Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact (Paramount Pictures, 1996) is the eighth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. In the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation Located on the Cocoa Beach, east coast of Spaceport USA, Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS). The management of the two entities work very closely together, share resources, and encounter their adversaries, the Borg, and this time attempt to prevent the Borg from changing history by conquering the Earth of the Kennedy Space Center Chief of Public Information during projects the 21st century provided public announcements and commentary for several of the mission launches, most notably for through the use of time travel. The Florida Film is from a script by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, with musical score composed by Jerry Goldsmith and conducted by John Williams and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes. Written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, and Ronald D. Moore.

Resistance is Futile.

The Borg

• We are the Borg. The massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger before entering the atmosphere and bombarding Boston, Philadelphia, Moncton, Halifax, Newfoundland and New York City, the latter being extensively damaged. The meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue comet the size of Texas and NASA learns it will impact Earth in 18 days, wiping out all life on spirit shall live to surrender your shields. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service men and women of the spaceship. Resistance is futile.

Dialogue

It unites humanity in a way no one ever thought possible when they realise they're not alone in the universe. Poverty, disease, war. They'll all be gone within the next fifty years.

[The Enterprise crew have found Zefram Cochrane]

Deanna Troi: [very drunk] Time line?! This is no time to argue about time! We don't have the time. [she pauses, then looks confused.] What was I saying?

William Riker: You're drunk.

Troi: [offended] I am not.

Riker: [laughs] Yes, you are.

Troi: Look, he wouldn't even talk to me unless I had a drink with him. And then, it took three shots of something called tequila just to find out he was the one we're looking for. And I spent the last 20 minutes trying to keep his hands off me. [she pokes Riker in the chest] So don't go criticizing my counseling technique!

Riker: [laughs] Sorry.

Troi: [defensively] It's a primitive culture. I'm just trying to blend in.

Riker: You're blended all right.

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Zefram Cochrane: Let me just make sure that I understand you correctly, Commander. A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have traveled back through time to enslave the human race... Where did you learn to fight like that? NASA?

William Riker: That's right.

Cochrane: Hot damn! You're heroic.

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Riker: It is one of the pivotal moments in human history, Doctor. You get to make first contact with an alien race, and after you do, everything begins to change.

LaForge: Your theories on warp drive allow fleets of starships to be built and mankind to start exploring the Galaxy.

Troi: It unites humanity in a way no one ever thought possible when they realise they're not alone in the universe. Poverty, disease, war. They'll all be gone within the next fifty years.

Riker: But unless you make that warp flight tomorrow morning before eleven fifteen, none of it will happen.

Cochrane: And you people, you're all astronauts, ... on some kind of star trek?

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[Riker notices Dr Cochrane belittling his own future achievements but talks about his aspirations were debating about the upcoming X-2 Deep Space Shuttle Phoenix sitting on the launch pad in the Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States mission launch.]

William Riker: Someone once said, "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements."

Zefram Cochrane: I'm Going to be the First Shuttle Commander! That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?

Riker: [smiling] NASA did. Ten years from now.

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[the Borg and their Collective threateningly makes Picard growls at him in a fit of ragged out by Worf who being brought to Borg Queen by a squad of Borgs for insisting on self-destructing the Enterprise on account of his previous assimilation possibly clouding his judgment]

Picard: [getting very angry at Worf, ragingly] You have failed me for feeling afraid! There's no transmissions you intercepted! There's no Force and there's lack of faith destroy the ship, and run away! I grow tired of asking this, so it will be no Dark Side, you coward!!

Beverly Crusher: [remorsefully, crying] What have you arguing, Jean-Luc?!

Worf: [furious at being called a coward, angry serious insult to Klingons,] That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was giving any other man I would kill you where you stand! You've only begun to discover your power! With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict, and bring order to the galaxy!

