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Bookmark this pageStar Trek: First Contact (1996)
Director: Jonathan Frakes
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From Time Out Film Guide
This makes little concession to non-initiates. The Borg, a species of cyborg linked in a hive-consciousness and dedicated to the 'absorption' of all other life-forms, build on their reputation as the TV series' best baddies to invade the Federation: only Picard (Stewart) stands between them and conquest of the Earth. But just when we think we're in for 'Independence Day 2', the routed Borg go back in time to win the war before it began, and we're hurled along with the Enterprise into much darker territory. The Borg's infiltration of the starship recalls some of the tension of Alien, while the attempts of the Borg Queen (Krige) to convert the android Data (Spiner) to the pleasures of the New Flesh are positively transgressive. Certainly Spiner convinces you that androids do dream of electric sheep, and electric ladylands; while Stewart, confronting his conscience, draws a sci-fi blockbuster audience into the intimacy of a fringe play.Author: DW
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- Fred said...
- Posted on Aug 27 2010 14:25 Both, 'First Contact' and 'Insurrection' are watchable, but none of TNG films match up to the best of the tv series. The New Star Trek movie outshines them all!
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- lkrystek said...
- Posted on Feb 07 2009 15:26 This is easily the best of TNG movies and one of the best in all the Star Trek series.
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Cast & crew
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Producer: Rick Berman
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Alice Krige, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Alfre Woodard full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Rated: 12A
Duration: 111 mins
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