Star Trek: First Contact
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
For this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watched Star Trek: First Contact, the eighth movie in the Star Trek film series and the first film in that series to focus solely on the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
First Contact stars Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner Marina Sartis, Michael Dorm, Alfrie Woodard, Alice Krige and James Cromwell. It was directed by Frakes with a score by Jerry Goldsmith.
In First Contact, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of Enterprise races through time to Earth’s past to confront the Borg, a cybernetic hivemind that has gone back to humanity’s moment of first contact with an alien species in order to destroy the Federation and change the future. Picard and his team must fight two battles. On Earth, they must ensure First Contact. On the Enterprise, they must defeat the Borg, who have taken root on the ship.
The tagline for Star Trek: First Contact is “Resistance is futile.”
You can find Star Trek: First Contact to rent or buy on demand on Apple TV or Amazon Prime.
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Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.
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| 0:00.0 | In his nightmares, he can see them. |
| 0:07.0 | In his mind, he can hear them. |
| 0:12.0 | Look he did us. |
| 0:15.0 | In his soul, he can feel them. |
| 0:25.7 | I've just received report from Deep Space 5. Long-range sensors of victims. |
| 0:31.0 | Yes, I know. The war. Set a course for Earth. Maximum warp. |
| 0:37.3 | Now, in Earth's darkest hour, he must fight them again. Captain, Earth, life signs, population approximately |
| 0:41.3 | 9 billion, Alt-Borg. |
| 0:44.3 | How? Time travel. |
| 0:45.3 | They went back and assimilated Earth, changed history. |
| 0:48.3 | I must follow them back. |
| 0:51.3 | Repair whatever damage they've done. |
| 0:53.3 | But this time, they must travel to the past. |
| 0:57.0 | April 4th, 20063. |
| 0:59.0 | To save our future. |
| 1:01.0 | You're all astronauts on some kind of start trick. |
| 1:05.0 | Invade our space, and we fall back. |
| 1:10.0 | They're simulate entire worlds, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. |
| 1:13.4 | Not again. |
| 1:15.0 | The lie must be drawn here. |
| 1:16.6 | It looks like the control decks 26 up to 11. |
| 1:18.8 | Mr. Data and I are returning to the ship. |
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