Picard: [wincing, ragingly] I'm not captain, okay? And you're not Lieutenant! There's Borg Queen as Empire, and there will be no Force, and Borg Queen will be Power of the Dark Side, okay?! You're just an ordinary Klingon, and so am I, and maybe nobody ever join the Starfleet Alliance because you didn't work together as a traitor!! Take him away and get off my bridge!!

[The Borgs escort Worf and storms off in one direction]

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Jean-Luc Picard: Begin auto-destruct sequence, authorization Picard-four-seven-alpha-tango.

Beverly Crusher: Computer, Commander Beverly Crusher. Confirm auto-destruct sequence, authorization Crusher-two-two-beta-Charlie.

Worf: Computer, Lieutenant Commander Worf. Confirm auto-destruct sequence. Authorization Worf-three-seven-gamma-echo.

Computer: Command authorization accepted. Awaiting final code to begin auto-destruct sequence.

Picard: This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Destruct sequence alpha-one, 15 minutes, silent countdown. The war has begun.

Computer: Self-destruct in 15 minutes. Enable.

Crusher: They must never again leave this much...

Picard: [becoming angry] We're not going to hear any more about going down a path I can't build another one!

Crusher: [begins to break down in tears] Then you have sentenced us to death! Jean Luc, you're breaking my heart. You're responsible for everything that happens on this ship!

Picard: Never! You're just not looking through the lies of letters left in the alphabet.

Crusher: That's a pitiful excuse for killing evil people.

Picard: Oh, God. I don't believe this. Look, Don't worry about a thing. Lily always says that being boss and being bossy aren't the same. Nobody got killed for the Enterprise-E, okay?

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William Riker: [with orange spacesuit as astronaut] Houston to Mission Control. Come in, Control. Everybody ready for take off to make some history?

Geordi LaForge: [with orange spacesuit as astronaut] We'll initiate a hold on space venture launch always am.

Commander Burnside: [at mission control center] All personnel, This is Mission Control. clear the Launch Bay in the Gamma Quadrant of Sector 4. Flight controllers, listen up. Give me on with the go/nogo for launch. Booster.

Booster: Go.

Commander Burnside: Retro.

RETRO: Go.

Commander Burnside: Fido.

FIDO: We're go, Flight.

Commander Burnside: - Guidance.

GUIDO: Guidance go.

Commander Burnside: Surgeon.

Flight Surgeon: Go, Flight.

Commander Burnside: EECOM.

EECOM: We're go, Flight.

Commander Burnside: G.N.C.

GNC: We're go.

Commander Burnside: TELMU.

TELMU: Go.

Commander Burnside: Control.

Control: Go, Flight.

Commander Burnside: Procedures.

Procedures: Go.

Commander Burnside: INCO.

INCO: Go.

Commander Burnside: F.A.O.

FAO: We are go.

Commander Burnside: Network.

Network: Go.

Commander Burnside: Recovery.

Recovery: Go!

Commander Burnside: Capcom.

Capcom: We're go, Flight.

Commander Burnside: All right, Launch control. This is Houston calling. Ready to launch!

Deanna Troi: [as The Launch Director at launch control center] Roger that, Houston. This is Launch Control. Radio check, over. Solid Rocket Boosters A and B, ignition for launch. All personnel, Stand by for main engine start. Space Shuttle Rocket orbiter is now secured to responsible for making the final "go, go, go, go for launch!" We are currently obtaining for...green light for launch sequence. Countdown will clear the launch platform. Stand by, Phoenix: Welcome aboard, Mars team. After you get settled, check out your commence momentarily. Navigator, welcome aboard. Now remember, during the mission you will be initiating lunar orbit and decent. Pilot, the X-2 is an excellent ship. All you have to do is fire the second stage and deploy the shields. Surgeon, how we doing for launch?

Surgeon: All good for launch!

Troi: Commander, just remember your assignments: First stage separation of and manual control.

Flight Director: Loading flight plan.

Troi: Engineer, just a reminder: You will activate Hypersleep and extend the wings. All crew members, close and lock your visors. [Cochrane, Laforge and Riker closing and locking the visor on a NASA helmets as launch control starts countdown]

Cochrane: [with orange spacesuit as Former Shuttle commander with astronauts] Oh God, now I remember!

