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Summary: Resistance Of This Movie Is Futile!
Review: Even numbered Trek films are cetainly do well here. Number #2 for The Next Generation, or #8 in the entire run of Trek films, no matter how you look at it, First Contact is a gem of a movie.The Plot: In the 24th Century, Jean Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise E are finishing up a recon mission when they get a call from Earth. The Federation is under attack by Star Trek's most dredded villians 'The Borg'. Upon arrival near Earth, the crew of the Enterprise engage in a battle against the Borg ship. The Borg, near defeat, play a final gambit at victory. The Borg Queen sends a small Borg ship back in time to the Earth's past. Picard and crew go in pursuit of the ship back to the Earth's 22nd century. A 2nd battle ensues, and the Enterprise destroys the Borg vessel, but not before the Borg Queen has done some damage on Earth and not before she beams herself on one of the decks of the Enterprise E. Quickly like a virus, she starts assimilating the crew. The dilemia is two-fold. First, stop the Borg Queen from assimilating the entire crew. Second, try to fix the damage that has been done to the timeline by getting Zephram Cochrane to continue with his warp speed spaceflights. Who gets assimilated? Will Picard be able to stand up against the Borg? What of the Earth timline? Buy this movie and find out! Interesting Trivia and sceens to watch for: During the holodeck scene, as a 1940s-era big band plays in the background, director/costar Jonathan Frakes can be seen playing the trombone. During the holodeck scene, Captain Picard and Lily are greeted by a hologram played by Ethan Phillips who also plays Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager. The deflector dish is labeled AE35, the name of a component of a satellite dish in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The eyepieces of the Borg flash the Morse code of the names of people associated with the production. Some Greate Quotes From The Film: The Borg Queen: Brave words. I've heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created. But, now they are all Borg. Dr. Beverly Crusher: So much for the Enterprise-E. Picard: We barely knew her. Dr. Beverly Crusher: Do you think they'll make another one? Picard: Plenty of letters left in the alphabet. Must buy for the Trekkie in your life!
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Summary: If There Is To Be A Star Trek Horror Film, This Could Work
Review: Upon watching this film for the 1st time, I found myself to be a little jumpy. The movie has a certain dark setting to it, combined with borg at every corner waiting to assimilate you and a certain sound with the background music, it could make one who is paranoid of such things a little jumpy. The beginning still gets me every time where Picard is at the sink, washing his face, and then......well, just gotta see for yourself if you have not yet. Overall, this is very good. Lots of action, good story line, and excellent jobs playing the character roles by the actors. If there is one thing I don't like, it's the time travel, again.
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Summary: Does Anyone Remember When They Used To Be Explorers?
Review: I am the biggest ST fan in the world and I loved this movie. Frakes is a good director. I liked how the Enterprise crew went back in time and helped Cochrane carry out his warp flight and how the Borg tried to stop them but couldn't. The only downside to the movie is that it's targeted to the "dumb crowd" and also that it's about Picard and Data. Am I the only person, or do the rest of you want the rest of the crew in the movie? I give ST: FC *Marks a four on top of Picard's head* a four. PS. the drunken Deanna scene was the best part.
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Summary: First Contact, Second Extras
Review: Following the trail of reviews already written will give you an accurate portrait of this movie. I would like to re-emphasize that there are no extras. Trailers are not extras, they are mandatory. First Contact needed extras to push the disc above rental status.
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Summary: Almost Pure Enjoyment!
Review: By far the best Star Trek movie yet. This includes the directing, the story, the drama, the laughter, frendship, loyalty, survival, freedom, human nature, cold heartedness, eveything! This movie is a way to see all of humanity. Evil versus good. The choice is simple. Live as an individual or live without being able to decide your own destiny. This is what humans have done throughout their existance. Invadors (Borg) and freedom fighters (Enterprise crew) If you remember one thing from the entire movie let it be the conversation between Data and the Borg Queen. One of the highlights of that is: Data "Beliving oneself to be perfect is often a sign of a delusional mind" and Borg Queen "Small words from a small being trying to destroy what he doesn't understand" I'll let you be the judges of those words. The only thing I didn't quite like was Lily, the black woman, Chocrane's friend. her character though very inspirational and with a lot of common sense needed to be developed further. Overall, i repeat, the best Star Trek movie ever made!
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Summary: ..the line must be drawn here...
