Star Trek VIII: First Contact

The picture is a 10. The sound is a 10. The language options are a 10. My favorite Star Trek movie for these reasons.

By far the best of the next gen films, First Contact involves the Borg and the Enterprise time travelling back in time to the invention of warp drive and the very first encounter between humanity and the Vulcans.The Borg intend to change the past so that the Earth will be conquered by the Borg centuries before The Federation first encountered them (and before there even was a federation).A great script and excellent performances from the actors, plus above average directing (from Jonathan Frakes no less!) really bring this story to life.The musical score is one of Jerry Goldsmith's best. Everything is topflight hereThe 4K disc looks gorgeous and the sound is phenomenal too. The colors blow away the standard Blu-ray! Just magnificent looking image quality!This is one heck of a great looking disc and I couldn't recommend it more!If you are a fan don't hesitate to purchase this excellent disc.

The eighth big-screen installment of the "Star Trek" franchise was released to theaters in 1996 with the title "Star Trek: First Contact". It was also the second "Star Trek" film to feature the cast from the highly successful television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-1994). Unlike the previous film, it did not include any of the cast members from the original "Star Trek" series. Instead, "Star Trek: First Contact" begins with the crew on board the newest starship to have the name "Enterprise", the NCC-1701-E. When Starfleet detects a Borg cube headed for Earth, instead of ordering the "USS Enterprise" to join the forces to engage the cube, Starfleet orders it to the Romulan Neutral Zone for fear of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), who had once been forcibly assimilated into the Borg collective. However, the Borg cube successfully gets through the Starfleet blockade, Captain Picard orders the Enterprise to intercept the Borg cube and to rally the surviving Starfleet ships for a last stand. Upon arriving at the Borg cube, Captain Picard assumes command of the fleet and rescues the crew of the USS Defiant, which includes Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn). Using his knowledge of the Borg, Captain Picard successfully destroys the Borg cube, but not before a smaller spherical ship escapes and heads for Earth. Chasing it, the Borg sphere creates a wormhole into time and escapes to Earth's past; but since the USS Enterprise was also caught in the wormhole, it escapes the modified timeline of a Borg-dominated Earth and appears at the same point in history (300 years earlier) where the sphere arrived shortly before. Finding the sphere attacking a missile outpost in Idaho, the USS Enterprise successfully destroys the sphere; but Captain Picard realizes that the Borg were attempting to destroy Earth's first warp ship created by the legendary Dr. Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell). Beaming down to assess the damage at the outpost, Captain Picard is joined by Commander William Riker (William Frakes), Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner), Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). There, they find the first warp ship intact, but are mistaken by a native of the time period, Lily Sloane (Alfre Woodard), of being agents of an Eastern alliance that had initiated a world war several decades earlier. Lily collapses and is beamed back to Enterprise with Dr. Crusher to help with her radiation poisoning. In the meantime, the rest of the away team searches for Dr. Cochran; but Captain Picard realizes that not all of the Borg had been destroyed: some of them managed to beam aboard the Enterprise before the sphere was destroyed. Can Captain Picard stop the Borg from taking over the Enterprise? Can the away team find Dr. Cochran and repair the warp ship to initiate Earth's first-ever official contact with an alien species? You'll just have to watch this exciting "Star Trek" film and see the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) reveal herself for the first time."Star Trek: First Contact" was clearly one of the best films of the franchise ever produced, and was clearly the best of the four "Star Trek" films featuring the crew from "Star Trek: The Next Generation". With impressive special effects, an engaging story, engaging characters and a wonderful script, "Star Trek: First Contact" is definitely one "Star Trek" film worth owning on DVD. Other "Star Trek" characters that appear in this film include the Emergency Medical Hologram (Robert Picardo), Lieutenant Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz) and Nurse Alyssa Ogawa (Patti Yasutake). Other characters include Lieutenant Hawk (Neal McDonough), Admiral Hayes (Jack Shearer), Ruby (Hillary Hayes), Nicky the Nose (Don Stark), the Vulcan Captain (Cully Fredricksen) and the voice of the Enterprise computer (Majel Barrett). Memorable scenes include the opening Borg attack scenes, the arrival in the past, finding the warp ship, finding Dr. Cochran, discovery of the Borg on the Enterprise, Data's capture, Lily with Picard, the holodeck scene, the space walk, the launch, Picard & the Borg Queen and the closing scenes. Overall, I rate "Star Trek: First Contact" with a resounding 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it.

If you like science fiction you like this movie

I'm not a fan of JJ Abrams re-incarnation of Star Trek, not by a million miles. So if I want to have fun Trek time I have to look way back to previous generations (ironically this time the Next Generation) and to 1996's Star Trek: First Contact - the last truly great Trek movie.Haunted by dreams of the techno-zombie Borg race calling to him Picard wastes no time (okay, maybe a little) in charging the Enterprise into a Borg battle with the Federation above the Earth. The cube is successfully destroyed, but the Borg manage to travel back to the mid-21st century, a time when Earth is fractured due from World War III, and try to prevent the first meeting between humans and aliens.Zefram Cochrane is the man who makes that connection with his first ever warp drive flight, and he's not quite the squeaky clean hero that the Enterprise crew thought he would be. Meanwhile, with their escape pod destroyed, the remaining Borg slowly take over the Enterprise, with their as-yet-unseen Queen attempting to seduce security codes out of Data with promises of humanity (a clever reversal of Borg culture).Naturalized Star Trek movies tend to fare better with audiences. Both First Contact and the Voyage Home are more accessible for non-Trek fans but still have a sense of adventure and a strong connection to the universe (pun intended). First Contact also receives a huge boost from Jerry Goldsmith's beautiful score, which is his best Trek effort and certainly one of his best scores overall. The action is a little bit clunky (endless generic Enterprise corridor scenes get a bit tiresome) but the character chemistry is pitch perfect and there is a good variety in the excitement.The Blu-ray looks good in 2.39:1 1080p, but I do believe that it would benefit greatly from a 4k remastering. Surely the series has enough fans for Paramount to justify it. The Dolby TrueHD sound fares a lot better and there are loads of extras. However, there is a commentary by Damon Lindelof (!) who was not involved with this film in any way (thankfully). Why this talent vacuum was invited to spout his opinions on a film far better than anything he could ever hope to be associated with is beyond me. It's like asking Ed Wood to make his own cut of Ben Hur.

