Star Trek 8 - First Contact 1996 NTSC DVD-R WS

Title................................: Star Trek 8 - First Contact

Director...........................: Jonathan Frakes

Release year.....................: November 22, 1996 (U.S.A.)

Genre.............................: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Language........................: English 2.0, English 5.1, French 2.0

Subtitles..........................: English, Spanish

Runtime...........................: 1:50:33

IMDb rating.......................: 7.6 / 10

Source.............................: DVD-9 R1

Output Format..................: DVD-5 ISO



Video Attribute

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TV system........................: NTSC 720x480

Aspect ratio......................: 16:9 Wide

Picture.............................: Progressive



RIP Information

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Recoder............................: Nero Recode 3

Movie................................: 65%

Menus..............................: Untouched

Audio Removed..................: Untouched

Subtitles Removed..............: UnTouched

Extras...............................: Untouched - Trailers





Tagline

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Resistance is Futile.



PLOT

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The time is the 24th century and the ship is the newly commissioned Enterprise-E. It's captain, Jean-Luc

Picard, has been ordered not to interfere in a combat between a Borg Cube and ships from the Federation.

However, seeing the Federation is about to lose, Picard ignore his orders and take command of the

defending fleet. With his knowledge of the weak spot of the Cube, they destroy it. However, a small part

of it escapes and plot a course directly to Earth. The Enterprise chases it and enters a time distortion

created by the Borg. They end up in the mid 21st century, their only chance of stopping the Borg from

assimilating Earth being to help Zefram Cochrane make his famous first faster than light travel to the

stars...



Actors

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Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis,

Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, Alice Krige, Michael Horton, Neal McDonough, Marnie McPhail, more...



Trivia

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Also Known As:



Star trek: Premier contact...........................Canada (French title) / France

Jornada nas Estrelas - Primeiro Contato..........Brazil

Primo contatto..........................................Italy

Star Trek 8...............................................USA (informal alternative title)

Star Trek: Borg.........................................USA (working title)

Star Trek: Renaissance...............................USA (working title)

Star Trek: Resurrection..............................USA (working title)

Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt......................Germany

Star Trek: Destinies...................................USA (working title)

Star Trek: Future Generations.....................USA (working title)

Star Trek: Generations II............................USA (working title)

Star Trek: O Primeiro Contacto....................Portugal

Star trek: Primer contacto..........................Spain

Uzay yolu - Ilk temas.................................Turkey (Turkish title)

Zvezdne steze - Prvo srecanje....................Slovenia



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For inspiration prior to filming, director Jonathan Frakes says he viewed the films Alien (1979),

Aliens (1986), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Blade Runner (1982), and Jaws (1975).



The Borg makeup and suits had to be constantly touched up. Several of the Borg actors lost a considerable

amount of weight while in costume due to the heat of the sets and temperature in L.A. during the shooting.



Earlier drafts of the script called for the USS Defiant to be destroyed in the battle with the Borg, but

screenwriter Ronald D. Moore objected to the needless destruction of the ship from "Star Trek: Deep Space

Nine" (1993) in a story that didn't even involve the DS9 characters (apart from Lt. Commander Worf).

It would also prove to be inconvenient for the television show, so the Defiant was eventually allowed to

survive the battle.



James Cromwell becomes the first actor in Star Trek history to actually utter the phrase "star trek"

(although in the final TV episode _"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) All Good Things... (Season7

Episode 25), John de Lancie (as Q) said, "It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars").



Barclay shows LaForge a coil of copper wire to ask if it would work to fix the plasma coil. It is the same

prop used in Forbidden Planet (1956) where a crew-member asks Commander Adams if it would work in building

the transmitter.



The titles "Star Trek: Borg" and "Star Trek: Resurrection" were considered. The Resurrection title was

almost a lock until the studio realized Fox had earlier registered the name for their upcoming

Alien: Resurrection (1997) movie. First Contact is also the title of the TV episode,

"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), First Contact (Season 4 Episode 15)

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/