Star Trek: First Contact 4K 1996 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

Envoys from a hostile alien civilization infiltrate the past, and humanity's first contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence, capable of ushering in a new space age, is threatened with failure. The crew of the legendary spaceship Enterprise and its brave captain Picard face the difficult and dangerous task of thwarting the enemy's plans and saving Earth's future.

Review 4K Movie

The 'Star Trek' feature-length franchise ended the epic with this film, which was prefixed with 'First Contact,' with Captain Kirk and his companions giving way to Jean-Luc Picard's team, who first appeared in the 'New Generation' series.

With the transition to the new wave, new moments formed in 'Star Trek', different from previous parts of the franchise, which in addition are also directly related to the development of computer technology and graphics in the first place. In 'Star Trek' of the 'Captain Kirk' period, the emphasis was on the naturalness of the scenery, but the special effects were a bit on the back burner, which made the visualization of the picture look completely natural, even despite the sci-fi genre. This, of course, affected the overall impression of watching any of the parts. But in the 'captaincy' period on the special effects and computer graphics were the main emphasis, which is also noticeable. However, the films were not worse, including 'First Contact': Thanks to the excellent work of artists and computer specialists, the picture looked very lively, very bright, very natural and perfectly suited to 'Star Trek'.

Also, the previous parts of 'Star Trek', mainly filmed in pavilions and some moment of compression was still present. Already in 'First Contact' the creators went for a large-scale expansion of the framework and the team of Jean-Luc Picard and his spacecraft noticeably expand the framework, so a certain effect of globality, the destruction of boundaries was created. And the idea of going back in time (not for the first time, by the way, in 'Star Trek') contributed to this and stretched the framework of 'Star Trek' even further, it already seemed that the heroes of the tape could do anything, as long as the creators had enough imagination and mannerism not to overstep the mark.

In First Contact I liked very much the choice of the anti-heroic race: the Borg were in the forefront, a sort of symbiosis of a man-made organism and a humanoid. It looked creepy, for which I can greatly commend the makeup artists, costume designers and painters. In this vein, the heroine Alice Krage, Queen of the Borg, is particularly haunting. Her absorbing speeches, her serpentine behavior as she 'groomed' the android Data (Brent Spiner), her absolute denial of all good human or Vulcan standards, her singular desire to enslave and assimilate everyone else - all these things combined to create a frightening and repulsive effect, and Alice Cridge was able to encapsulate it all in her character.

Jean-Luc Picard (actor Patrick Stewart) fully asserted himself as the sole hero. Yes, his crew is also good, but they rather complement their captain, which was not the case in previous 'Star Treks'. That doesn't mean the rest of the cast is completely behind Picard, though, and they're not. I've already written praise for Alice Kidge, but I can't help but mention Jonathan Frakes (who directed 'First Contact', by the way), who by all accounts should be Picard's right-hand man, but suddenly Brent Spiner popped up ahead of him. Again, many thanks to the makeup artists, costumers and painters who memorably created the appearance of Data's android, and thanks to the actor who managed to connect the image of the robot with a pleasant interlocutor in human terms.