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The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight ... Read all The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed. The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.

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Rick Berman
Brannon Braga
Patrick Stewart
Brent Spiner
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Trivia On account of budgetary restrictions, the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) was never quite satisfied with the Borg sets and costumes as used during the series. However, the significantly bigger budget for this film finally allowed them to design the Borg in a way that was much closer to what they had intended. As a result, the suits and sets were reused extensively on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) .
Goofs When Geordi is asking Cochrane to look at the intermix chamber blueprints, he is wearing sunglasses, even though his artificial eyes don't require protection from the sun. The sunglasses are probably needed in case a local comes looking around. Only Cochrane and Lily knew about time travelers, and Geordi's futuristic implants could blow their cover. Geordi used dark glasses for the same purpose in Time's Arrow, Part II (1992) as well.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [Quoting "Moby Dick"] And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.

Lily Sloane : What?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : "Moby-Dick".

Lily Sloane : Actually, I never read it.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Ahab spent years hunting the white whale that crippled him, a quest for vengeance, but in the end, it destroyed him and his ship.

Lily Sloane : I guess he didn't know when to quit.

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Star Trek: First Contact

1996, Sci-fi, 1h 50m

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While fans of the series will surely appreciate it, First Contact is exciting, engaging, and visually appealing enough to entertain Star Trek novices. Read critic reviews

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The Enterprise and its crew follow a Borg ship through a time warp to prevent the Borg from taking over the Earth in a past era. Stuck in the past, Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) helps a pioneer of space travel (James Cromwell) in his efforts to create the first warp drive while Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) battle the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) as she tries to take over the Enterprise.

Rating: PG-13 (Some Sci-Fi Adventure Violence)

Genre: Sci-fi

Original Language: English

Director: Jonathan Frakes

Producer: Rick Berman

Writer: Gene Roddenberry , Rick Berman , Brannon Braga , Ronald D. Moore , Brannon Braga , Ronald D. Moore

Release Date (Theaters): Nov 22, 1996 wide

Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2011

Box Office (Gross USA): $92.0M

Runtime: 1h 50m

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Production Co: Paramount Pictures

Sound Mix: Dolby SR, Dolby A, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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Patrick Stewart

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Jonathan Frakes

Commander William Thomas Riker

Brent Spiner

Lieutenant Commander Data

LeVar Burton

Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge

Michael Dorn

Lieutenant Commander Worf

Gates McFadden

Commander Beverly Howard Crusher, M.D.

Marina Sirtis

Commander Deanna Troi, Counselor

Alfre Woodard

Lily Sloane

James Cromwell

Dr. Zefram Cochrane

Alice Krige

Neal McDonough

Lieutenant Hawk

Robert Picardo

Emergency Medical Hologram

Dwight Schultz

Lieutenant Reginald 'Reg' Barclay III

Patti Yasutake

Lieutenant Alyssa Ogawa, R.N.

Gene Roddenberry

Rick Berman

Brannon Braga

Ronald D. Moore

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Marty Hornstein

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Jerry Goldsmith

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Captain Jean-Luc Picard and crew were second fiddle to Captain Kirk in their first feature film together in 1994's 'Generations', but that wasn't at all the case in 'First Contact'. Putting a newfound focus on the new crew and a new real sci-fi adventure proved to be what was needed to make the best Star Trek film in years. Re-introducing the Borg was a good choice as the conflict with the Klingons seemed to be getting a bit tiresome. Plus, with improved 1996 special effects, the filmmakers were able to fully realize the Borg as terrifying science fiction species. And that brings me to my favorite elements to First Contact, it's true sci-fi aesthetic. Sure, you still get a classic Trek adventure, but I don't think the other films in the franchise capture the science fiction side to the series as well as First Contact does. The main crew are joined by now-prominent actors, James Cromwell, Alfre Woodard, and Neal McDonough. McDonough plays a throwaway crew mate on the bridge, but Woodard and Cromwell are given plenty to do. Unfortunately for Cromwel and other members of the Enterprise crew, their 21st century earth bound mission is not as compelling as what is going on in space. While Woodard spends most of the film attempting to understand what's going on, she serves as a great counterpart to Picard's spiraling emotion. With Picard's unfortunate Borg history, he has a tough time comprehending any other strategies besides what his own mind tells him. Woodard is the only one that can get to him. Their bond and blossoming relationship is the type of thing previous films have been missing. Or really any well-written female characters at all. After taking a few films off, Jerry Goldsmith returned to score First Contact. Goldsmith has always had a keen sense of when to hammer in that heroic side to the Star Trek theme at just the right moments, First Contact does so impeccably. The CGI is also surprisingly polished. The mixture of practical and digital is seamlessly handled. Though Star Trek films seem to have the same structure, First Contact steered away from some flaws of the previous entries. Keeping the fun tone while throwing in some homages to Alien and Terminator with the Borg's presence was a perfect way to kick off The Next Generation's own film without having to rely on old characters. Star Trek First Contact is easily one of the best instalments of the franchise to date. +Real sci-fi +Borg were a nice change up +Woodard and Cromwell +Focus on the team instead of the old crew +Score +Homages to classic sci-fi films -Earth bound material is a bore 8.3/10

First Contact is a brilliant film that has highly entertaining from start to finish. This, for me, is yet another great sequel in the franchise, and one of the finest entries in the series in the 90's. The cast all bring some great to the film, and overall, this is the most ambitious, film in the series, only topped recently by Star Trek Into Darkness. This possesses everything you'd expect from a very well crafted Star Trek film, and it has a well crafted storyline, good action scenes, and enough thrills from start to finish to satisfy genre fans. What First Contact does well is to amp up the stakes in terms of scope, and it furthers the formula even more into new territory that delivers a terrific film going experience. This entry is one of the best Star Trek films I've seen, and it is a well directed affair, one that is thoroughly exciting from the first frame onwards. Even for non Star Trek fans, this is worth seeing because it's a film that has some well executed action scenes, and it's a fine example of genre cinema. Aside from the recent Star Trek films, this is one of my favorites, and the way that the story is told, mixed with engaging performances, makes this a must see film that will even appeal to genre skeptics. Even if you're not big into this particular genre, Star Trek First Contact is a strong picture that elevates the genre significantly. I enjoyed this film, even more so than other previous entries, and it ranks as one of the very best films in the Star Trek series. With a well crafted story, great effects, wonderful performances, this is a memorable and thrilling genre film that should be enjoyed by anyone that is looking for a highly entertaining Science Fiction film to watch.

