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Star Trek: First Contact
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.
1996 · Directed by Jonathan Frakes · 111 min · Science Fiction · Action · Adventure · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
Resistance is futile.
Plot
In the 24th century, Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare in which he relives his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier. He is contacted by Starfleet, who inform him of a new Borg threat against Earth. Concerned that Picard is too emotionally involved with the Borg, Starfleet orders the USS Enterprise to patrol the Neutral Zone in case of Romulan aggression.
During their patrol, the Enterprise learns that the fleet is losing the battle against the Borg. Picard and his crew disobey orders and head for Earth, where a single Borg Cube ship holds its own against a group of Starfleet vessels. Enterprise arrives in time to assist the crew of the USS Defiant and its commander, the Klingon Worf. Picard takes command of the fleet and directs the surviving ships to concentrate their firepower on a seemingly unimportant point on the Borg ship. The Cube launches a smaller spherical ship towards Earth before being destroyed. Enterprise pursues the sphere into a temporal vortex. As the sphere disappears, Enterprise discovers Earth has been altered—Borg now populate it. Realizing the Borg have used time travel to change the past, Enterprise follows the sphere through the vortex.
Enterprise arrives hundreds of years in the past on April 4, 2063, the day before the historic warp drive flight that leads to humanity's first encounter with alien life. The crew surmise that the Borg are trying to prevent first contact and assimilate humanity while the planet is recovering from World War III. After destroying the Borg sphere, an away team transports down to Zefram Cochrane's warp ship, Phoenix, in Bozeman, Montana. Beverly Crusher and Cochrane's assistant Lily Sloane return to the Enterprise to treat her radiation sickness. Picard and Data also return to the ship after suspecting the Borg have survived their sphere's destruction, leaving Commander William T. Riker on Earth to make sure Phoenix's flight proceeds as planned. While in the future Cochrane is seen as a hero, in reality he built the Phoenix for financial gain and is reluctant to be the historic figure the crew describes.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore
- Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti
- Edited by: John W. Wheeler, Anastasia Emmons
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Production design: Herman F. Zimmerman
- Produced by: Peter Lauritson, Rick Berman
Cast
- Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
- Brent Spiner as Lieutenant Commander Data
- LeVar Burton as Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge
- Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Commander Worf
- Gates McFadden as Commander Beverly Crusher
- Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
- James Cromwell as Dr. Zefram Cochrane
- Alfre Woodard as Lily Sloane
- Alice Krige as Borg Queen
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $46,000,000
- Box office: $146,027,888
- Themes: spacecraft, teleportation, inventor, starship, resistance, borg, enterprise-e, cyborg, montana, repayment
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