Star Trek: First Contact (DVD)

Star Trek: First Contact. The Borg return to assimilate Earth and Starfleet rallies a fleet in a last ditch attempt to save the planet. But as the call goes out for all ships to return post haste to rally the defences, Jean Luc Picard and the new starship Enterprise are deliberately sidelined. While the Enterprise is the strongest ship in the fleet, Jean Luc Picard is viewed with distrust when it comes to the Borg. Six years prior, Picard himself was assimilated into the collective and was coerced into acting against the Federation. When the battle begins in earnest, Picard disregards his orders in favour of his conscience and arrives in time to rescue the ...  Read the complete review

Star Trek... boldly going with dazzling effects, big budget and those 'Bionic Zombies,' the Borg - what a creation, my favourite Star Trek enemy of all time. Obvious, really, seeing as my user name is Borg! No, I am not a Swedish tennis fan, after all... Now you all know what Star Trek is, right? If you haven't, then (very quickly) it was a sci-fi series first shown in the 60s. It starred William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nemoy as Spock. Kirk was the captain of the star ship Enterprise, which travelled the galaxies in search of new life and 'new civilisations.' The show finished, but the films began to be made, such as 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' ...  Read the complete review

Star Trek First Contact is a science fiction action film that was released in 1996, and was directed by Jonathan Frakes. I would personally say that First Contact is the best Star Trek film to be based on The Next Generation, second only perhaps to 'Nemesis.' The film follows an race of aliens know as the Borg. They are a group of cybernetic lifeforms that form part of a collective consciouness with a single mind. Their desire is to achieve perfection through the assimilation of other species and their technologies. Those unlucky enough to become a Borg 'drone' will find themselves loosing their sense of individuality and having their bodies implanted with ...  Read the complete review

I was looking forward to watching first contact as I felt that the last couple of Star Trek films had lost a bit of their direction. Although I really enjoyed all of the films (even the worst one - Star Trek V) this was going to be an exciting change in direction. The film focuses on the Borgs continuing attempts to take over the alpha quadrant and in particular - humanity. The film opens with an amazing battle scene...one not to be missed and sadly, not one they have managed to recreate in the films (although Deep Space 9 Season seven comes close) We get to see new starships and new weapons...about time! Without spoiling too much of ...  Read the complete review

Following the extremely disappointing Generations (ST7), we were expecting this, the eighth Star Trek film, to be a lot better. (In case you managed to miss it or haven’t seen many of the films, all the odd numbered Star Trek films up to 7 were awful, while the even-numbered films were good – strange but true…) Fortunately, we were right - First Contact, while it certainly has its flaws, is well worth seeing and Star Trek: The Next Generation fans were certainly not left feeling disappointed again. If you know the series, you’ll remember that at one point, Captain Picard was assimilated by the Borg (an alien race that operate with a collective mind), but was ...  Read the complete review