Review of Star Trek: First Contact (1996) by The-Lords A — 31 Mar 2013

The next Star Trek movie; First Contact...that's it.

Plot: When a Borg cube comes to Earth, Starfleet orders The Enterprise to stay away due to Jean-Luc's experience from being captured by then six years earlier. Picard and the crew decide to disobey the order and help Starfleet destroy the cube, only to have a smaller sphere ship escape and The Enterprise chases it into a temporal vortex where both ships go back in time to the year 2063 where the Borg are attempting to stop a big historical moment in human history.

Now at first I was a little skeptical about this movie, because I wasn't all that fond of the idea of another film where the crew goes back in time. But thankfully this movie got better. I mean the concept in itself of the crew of the Enterprise facing the Borg during a whole movie goes without saying. The side story about this big historical moment and trying to make it happen turned out to have an ending that I thought was cool and I know much bigger fans then me probably loved to death. The was more action in this movie, which really worked as far goes as facing the Borg and telling us more about them in a much deeper level then they did in the show. And finally, this movie succeeded where Generations did not in terms of giving us ALL of the characters. Granted, this film still kind of focused on Picard and Data the most just like the last film, but I think it's safe to say that we got a whole lot more of everyone else. Sometimes you don't get quite as much as you'd like with certain characters like La Forge concerning his eyes, but most of them aren't an entirely big deal. Anything else to say, the effects and the design look much better then they did in Generations.

And that's my review for Star Trek VIII: First Contact. It gave us a much better plot that fans would easily enjoy, it was much more action packed and gave us much more of the whole cast in general, not just Picard and Data, altogether I would say that this would be the best Star Trek film from TNG. (Don't worry, I have already seen the last two, so I'm not jumping to conclusions before watching them. ).