Ok

All the next gen characters at their best

Needed to replace an old VCR version. This was in good condition and we watch it when we don't want anything jarring... just a comfortable old friend of a movie

Soy fan de Star Trek y de su saga de películas, y cuando supe que Paramount Pictures había restaurado en formato 4K UHD, el clásico "Star Trek VIII: First Contact", la compré de inmediato. Se ve mejor que nunca, con una calidad de imagen fuera de serie. Trae Slipcover de colección, todo llegó en perfectas condiciones

In diesem Film geht es in einem bedeutenden Teil um Rache und Verführung. Es wurden Motive desRomans "Moby Dick" von Herman Melville verwendet. Das Erzähl-Tempo des sehr unterhaltsamenSpielfilms ist besonders gut gelungen. Die Geschichte baut vor allem auf der Handlung von "RaumschiffEnterprise - Das nächste Jahrhundert" auf. Außerdem wird ein neues Enterprise Raumschiff eingeführt.Verdienter Weise wurde " Star Trek 8: First Contact" zu einem der kommerziell erfolgreichsten Star Trek-Filme überhaupt.

The one - the moment where everything simply came together at the right time to create a thrilling adventure which still stands as the best TNG big screen outing and one of the best ‘Star Trek’ films, offering a taste of what could have been if the follow up films hadn’t been so muddled.The USS Enterprise and her crew find themselves in a battle to save Earth and the entire future of their history, as they must travel back in time to defeat the Federations greatest enemy, The Borg, from erasing their entire civilisation…It fires on all cylinders from the moment it starts, and never drops the pace right through until the end, setting up the story quickly and efficiently and following its two parallel stories (on Earth and on the Enterprise) until they dovetail in the finale.The cast had hit their stride, the visual effects are largely terrific (the model and other practical work hold up staggeringly well, and most of the CGI looks good for its age as well - apart from the plasma but even in 1996 that was a bit iffy!) and the picture quality is the best I think I’ve seen, even on the standard Blu-ray. It’s really never looked better.Extras are lengthy with three commentaries (one with Jonathan Frakes, one with Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga, one with Damon Lindelof and Anthony Pascale and the standard text commentary from Mike and Denise Okuda….plenty to digest in all of them), plus hours and hours of archive featurettes, interviews, storyboards, etcVery worthwhile purchase.

Although watching a Star Trek film requires shedding reality for a couple of hours, both the novice and the dedicated "Trekkie" can enjoy this one. The newcomer may wonder about technical matters: how fast is "warp ten"?; what's a "temporal vortex"?; why are Federation weapons so ungainly? Ignore these minor issues for later reflection. For now, watch this film for the adventure and the people living it. There's plenty of adventure and some of the people are a treat.The adventure is a chase through time and space to Earth of this century. The Borg, a triumph of biotechnology, are trying to disrupt history itself. A mixture of machine and organisms, they are personified as the epitome of evil. They aspire to assimilate members of any sentient species into their "perfect" collective. They simply want everybody to be like them: rather like globalization on a galactic scale. Their leader is rather like a queen bee, a superior among equals . She's a truly gross character, both physically and morally, the perfect example of the "modern woman" as a corporate manager. Superbly portrayed by Alice Krige, one can only wish the make-up team who turned this beautiful South African into such a monster roast in the eternal flames. The scene of her blowing on the android Data's emotion chip will remain etched in the viewer's memory forever.Most of the other Enterprise crew break a little from their traditional TV series roles from time to time. Picard sheds his lofty role as Captain as he guides the confused Lily Sloane [Alfre Woodard] through a glimpse of her future. Counselor Deanne Troi, usually so cool and collected, becomes wonderfully sloshed in a Rocky Mountain grog shop. Worf the Klingon lapses a moment into space sickness. Jonathan Frakes, as the film's director, has no time for acting, still pompously blustering his way through events just as he does in the TV episodes.The walkaway portrayal in this film is James Cromwell as Zefran Cochrane. Since faster-than-light travel is a mainstay of Star Trek tales, it was only logical that some means be devised to show us who perfected it. Cromwell is outstanding in shattering every image we have of the sombre, knowledge-seeking, ivory tower researcher. A lecherous old lush, practical as only an inventor can be, he seems more human than any other character in the film. Confronted by Chief Engineer Jordi La Forge's adulatory account of future honours, he bolts, fearing the wealth he dreamed of coming from his invention will evaporate. Cromwell evokes the common in all of us - how would we react if this mob appeared in our midst? Cromwell captures the wonder, resentment, fears and ambitions any of us might if confronted by our future. Calling his role "supportive" is a terrible misnomer - the film is clearly his.In short, this is a speculative fiction film worthy of your consideration. There's much pathos, the visual effects don't overwhelm unduly, and the combat, which is a bit obtrusive, is still better than many of the type. The proximity in time to our own day brings an fillip of novelty from other Star Trek movies. It's worth watching and keeping, if for nothing else than to generate interest in younger viewers to see how close it comes to the reality of the future.

Excellent série de film