Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

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Written by Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman

Directed by Jonathan Frakes

Running Time: 105 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1996

Rating: 12 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

The time is the 2373 and the ship is the newly commissioned Enterprise-E.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), the captain and crew of the Enterprise-E have been ordered not to interfere in a combat between a Borg Cube and ships from the Federation.

However, seeing the Federation in sever trouble, and about to lose their battle, Picard ignores these orders and takes command of the defending fleet anyway.

With the knowledge he holds about the weaknesses of the Cube, the Enterprise and its crew destroy it.

However, a small piece of the Cube escapes and has now plotted a deadly course to Earth.

The Enterprise must now try and stop this awful collision from happening and chase it, however things go awry when the Enterprise enters a time distortion vortex which has been created by the Borg, a deadly race of cybernetically enhanced beings.

The crew now find themselves lost in the middle of the 21st century. Their only chance of stopping the Borg from assimilating Earth is to help Dr. Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell), the inventor of the warp drive, make sure he makes his famous first warp flight.

When is Star Trek: First Contact next on TV?

In the UK... it's next showing on Sky Movies Sci-Fi/Horror November 24th, 10:00am and on Sky Movies Sci-Fi/Horror HD November 24th, 10:00am. See more...

Cast

Image for Patrick StewartPatrick StewartCap. Jean-Luc Picard
Image for Jonathan FrakesJonathan FrakesCommander William Riker
Image for Brent SpinerBrent SpinerLt. Commander Data
Image for LeVar BurtonLeVar BurtonLt. Commander Geordi La Forge
Image for Michael DornMichael DornLt. Commander Worf
Image for Gates McFaddenGates McFaddenDr. Beverly Crusher
Image for Marina SirtisMarina SirtisCommander Deanna Troi
Alfre WoodardLily Sloane
Image for James CromwellJames CromwellDr. Zefram Cochrane
Image for Alice KrigeAlice KrigeBorg Queen
Michael HortonLt. Daniels
Neal McDonoughLt. Hawk
Marnie McPhailLt. Eiger
Image for Robert PicardoRobert PicardoEmergency Medical Hologram
Dwight SchultzLt. Reginald Endicott Barclay III

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