Against Starfleet orders, the USS Enterprise travels to Earth, where several Starfleet vessels are battling a Borg Cube. The Cube is destroyed but a small sphere escapes and heads towards a temporal vortex, travelling back in time. Realizing the Borg plan to use time travel to change Earth's history, the Enterprise enters the vortex and follows the sphere back in time. Checking the date, Picard (Stewart) discovers it to be April 4th, 2063, the day before Earth first makes contact with alien life. The Enterprise crew track down Zefram Cochrane (Cromwell), the inventor of the warp drive, to ensure his historic first warp flight goes ahead. With the Original Series' crew finally retired, it came time for the Next Gen bunch to step up. Would they be able to carry on the Trek franchise on the big screen? The evidence of the previous film, 'Generations', would suggest not. It had become evident that, of the cast, only Stewart possessed the gravitas to carry a major motion picture. Most fans' biggest gripe concerned the manner in which Data (Spiner) had been transformed into a highly irritating comic foil thanks to the implementation of an "emotion chip". Thankfully, both of these issues are addressed in 'First Contact'. Picard is pushed to the forefront, making it very much Stewart's movie. Data's emotion chip is disabled early on at his captain's request and the groan-inducing comic situations are cast aside. The decision to base the first all-TNG movie around a plot involving the Borg was a no-brainer. Ever since the TV series' pivotal two-parter, 'The Best of Both Worlds', they had become most Trek fans' favorite villains. With the Federation signing peace accords with seemingly every former aggressor, the unfeeling Borg became the perfect antagonists. In 'TBOBW', set six years prior to this film, Picard had been held captive by the Borg, who attempted to assimilate him. This element makes 'First Contact' essentially a revenge movie. Explicit reference is made to 'Moby Dick', (a sci-fi cliche at this point), with Picard cast in the role of Ahab. The captain, out of character, allows his personal vendetta to get the better of him, putting those under his command at risk. Stewart shows us just what a great actor he really is, blowing everyone else off the screen. Allowing cast members to direct had negatively effected the series in the past. The entries helmed by Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner lacked the class of those directed by the legendary Robert Wise and the talented Nicholas Meyer. Many groans were heard when Frakes was named as director but his detractors were left with egg on their faces. The actor does a fantastic job here, making his directorial debut. As Meyer did with 'Wrath of Khan', Frakes changed the entire visual aesthetic of the series, implementing a new, darker look, in keeping with the nature of the Borg plot. The color-coded uniforms are replaced by a more somber grey-toned outfit and the decks of the Enterprise appear as though Starfleet are attempting to cut down on the energy bill. Cromwell had just become a star thanks to the surprise hit 'Babe'. His character, a drunken genius, could have been the one element which brought the movie down, given the comic nature of the role. Had someone like Rob Schneider been cast in the part, (quite possible in the mid-nineties), the result would have been a horror show. Cromwell handles the comic element in just the right manner, keeping the film out of camp territory. 'First Contact' features one of the most impressive effects shots you'll see in any sci-fi movie. It occurs when we're first introduced to the Borg Queen (Krige), as her head and shoulders are lowered down onto a mechanical body which then walks across the set. Unlike today, when CG is over-used to an annoying degree, the effect was achieved by combining CG with practical FX and reportedly took a total of five months to complete. After the bumpy start of 'Generations', 'First Contact' inspired a fresh confidence in fans that Trek could continue successfully as a big screen franchise. Sadly, they would never have it so good again.

Star Trek really isn't my thing, but this was a pretty cool film. I wish the story focused on one arc instead of splitting them, however. The main problem seemed to be with the Borg rather than with the astronaut, but they focused on them both even though the latter didn't have too many problems. As a result, both arcs were weaker than they would've been otherwise. A movie about First Contact alone, or about the Borg alone, would've been interesting-there was no need to combine them.

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5 Things We Learned About ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ On Its 25th Anniversary Year

| April 6, 2021 | By: Kayla Iacovino 20 comments so far

Yesterday’s virtual First Contact Day event put on by CBS has come after over a year of virtual “conventions” that haven’t been able to hold a candle to their normally in-person counterparts. But, with a year of learning and planning, CBS showed that this virtual event thing can actually work. During the “Remembering First Contact” panel, host Wil Wheaton asked insightful questions of Star Trek vets Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, and Alice Krige, getting them to spill a few stories I for one had never heard before about Star Trek: First Contact, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

Here are a few of my favorite takeaway tidbits that were new to me. For those of you walking Star Trek history encyclopedias, please feel free to expound on these stories in the comments!

Renaissance-era setting nixed for budgetary reasons… and the absurdity

During the “Revisiting First Contact” panel celebrating 25 years since the release of the beloved TNG film, Jonathan Frakes spoke about the genesis of the story of First Contact , saying:

“All three of the writers wanted a time travel story. So, the objective was to find a way to marry those big concepts [Borg and time travel]. Originally it was going to take place in Renaissance Italy, perhaps, and we were going to fight the Borg with swords? Thankfully that idea was taken away for financial reasons and logical reasons and absurd reasons, I’m sure. And, we were blessed with this, arguably the best of the Star Trek movie scripts certainly.”

We had to wait until Star Trek: Picard to get those sword fights.

Patrick Stewart had to OK Frakes as director, over Reuben sandwiches

After Jonathan Frakes was asked how he got the job as director, he told the story of the most memorable Reuben sandwich in his life.

“I believe, if the urban myth is true, the movie was offered to Ridley Scott, John McTiernan [who weren’t interested]. As I understand it Sherry Lansing, who was the head of Paramount at the time, told Rick Berman, who was the keeper of the reigns: ‘Why don’t you hire who you like?’ So, there was one caveat. The director that they hired had to be approved by now Sir Patrick Stewart. So, Rick said, ‘I’d really like you to do the movie, but Patrick’s going to have to approve you.’ So, Patrick and I had lunch at Jerry’s Deli in Studio City. And, he said, ‘I’m okay with you directing the movie. I was told that I had to make it official with you. And, that… it kind of changed my life. I believe we both had Reuben sandwiches.”

The group shares a laugh over Jonathan’s memory of his favorite reuben sandwich.

Alice Krige asked for a second audition because she thought she blew it (she didn’t)

Before her audition for the role of the Borg Queen, Alice Krige had no real knowledge of what Star Trek was all about. It took doing the audition for her to find the character, and in doing so, she was convinced she had totally biffed the audition. Of course, she hadn’t.

“My agent called me one day, and she said, ‘here are some sides for the next Star Trek movie.’ Now, I have a confession to make that I had never seen an episode of Star Trek. I said okay, but where’s the script? I can’t go in without a script. She said, ‘No, you don’t understand. NO ONE sees a script.’ I had a friend who wrote for Star Trek. I ran over to his house, and I watched all of the Borg episodes that he had on tape. I learned my lines, and I went into Paramount. And, there was Jonathan, and I did the three scenes. And, as I was doing them, I actually started to understand [the role] – it was the act of doing it – it was not intellectual. It was like a channel opened up. They thanked me politely, and I left. I ran to my car, and I drove to find the first pay phone I could find. I called my agent, and I said ‘I screwed it up. Please tell them that I can do better. And, I really want to do it again.’ Well, we didn’t hear from them for three weeks, and I thought ‘another one bites the dust’. And, then I got another call! I went in, and I did the same thing again, and I was offered the Borg Queen.”

