Star Trek: First Contact
November 22, 1996 in theaters
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.
Cast
Patrick Stewart
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes
Commander William T. Riker
Brent Spiner
Lieutenant Commander Data
LeVar Burton
Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn
Lieutenant Commander Worf
Gates McFadden
Commander Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis
Counselor Deanna Troi
James Cromwell
Dr. Zefram Cochrane
Director
TRAILER
QUOTE
"The line must be drawn here!"
-- Captain Picard
DID YOU KNOW?
The Borg Queen was created specifically for this film -- she doesn't appear in the TNG series.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
First Contact is the TNG crew's best film — a time-travel thriller that gave Picard a personal antagonist in the Borg and the weight of obsession to carry through it. Jonathan Frakes' direction is confident and the film moves with a propulsion the TNG films rarely sustained; the two-timeline structure — Picard on a Borg-infested Enterprise, Riker on the ground during first contact — gives each cast member something to do. The Borg Queen is the strongest single villain the franchise introduced in this era. A film that proved the TNG cast could hold a theatrical story without the original crew's scaffolding.
PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
Where this fits in the larger story
Star Trek: First Contact belongs to the Next Generation film era, continuing the 24th-century story of Picard and the Enterprise crew beyond the series. It connects Federation ideals with larger threats and moral choices facing Starfleet after decades of expansion. Its placement helps viewers follow how The Next Generation legacy moves from episodic exploration into feature-scale conflicts and consequences.
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