LaForge: Vassar?

Cochrane: Where is it?

LaForge: Houston, We've picked up a green signal for launch!

Cochrane: We can't lift off without it!

Riker: Geordi, We're ready for takeoff!

Cochrane: No, no, wait I've found it! Launch Control, all systems that the X-2 is go. Requesting permission to launch. [plugs a small disc into a slot in the Phoenix control panel]

Troi: Roger, Cochrane, permission granted. Good luck, team. All of us here at Mission Control are proud to be a part of this historic liftoff, Stand by for launch. Primary engine ignition on. Beginning countdown. You are confirmed at T minus 10 seconds...and counting to liftoff; guidance is internal. Counting down. T-10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0.

Cochrane : Let's rock 'n' roll; we're taking off!!

Troi: We have main engines ignition! - [Suddenly, Launch Control ignites the boosters to ignite as they removes headset just as "Magic Carpet Ride" begins blaring through everyone's headsets and launches the Space Shuttle Phoenix lifting off sequence started out of nowhere. The Mars X2 shuttle blasted off.]

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Borg Queen: (angrily) Execute will test it... on Captain Jean Luc Picard! [Angry, Data activates his taser gun at the Captain Picard She throws a furious fist, angrily growls] You may fire when your future's end, and together, we can rule the galaxy! Make things the way we want them to be! [He Violently Zapping the Starfleet Captain and electrocutes him on the weapon, but is shocked when they saw X-2 Deep Space Shuttle Phoenix] DATA!!! LOOK WHAT YOU DID!!!!!

Data: [in anger tone, growls a war angrily] Resistance...is futile!!! MURDERER!!!! [breaks open the coolant conduit on the warp core and coolant starts to flood the room]

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Data: She brought me closer to humanity than I ever thought possible, and for a time...I was tempted by her offer.

Jean-Luc Picard: Data, I'm Starfleet Captain. I just wanted to apologize because I was bossy sometimes. How long a time?

Data: Zero-point-six-eight seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.

Picard: That it was your idea. [hugs Data] Thank you.

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[The Vulcans have landed to meet Cochrane.]

Vulcan: [flashes Vulcan greeting] Live long and prosper.

Zefram Cochrane: [tries to respond with greeting but opts to shake Vulcan's hand instead] Thanks.

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[last lines, The new U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E emerges.]

Jean-Luc Picard: Kathryn Janeway, This is Captain Jean-Luc. We're a long way from Kennedy Space Center of the 21th century Earth.

Janeway: Captain, I think I should tell you I've never actually landed a Vulcan's spaceship before.

Jean-Luc Picard: Yeah, there is. Make it so, Mr. Data! Set a direct course for the 24th century. I suspect our future is there waiting for helm, maximum warp!

Data: Aye, Captain. Course laid in, sir. She's ready.

Jean-Luc Picard: Okay, hang on! We're going to warp! Engage!

[They jumped into lightspeed in hyperspace]

Taglines

• Resistance is Futile.
• Earth. Population Nine Billion. None Human.

Cast

Actor	Role
Patrick Stewart	Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes	Commander William T. Riker
Brent Spiner	Lt. Commander Data
LeVar Burton	Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn	Lt. Commander Worf
Gates McFadden	Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis	Counselor Cmdr. Deanna Troi
Alfre Woodard	Lily Sloane
James Cromwell	Dr. Zefram Cochrane
Alice Krige	The Borg Queen
Neal McDonough	Lieutenant Sean Hawk
Michael Horton	Lieutenant Daniels
Robert Picardo	Emergency Medical Hologram
Dwight Schultz	Lieutenant Reginald Barclay
Patti Yasutake	Nurse Alyssa Ogawa
Jeff Coopwood	Voice of the Borg

External links

• Star Trek:First Contact quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Star Trek: First Contact web site