Star Trek: First Contact
Writers: Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Release: November 18, 1996
Tagline(s): Prepare for assimilation.
Resistance is futile…Or is it?
Resistance is futile.
There is no thrill like First Contact.
The battle to save the future has begun.
Planet Earth. Population 9 billion. None human.
The treachery of a queen. The courage of a captain. The destiny of a planet.
Producer: Rick Berman
Co-Producer: Peter Lauritson
Executive Producer: Martin Hornstein
Stars/Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis,
Music by: Jerry Goldsmith
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller
ID: tt0117731
Rating: PG
Runtime: 111 minutes
Based On: Based Star Trek: The Next Generation
Synopsis: The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth’s first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
Declassified by Agent Palmer: Palmer’s Trek: Star Trek: First Contact
Quotes and Lines
PICARD: No! …I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We’ve made too many compromises already. Too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here, this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they’ve done.
PICARD: Let’s just say that Starfleet has every confidence in the Enterprise and her crew. They’re just not sure about her Captain. They believe that a man who was once captured and assimilated by the Borg should not be put in a situation where he would face them again. To do so would introduce an unstable element to a critical situation
DATA: Captain, I believe I am feeling …anxiety. It’s an intriguing sensation. A most distracting…
PICARD: Data, I’m sure it’s a fascinating experience. Perhaps you should deactivate your emotion chip for now.
DATA: Good idea, sir. Done.
PICARD: Data, there are times when I envy you.
WORF: Assimilate this!
RIKER: Look at that!
COCHRANE: What, you don’t have a moon in the twenty-fourth century?
RIKER: Sure we do. It looks a lot different. There are fifty million people living on the moon in my time. You can see Tycho City, New Berlin, even Lake Armstrong on a day like this.
COCHRANE: Aha.
RIKER: And you know, Doctor…
COCHRANE: Please …don’t tell me it’s all thanks to me. I’ve heard enough about the great Zefram Cochrane. I don’t know who writes your history books or where you get your information from, but you people got some pretty funny ideas about me. You all look at me as if I’m some kind of saint or visionary or something.
RIKER: I don’t think you’re a saint, Doc, but you did have a vision. And now we’re sitting in it.
COCHRANE: You wanna know what my vision is? …Dollar signs! Money! I didn’t build this ship to usher in a new era for humanity. You think I wanna go to the stars? I don’t even like to fly. I take trains. I built this ship so that I could retire to some tropical island filled with …naked women. That’s Zefram Cochrane. That’s his vision. This other guy you keep talking about. This historical figure. I never met him. I can’t imagine I ever will.
RIKER: Someone once said ‘Don’t try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make it’s own judgements’.
COCHRANE: Rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
RIKER: You did, ten years from now. You’ve got fifty-eight minutes, Doc. You better get on with the checklist.
CRUSHER: So much for the Enterprise-E.
PICARD: We barely knew her.
CRUSHER: Think they’ll build another one?
PICARD: Plenty of letters left in the alphabet.