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Summary: The story summarizes the Best of the Trek World
Review: The book faithfully follows the movie script. So, if you watched the movie, there is no reason to buy the book, unless you are a real trekker. Desgined to be a commercial success among trekkers, because the authors or producers included time travel, how the human race joined the Federation, the invention of the warp drive, the Borg, and of course, how they are defeated. Excellent, if you are a Next Generation fan, but probably not so good for the rest of the world. Not even for sci-fi fans. The science in it is not "very hard". I still want to know how the warp drive works?
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Summary: first contact
Review: The book gives more detail that the movie either edited, did not show.
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Summary: This is Great Book!! Better than the Movie
Review: the book seems to me to have more detail, like any book, to have more detail than its movie. this stands true for first contact. when i read this book i couldn't put it down. the vivid descriptions of the borg gave me chills and picard's obsessions with wanting to kill them made me want to cheer. this is a book for all next generation fans who like adventure and revenge. i recommend this book highly. bring the borg on board and enjoy the story. then if you were impressed, try the film.
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Summary: Excellent Audiobook!!
Review: This audio cassette is quite possibly the best of the Star Trek cassettes out there. I have several other ST cassettes but none of them can surpass the sound quality of the special effects. The sound of Picard's flesh being ripped by Borg Implants just gives me chills every time I listen to it. Gates McFadden does an excellent job narrating!!
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Summary: THIS IS THE BEST STAR TREK BOOK EVER!
Review: this book is so super because it allowed us 2 know what was going on inside the charecters heads which could not have been done in the movie.plus with this book u get a extra BONUS!!! in the back of the book there r details on how the mivie was made,detailed sketches and ton more plus 8 pages of color photos!
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Summary: The best Star Trek story ever
Review: This is without doubt the best of all Star Trek stories, both in film and in print. It touches on many grand philosophical, scientific, and technological themes: machine intelligence (both in Commander Data and in the Borg), space-time engineering (the first time humanity has done this, via the efforts of Zefram Cochrane), the first contact from an alien civilization (the arrival of the Vulcans), the confrontation with true history (meeting Cochrane and finding out just who the man really was), and the ethics of highly advanced civilizations (the contrast between the Borg and humanity). This book and the film will without a doubt inspire many a young reader to take up the practice of science, and thus it will do the best job of all. Science fiction has the habit of coming true sometimes, but it also has the fault of underestimating. The future of humanity, as exemplified by the Star Trek crew of the year 2367, is a grand one to contemplate, but the true future will be much better: a world populated by humans and machines striving to be the best they can be; a future that is never static, for stagnation to intelligent life is an abomination. We will do genetic engineering of humans, to be the best we can be; we will do space-time engineering, to travel beyond any immediate confines; we will create intelligent machines, to be our friends and allies. All of these things we will do, and much more. Humans and all other lifeforms, organic or not, will be very different in the time frame set in this novel. But they will be restless, ambitious, and always yearning for more understanding, for more insight, for more knowledge: these traits will characterize the beings of the 24th century...and beyond.
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Summary: A wonderful novelization with valuable insight of its own
Review: This is, of course, the novelization of the highly successful Star Trek: The Next Generation film of the same name. First Contact refers not to first contact with the Borg, for, six years later, Picard still bears the mental scars of his assimilation in the form of Locutus, but to Earth's first contact with an alien civilization. It is a story that had yet to be told, although Captain Kirk and his crew had met the extraordinarily old Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, in an episode of the original series; additionally, there had been hints that this pivotal event in human history took place some time after a terrible Third World War on Earth.
As the story begins, the Borg have attacked the Federation, with one of their massive cube ships making a bee-line for Earth herself. Picard and the new Enterprise-E starship defy Starfleet orders and rush to the battle, after which they follow a small Borg ship through a time portal which takes them back to 21st-century Earth. The Borg plan is to destroy the Phoenix, the spacecraft which Zefram Cochrane launches and, by way of its successful warp drive test, captures the attention of a Federation scout ship. If that pivotal event does not happen, the Federation we all know and love will never come to be. While half of the senior staff is planet-side trying to make sure the Phoenix launch happens on schedule, the rest of the crew find themselves battling a Borg infestation onboard the Enterprise herself. Data is captured, Picard is in danger of letting his hatred of the Borg overrule logic and reason, and we get to meet the Borg Queen. Personally, I've always felt that the introduction of the Borg Queen was a disservice to the greatest Star Trek villains of them all. The Borg Queen is a complete contradiction that introduced a level of individual vulnerability into a collective that was, up until this time, faceless and seemingly invulnerable.
This is an impressive novelization of the film, making it a worthwhile read to those of us who are already familiar with the onscreen story. In particular, it provides a great deal of insight into the erratic nature of Zefram Cochrane himself; in the movie, he came across as basically a drunk, but the novelization does a much better job of explaining his behavior. That alone makes this novel a natural and extremely beneficial corollary to the movie.
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