the outer worlds the frightened engineer

Enterprise pursues the sphere into a temporal vortex. The Cube launches a smaller sphere ship towards Earth before being destroyed. Picard takes control of the fleet and directs the surviving ships to concentrate their firepower on a seemingly unimportant point on the Borg ship. Enterprise arrives in time to assist the crew of USS Defiant and its commander, the Klingon Worf. Learning the fleet is losing the battle, the Enterprise crew disobeys orders and heads for Earth, where a single Borg Cube ship holds its own against a group of Starfleet vessels. Picard's orders are for his ship, USS Enterprise, to patrol the Neutral Zone in case of Romulan aggression Starfleet is worried that Picard is too emotionally involved with the Borg to join the fight. He is contacted by Admiral Hayes, who informs him of a new Borg threat against Earth. 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. It was followed by Star Trek: Insurrection in 1998. First Contact was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup and won three Saturn Awards. Scholarly analysis of the film has focused on Captain Jean-Luc Picard's parallels to Herman Melville's Ahab and the nature of the Borg. The Borg and the special effects were lauded, while characterization was less evenly received. Critical reception was mostly positive critics including Roger Ebert considered it to be one of the best Star Trek films, and it was the most positively reviewed film in the franchise (92% of reviews were positive) until being marginally surpassed (94%) by the 2009 reboot film. It eventually made $92 million in the United States and Canada with an additional $54 million in other territories, combining to a worldwide total of $146 million. Star Trek: First Contact was released on November 22, 1996, and was the highest-grossing film on its opening weekend. Jerry Goldsmith produced the film’s score. Traditional optical effects techniques were supplemented with computer-generated imagery. Effects company Industrial Light & Magic rushed to complete the film's special effects in less than five months. The Borg were redesigned to appear as though they were converted into machine beings from the inside-out the new makeup sessions took four times as long as their appearances on the television series.

Principal photography began with weeks of location shooting in Arizona and California, before production moved to new sets for the ship-based scenes. Production designer Herman Zimmerman and illustrator John Eaves collaborated to make a sleeker ship than its predecessor.

The film's script required the creation of new starship designs, including a new USS Enterprise. After two better-known directors turned down the job, cast member Jonathan Frakes was chosen to direct to make sure the task fell to someone who understood Star Trek. The writers combined the two ideas they initially set the film during the European Renaissance, but changed the time period that the Borg corrupted to the mid-21st century, after fearing the Renaissance idea would be 'too kitsch'. Braga and Moore wanted to feature the Borg in the plot, while producer Rick Berman wanted a story involving time travel. Moore with developing the next film in the series. In the film, the crew of the USS Enterprise-E travel back in time from the 24th century to the mid-21st century to stop the cybernetic Borg from conquering Earth by changing their past.Īfter the release of Star Trek Generations in 1994, Paramount Pictures tasked writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. It is the eighth film in the Star Trek film series, the second to star the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Jonathan Frakes (in his motion picture directorial debut) and based on the franchise Star Trek.

The outer worlds the frightened engineer