[12] The shot was filmed as three separate elements merged with digital effects. [105], Critics reacted favorably to the Borg, describing them as akin to creatures from Hellraiser. At the last moment the torpedoes miss, and the Queen realizes Data betrayed her. Picard's orders are for his ship, USS Enterprise, to patrol the Neutral Zone in case of Romulan aggression; Starfleet is worried that Picard is too emotionally involved with the Borg to join the fight. Author Joanna Zylinska notes that while other alien species are tolerated by humanity in Star Trek, the Borg are viewed differently because of their cybernetic alterations and the loss of freedom and autonomy. In the television series, much of the Borg's faces had been covered by helmets, but for First Contact the makeup artist removed the head coverings and designed assimilated versions of familiar Star Trek aliens such as Klingons, Bolians, Romulans, Bajorans, and Cardassians. Knoll did not want it to seem that the Queen was on a hard, mechanical rig; "we wanted her to have the appropriate 'float'," he explained. "[94] Adrian Martin of The Age noted that the film was geared towards pleasing fans: "Strangers to this fanciful world first delineated by Gene Roddenberry will just have to struggle to comprehend as best they can," he wrote, but "cult-followers will be in heaven". Hull patterns were carved out of wood, then cast and assembled over an aluminum armature. Zimmerman created a village of fourteen huts to stand in for Montana; the cast enjoyed the scenes as a chance to escape their uniforms and wear "normal" clothes. Collect bonus rewards from our many partners, including AMC, Stubs, Cinemark Connections, Regal Crown Club when you link accounts. GNP Crescendo president Neil Norman explained that the decision to include the tracks was controversial, but said that "Frakes did the most amazing job of integrating those songs into the story that we had to use them". Each design was modeled as a three-dimensional digital wire-frame model for use in the film. The scene was difficult to execute, taking ILM five months to finish. [90] Ryan Gilbey of The Independent considered the film wise to dispense with the cast of The Original Series: "For the first time, a Star Trek movie actually looks like something more ambitious than an extended TV show," he wrote. Each time it was a real pleasure, seeing the Next Generation crew battle the Borg and travel back in time to one of the key events that shaped they world they know and love. Moore was afraid that it risked becoming campy and over-the-top,[21] while Stewart refused to wear tights. Four days were spent in the Titan Missile Museum, south of Tucson, Arizona—the disarmed nuclear missile was fitted with a fiberglass capsule shell to stand in for the Phoenix's booster and command module. "Right on the spot, we said maybe we can do both, the Borg and time travel," Moore recalled. While Joel composed many of the film's action cues, his father contributed to the spacewalk and Phoenix flight sequences. First Contact (Live In Concert 6 2001)This was on the soundtrack I got. Paramount heavily marketed the film on the internet via a First Contact web site, which averaged 4.4 million hits a week during the film's opening run, the largest amount of traffic ever on a motion-picture site. The blinking lights in each eye were programmed by Westmore's son to repeat a production member's name in Morse code. [20] One camera shot begins inside the iris of Picard's eyeball and pulls back to reveal the captain aboard a massive Borg ship. [61] Rosenberg preferred motion-control passes of ships over computer-generated versions, as it was much easier to capture a high level of detail with physical models rather than trying to recreate it by computer graphics. [71], Frakes believes that the main themes of First Contact—and Star Trek as a whole—are loyalty, friendship, honesty, and mutual respect. Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes Brent Spiner LeVar Burton Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis James Cromwell Alfre Woodard Alice Krige Neal McDonough Dwight Schultz Cameron Oppenheimer Robert Picardo Adam Scott. Although Picard offers himself to the Borg in exchange for Data's freedom and willingly become Locutus again, Data refuses to leave. 1 hr 50 min. Sir Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, and Jonathan Del Arco share their fond memories while at San Diego Comic-Con. [72], The nature of the Borg in First Contact has been the subject of critical discussion. 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