Review of Star Trek: First Contact (1996) by Jennifer Loves Chad — 23 Jul 2009

One of the best (if not THE BEST) Star Trek movies. I think everyone knew putting the Borg (Star Trek's most formidable villains) in a film would make for a great movie, and I think they exceeded everyone's expectations.

The film is terribly well written, the pacing is great, there's lots of action; it's truly the Next Generation crew at their best. And the time travel aspect worked well for Star Trek IV and works just as great here.

I have a lot of favorite moments - Deanna Troi getting shitfaced on Earth and telling off that smug Commander Riker, Worf's great line to Captain Picard "If you were not the man you were, I would kill you where you stand!", and the inclusion of fan favorite Lt.

Barclay in a small but funny part. A young Neal McDonough appears as the ship's pilot, Commander Hawk, who was to be the first gay crewman ever on Star Trek, but all his gay scenes got cut out. No, not sex romps with Captain Picard and Data, but just scenes where his sexuality is stated for the record.

But of course, no gays allowed on Star Trek. There's some great stuff with Data in the film, where he gets abducted by the Borg, and is pracitcally raped by the Borg Queen. She's actually pretty hot for a cyborg.

It could've been worse, he's lucky she didn't force him to give all the Borg blow jobs. You know, Data is always looking to be more human, always experimenting with new things. If Commander Hawk had lived I'm sure he could've given Data a few pointers.

Star Wars had a gay robot named C-3PO, imagine if Star Trek had one too. But luckily it didn't come to that.