Cheap Star Trek - First Contact (Special Collector's Edition) (DVD) (LeVar Burton, James Cromwell, Michael Dorn, Alice Krige) Price

Related Products

Customer Reviews of Star Trek - First Contact (Special Collector's Edition)

Data is captured by the Queen Borg.
Directed by Jonathan Frakes. <
>In the last film, STAR TREK: GENERATIONS, Captain Jean-Luc Picard was with Captain Kirk at death who both were fighting Suran. At the moment, Kirk did indeed die alone. Picard buried Kirk under stones in the rock canyon. <
> Note: James T. Kirk does come back to life in William Shatner's books, The Ashes of Eden (1995) and The Return (1995). <
> The next three films are solely the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GHENERATION cast (1987-94). <
> Stardate: 50893.5 Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) continues to have nightmares about the time he almost became a complete borg. The evil Borg is on their way to Earth and about to cross Federation line, Against Federation orders Picard travels at maximum speed to Earth to stop the borg. Wolf (Michael Dorn) is aboard the Defiant. Picard destroys the Borg Cube, however just before destruction, the cube releases an escape sphere to Earth. Data (Brent Spiner) discovers the Earth contains 9 billion lives. They are all borg. <
>The Enterprise has travelled to April 4, 2063, perhaps after World War 3. They have destroyed the dangerous sphere. Picard wants to change this awful history of Borg, so Riker (Jonathan Frakes and Troi (Marina Sirtis) meet down on earth, Zefram Cochran (James cromwell), but first they have a female renegade, Lily (Alfie Woodward) to deal with. To make matters worse, the Borg Queen (Alice Krige, GHOST STORY [1981]) has captured Data. <
> Also in the cast: Levar Burton as "LaForge", Gates McFadden as "Dr. Crusher", Robert Picardo makes a cameo appearance as "the hologram doctor" (Deep Space Nine 1993-99). <
>Computer voice is Majel Barrett. "Nicky the Nose" is played by Don Stark. <
>DVD is in widescreen. Two audio commentaries, one with Jonathan Frakes, the other by Screenplay writers. Text Commentary will play, at your option, full ofinteresting facts. This text feature can not play at the same time as language subtitles. <
> Disc 2 is Special Features. <
> The next voyage is: STAR TREK: INSURRECTION (1998).

---

Watch your future's end.
In science fiction, most anything can happen and in time travel most anything routinely happens. In Star Trek, it's nearly guaranteed something fun, engaging and uplifting will happen. With Star Trek: First Contact, these high expectations are met to the fullest. <
> <
>Although released in late November 1996, the movie plays like a big summer popcorn flick. From the dark opener, a chilling nightmare flashback suffered by Captain Picard recalling his time under the influence of alien invaders, to space battles, to combat which explode aboard the starship, the movie delivers incredible action on all fronts. The Borg is the enemy the valiant Enterprise crew must defeat. Borg can be best described as 'cybernetic zombies' - an effective cross between Resident Evil like shambling creatures and wired in Matrix like cyborgs. <
> <
>This was the second feature film based on The Next Generation TV show. Despite the polished romp of the previous film Generations, the Next Gen crew's first, in many ways First Contact comes off as their debut. Generations relied on Captain Kirk as an important linchpin of its plot and the TNG crew were almost glorified guest stars in their own film. Here they are more confident and committed. Maybe it's even the fact that the TV Starship was destroyed in the last film. As great as it was to see our heroes walking around the old sets of the show, at times it felt like a pricey two part episode. With a new ship, new uniforms and a newly designed Borg - complete with a weirdly seductive leader, The Borg Queen, First Contact allowed the new generation to stand on its own. Co-stars James Cromwell and Alfre Woodward sparkle as scientists intent on launching the first warp drive capable ship from the ashes of a planet whose populace exist in a sad twilight world of grimy shanty towns with only faint traces of planet Earth's former glory. <
> <
>The optical FX provided by ILM remain some of the most convincing Star Trek footage ever realized. This was the first Star Trek movie to broadly use digital ships. Models are still used in the film, however it's nearly impossible to distinguish them from the digital. A main set piece - perhaps the film's most electrifying moment - not counting the Borg Queen's fantastic entrance - consists of dozens of Starships battering a Borg Cube with everything they have and then some. It's in this moment that we see more Starship designs at one time than in practically any other Star Trek moment, although the finale of Deep Space Nine which aired three years later, may indeed rival this incredible battle. Granted, it's a rather short engagement, but the spectacular visuals leave a great impression of just how powerful Starfleet can be and maybe more importantly that a Borg Cube stands nearly impregnable. <
> <
>Alice Krige arguably steals the movie. She "brings order to chaos" as she explains to a puzzled captive Data who wonders how the massive amount of Borg thoughts could ever be controlled by one entity. Krige's Oscar nominated make-up and her truly other worldly performance are real highlights of this outing. I've watched her entrance a dozen times and it still leaves me in awe. Krige does more with her voice and eyes than most actors do with their entire bodies. Her portrayal ranks up there with many of the most compelling Star Trek villains or villains period in film history. <
> <
>The DVD brims with fun and informative extras. This is one you'll pop in many times. First Contact lives up to its name in more ways than one. It's the first Star Trek movie to show how humanity became a space faring civilization which would lead to the birth of the Federation, the first to showcase a new Starship design along with new uniforms in quite sometime. It's also the first Star Trek movie to be released on DVD and the first one I ever watched or purchased. The Borg Queen really was wrong, this isn't the end of the future - but the beginning. <
> <
>

---

First Disappointment
This ranks as one of Star Trek's worst movies (along with the first one,the recent Nemesis&Insurrection),showing that the series had only so long a shelf life.Really.The Star Trek movie series has overstayed its welcome;I don't think JJ Abrams will help. <
> <
>As usual,Patrick Stewart acts nobly.It's his Shakespearean background that enables him redeem himself--but not from the script. <
> <
>The plot tries to do too much at once--a cosmic fight against the Borg,along with helping humans have First Contact,beginning Star Trek.A potentially interesting premise--but it wastes its potential. <
> <
>In the TV series,the Borg acts as a collective;there is no individuality.Adding a Borg Queen to act as Data's seducer goes against the series' own mythology.True,she has a cool entrance,but plot-wise,it doesn't work.James Cromwell,who was the farmer in "Babe",is cast as the crotchety father of Star Trek.Why they decided to have an old geezer,instead of a youth,left me wondering.Maybe there shouldn't have been a prequel;it answered too many questions. <
> <
>After I saw this movie,I stopped seeing the rest of the Star Trek movies.I knew it had gone downhill.Star Trek had lost its fun cheesiness;it became too serious.This is a movie worth avoiding-have NO contact with it!