit diplomatischem Geschick zu meistern, sind einfach bewundernswert. Wenn ich die Wahl hätte, unter einem Captain auf der Enterprise zu dienen, würde ich mich definitiv für Picard entscheiden. Aber das nur am Rande.

  "First Contact" ist ein wahres Fest für alle Trekkies da draußen, denn er gibt uns die Möglichkeit, die glorreiche Vergangenheit von "Star Trek" mit einem modernen Twist wieder aufleben zu…

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★½ 7

  "computer, twenty first century clothing!" (everybody gets big candyman coats)

  this is a better james cameron movie than every terminator sequel but i still cant believe deanna troi doesnt know about tequila

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★★ 21

  Aus Gründen eines erst kürzlichem Watch und einer einhergehenden Review im mir langsam dämmernden Simon-das-Fragezeichen-Stil, haue ich einmal paar Fakten zu „Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt“.

  
  Im achten Star-Trek-Streich feierte Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker – sein Filmregiedebüt von fünf nachfolgenden Filmen auf dem Regiestuhl und mehreren Dutzend Regiearbeiten allen voran im Serienbereich wie über vierzehn Folgen im Star-Trek-Kosmos.

  Bei Produktionskosten von 45 Mio. USD spielte „Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt“ 150 Mio. USD was den erfolgreichsten Film mit der „Next Generation“-Crew ein.

  Mitte des Jahres 1995 drohte bzw. teilte Patrick Stewart Paramount Pictures mit, er stehe für einen weiteren Star Trek-Film nicht mehr zur Verfügung wo zur gleichen Zeit vermehrte Gerüchte um einen „Batman & Robin“-Film für den Regisseur…

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★½

  They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here!
  -Picard

  This 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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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★½ 17

  Ich bin Gene Roddenberry. Aktivieren Sie Ihren TV-Bildschirm und setzen Sie sich! Ich werden Ihre biologischen und technologischen Geschmäcker den meinigen hinzufügen. Ihre Sehgewohnheiten werden sich anpassen und mich mögen. Widerstand ist Zwecklos!

  Ihr werdet die unendlichen Weiten meiner Welt sehen. Die rückwärtsspringende Zukunft des 24. Jahrhunderts in das 21. Jahrhunderter. Asteroidengroße, ihr giftig grünen Atem gegen kurvenschlagende und blau und gelb ihres aufleuchtenden Deflektorschildes überzogene Raumschiffe der „Vereinte Föderation der Planeten“ verschießende Borg-Kubuse. Zeitschleifenanomalien und meine alte Crew der U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E.

  Ferner ein weiterer Schatz aus meinem Fundus mit den Borg. Wesen halb Humanoid halb Maschine. Bleich das Antlitz, Drähte und Schläuche und leuchtend blinkend die Platinen in ihrem Gesicht. Ihr Geist korrumpiert Gekoppelt an dem einen, hunderter…

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  Review by Tim Brayton ★★★½ 1

  Star Trek has long made it fairly easy for members of its various ensemble casts to try their hand at directing, in a way that was unprecedented in the early '90s and I believe remains unmatched in terms of the numbers of actors who've had a crack at the big seat. It has mostly turned out surprisingly well: Leonard Nimoy, LeVar Burton, Roxann Dawson, and Robert Duncan McNeill all ended up having perfectly respectable directing careers. But out of everybody who made that leap, I would with no hesitation say that I'm most impressed by Jonathan Frakes. Television, we are often told, is a writer's medium rather than a director's medium, but throughout my ongoing Watch Every Piece of Star…

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★ 6

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  Film #8 in The Star Trek Marathon!
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  Having just viewed the film I realize "Resistance is Futile!" While my heart still belongs to Capt. Kirk and crew the lines between the two series has become a tad bit blurred! While I continue to refuse complete assimulation by Capt. Picard and crew I can certainly admit they put on a pretty good show!

  I can't predict whether this admirationfest will continue as the next 2 films don't involve the borg! Only time will tell if this was a one hit wonder! Stay tuned for more kiddies same bat-time, same bat-channel!

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  Review by Deckk ★★★ 3

  100-word review: A cybernetic hive mind known as the Borg travels back in time (without ever fully exploring it, Star Trek seems to love time travel), to the year humanity first made contact with another intelligent race, to assure Earth's 'assimilation' in the future. Naturally, it's up to the Enterprise crew to stop them. A 'persuasion by literary reference' — Moby-Dick — to move the plot along turns into an effective central analogy when paired with that other analysed Leviathan (the Hobbesian), making First Contact one of the better Star Trek films, falling back on the commendably philosophically scrutinising nature of the series.

  Part of my September 2021 Live Long and Prosper challenge; 8th out of 13 films.

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  Review by russman ★★★

  HD doesn't do Data's makeup any favors