Review of Star Trek: First Contact (1996) by Brian R — 03 Jan 2013

NOTE: I went back and watched STFC a few more times and have appreciated the film a much more. I still find the dialogue quirky, funny (The line must be drawn HEaE!) and I admired Alice Krige as the femme Fatale Borg Queen. This is a very good sci-fi picture and probably one of the best of the series.

****.

(Old review) "Star Trek - First Contact" is considered one of the best Star Trek pictures. I somewhat enjoyed this but im not sure of it's greatness...The special/visual effects is well done and I admired the relationship between Data and the Borg Queen. The film also has some quirky filled humour.

PLOT- The Federation comes under attack by its ongoing enemy, the Borg, a cybernetics-enhanced race that once kidnapped Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), "assimilating" him into a drone. As a former prisoner of the Borg, Picard is ordered to stay out of the new battle, but he cannot resist and orders the brand-new starship Enterprise into the fray. The Enterprise follows the only surviving Borg ship through a time tunnel, where they intend to conquer Earth in an earlier era. The Borg have targeted the work of Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell), inventor of warp drive, the device that makes interplanetary travel possible. As the Enterprise crew attempts to stop the Borg from interrupting the work of Cochrane and his assistant, Lily (Alfre Woodard), Borg drones invade the Enterprise and take it over piece by piece, while Data (Brent Spiner) is captured and seduced by the Borg Queen (Alice Krige).