Alice Krige as the Borg Queen.

Alice Krige needed 8 Borg wranglers to work in the Borg Queen costume

Alice Krige – who absolutely slayed in her role as the Borg Queen – spoke about how she got the role and what it was like playing the iconic character. One amusing tidbit was her mention of around eight “Borg wranglers” that were needed during her scenes.

“All the Borg wranglers. Because I must have had eight maybe? Someone who looked after my battery packs, someone who had a big pot of glue and glued the cracks. Someone looked after my feet, my hands, my head. Someone had a huge tube of – what was it? – KY jelly and a sponge. Every one of them helped make [the Borg Queen]. This was the apotheosis of collaboration for me, this role.”

Krige on the Borg Queen rig with director Jonathan Frakes during the filming of Star Trek: First Contact.

Brent Spiner was terrified of doing the missile silo jump stunt

While Brent Spiner had high praise for the film’s director, script, and co-stars, there was one aspect of making the film that wasn’t to his liking.

“We were standing alongside the missile on a platform that was very high in the air. Patrick [Stewart] knows that I am terrified of heights, so he would be bouncing on the platform to terrify me – which it did. [In the film] Data jumps off the platform and sail to the ground, and nothing happens to him. Initially, it was my stunt double, Brian Williams. He did that jump, and Jonathan [Frakes] shot him coming down from the missile silo, and then Jonathan cut to me. They printed all of that, then Jonathan came to me and said, you can tell that it’s not you. You’re going to have to do it. They took me to a soundstage, put me in a harness. And I was terrified. I hated it. They brought me up 3 feet and dropped me, and I hated it, then they took me all the way to the top, and they were to drop me, and a few feet before I hit the ground, a hydraulic slowed me down. I had to be Data, and I was able to do it, and look confident, and I landed, and the crew applauded, and I was so glad it was over. And then ‘Two-Takes Frakes’ came to me and said, ‘can we do that again?'”

That first step is a doozy.

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Alice Krige wax the only logical choice to play the Borg queen. While Susanna Thompson was good on Voyager, Alice nailed it and I’m glad she also came back to the roll.

the 1st time Star Trek was a ‘cool’ movie to go see at the cinema

What about The Voyage Home?

yes but that was more of a comedy like Crocodile Dundee/BTTF in space, not so much an Aliens/Terminator type ‘cool’ pg13 scifi action movie that kids teens non fans could rave about in the playground, water cooler, pub etc

The first Trek movie I got to see in the theater…I was 4. I still remember gagging in my seat when Data made out with the BQ. Also I love this cast so much, I wish I was around to get pranked.

This panel was great! And yes even after 25 years and endless conventions it’s always nice to hear new stories and anecdotes which this had a lot of. Spiner’s story about being afraid of heights and doing the jumping scene in the movie was hilarious!

FC definitely had an amazing script and felt the most cinematic out of all the movies not counting TMP or the Kelvin movies. The premise worked so well and a great way to tie into the 30th anniversary sort of how well TUC and its premise tied into the 25th.

While I liked Beyond that was one of its biggest missed opportunities and not having a bigger hook that tied into the 50th anniversary more. It’s a story that could be told in any episode. But I digress.

Anyway great panel!

50th anniversary movie was there for the taking (Orci/Shatner/battle for the timelines) and could’ve been as pleasing as VI and FC, but,like a poor marksman, they missed the target..

I was on set standing in Picard’s Ready Room doorway they filmed all the takes of the “interplexing beacon” dialog scene where Alfre Woodard and Picard come up through the floor. I was so stunned that I was on set watch the new film being made. I remember touching the embroidered delta shield insignia on the back of the seats on the bridge. Jonathan Frakes made the cast do one more take of a shot and said “ok, once more with grace and alacrity” and Patrick Stewart started into a whole Shakespeare joke about the epic love story of Grace and Alacrity, acting it out while the cast and crew laughed as the lights were moved. It was all very funny and surreal. I also got to sit in the Phoenix cockpit and walk (only on the very edge) of the deflector dish. I can’t believe that was 25 years ago. Yikes. I’m old. Oh and I also interviewed Alice Krige in her house in Malibu about playing the Borg Queen. She fed me salt and vinegar potato chips and her little black dog kept licking the crumbs off my fingers. 25 years?? Where does time go???!!!!

That’s a lovely story!

Yes that is a great story. But I thought the interplexing beacon scene was on the bridge? But I love that whole bit. It had some great lines:

“The reports of my assimilation have been greatly exaggerated” “I am a Klingon” “I think’s it time we take a little stroll”

And the gag with Worf scared of zero-G. Love it. Why can’t all Star Trek films be more like this?

Wow. 25 years. I saw this movie in the theaters when I was in college. Dang I feel old now. But I just watched it again yesterday for FC Day and it still holds up very well. I love this movie.

I did hear the Renaissance story before. But it was actually someone wanted to do the time travel to the Renaissance story and someone else wanted to do the Borg. I’m glad they dropped the Renaissance bit and went with the Zephram Cochrane and First Contact story instead.

My regret is that Tom Hanks was initially cast as Zephram Cochrane, which I think would have made for a better and more popular movie. He couldn’t do it since he was directing another movie, but he did want to since he was a big Star Trek fan. James Cromwell was ok, but Hanks would have brought a big name to Trek.

Didn’t Tony Pascale do a DVD commentary for it with Damon Lindelof?

I don’t agree. Hanks was too famous. Too big. I would have watched all the Cochrane scenes and just thought “that’s Tom Hanks talking to Will, Deanna, and Geordi”. Same with the abandoned Eddie Murphy role in Star Trek IV. I’m glad they didn’t happen.

Now, if they want Hanks to cameo as Captain April on SNW, I can be down with that.

But the fact he was so famous could’ve been an added bonus for the character as Cohrene was this huge mythical figure that the TNG guys were in awe of

Tom Hanks is a fantastic actor and I think his performance would have quickly allowed the audience to believe he was Zethran Cochrane in the movie.

Big name actors appear all the time in Star Wars, just check the names.

Cromwell was great as Cochrane (and even more prestigious when you take into account he was in the classic LA Confidential the following year) but yeah Hanks in FC would’ve been a huge deal for a Trek movie in the mid 90s when Hanks was pretty much the biggest movie star on the planet at that time (along with Mel Gibson & Tom Cruise), and maybe brought in another 50 even 100m in box office worldwide

I prefer Cromwell, much more believable as a drunk, also he’s a fantastic guy and an activist I’ve marched alongside. Meeting him was a big deal for me, I never thought I’d be meeting the man who invented warp drive!

Cromwell was also coming off of an Academy Award nomination that year, so he leant a nice little nugget of prestige in his own way.

i still cringe when everyone, including the Vulcans, have their little dance party, twisting the night away to Roy Orbison’s Ooby Dooby. Not Trek’s finest moment!

