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Summary: Finally
Review: Finally they get to swear in a Star Trek movie! I'm happy. Finally they get to really express their emotions.
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Summary: A Great Movie All Around
Review: This movie went far beyond my expectations for a Star Trek film. The special effects were amazing, the space battle scenes,the Borg queen,etc. The plot was definitely worthy of the big screen. The Borg, especially the Borg queen, were really creepy and scary. Alice Krige as the seductive and sadistic Borg Queen was amazing, James Cromwell (Zefram Cochran) was very convincing, and Alfre Woodard (Lily)was awsome as usual. Also, the dialogue was the best. Even if you don't like Star Trek, you will really like this movie. My friend that I watched it with doesn't like Star Trek but he thought the movie was really cool. It was. It's probably best watched on a big screen TV for all the special effects to be fully appreciated.
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Summary: "Assimilate This.."
Review: Fast paced action, spectular special effects, and a story which brings out the best in all of the cast, this is the best Star Trek movie since "Wraith of Khan." While difficult to compare, I think "First Contact" is actually better because it was more original and had more depth. In "First Contact", the Earth is being invaded again by the Borg. Picard and his crew are excluded from the fight. Star Fleet Command believes that Picard may be too emotional in any such fight. Left on the edge of the nuetral zone, (the space between the Romulans and the Federation) the crew of the Enterprise listens in dispair to the battle reports coming in from Star Fleet Command. Deciding to disregard his orders, Picard warps to the battle. This is where the story gets interesting. We learn that the "Borg" isn't exactly a collective as we have previously believed. Instead the Borg is more like a hive. It has a queen who makes all of the decisions and drones who carry them out. In some ways, this makes the "Borg" worse. When one is assimilated, they don't really become one of the whole, they become a slave to the Queen. This Queen is one nasty women. Her invasion of Earth failing in the present, she travels back in time to beat it in the past. She succeeds. Only the Enterprise, stuck in "time flux", can do something about it. Otherwise all of Earth, forever, will be a loyal part of the Borg Empire. The struggle to counter the damage done in the past pits an outnumbered Borg against the Enterpise Crew and, later,an outnumbered Crew against Borg Drones. In "First Contact", we see Picard enraged as he fights to save the Enterprise and the Earth from an eternity of slavery. With real tension as the form of the final outcome is always in doubt, great, and believable shows of loyality between the crew, visits from many of out favorite Star Trek characters, lovely surprises, and even a visit to the "holo-deck", this movie is Star Trek heaven. Superb.
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Summary: Best of the 3 "Generations" Films
Review: "First Contact" is certainly the best of the three Generations movies ("Generations", "First Contact", and "Insurrection"), and perhaps even the best of all the star trek movies. There are many reasons for this, but the single reason that stands out is Alice Krige's SPECTACULAR performance as the devilishly seductive yet disturbing Borg Queen. Her portrayl is nothing short of brilliance. The Borg Queen's scene with Data is worth the price of the video.
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Summary: Avoid Contact With This One
Review: Before I start please put all phasers on stun because this review's going to be ugly. I hated "Star Trek: First Contact". It is a pretentious borefest, filled with stupid one-liners, poorly written set pieces, and a perposterous concept. This film bears no resemblence to the wit, awe, and excitment of any of the previous films or any of the series. It begins good enough as Picard and the Enterprise battle a Borg cube en route to Earth. After an all too brief battle the Borg cube is easily destroyed but not before spitting a strange sphere into the Earth's atmosphere. Picard and crew soon discover the cube has traveled back in time and assimilated the enire planet. The Enterprise crew travel back in time with the Borg cube to avert this disaster. From here the film falls apart. The film tries to be epic in scale but instead concentrates on a clausterphobic environment and dank surroundings. The story from here centers on the Enterprise crew's attempt to stop the Borg from averting earth's first contact with an alien race. An important character here is the legendary Zefram Cochrane, the father of warp speed. Cochrane first appeared in the classic Trek episode as a kind, noble and idealistic man. Here he carries none of those traits, he's a coward whose only interest in warp speed is not the benefit of mankind but cash. Where did this characteristic come from? Another problem is the crew's total disregard of the "Prime Directive" of non-interference. In previous episodes and films the stories always had fun with this concept as the crew contemplated how not to interfere too much with the natural flow of time. Here they throw that concept out the window as Riker and a drunk Troi tell Cochrane that they're time/space travellers and that Cochrane's about to make the first warp jump. They arrogantly assume that Cochrane needs their help. Why? Didn't Cochrane perform the experiment alone during the natural flow of time? Why would he need their help now? Because it's "cool" and the Star Trek characters need something to do. Other low points involve an achingly slow paced action sequence involving Picard and Worf during a space walk to the main deflector dish to stop the Borg from contacting another Borg collective. This scene is not dependent on story or suspense or even action but instead shock value and stupid one-liners. "Assimilate this!"