Star Trek: First Contact

    Star Trek: First Contact
    1996

    Synopsis

    The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

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    Cast

    • Patrick StewartCaptain Jean-Luc Picard
    • Jonathan FrakesCommander William T. Riker
    • Brent SpinerLieutenant Commander Data
    • LeVar BurtonLieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
    • Michael DornLieutenant Commander Worf
    • Gates McFaddenCommander Beverly Crusher
    • Marina SirtisCounselor Deanna Troi
    • James CromwellDr. Zefram Cochrane
    • Alfre WoodardLily Sloane
    • Alice KrigeBorg Queen

    Recommendations

    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Certainly the best in its technical credits, and among the best in the ingenuity of its plot.
    • 80

      Washington Post

      First Contact, written by Ric Berman, Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, pulsates with great imagination, amusing characters and the fundamental optimism handed down by "Star Trek" founder Gene Roddenberry.
    • 80

      Chicago Reader

      The script by Brannon Braga and Ronald Moore provides all the background necessary for viewers unfamiliar with the characters' previous movie and TV-series exploits, but not so much as to annoy fans.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      First time director Jonathan Frakes (who also plays Riker, the Enterprise's second-in-command) injects some badly-needed energy and inventiveness into a series that, prior to this effort, was sinking under its own weight and boldly going nowhere.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      The fine quality of the new film is good news for anyone disappointed by "Star Trek Generations," which got the new "Star Trek" feature film series off to a shaky start two years ago.
    • 75

      San Francisco Examiner

      Even those unfamiliar with the entire "Star Trek" phenomenon (it's now been 30 years since the original TV show sprang from the fertile mind of creator Gene Roddenberry) will find this a clever action movie, with a well-written screenplay and tight direction of a fine cast.
    • 70

      Washington Post

      The excitement comes from Frakes's direction -- his liveliness, and his pleasure in looking at, and showing us, events and images.
    • 50

      The New York Times

      The series now lacks all of its original stars and much of its earlier determination. It has morphed into something less innocent and more derivative than it used to be, something the noncultist is ever less likely to enjoy.

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