The end shot was also very similar to Trek V

I remember during the live watch of First Contact with Jonathan Frakes some months back, he also related how Patrick had to approve him directing. He didn’t mention the sandwich thing though at that time. Also, the tone I got from the live watch was that Frakes was never in any danger since he and Patrick are good friends and Patrick rubber stamping Frakes’ directorship was basically a formality.

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Picard orders the Enterprise to follow the Borg back in time to stop them from destroying the Phoenix , Earth's first warp-speed vessel.

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“Star Trek: First Contact” is one of the best of the eight “ Star Trek ” films: Certainly the best in its technical credits, and among the best in the ingenuity of its plot. I would rank it beside “ Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ” (1986), the one where the fate of Earth depended on the song of the humpback whale. This time, in a screenplay that could have been confusing but moves confidently between different levels of the story, the crew of the Enterprise follows the evil Borgs back in time to the day before mankind made its first flight at warp speed.

That flight, in 2063, was monitored by an alien race, the Vulcans, who took it as evidence that man had developed to the point where it deserved to meet another race. But now the Borgs, starting from the 24th century, want to travel back through a temporal vortex (how I love the “Star Trek” jargon!), prevent the flight and rewrite history, this time with Borgs populating the Earth instead of humans.

The latest edition of the starship is the “Enterprise E” (and there are plenty of letters left in the alphabet, Capt. Picard notes ominously). It is patrolling deep space when it learns the Borgs are attacking Earth. The Enterprise is ordered to remain where it is--probably, Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) notes bitterly, because he was a prisoner of the Borgs some six years ago, and “a man who was captured and assimilated by the Borg is an unstable element.” These Borgs are an interesting race. They are part flesh, part computer, and they “assimilate” all the races they conquer into their collective mind, which organizes their society like a hive. There is even a queen ( Alice Krige ), although she is not fat and pampered like an ant or a termite, but lean, mean and a student of seduction. One of the movie's intriguing subplots involves Data ( Brent Spiner ), the Enterprise's android, who is captured and hooked up to a Borg assimilating machine--which fails, because it can't crack his digital defenses. Then the Queen tries some analog methods all her own.

The central plot takes place as the Enterprise follows a Borg ship back through time to Earth, which, the Trekkers are dismayed to learn, is now populated by Borgs. To turn history around again, they need to be sure man's first warp flight succeeds. Earth is recovering from World War III, and a brilliant inventor named Cochrane ( James Cromwell , the tall farmer from “ Babe ”) has adapted a missile for this historic flight.

He leads a commune that seems to be part hippie, part survivalist, and spends much of his time listing to rock 'n' roll and drinking, to the despair of his associate Lily ( Alfre Woodard ). These two do not believe the weird story they get from the starship crew, and at one point Lily nearly fries Picard with a stolen gun. (He: “Maximum setting! If you had fired, you would have vaporized me.” She: “It's my first ray gun.”) The plot moves deftly between preparations for the Earth launch, Data's assimilation tortures on the Borg ship, and a fight against a Borg landing party on the Enterprise, which Picard personally directs, overruling doubts expressed by his second-in-command, William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) and their own assimilated Klingon, Worf ( Michael Dorn ).

Some of the earlier “Star Trek” movies have been frankly clunky in the special-effects department; the first of the series came out in 1979 and looked pale in comparison to “Star Wars.” But this one benefits from the latest advances in f/x artistry, starting with its sensational opening shot, which begins so deep inside Picard's eyeball, it looks like a star-speckled spacescape and then pulling back to encompass an unimaginably vast Borg starship. I also admired the interiors of the Borg probe, and the peculiar makeup work creating the Borg Queen, who looks like no notion of sexy I have ever heard of, but inspires me to keep an open mind.

“Star Trek” movies are not so much about action and effects as they are about ideas and dialogue. I doubted the original Enterprise crew would ever retire because I didn't think they could stop talking long enough. Here the story gives us yet another intriguing test of the differences among humans, aliens and artificial intelligence. And the paradoxes of time travel are handled less murkily than sometimes in the past. (Although explain to me once again how the Earth could be populated with millions of Borgs who are expected to vanish--or never have been--if the Enterprise succeeds. Isn't there some sort of law of conservation of energy that requires their physical bodies to come from, or be disposed of, somewhere, somehow?) “STFC” was directed by Frakes, who did some of the “ST Next Generation” shows for television, and here achieves great energy and clarity. In all of the shuffling of timelines and plotlines, I always knew where we were. He also gets some genial humor out of Cromwell, as the inventor who never wanted fame but simply enough money to go off to a “tropical island with a lot of naked women.” And there is such intriguing chemistry between Picard and the Woodard character that I hope a way is found to bring her onboard in the next film. “Star Trek” movies in the past have occasionally gone where no movie had gone, or wanted to go, before. This one is on the right beam.

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Star Trek: First Contact

The Borg are back, the future is in peril and the "Star Trek" mythos proceeds apace. "Star Trek: First Contact" is a smashingly exciting sci-fi adventure that ranks among the very best in the long-running Paramount franchise. Better still, this is one TV spinoff that does not require ticketbuyers to come equipped with an intimate knowledge of the small-screen original. Fans and non-fans alike will line up for this wild ride, and many will be repeat customers. Expect earthshaking domestic grosses, impressive foreign biz and, eventually, out-of-this-world homevideo sales.

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The Borg are back, the future is in peril and the “Star Trek” mythos proceeds apace. “Star Trek: First Contact” is a smashingly exciting sci-fi adventure that ranks among the very best in the long-running Paramount franchise. Better still, this is one TV spinoff that does not require ticketbuyers to come equipped with an intimate knowledge of the small-screen original. Fans and non-fans alike will line up for this wild ride, and many will be repeat customers. Expect earthshaking domestic grosses, impressive foreign biz and, eventually, out-of-this-world homevideo sales.

The title is doubly apt, in that “First Contact,” which revolves around the initial encounter between humankind and extraterrestrials, also is the first “Star Trek” movie to feature no one from the late Gene Roddenberry ‘s original 1966-69 TV series. In the previous film, “Star Trek: Generations,” the redoubtable Capt. James T. Kirk (William Shatner) passed the torch over to Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), commander of the new and improved Starship Enterprise. Now it’s up to Capt. Picard and his crew from TV’s “Star Trek The Next Generation” to keep the universe safe for the United Federation of Planets. Fortunately, the new kids on the block are up to the task.

Written by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, with considerable input from producer and “Next Generation” veteran Rick Berman, “First Contact” actually is a sequel to “The Best of Both Worlds,” a popular two-part episode from the “Next Generation” series. On television, Picard was captured and very nearly “assimilated” by the Borg, a marauding race of half-organic, half-robotic cyborgs. He managed to regain his humanity, but just barely.

