Review – Star Trek: First Contact

You probably shouldn’t make this your first contact with the world of Star Trek. It’s based heavily on characters and plots from Star Trek: The Next Generation and the movies and spin-offs spawned thereby. Even if you do know enough about the show to follow the story, you still may walk away feeling short-changed. Rather than functioning as a movie, this plays more like two episodes of the TV series mashed awkwardly together. In one, the Enterprise journeys back in time – never a good sign – to convince the inventor of warp drive to go through with a crucial test that will allow humans and Vulcans to meet for the first time. In the other, the Enterprise is taken over by the Borg, leaving Picard and company fighting to regain control of the ship while Data is kidnapped and tortured by the evil Borg queen. Either of these would have been fine as a ST:TNG episode, but they don’t work together or separately as a movie. Mildly amusing