Review: Of the three films featuring The Next Generation crew,ST:FC is the best yet,even ranking among The Wrath Of Khan,The Voyage Home,and The Undiscovered Country.Unlike the other TNG films,this is not a two hour big budget TV episode,but a real movie that's fast paced,action packed and has agree of warmth and humor.Patrick Stewart is always a command presence as Capt.Picard(Kirk may be the best Captain,but Stewart is the best actor to sit in the chair),and his quest for vengence agaist the Borg is captivating as well as terrifying.And the rest of his crew(with the exception of Brent Spiner's Data)is not overlooked as they were in Generations.A great battle scene with the borg(which includes DS9's Defiant)is followed by scenes alternating between 2063 earth and a war zone with the Borg on the Enterprise-E.Sometimes the audience feels like they're watching two different movies,and the last scene with the Borg Queen seems like an all too convienient TV ending.Aside from these minor flaws ST:FC is a movie to be enjoyed by fans and non-fans alike
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Summary: Worst Contact
Review: I'd like to say I loved this movie, but I can't. It should have been great, but as with most things Star Trek of late, the writers just seem to drop the ball. First Contact should have been a terrific film, but for some reason the powers that be at Paramount seem to think time travel makes for good story telling, when it instead simply displays the writer's lack of ability to tell a story. However, I must give credit where credit is due, Jonathan Frakes is an excellent director and does a good job in pacing, scene layout and delivery to make an otherwise forgettable film watchable. First Contact deals with the arrival of the Borg, a supremely denuded race of cyborgs bent on assimilating everything and everyone in the galaxy, sort of like a large corporation. Unfortunately from their treatment within the series (Next Generation and Voyager), they are no longer the threat they once were. Not only is the Federation technologically capable of withstanding the Borg, incidence within the series have proven that there are numerous ways to defeat this supposedly untakable species. However, that is not say that Starfleet has been sitting on their laurels either. The introduction of the Intrepid, Defiant, and finally the Sovereign class of starships proves that the Federation can now stand up to the Borg, as all three ships were engineered specifically to combat them. The Defiant is unabashedly called a 'Borg Killer' while the Sovereign (the Enterprise E), is a 'Super Battleship'. So, as the Enterprise is scouting out comets along the Neutral Zone, the Federation takes it to the Borg when they arrive at earth. But they just don't seem to have the fire power until the Sovereign-class Enterprise arrives or so one would think. Picard, through his contact with the Borg knows where their weak spot is and they concentrate their fire power in one location and blow the cube to bits. It is at this point that I was given to wonder just why the heck Picard has never mentioned this before and placed it in the logs so that the entire fleet had access to this design flaw in Borg ship design. Just as the cube explodes, a smaller ship launches out of it and speeds towards Earth with the Enterprise in hot pursuit. Then, god help me, the Borg sphere jumps back in time. Goes back in time to shoot down the Phoenix, Zephrym Cochrane's warp ship that gets noticed by the Vulcans who established relations with us Earth trash and ushers in a golden age for all of mankind. But at the same time the Borg also infest the Enterprise and begin to take it over...undetected...like a sophisticated starship like the Enterprise doesn't have an alarm system or sensors that detect unauthorized beaming into one's ship. They try to cover this by stating that long range sensors are down, well, inside one's ship is decidedly short range! While Picard and Data battle Borg on the ship, Riker and LaForge battle a childish Cochrane in a series of cliche future vs. the past exchange culminating in a pee joke. As the planet side crew of the Enterprise fawn over Cochrane, he becomes increasingly irritated because he isn't building the warp ship to usher in a new age, but instead because he wants money and naked women, well at least he did it for the right reasons. In 9 Star Trek movies there have been 2 that dealt with time travel! For crying out loud, if it was that easy then everyone and their dog would be doing it. Doesn't anyone out there understand that time travel is not only over used, but weak story telling? Just because James Cameron did it well twice is hardly an excuse shoddy writing. Anyway, Picard is faced with the fact that he may have to blow up his brand new ship, and it takes stirring speech from Lily to convince him not to. Except that Picard's response is right on the money and the Borg should be wiped out of existence. Meanwhile Data is having problems of his own having been captured by, you guessed it, the Borg Queen. Anyone NOT see this coming? She's an individual amongst the drones complete with freewill and user friendly parts. She attempts to seducing Data by offering him real human flesh so that he would be one step closer to humanity. Anyone getting tired of Star Trek movies that are only about Captain Picard and Lt. Cmdr Data? Face it, the Star Trek franchise is in the toilet. Everything from movies to novels to the series still on TV, stink. It won't take chances, it doesn't push the envelope like the old series did, and is touchy-feeling and above all else, politically correct with its smarmy holier-than-thou humanist views. It stopped being science fiction a long time ago, because they no longer ask the question 'What if...'. They don't explore anymore, there aren't anymore strange new worlds, and sadly, all they're doing now is timidly going where we have all been before. Star Trek needs to get back to its roots, take some chances, expand our sensibilities while it expands our consciousness. It hasn't done that for a long time and I miss it.
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Summary: First Contact With "critic" success
Review: Finally! A Star Trek movie that critics enjoyed and was worthy of the Star Trek label. The visual effects are wonderful! The DVD enhances the wonderful film. The "little things" which show the relationships of the crew are present (You told him about the statue?) but not nearly as present as in Insurrection. The cameos of Reg, EMH, Alyssia all add to the film, and help "smooth" things over. There are lots of wonderful moments in the film. Technically speaking, the DVD has lots of well thought out chapters, stunning FX, great sound quality and wonderful enhancements. This is a superb movie on a great medium!
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Summary: Engage
Review: After the slow moving debut of the next generation cast in Star Trek Generations, this movie allowed me to let out a sigh of relief. This is one of the best Trek movies yet. This movie followed the same recipe which made The Wrath of Khan so popular. Take an episode in the series and expand it to the big screen. Trek fans will not be dissappointed.
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Summary: What the hell do people see in this film
Review: I have have been a loyal Star trek fan for many years and this is the second worst part of the star trek francise I have seen (Followed by Star trek Voyager) The way I see it any (so-called) Star Trek fan who says any good word about this has a screw loose. Even though you might be able to call it an average film (for NON-TREKKIES) it has no place in the star trek universe. The amount of in-consistent information in this film is so vast (after watching TOS episodes about First Contact 'metimorhisis' (I don't know if that is spelt right) and the 7 TNG Borg episodes) I haven't got time to right about them all, if you do want to read them look at the anonymous vevier from NH, United States (where ever that is) who is the next best thing to my best friend.
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