And as “First Contact” begins, he continues to be troubled by Borg bogeymen in his nightmares. All of which explains why Picard, normally a by-the-book officer, is so eager to ignore orders and join the fray when Starfleet Command launches an attack on a gigantic Borg spacecraft. Picard leads the USS Enterprise to the battle just in time to take command and blast the Borg. Unfortunately, several of the Borg escape and head to Earth, where they hope to control the “present” i.e., the 24th century by sabotaging the past. Even more unfortunately, some other Borg manage to board the Enterprise, and set out to assimilate the entire crew for the greater good of their Borg Queen.

Jonathan Frakes, the dashing actor who played Picard’s second in command, Cmdr. William Riker, on the “Next Generation” series, does double duty here as director and co-star. Having earned his stripes by directing a few TV episodes, Frakes makes an auspicious debut as a feature filmmaker, sustaining excitement and maintaining clarity as he dashes through a two-track storyline.

Picard and his crew follow the Borg back in time to April 4, 2063, the day before an eccentric scientist named Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) is scheduled to make the first recorded warp-speed flight in a reconditioned rocket. The Enterprisers know from their history books that, because Cochrane made this flight, he attracted the interest of wandering extraterrestrials, which in turn led to the formation of the United Federation of Planets and the production of four different “Star Trek” TV series. Once they beam down to Earth , however, Riker and his companions discover that the Borg, also mindful of history, have damaged Cochrane’s rocket. It’s up to the Enterprise’s Away Team to make repairs and to make sure Cochrane stays sober long enough to keep his date with destiny.

Meanwhile, back on the Enterprise, Lily Sloane (Alfre Woodard), Cochrane’s more sober-sided associate, is caught up in Picard’s battle against the Borg invasion. At first, things look bad for our heroes. The Borg methodically seize control of various levels of the Enterprise, and turn every human they can grab into one of them. Indeed, the Borg Queen (played with deliciously perverse sensuality by Alice Krige) even manages to capture Lt. Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) , the android officer who has been outfitted with an “emotion chip.”

The Borg Queen offers to fulfill Data’s fondest desire by making him human. As they negotiate, the movie takes an intriguingly ambiguous turn, so that it’s not entirely clear just who is seducing whom. For a while, there is serious doubt as to where Data’s true loyalties lie. Credit Spiner and the scriptwriters for finding brave new ways to make a familiar character unsettlingly unpredictable.

Longtime “Trek” devotees may be disappointed by the relatively short shrift given to such Enterprise regulars as Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden), Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis), Lt. Cmdr. La Forge ( LeVar Burton ) and Klingon warrior turned Starship officer Worf (Michael Dorn). Even more jarring, however, is the way “First Contact” introduces horror-film elements to a traditional “Star Trek” plot. Much of the violence and many of the shadow-streaked battle scenes are heavily influenced by “Alien” and “Aliens.” The Borg drones and Borg-ified humans, like their counterparts in the original TV episode, look a lot like malevolent bit players from the “Hellraiser” movies. Purists who recall Gene Roddenberry’s original vision of a less blood-soaked “Star Trek” universe may be put off by the rough stuff. But mainstream audiences will be more approving of the greater emphasis on high-voltage shocks and action-movie heroics.

Stewart once again comports himself with all the gravity and panache you would expect from a Shakespearean-trained actor. He is at his best playing opposite Woodard in a scene that has their characters arguing over the best way to battle the Borg. Woodard’s Lily agrees with the Enterprise officers who want to bail out in escape pods after igniting the Enterprise’s self-destruct mechanism. But Stewart’s Picard who, naturally, has an old score to settle with the Borg dismisses such talk as craven defeatism. It is a credit to both actors that their emotion-charged conversation is genuinely compelling.

Other performances, including Cromwell’s colorful turn as the hard-drinking Cochrane, are just what they should be for “First Contact” to work. Much the same can be said for the special-effects wizardry, by far the most elaborate seen in a “Star Trek” film. Tech credits including Matthew F. Leonetti’s striking cinematography and Michael Westmore’s inspired makeup are stellar across the board.

If “First Contact” is indicative of what the next generation of “Star Trek” movies will be like, the franchise is certain to live long and prosper.

Production: A Paramount release of a Rick Berman production. Produced by Berman. Executive producer, Martin Hornstein. Co-producer, Peter Lauritson, Directed by Jonathan Frakes. Screenplay, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, story by Rick Berman,Braga, Moore, based upon "Star Trek," created by Gene Roddenberry.
Crew: Camera (Deluxe color), Matthew F. Leonetti; editor, John W. Wheeler; music, Jerry Goldsmith; production design, Herman Zimmerman; art direction, Ron Wilkinson; set decoration, John M. Dwyer; costume design, Deborah Everton; sound (Dolby stereo), Thomas Causey; special animation and visual effects, Industrial Light & Magic; visual effects supervisor, David Takemura: makeup designer and supervisor, Michael Westmore; assistant director, Jerry Fleck; second unit director, Peter Lauritson; casting, Junie Lowry-Johnson, Ron Surma. Reviewed at Paramount Studios, L.A., Nov. 8, 1996. MPAA rating: PG-13. Running time: 110 MIN.
With: Capt. Jean-Luc Picard ... Patrick Stewart Cmdr. William Riker ... Jonathan Frakes Lt. Cmdr. Data ... Brent Spiner Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge ... LeVar Burton Lt. Cmdr. Worf ... Michael Dorn Dr. Beverly Crusher ... Gates McFadden Lt. Cmdr. Deanna Troi ... Marina Sirtis Lily Sloane ... Alfre Woodard Zefram Cochrane ... James Cromwell Borg Queen ... Alice Krige Lt. Hawk ... Neal McDonough Holographic Doctor ... Robert Picardo Lt. Barclay ... Dwight Schultz Nurse Ogawa ... Patti Yasutake

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A Complete History of the Pre-Federation Vulcans in Star Trek

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The universe created by Gene Roddenberry 60 years ago is full of incredible characters and unique alien species. However, the aliens most important to Star Trek history are the Vulcans, which were introduced with Spock and expanded into an entire cosmological society. In fact, some of the best stories about the Vulcans took place before the United Federation of Planets even existed. The Vulcans were created by Roddenberry, though many writers like Gene L. Coon, Dorothy D.C. Fontana and others through the years contributed to their mythos.

Equally responsible for these pointy-eared logic lovers is Leonard Nimoy, who invented the nerve pinch . He also invented the Vulcan salute and countless more elements of Vulcan culture on-screen in the Star Trek: The Original Series era. Interestingly, the second wave of Star Trek shows and films didn't explore them too much until its later years. Both Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise are responsible for some momentous events in Vulcan history. Discovery and Strange New Worlds also continue to define Vulcan culture and expand audiences' understanding of humans best space-friends. However, the stories that predate the Federation highlight a society that's not nearly as perfect as Spock would have had his friends on the USS Enterprise believe.

