Movies

Star Trek VIII: First Contact - Stardate: 50893.5Finally, after the dismal Generations outing, they got it right with this one! First Contact indeed is on par with the very best of the Star Trek films - The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country. Unfortunately, they won't get it right again to the present day (with the above average but still not as good Insurrection and awful Nemesis). The script is very solid, the acting above par (with kudos going to Alice Krige as the seductive Borg Queen and Alfre Woodard as the trusting Lily Sloane), and the score by Jerry Goldsmith again another hit. All of that combined with visual effects that service the story and not is the story makes this outing a spectacular success - a solid 9 out of 10!

It's odd the people of earth were able to resist the urge to destroy those encountered for the first time, by not enslaving them, or taking their belongings or treating them like animals, denying their very existence, removing their customs and culture, shackling them into chains and branding them - all very out of character as history would suggest a slightly different outcome but I guess that's where the fiction part comes in.