Star Trek - First Contact VHS

I'm not some big videophile, I just love this movie.It's a noticeable upgrade over the blu-rayCaveat: The colors were shifted red a little bit. I had to take my Samsung off of movie mode and put it into dynamic. Looks normal now. I haven't seen this problem anywhere else online and none of my other movies require this adjustment. Maybe my player is on its last legs? Anyway, it looks and sounds amazing.

As with the prior releases of the 4k Star Trek films, this, as expected, was on par with those as far as picture & sound quality was concerned. As of this purchase, I can proudly say that I now have my Star Trek film collection to my complete satisfaction. No need to upgrade from these releases, since they set bar so high with the picture/sound quality.Thanks again,Brad Mullin.

Great picture but felt it could have been a little better all in all it’s a good 4k transfer on the fence whether I will buy the others ones on 4k maybe Generations but the will be it for the stng series

this is one of the few movies I rewatch

The eighth big-screen installment of the "Star Trek" franchise was released to theaters in 1996 with the title "Star Trek: First Contact". It was also the second "Star Trek" film to feature the cast from the highly successful television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-1994). Unlike the previous film, it did not include any of the cast members from the original "Star Trek" series. Instead, "Star Trek: First Contact" begins with the crew on board the newest starship to have the name "Enterprise", the NCC-1701-E. When Starfleet detects a Borg cube headed for Earth, instead of ordering the "USS Enterprise" to join the forces to engage the cube, Starfleet orders it to the Romulan Neutral Zone for fear of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), who had once been forcibly assimilated into the Borg collective. However, the Borg cube successfully gets through the Starfleet blockade, Captain Picard orders the Enterprise to intercept the Borg cube and to rally the surviving Starfleet ships for a last stand. Upon arriving at the Borg cube, Captain Picard assumes command of the fleet and rescues the crew of the USS Defiant, which includes Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn). Using his knowledge of the Borg, Captain Picard successfully destroys the Borg cube, but not before a smaller spherical ship escapes and heads for Earth. Chasing it, the Borg sphere creates a wormhole into time and escapes to Earth's past; but since the USS Enterprise was also caught in the wormhole, it escapes the modified timeline of a Borg-dominated Earth and appears at the same point in history (300 years earlier) where the sphere arrived shortly before. Finding the sphere attacking a missile outpost in Idaho, the USS Enterprise successfully destroys the sphere; but Captain Picard realizes that the Borg were attempting to destroy Earth's first warp ship created by the legendary Dr. Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell). Beaming down to assess the damage at the outpost, Captain Picard is joined by Commander William Riker (William Frakes), Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner), Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). There, they find the first warp ship intact, but are mistaken by a native of the time period, Lily Sloane (Alfre Woodard), of being agents of an Eastern alliance that had initiated a world war several decades earlier. Lily collapses and is beamed back to Enterprise with Dr. Crusher to help with her radiation poisoning. In the meantime, the rest of the away team searches for Dr. Cochran; but Captain Picard realizes that not all of the Borg had been destroyed: some of them managed to beam aboard the Enterprise before the sphere was destroyed. Can Captain Picard stop the Borg from taking over the Enterprise? Can the away team find Dr. Cochran and repair the warp ship to initiate Earth's first-ever official contact with an alien species? You'll just have to watch this exciting "Star Trek" film and see the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) reveal herself for the first time."Star Trek: First Contact" was clearly one of the best films of the franchise ever produced, and was clearly the best of the four "Star Trek" films featuring the crew from "Star Trek: The Next Generation". With impressive special effects, an engaging story, engaging characters and a wonderful script, "Star Trek: First Contact" is definitely one "Star Trek" film worth owning on DVD. Other "Star Trek" characters that appear in this film include the Emergency Medical Hologram (Robert Picardo), Lieutenant Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz) and Nurse Alyssa Ogawa (Patti Yasutake). Other characters include Lieutenant Hawk (Neal McDonough), Admiral Hayes (Jack Shearer), Ruby (Hillary Hayes), Nicky the Nose (Don Stark), the Vulcan Captain (Cully Fredricksen) and the voice of the Enterprise computer (Majel Barrett). Memorable scenes include the opening Borg attack scenes, the arrival in the past, finding the warp ship, finding Dr. Cochran, discovery of the Borg on the Enterprise, Data's capture, Lily with Picard, the holodeck scene, the space walk, the launch, Picard & the Borg Queen and the closing scenes. Overall, I rate "Star Trek: First Contact" with a resounding 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it.

GREAT MOVIE. Looks pretty good. Keep the 1080p if you own it. Not worth upgrading.