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There are two possible origins for the Vulcans, neither of which are mutually exclusive. Some four billion years ago, a species of aliens known as the Primogenitors explored space and found no humanoid life. They seeded worlds with technology encouraging the evolution of people with a head, two legs and two arms. Vulcan is a hot, harsh desert world, so it's possible life didn't evolve there naturally. A being named Sargon revealed his species colonized many worlds, including possibly Vulcan, a half-billion years before the 23rd Century . However, the Vulcans Star Trek fans know can trace their history to a species of "Proto-Vulcans" that shared characteristics with Romulans as well.

The Vulcans were capable of space travel 900 years before the Common Era on Earth, yet they did not get there through love of logic and suppression of emotions. The early history of Vulcan was marred by violence and war, driven by the Proto-Vulcans' powerful emotions, especially rage and fear. They developed a religious belief system with many gods and involved intense rituals, particularly around life events like marriage. Their early space exploration was equally uneventful as there were not many warp-capable species around .

By the 4th Century on Earth, the Vulcans were still engaged in brutal warfare, including the use of nuclear weapons. During this time a philosopher devoted to pure logic, named Surak, emerged and convinced the populace to follow his discipline of suppressing emotion. Some early Vulcans didn't want to follow Surak and left the planet. It's believed during this time the group of Proto-Vulcans who would evolve into the Romulans left the planet. However, if Vulcan was a colony world, their Romulan ancestors may have never been on the planet in the first place.

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While Surak's teachings about logic took root in society, the full extent of his philosophy was eventually seen as heretical. Using Vulcans' natural psychic abilities , Surak's followers could mind meld and even pass on their katra (a consciousness or soul) to others. Surak's katra was passed on among this sect of followers until the 22nd Century. Yet, even those Vulcans opposed to the psychic business still stuck to logic. This led them to embrace scientific discovery and explore space with a newfound vigor, 1500 years after Surak's time. They were not pacifists, and in fact the Vulcan fleet was a formidable adversary to its galactic neighbors like Andorians, Klingons and Romulans.

The Vulcans encountered their two closest neighbors, the Tellarites and the Andorians, during Earth's 20th Century. The disagreeable Tellarites were ironically less antagonistic, often passing on distress calls and helping Vulcans in need. The Andorians and Vulcans entered an antagonistic relationship, frequently having border disputes. The ancient monastery on P'Jem was converted into a listening post to spy on their neighbors. The Klingons met the Vulcans around 2016 and engaged them in battle. When meeting Klingons afterward, they would fire on them first, which became known as "the Vulcan Hello."

Vulcans explored significant galactic territory in the 20th and 21st Centuries. When encountering a warp-capable species, they would initiate first contact. Often it went poorly, like with the Arkonians in the 2050s, and the Vulcans would eventually shut down almost all diplomatic relations. The Vulcans almost went to war with the Andorians over a disputed planet in the 21st Century. A famous Vulcan ambassador named V'Lar negotiated peace and reclaimed the world for Vulcans. By the time of the 22nd Century, Vulcans were a significant regional power, comparable only to Klingons and, possibly, Romulans .

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In 1957, a Vulcan survey ship crashed on Earth and needed rescue . The Vulcans had a version of the Prime Directive, and thus tried to avoid interacting with humans. Eventually, they settled in the small town of Carbon Creek studying human society and learning about them. Some feared humans were just like the Vulcans, particularly with the advent of nuclear weapons. One of the scientists, Mestral, decided to make humans his pet project . Because Vulcans were so long-lived, he was presumably able to survive until after the official First Contact.

Sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, a young Martin Wells was hunting for his lost dog in the woods. He stumbles onto a Vulcan survey team, testing the water of a lake. Martin runs away screaming, but one of the Vulcans catches up to him. One of the sect who followed the full Surak teachings, tries to do a mind-meld to make the boy forget what he saw. The Vulcan ship, however, transports him away before he could finish. Vulcans continued to monitor Earth for a century, aware of World War III as it happened. The Vulcans, however, maintained their non-interventionist policy.

In 2063, a Vulcan ship called T'Plana-Hath was on a routine survey mission near the Sol system, though not directed at Earth . Zefram Cochrane (with the help of Will Riker and Geordi La Forge) launched the Phoenix and conducted a successful test of his warp drive engine. The ship diverted to Earth in order to make first contact with the Humans. Unlike with the Andorians or Arkonians, the Vulcans stayed on Earth for the next 100 years helping them build a warp-five capable vessel.

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By 2151, the NX-01 Enterprise launched , with Sub-commander T'Pol representing the Vulcan High Command and serving as the ship's science officer . Captain Jonathan Archer had a contentious relationship with the Vulcans, though they were good allies to Earth. They would defend the Enterprise and other human vessels, including from the Klingons after the Enterprise returned a wounded operative to Qo'noS on its maiden voyage. Still, Captain Archer disrupted many Vulcan plans, such as revealing the listening post at the P'Jem Monastery to Andorians.

However, this endeared humans to Vulcans' most persistent antagonists. Twice Archer was called upon to help negotiate between the two species. Still, relations soured, and a sect of power-hungry Vulcans instituted a plan to use humans as pawns to eliminate the faithful of Surak, including T'Pau, who would become a venerated Vulcan leader. Earlier the katric ark belonging to Surak was discovered. Captain Archer was given this katra and discovered the complete accounting of Surak's teachings, lost for centuries. He survived attempts by Vulcans to kill him and the other "Syrannites" as they tried to secure their positions as Vulcan's rulers, delivering Surak's teachings to the council.

After this discovery, Vulcans embraced the full spectrum of his philosophy, becoming the characters Star Trek fans most readily recognize. The Vulcans joined with Starfleet, the Tellarites, the Andorrians and others to form an alliance. First dubbed the Coalition of Planets, this group evolved into the United Federation of Planets , of which the Vulcans were a founding member. A xenophobic faction of humans tried to stop this, but all they did was highlight that Vulcan and Human DNA was compatible, leading to the circumstances that produced the half-human, half-Vulcan Spock.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Actors Crashed The Section 31 Wrap Party, And Now I'm More Convinced My Theory About The Film Is Legit

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Star Trek: Section 31 , the first original movie from the franchise that will be available exclusively to stream with a Paramount+ subscription , has wrapped filming in Toronto. This is exciting not only because we're one step closer to seeing Michelle Yeoh back in Trek, but also because she might not be the only familiar face we'll see. Strange New Worlds actors crashed the wrap party for the movie, and it only bolstered my theory positing that some of those characters will appear in the movie.

Rob Kazinsky, a member of the Section 31 cast , shared a story on his Instagram account that featured the film's known stars at the wrap party. Strange New Worlds actors Melissa Navia and Christina Chong also popped up in the video, which may or may not be telling. While it's true that SNW Season 3 was sharing production space with the upcoming Trek project , making it easy for the actors to cross paths in such a way, could this actually be a hint that either actress (or both) could be part of the movie? I certainly think so and have some reasons why it would make sense.

