QUOTE (Vwing @ Dec 3 2003, 03:47 PM)
??????? You guys didn't like First Contact? That's probably my favorite of the Star Trek movies, along with Undiscovered Country. I can't believe that. And even SW cannot be compared to BG it's not that bad.
FIRST CONTACT has all sorts of good elements. There's fine action involving Enterprise crew vs Borg drones. There's a nice little bit of business with Picard and his emotional involvement with the Borg conflict, given his personal history. There's some fun where the Borg leader (??? aren't they supposed to have a hive consciousness ??? couldn't the writers have at least TRIED ???) turns out to be a sexy female humanoid (what else?) wearing a skin-tight outfit (what else?) and she tries to seduce Data ....
yawn. Add to which Picard has to talk about his feelings with a brand new Angela Basset character, when it would have made perfect sense, for story as well as character, for him to have such a conversation with his closest friend on the ship, Dr Crusher. When, as a spectator, you can actually *see* the conversation where the writers are asked to create a role for a black actor then you know there's trouble. Besides, we already have Worf and Jordi.
The absolute worst part of that film, of course, is that the action plot is so thin they had to throw in a B story about a post-apocalypse Earth scientist who drinks a lot of cheap booze and listens to rock and roll on a 1950s Wurlitzer jukebox.
FIRST CONTACT is embarrassing, but is without question the best Next Generation film.
Like everyone else, I will say that my favorite STAR TREK film is WRATH OF KHAN. After that, I suppose it's THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. As for every other Trek film, and I've seen them all, it's a matter of which is least bad, because they are all disappointing.
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).