Star Trek: First Contact

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The Enterprise and its crew follow a Borg ship through a time warp to prevent the Borg from taking over the Earth in a past era. Stuck in the past, Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) helps a pioneer of space travel (James Cromwell) in his efforts to create the first warp drive while Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) battle the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) as she tries to take over the Enterprise.

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While fans of the series will surely appreciate it, First Contact is exciting, engaging, and visually appealing enough to entertain Star Trek novices.

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Jake Cole

Slant Magazine

Here, the TNG cast gets to show off their longstanding chemistry and further develop their characters.

Apr 5, 2023

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Jay Carr

Boston Globe

It's easily one of the best in the series -- the best, in fact, since Leonard Nimoy and the old Enterprise crew saved the whales in "Star Trek IV."

Apr 26, 2018

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

In zooming out from Picard's glinty eyeball, this eighth feature film from the Trek factory displays a zippy new energy and a sleek, confident style fully independent of its predecessors.

Rated: B+

Sep 7, 2011

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Star Trek: First Contactis not merely a greatStar Trekfilm. This is a great film, period.

Rated: 4/4

Sep 4, 2023

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

remains one of the high points in the overall Trek film franchise, an engaging and suspenseful melding of science fiction, horror, and the kind of high drama that comes close to earning all the Moby Dick references

Rated: 3/4

Jun 19, 2023

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Far and away the finest of the TNG crop.

Rated: 3.5/4

Apr 8, 2023

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Charlie M Definitely a better Star Trek movie, with some real character and emotion, and better action. Still sometimes slow, but pretty well executed. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/22/24 Full Review DE S Surprising, funny, paced well, and full on Next Gen Star Trek. One of the best space, sci-fi movies of the 90s. Picard and crew at their best…until Season 3 Picard. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/20/24 Full Review Sean E This is still my favorite of the next generation cast movies to this day. Watching this movie, the first time my youngest son, was inspired to write at 10 years old a science fiction story. He’s now in college and even though seeing it in the theaters in 1996 I still will always remember watching this for the first time with my youngest son when he was seven years old and 2012. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/02/24 Full Review A S The best of the Next Generation movies. Good: Acting, Directing, SFX, score, story.Bad: Jokes Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/25/24 Full Review Julian L This is an awesome movie but has a lot of plot holes. If the Borg had time travel, why not go back in time and assimilate it in the 1980s or something before they attacked Earth to face the fleet? How can the Enterprise beam aboard the Defiant crew while the Enterprise's shields are up? If you don't want to shoot the plasma coolant tanks by risking to hit the warp core, what is the plan(which isn't said or implied.)?And most of all, why is Picard all violent and vengeful when he already got over his grudge against the Borg and he's all understanding of life and stuff? Otherwise, it's epic and awesome! I always wanted to see the time vulcans and humans met since I first saw Star Trek! Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/07/24 Full Review Chris T This is the best Star Trek movie, period ! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/08/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jonathan Frakes Director Patrick Stewart Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes Commander William Thomas Riker Brent Spiner Lieutenant Commander Data LeVar Burton Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge Michael Dorn Lieutenant Commander Worf

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