Section 31 Is Seemingly Set In The Strange New Worlds Time Period

We don't know when Star Trek: Section 31 takes place officially, but Rob Kazinsky through longtime fans a bone in that department with a recent social media post. His original wrap photo included the logo for the movie title, which is the same Delta design Section 31 agents wore in Season 1 of Discovery . As readers might remember, that season took place years before the start of the original series, which leads to the assumption this movie will happen at some point during the same timeline as Strange New Worlds .

This would make it possible for characters to appear, assuming Georgiou was sent back to a time before Strange New Worlds ' Season 2 finale . It also doesn't feel as though the cameos would be too hard to coordinate, given that Section 31 was splitting set time with the Paramount+ series while filming. It would be easy to get a character or two for a scene, or maybe even the whole ensemble, to play a role in the adventure.

Strange New Worlds Is One Of The Most Popular Star Trek Shows

While you wouldn't think viewers need more than an Oscar-winning actress at the lead to tune in, it's worth noting that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is one of the most popular Trek shows of the modern era. Even Discovery reportedly emulated its episodic storytelling for its final season, so it's not hard to believe there'd be insistence or at least a general desire to incorporate some of the cast into the adventure.

That said, can we assume that Melissa Navia and Christina Chong attending Section 31 's wrap party guarantees that La'an and Ortegas are in the movie? Not at all, but I love the idea of it happening, and if this is our first hint they're involved, I'm as pumped as can be about being spoiled on it. Georgiou could use a strong fighter like La'an, and Ortegas could use a larger spotlight on her character than the one she's often given on Strange New Worlds . I'm keeping my fingers crossed we see them in the movie because it would be so cool.

Star Trek: Section 31 doesn't have a release date yet, but the fact that filming is done has to bring us one step closer to finally getting that news. At least we have the final season of Discovery to watch while we wait, so be sure to tune in on Thursday, April 4th, for the two-episode premiere.

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The Klingons are some of Starfleet's best enemies, but the Star Trek aliens have a long history dating back before even the Federation or Starfleet.

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Star Trek has six decades of history behind the scenes, but the aliens and characters in the narrative go back millennia. Despite being created on a whim for Star Trek: The Original Series , the history of Klingons is one of the most fully realized in the universe. Even though much of it was defined after that first show, how the Klingon Empire took shape is important.

The Klingons were created by Gene L. Coon as a surrogate power for the Soviets to the Federation's United States of America. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the final film with The Original Series ' cast was in production. It told the story of how the Federation made peace with its most iconic enemies. The Khitomer Accords mark a significant point of transition in what it meant to a Klingon. Even though antagonism continued into the 24th Century, the way the Empire (as created by Kahless the Unforgettable) found a way to accept the peace-loving Federation is a remarkable Star Trek story. It's made better with Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds adding new details to this part of the timeline.

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The Klingons shared genetic markers, found in Vulcans and Romulans that point to a single humanoid ancestor more than four billion years in the past. This progenitor race seeded planets with unknown technology that encouraged the evolution of creatures with a head, two arms and two legs. Klingons, however, could trace their origins back to large reptilian or insectoid predators with exoskeletons and redundant organs .

The Klingon homeworld Qo'noS was ruled by Malor in the 10th Century CE on Earth. A common warrior, Kahless led a revolution that became the founding myth for the Klingon Empire. Legends of his battles were shared among Klingons into the 24th Century. He eventually killed Malor in single combat and founded the Klingon Empire. Kahless became a god-like figure in the culture, inspiring wars and warriors for millennia . There were a number of ruling dynasties and civil wars, continuing once Klingons took to the stars.

Four hundred years after Kahless united Qo'noS, the Hur'q species from the Gamma Quadrant sacked their homeworld. This started a period of uncertainty about war as a way of life. During the Second Dynasty, General K'Trelan killed the Imperial Family, installing more democratically minded Klingons in power. They claimed to be members of the Imperial houses to gain the respect of those bloodlines, but eventually they returned to their warlike ways.

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The Klingons acquired warp drive sometime in the Earth's 20th Century, and they turned their attention on the galaxy at large. While they still warred with each other, there were new planets to conquer and people to fight. Vulcans, who also were new to warp drive, encountered Klingons who opened fire on them. Until diplomatic relations were officially opened, Vulcans would fire first on any Klingon ship, eventually called "the Vulcan Hello." Klingons traveled the stars, warring and exploring, including sending a vessel into the Delta Quadrant.

In the 2150s, a Klingon crash-landed on Earth and was shot by a farmer. Dr. Phlox, a visiting alien, saved his life, and the NX-01 Enterprise was launched taking the Klingon back to Qo'noS. Captain Archer helped this Klingon maintain his honor and relations between humans and Klingons were off to an amiable start, but this didn't last. The NX-01 Enterprise helped refugees flee the Klingons by engaging them in battle. This led to Captain Archer being wanted as an enemy of the state. He was put on trial on Qo'noS and sentenced to the Rura Penthe colony. He escaped, leading to multiple hostile encounters with them throughout the Star Trek: Enterprise series.

In 2154, tyrannical, genetically augmented humans attacked the Klingon Empire, but the Enterprise was able to avert war. However, a Klingon scientist tried to use the augment DNA to create superior Klingon warriors . Instead, a deadly virus broke out, and Dr. Phlox was kidnapped to help cure it. He was successful, but the treatment led to the Klingons losing their distinctive cranial ridges. The Klingons then withdrew from Federation territory, until the Klingon-Federation war.

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The Klingons weren't seen in what would become Federation space for much of the late 22nd and early 23rd Centuries. They had again entered into a period of infighting and civil war, as any house sought to rule. When Starfleet did encounter the Klingons, there were open hostilities. There was a raid on a planet called Doctari Alpha and a battle at a planet called Donatu V. The Klingons resorted to spiritual studies, usually based on the Kahless myth, though a sect studied time travel at the Borleth Monastery .

In 2256, T'Kuvma, a unique-looking Klingon spiritual leader , united the great houses on the ancient Sarcophagus Ship. He provoked a war with the Federation at the Battle of the Binary Stars, dying at the hands of Michael Burnham. General Kol, who originated Klingons' use of cloaking technology, took control. The war raged for a year, with the Klingons nearly defeating the Federation . When General Kol was killed and the Sarcophagus Ship destroyed, things only got worse. Eventually, Section 31 developed a plan to destroy the Klingon Homeworld, but Michael Burnham prevented it from reaching fruition. Instead, she gave control of the hydrobombs to L'Rell.

A less war-hungry acolyte of T'Kuvma she was able to continue his mission of uniting the warring factions on Qo'noS. She even allied her fleet with the Federation to stop a rogue AI that threatened all life in the Alpha Quadrant. The Timekeepers at the Borleth Monastery also helped Starfleet solve the mystery of the "Red Angel," and helped Captain Christopher Pike fix the timeline after he tried to prevent his future debilitating accident. Time itself needed James Kirk and Spock to take the helm of the Enterprise. However, the tenuous peace wouldn't last for long.