???? Another disasterous scene is aboard the Enterprise as Picard is harrassed by a 21st century woman who is conveniently trapped aboard the ship as Picard's love interest. The woman is angry that Picard has decided not to destroy the ship but stay and fight to the death with the Borg. This scene could have been very good if it were between Picard and any one of the Enterprise characters. Instead it feels forced and unrealistic. Why would Picard listen to her? Why are we supposed to care what she thinks? The premise of time travel in Star Trek has always been interesting but this time, it doesnt' look or feel like time travel. It just looks like the Enterprise crew are stuck in the woods. There is no era that the crew travel to for the audience to relate to. No old west, no depression era, no NASA launch and no 1980's humpback whales. The film tries to be an entertaining blend of action, horror, romance, and comedy. It does none of those qualities well. I tried to enjoy "First Contact", I really did. The film has some great visual effects and soaring music by Jerry Goldsmith, but none of the great characteristics of what makes good Star Trek, only contrived scenes and 90's one liners. This is the weakest Star Trek film ever, and a bad movie in it's own right.
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Summary: First Contact, Last Contact?
Review: So, the all too chummy, too politically correct Star Trek: The Next Generation crew finally hit the mark in the motion picture game with this screen adaption of the popular television show. Here we see Captain Picard finally taking off the kid-gloves instead of taking the pansy and unbelievable every-alien-will-negotiate stand he usually took during the tv series' regular run. It was also good to see that Picard has his own prejudices(like Kirk vs. the Klingons) and vulnerabilities as the rest of us in our all too non-perfect universe. The story was somewhat implausible when you consider that the Borg seemed to be going through too much trouble to change the history of a planet that in the universal scheme of things is a infinitesimal part of the galaxy. However, this fact gets lost in the nostalgic storytelling by the Star Trek creators as humans again prove that we are the center of the universe. As a whole, however, the movie is still great entertainment whether you are a Trekkie or not. It has enough great special effects and entertaining dialogue to keep your interest throughout the movie and we finally got to see who became our first alien ally at the end of the movie. Unfortunately, this movie also seems to be the last hurrah in the Star Trek franchise as the next Trek feature, "Insurrection", started to show that the series is finally beginning to lose its appeal to non-traditional Star Trek fans.
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Summary: An interesting voyage.
Review: The Next Generation cast has had one really good movie so far, and this is it. Captain Picard squares off against his old enemies the Borg as they try to assimilate Earth of the past. The concept is well though out, and there are some great ideas going through the story as well. Misplaced hero worship. The ironic twist of Picard as Captain Queeg (since that was to be his next role following this). But as usual, the movie falls apart when they try to do comic bits. Star Trek excels when the humor comes from the character interaction, not from jokes about "taking a leak." Patrick Stewart leads the familiar cast, adding Alice Krige to the mix as the heretofore unknown Borg Queen. Great concepts.... adequate execution.
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Summary: The Odd Numbered Curse Continues
Review: The curse of star trek movies that even numbered movies are good while odd numbered are bad (exception star trek III) continues in this great movie. The first movie to concentrate 100% on the next gen crew, it features a borg invasion of the alpha quadrant and an attempt to travel to earth's past to assimlate the human race. The battle sequence at the beginning of the movie was quite well done and the borg queen was a brilliant addition to the whole star trek universe. All in all a great movie.
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Summary: THE SCARIEST TREK FILM TO DATE!
Review: This is the second best STAR TREK film featuring THE NEXT GENERATION crew. It is a dark, but sometimes funny, film, quite possibly the darkest of the series. The visual effects were great (the ENTERPRISE-E is absolutely stunning), and Jerry Goldsmith's score has to be his best to date! For all STAR TREK fans! Grade: A+
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Summary: First Contact is the only contact you need.
Review: What can I say? How about, "yeah baby." Star Trek: First Contact is everything good about star trek you would possible ask for or expect. Classic whit meets classic sci-fi for this feature which is certain to become - to say the least - a classic!!
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