{"id":15990,"date":"2020-05-15T18:33:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T22:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=15990"},"modified":"2020-05-17T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T01:40:07","slug":"star-trek-first-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/star-trek-first-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: First Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You broke your little ships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: First Contact<\/strong>, released in 1996<\/p>\n<p>The Borg have returned to Federation space, and this time they travel into the past in order to assimilate Earth. Captain Picard and the Enterprise-E follow them to the past, where they encounter Zephram Cochrane. Cochrane is the first person to fly at warp speed, which attracts the attention of the Vulcans &#8212; and if that doesn&#8217;t happen, there will be no Federation.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Star Trek<\/strong>&#8216;s most terrifying villains, you will be on the edge of your seat. The crew&#8217;s interactions with the 21st century humans Cochrane and Lily Sloane provide some humour.<\/p>\n<p>The scene where they walk on the outside of the ship is stunning.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about fighting a vicious foe while maintaining your humanity &#8212; and not always succeeding. It&#8217;s about revenge, friendship, and heroes not always being who you expect them to be.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, and Ronald D. Moore (the 3 writers of <strong>Star Trek: Generations<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Dwight Schultz, Robert Picardo, and Ethan Phillips have small but fun parts.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Brent Spiner, James Cromwell, Alfre Woodard, and Alice Krige. Directed by Jonathan Frakes (several episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/star-trek-the-next-generation-season-1\/\"><strong>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/strong><\/a>). The music by Jerry Goldsmith is thrilling, and the use of his Klingon theme from <strong>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/strong> to represent Worf is delightful.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 4th or 5th time I&#8217;ve seen it. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/star-trek-generations\/\"><strong>Star Trek: Generations<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You broke your little ships.&#8221; Star Trek: First Contact, released in 1996 The Borg have returned to Federation space, and this time they travel into the past in order to assimilate Earth. Captain Picard and the Enterprise-E follow them to the past, where they encounter Zephram Cochrane. Cochrane is the first person to fly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8,59],"class_list":["post-15990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15990"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16053,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions\/16053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}