Star Trek First Contact Retrospective/Review - Star Trek Retrospective, Part 11

Star Trek Retrospective, Part 11: Despite the lukewarm reception of Star Trek Generations, the Star Trek franchise was still riding high. For the next big screen Star Trek adventure, the team behind the eighth Star Trek film made sure to pull out all the stops.

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00:00 Intro
00:58 Development
10:04 Production
14:25 Star Trek First Contact
21:18 Release & Reception
22:44 Outro

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[Spacedock]

The idea that the masterpiece of First Contact could have wound up instead being Data hobnobbing with Leonardo Da Vinci in Renaissance Italy just feels like we dodged the largest and silliest bullet imaginable lol.

[mauriciobetimpaesleme]

Data: She brought me closer to humanity than I ever thought possible, and for a time...I was tempted by her offer.
Jean-Luc Picard: How long a time?
Data: Zero point six eight seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity

I can't stress how good and powerful these lines are.

[hamsandwichson]

How awesome is Jonathan Frakes? He always looks like he's having fun and is always great in interview footage!

[Imbeachedwhale]

That Titan Missile silo is now the Titan Missile Museum not to far outside of Tuscon. The museum is absolutely fantastic, and while you’re only allowed a one hour guided tour of parts of the complex (including the launch control center), it is one of the best museums I have ever visited. There’s so much packed into such a short time.

A piece of advice: a one point in the tour, they ask for a volunteer. Be that volunteer.

[Gianne]

Star Trek: First Contact is my favorite movie of all time. I will never forget being 8-9 years old in 96’ and going to a local theater in Chicago with my dad and seeing this movie. Seeing that horrific zoom out from Picard’s eye ball that pulled out to show the massive internal infrastructure of the Borg Cube was shocking. This movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid but as I got older my fascination with it grew and the fact that in many ways it was a continuation to the Best of Both Worlds. As a 32 year old man now I greatly appreciate this movie for what it is now almost 25 years later and what it was then. Great video and thank you for going over this wonderful movie!

[masterskrain]

I remember watching First Contact in the theater and seeing and hearing the audience reacting to some of the scenes and gags that real Star Trek fans would get, cheering when the Defiant starts fighting the cube, applauding as we finally get to see the REAL size Difference between Defiant and The Enterprise-E, cheering when the EMH appears, and many others. Also, there were people actually crying when the captain of the Vulcan Ship pulls back his hood, exposing those ears. Jonathan Frakes hit it out of the park with this one!

[ZeroAnalogy]

"Assimilate THIS!" (16:14) is one of my favorite Star Trek one-liners.

[thelimesheep]

I will always love First Contact, not only for being a fantastic movie but for being the thing that got me into star trek originally. Before I'd seen bits and pieces of the movies and tv shows but this was the first movie I watched beginning to end and I loved it even without knowing what was fully going on.

[InformantNet]

First Contact came out 25 years ago? Holy moly. Time flies.

[thecorrective]

Picard's scream when he destroys the ship display case was so iconic, it was even used in a south park episode as Randy destroys sth

[King_George_VI]

The pinnacle of documentary style is BBC in my humble opinion and your retrospectives have the quality, detail, and organisation of a BBC-trained documentarian. I’m not sure of your opinion of BBC, but I hope you know I mean this in nothing but the most positive praise. I have actually become almost slightly dismayed when I discover one of your retrospectives are less than 30 minutes because I enjoy them so much lol.

[McQueenFan]

Einer meiner Favoriten ever mit einem brillanten Soundtrack!

[DrakeAurum]

They did manage to do a great job of updating the look of the Borg, and the music is outstanding. Just listening to a few notes of the theme written for this movie is incredibly nostalgic and uplifting.

[DavidWesley]

This was my first Star Trek film watched in the theatre. It was absolutely thrilling then and still holds up!

[satanclaus]

To me, the theme created for this movie is hands down the most beautiful piece of music ever composed.

[katschaccc]

First contact is my absolute favorite star trek movie. 😍

[llongone]

Data's fist-pump in the previous movie may be more memorable...but I just love the contempt in his voice/face when he delivers "Resistence...is futile!!!" with gritted teeth

[richard]

Jerry Goldsmith's overall theme in this one I think is probably the best music in all of ST. And it's inclusion in the scene with First Contact with the Vulcans brings tears whenever I watch it.

[ScruffMcGruff]

Best Trek movie that came out in my time, saw it three times in theaters when I was 10. Frakes did a great job directing, the whole cast was amazing and Cromwell and Alice Krige were great additions.

[NPCRR]

First Contact is my absolute favorite of all the Star Trek movies, bar none!! I think it is fantastic in every way!! Story, FX, acting, direction, music, pacing, action, heart - all absolutely top notch!!