Star Trek - First Contact

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Star Trek - First Contact

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Star Trek - First Contact

Alfre Woodard, Alice Krige, Brent Spiner, Dwight Schultz, Gates McFadden

Capt. Picard and his crew pursue the Borg back in time to stop them from preventing Earth from initiating first contact with alien life.

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  • SirPant
    September 21, 2009
    SirPant
    First Contact is Ok but the comedy element is not there anymore, neither is the homoerotica of the first crew! Oh well, you can?t have it all! It does explain a few historical issues within the Star Trek universe though, although they don?t quite match up with previous and subseq...( read more)uent time lines but that?s just me being an anal trekkie who should get out more.
  • Redlats
    May 4, 2009
    Redlats
    Stories about time travel are so hokey. If the Borg can go back in time to "fix" some history that isn't to their liking, why can you go back one day earlier and blast them out of the sky when they arrive? And if Picard releases some gas killing all organic matter on every deck...( read more) of the ship, and yet Picard survives? Come on now.

    But, logic aside the movie keeps your interest. It is always great to view the battle between the evil Borg and the crew of the Enterprise. Great makeup of the Borg.
  • thmtsang
    December 6, 2008
    thmtsang
    Captain Picard goes back in time to stop the Borg destroying Earth's first contact with alien life.
  • stopitgoaway
    October 29, 2008
    stopitgoaway
    Star Trek VIII: First Contact - Stardate: 50893.5

    Finally, after the dismal Generations outing, they got it right with this one! First Contact indeed is on par with the very best of the Star Trek films - The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country. Unfortunately, they won't...( read more) get it right again to the present day (with the above average but still not as good Insurrection and awful Nemesis). The script is very solid, the acting above par (with kudos going to Alice Krige as the seductive Borg Queen and Alfre Woodard as the trusting Lily Sloane), and the score by Jerry Goldsmith again another hit. All of that combined with visual effects that service the story and not is the story makes this outing a spectacular success
  • FangsFirst
    July 25, 2008
    FangsFirst
    The last Star Trek film I own (for the foreseeable future, the last I'm likely to own), this is another of the more well-regarded Star Trek films (see: that rule about the even numbered ones). As with others, I realized quite immediately that this, too, was a film I had se...( read more)en previously. I used to watch both Star Treks in my (extreme) youth, The Next Generation still airing, but with the original series buried in an incomprehensibly late time slot, giving it a greater allure. Of course, the films were also familiar to me, and at the time there of course were only the original cast films, and it really pumped up my interest in that cast. At some point, in contrast, my interest in Next Gen waned, then flagged, then flopped. Something bothered me--perhaps the rumblings of my later approach to things, disinterest or dislike magnified by conflict--in this case "Star Wars vs. Star Trek." I had a greater appreciation for the variety of lifeforms that appeared in the former series, beginning to get more and more annoyed at how minimal differences between lifeforms were--a wrinkled forehead, pointed ears, so on and so forth, versus some shapes that weren't even humanoid. Something bothered me about the ultra-sleek, clean, clear, colour-separated appearance of that show, eventually mostly forgetting it to the ages--my youth not allowing me to see the reason for those minimal differences, nor to appreciate the less effects-driven nature of things.

    First Contact gets its name from the fact that it surrounds the events of the first contact with extraterrestrial life in the Star Trek universe--Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) has designed the first warp drive, catching the attention of passing aliens who come to investigate, launching the world that eventually becomes the Star Trek universe. The reason they end up at this event--obviously backward in time--is the appearance of a Borg Cube near earth, which re-awakens Jean-Luc Picard's (Patrick Stewart, of course) memories of being assimilated and becoming Locutus of Borg, and a desire for vengeance. When Picard follows a distant internal signal telling him the Cube's weakness, the ship is destroyed, but not before launching a pod which shoots backward in time to assimilate earth and prevent the future from ever occurring. Now the crew of the Enterprise-E must both help Cochrane to keep his schedule and initiate first contact, as well as save the Enterprise from the gradual assimilation of the Borg.

    The cast, as per usual (Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Marina Siritis, etc) meets their marks and fills their characters, the straight-laced soldier of Frakes' Riker, the peculiar, curious Data for Spiner, the excitable geek of Burton's LaForge, so on and so forth. I've got to note, I did recall seeing Geordi without his visor before, but did not realize (or, I suppose, forgot) that he was eventually visor-less. Anyway, it's half action film--curiously, they flipped the script and decided that Stewart would have the action half instead of Riker--and half in the vein of The Voyage Home--an antagonist-less playful romp to maintain good, decent, honest things. The action side of things, being Borg-associated, is actually rather dark, and a bit scary. The relentlessness, mixed with the callous absorption of individuals without any belief in loss at this is rather disturbing. Alfre Woodard as Lily Sloane, the sole representative of the 21st century on the Enterprise during this escapade, becomes a voice of reason to the increasingly vengeance-minded Picard, while the foil for the away team is Cochrane himself, an alcoholic with a taste for 60s rock and roll and no interest in bettering the human race, despite their high opinions of him and hindsight praise. It takes that lovely conceit of the fallable nature of man that hides, likely without exception, behind any famous figurehead, hero or historical figure. It can be slightly overbearing at some moments, but generally works quite well. Frakes directs (his feature film debut, but he'd been in the chair for various Star Trek series episodes) with a good sense of balance, keeping both stories moving, getting strong performances and never losing the pacing, atmosphere or tone of either story. Indeed, the quality of the even-numbered films--despite my occasional disagreement with the flaws of the odds--holds true here.
  • stevenskichan
    December 9, 2009
    stevenskichan
    Until the new one came along this was the greates Star Trek film of them all!
  • GreenGoblin92
    December 6, 2009
    GreenGoblin92
    Finally a watchable Star Trek film. It actually made me sit down and watch till the end. I mean, the 2009 Star Trek film bored so much that I stopped watching into its 40th minute. It was such a bloated piece of crap. Genghis of Khan, another confusing Star Trek film that I stopp...( read more)ed watching 15 minutes into it.

    Anyway, I was a little confused with this film, and especially with that random ending. I loved the Borgs. I wish they had more screen time and did more killings. The characters were likable and well-developed, except for that old man whom I found annoying (forgot his name, but it starts with a C).
  • Zento
    December 1, 2009
    Zento
    Star Trek - First Contact is engaging and enjoyable.The story begins when a federation star fleet is attacked by a dangerous enemy known as the Borg. The fleet eventually prevails, but a Borg ship escapes. When the federation ship 'Enterprise' follows it, they realize that it is...( read more) headed for earth. They soon discover that the Borg not only intend to conquer, but also to alter the planets history by traveling back in time. The plot is alluring because the villains are interesting. The Borg is a collective unit of monotone cyborgs whose only mission is to integrate everyone and everything into their system. They have no sense of individuality. That said, they are formidable opponents to the federation who stand for independence and civil liberties. The film also has a valuable lesson on the subject of vengeance. Star Trek - First Contact is a thrill ride and an embodiment of good science fiction.
  • maraeawoods
    November 21, 2009
    maraeawoods
    Definitely brings a good spin to the series of Star Trek. Loved it the first time I watched it. Brilliant cast, costumes, dynamics, and lets not forget the, 'oneliner's', very clever, intellectually spell bound by the sarchy but subtle words they play on. Great movie and series
  • kriddi89
    November 21, 2009
    kriddi89
    Aw, I REALLY want to see this!!
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