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A new war broke out between the Federation and the Klingons in 2257, but it was short-lived. When the USS Enterprise and General Kor's fleet arrived at Organia, the powerful beings that lived there forced them to negotiate an end to hostilities. The Treaty of Organia ended the war, but there were still clashes and battles throughout the sector. Klingons armed pre-warp species, as did Kirk and the Enterprise crew, albeit reluctantly. A Klingon who went by the name Arne Darvin was surgically altered to look human, and almost carried out a terrorist bombing on a starbase.

After a little more than a decade of relative peace, a rogue Klingon commander named Kruge took a Bird of Prey to the newly-created Genesis planet. There he destroyed the Starfleet science vessel studying it and killed David Marcus, the son of James Kirk. He defeated the Klingons, killing all but one of them, and stole the Bird of Prey. Another rogue Klingon Captain named Klaa tried to battle Kirk and the Enterprise, but Klingon Ambassador Korrd ordered Klaa to save him from the God of Sha Ka'Ree. With the destruction of the moon Praxis in 2293, the Klingon homeworld was threatened and peace finally had a real chance.

Chancellor Gorkon knew the Klingon Empire wouldn't survive unless it made peace and accepted help from the Federation. A conspiracy of Starfleet officers, Romulans and Klingons (including General Chang) assassinated Gorkon and framed Captain Kirk for it. He was sent to Rura Penthe, escaping with the help of Spock and the Enterprise. They arrived at the peace summit just in time to save the Federation president. Captain Kirk's heroics led to the signing of the Khitomer Accords and all-but the end to open hostility between the Klingons and the Federation . While not completely allies with the Federation, the Klingons and Starfleet were no longer at war.

This New 'Star Trek: Discovery' Character Is a Deep-Cut 'Deep Space Nine' Reference

Callum Keith Rennie's Captain Rayner is not Vulcan or Romulan after all.

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Callum Keith Rennie joins Star Trek: Discovery as Kellerun Captain Rayner, revealing the obscure species from Deep Space Nine .
Rayner's Kellerun backstory is crucial to Rayner's characterization and mission, with the showrunner promising a focus on his personal history.
Discovery continues the tradition of exploring one-off alien races with new characters, adding depth and diversity to the final season.

Veteran actor Callum Keith Rennie will join the cast of the final season of Star Trek: Discovery as the alien Captain Rayner, and now we know what species he is. Fans have speculated that Rayner's pointed ears mark him as a Vulcan or a Romulan, but a new interview reveals that he is a member of the Kellerun, an obscure species from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . TrekCore.com has the details from SFX Magazine's feature on Discovery 's upcoming fifth season , which will premiere on Paramount+ early next month.

Rayner's species will apparently be important to his characterization and the mysterious mission he joins the USS Discovery crew for, as they race against time in the show's final bow. Says showrunner Michelle Paradise , "He’s Kellerun, which is a minor planet mentioned in one of the other iterations… we learn more about his personal backstory and how that plays into who he is, and why he is how he is. We learn about that as the season goes on, and the planet he’s from has a lot to do with that." It won't be the first time an important character on Discovery comes from a one-off alien race; Commander Nhan ( Rachael Ancheril ), who debuted in the series' second season, is a Barzan, a race that had up to that point only appeared in the third-season Next Generation episode "The Price".

Who Are the Kellerun?

The Kellerun made their first and (so far) only appearance in "Armageddon Game", which first aired in 1994 as part of Deep Space Nine 's second season. A species with distinctive large, pointed ears, they had been at war for centuries with their neighbors, the T'Lani, in a conflict that utilized the Harvesters, deadly biological weapons. After the two races made peace with each other, Starfleet sent in Deep Space Nine crew members Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) and Miles O'Brien ( Colm Meany ) to help dismantle the remaining Harvesters. However, the Kellerun and T'Lani insist that all knowledge pertaining to the Harvesters must be destroyed - which means killing Bashir and O'Brien, too. The two have to make a desperate race for survival as their friends try to save them from the two alien species.

Although the Kellerun did not appear on the series again, the episode established Bashir and O'Brien's friendship, which endured for the rest of the show's run. Canadian actor Callum Keith Rennie is a veteran of science fiction productions, having starred in Battlestar Galactica , Impulse , The X-Files , Jessica Jones , and The Umbrella Academy . Discovery will be his first Star Trek appearance.

Star Trek: Discovery 's fifth and final season will premiere April 4, 2024 on Paramount+ , wehere past seasons are also streaming. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates, and watch the trailer for Discovery 's fifth season below.

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Star trek crossover: strange new worlds actors party with section 31 cast.

Star Trek: Section 31, Michelle Yeoh's upcoming movie, wrapped filming in Toronto, and some faces from Strange New Worlds joined their wrap party.

Star Trek actors from Section 31 and Strange New Worlds came together for a wrap party in Toronto.
Michelle Yeoh reprised her Star Trek role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou in Section 31 film.
Section 31 filmed at the Star Trek Stage in Toronto where Strange New Worlds season 3 is also filming.

Another Star Trek crossover happened as actors from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds partied with the cast of Star Trek: Section 31 . The next Star Trek movie, Section 31 is headlined by Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh and recently wrapped filming in Toronto . Yeoh is reprising her Star Trek: Discovery anti-heroine, Emperor Philippa Georgiou, in Section 31 , which is directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and written by Craig Sweeny.

On his Instagram Stories, Star Trek: Section 31 actor Rob Kazinsky (@therobkazinsky) shared a photo of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' Christina Chong and Melissa Navia at the wrap party with himself and his Section 31 cast mates, Sam Richardson, Kacey Rohl, Sven Ruygrok, Omari Hardwick, and Joe Pingue. Check out the photo below:

Star Trek: Section 31 filmed at the Star Trek Stage in Toronto where S tar Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 is also filming.

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When will star trek: section 31 & strange new worlds season 3 premiere on paramount+, the next two live-action star trek projects are highly anticipated.

After Star Trek: Discovery ends with season 5, Star Trek: Section 31 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are Paramount+'s next two live-action Star Trek projects in the works. Section 3 1 was originally planned as an ongoing series but was reconfigured into a Star Trek movie made for streaming on Paramount+ . Although Paramount+ hasn't announced a release date for Section 31 , since the film has wrapped, with post-production to follow in the coming weeks, it's possible Star Trek: Section 31 could premiere on Paramount+ by the end of 2024.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is the third live-action Star Trek project currently in pre-production with filming planned for late summer 2024.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds began filming season 3 in December 2023. Like the previous two seasons, Strange New Worlds season 3 will consist of 10 episodes. Episode 7 of Strange New Worlds season 3 just started production according to Anson Mount. With post-production needed for 10 hours of Strange New Worlds , it's likely season 3 won't be released on Paramount+ until 2025. However, the actors of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Section 31 partying together shows an inter-series camaraderie that is indicative of Starfleet's finest.

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