Even though Star Trek: Generations was a good first entry in The Next Generation era of feature films, it wasn't until Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga wrote Star Trek: First Contact's story and screenplay that Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew proved that they could carry a Trek film without help from The Original Series' cast.It also helped that the film was more action-oriented than Star Trek VII. Sure, the last battle of the NCC-1701 D was impressive and the brief meeting of Captains James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Picard did provide Trek fans with some exciting and moving moments, but what fans really wanted was a muscular...action movie with a mission (and antagonists) worthy of the Next Generation crew and the new, top-of-the line Enterprise E.Star Trek: First Contact brings back the Borg, a race of half-organic, half cybernetic beings whose goal is to destroy other races by assimilating their technology and transforming the survivors by injecting microscopic nanoprobes that turn humans, Vulcans, El-Aurians -- anyone, really -- into unfeeling, relentless drones. As fans of the 1987-1994 syndicated series know, Capt. Picard was once captured by the Borg and transformed into Locutus, a Borg strategist/spokesdrone whose intimate knowledge of Starfleet technology,its tactics and its officers nearly spelled certain defeat for the Federation at the Battle of Wolf 359.Now, several years later, the Borg are back and meaner than ever. Having been thwarted more than once in the 24th Century by Picard and his crew, the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) leads a single-cubeship invasion force into Federation space, hoping to defeat the Federation by either conquering Earth in a battle against Starfleet...or tinkering with the timeline and going back to the 21st Century to prevent humanity's first contact with another spacefaring race.Actor Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. Will Riker) makes his feature film directing debut in this eighth installment of the Star Trek movie series, and although he would only direct the weaker Star Trek: Insurrection, he does a great job at helming a very high-octane action flick that involves time travel, space battles, a strong Picard/Data storyline and elements from The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and the then-still new Voyager.Guest stars James Cromwell (The Sum of All Fears, Babe) and Alfre Woodward join the cast of TNG as warp-drive inventor Zefram Cochrane and his friend and assistant Lily, who add a certain mixture of edginess and wit to the film. Cromwell fares particularly well as Cochrane, a character first seen in The Original Series episode Metamorphosis. While Cromwell doesn't remotely look like the then-30 or 40-something Glen Corbett, he portrays the legendary "father of warp drive" as a very human and flawed genius -- he is cranky, cynical and drinks way too much -- who is bemused by the hero-worship he receives from the Enterprise crew. He also gets some of the best lines. (My favorite: "You're astronauts...on some kind of star trek?")Also contributing to the excitement is Jerry Goldsmith's score, a mixture of a lovely new main theme and such familiar touchstones as Alexander Courage's fanfare for the Original Series theme and Goldsmith's own "Main Theme" for Star Trek's first feature film (and later adapted as The Next Generation's main title).Although First Contact does require some familiarity with the Star Trek universe and its history, it's clearly among the best of the 10 in the series.

The Star Trek franchise has some really good movies in it, some decent ones, and some snoozers. First Contact is the best of all. The directing is solid without being distracting, the story has weight without being unwieldy, and the casting is super. Patrick Stewart is generally recognized for terrific acting, it's on display here, but all the actors did great. If you like Star Trek the Next Generation and by some strange quirk of fate have not seen this movie yet, you can safely spend your money on this DVD and rest easy that you will like it.

The one - the moment where everything simply came together at the right time to create a thrilling adventure which still stands as the best TNG big screen outing and one of the best ‘Star Trek’ films, offering a taste of what could have been if the follow up films hadn’t been so muddled.The USS Enterprise and her crew find themselves in a battle to save Earth and the entire future of their history, as they must travel back in time to defeat the Federations greatest enemy, The Borg, from erasing their entire civilisation…It fires on all cylinders from the moment it starts, and never drops the pace right through until the end, setting up the story quickly and efficiently and following its two parallel stories (on Earth and on the Enterprise) until they dovetail in the finale.The cast had hit their stride, the visual effects are largely terrific (the model and other practical work hold up staggeringly well, and most of the CGI looks good for its age as well - apart from the plasma but even in 1996 that was a bit iffy!) and the picture quality is the best I think I’ve seen, even on the standard Blu-ray. It’s really never looked better.Extras are lengthy with three commentaries (one with Jonathan Frakes, one with Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga, one with Damon Lindelof and Anthony Pascale and the standard text commentary from Mike and Denise Okuda….plenty to digest in all of them), plus hours and hours of archive featurettes, interviews, storyboards, etcVery worthwhile purchase.

Not that the film looked dated but the upscale has given the effects a nice crisp fresh look and really improved the experience. A great story and really happy they finally released this.

As this is an even numbered Star Trek film you know it's one of the better ones (Excluding number 10 of course) and this is easily the best example with the Next Generation crew.Paramount have done a stunning job with the 4K upgrade to this disc, especially if you can make use of the Dolby Vision HDR. As with most 4K discs nowadays it really does help re-create that cinematic feel and the details brought out from the resolution upgrade are excellent.Highly recommended.

This is my favourite TNG film, the quality of the picture on Blu-Ray was very good.

its ok