Star Trek: First Contact - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Star Trek: First Contact or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Star Trek: First Contact

[bernard]

This movie is not just a sequel, but also a prequel to Barbara Bass. The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E crew travel back to the year 2063 to stop the Borg from preventing First Contact. TOS takes place in the 2260s, just over two hundred years after First Contact.

[leo]

The teaser trailer features scenes from Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best of Both Worlds (1990)/Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best of Both Worlds: Part II (1990). Other scenes in the trailer include the destruction of the U.S.S. Pasteur from Star Trek: The Next Generation: All Good Things... (1994), and other stock effects shots produced for TNG and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993). In addition, a quick shot of the U.S.S. Voyager from Star Trek: Voyager (1995) can be seen in the teaser.

[phyllis]

In the early drafts, Picard was supposed to be the one helping Zefram Cochran on Earth, with Riker fighting the Borg on the Enterprise. The main story was also focused on the happenings on Earth. After Sir Patrick Stewart objected to that, the characters of Riker and Picard were swapped. This also resulted in making Picard more of an action hero, and the story more focused on happenings on the Enterprise.

[wallace]

Dwight Schultz: Reprised his role as Lieutenant Reginald Barclay from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995). Schultz was three hours late when arriving to the set, because he got lost, and a crew member had to go get him.

[claude]

When Picard, Worf, and Hawk are detaching the deflector, each lock is designated MagLok AE35. The AE-35 radio antenna is an important Macguffin from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and 2010 (1984).

[mathew]

During the film franchise, the Enterprise-E deck structure has changed multiple times. In this movie, Picard states there are twenty-four decks, yet a security officer states the Borg controlled decks twenty-six to eleven. In Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), during the battle with the Remans, the ship loses shielding on Deck 29 allowing the Remans to board.

[charlie]

James Cromwell claimed that Zefram Cochran was the closest of any of his roles to his personality in real life.

[kim]

The stardate given for this movie is 50893.5, which roughly translates to November 22, 2373 in the current calendar format. Coincidentally, this movie was released in theaters on November 22, 1996. (See Trivia Section for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) on how this was calculated.)

[veronica]

A scene filmed, that did not make the final cut, featured Deanna Troi attempting to communicate with the abrasive Zefram Cochran. Fed up with his attitude, she pushes him off an embankment, fully aware that he will land on a force field, which breaks his fall.

[lynn]

The escape pod doors on the Enterprise-E are the center section of cowl induction hoods found on many high performance cars and trucks.

[russell]

Avery Brooks had a cameo as Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), ordering Worf to command the U.S.S. Defiant. This was filmed, but deleted.

[edgar]

Certain U.S.S. Enterprise bridge set pieces from previous Star Trek movies were built into parts of the Enterprise-E bridge. These pieces include the turbolift foyers, which are the only surviving parts of the set from Star Trek (1979), and the aft master display station, which was a piece of the Enterprise-A bridge set, originally built for Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989).

[ronnie]

The Borg Sphere, the Cube's smaller counterpart, makes its first on-screen appearance during this movie.

[stephanie]

The first scene, Captain Picard's nightmare, was the last filmed.

[toni]

After Star Trek: Generations (1994), Worf became a member of the Deep Space Nine crew. The writers had to think of a way of bringing Worf into this movie and thus, Worf commands the Defiant and is rescued by the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E when the ship is damaged in the Borg attack.

[frederick]

The titles "Star Trek: Borg" and "Star Trek: Resurrection" were considered. The Resurrection title was almost a lock until the studio realized that Twentieth Century Fox had registered the name for Alien: Resurrection (1997). First Contact is also the title of Star Trek: The Next Generation: First Contact (1991).

[bryan]

In an early draft of the screenplay, Lieutenant Hawk (Neal McDonough) was gay, and therefore was to have been the first openly gay character in any Star Trek series or movie. However, any reference to his sexual orientation was excised from later drafts of the screenplay. Lieutenant Hawk was later confirmed as having been gay in the Star Trek tie-in novel "Section 31: Rogue" by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin.

[riley]

Captain Picard is likened to the "Moby Dick" character Captain Ahab for his obsession with destroying the Borg, as Ahab was obsessed with killing the white whale. Sir Patrick Stewart portrayed Ahab in Moby Dick (1998). Thus, Sir Patrick Stewart became the first actor to have quoted "Moby Dick" as the Captain of a vessel in more than one series.

[jeffrey]

All the scenes filmed inside the silo, and of the Phoenix were taken at the Titan Missile Museum, located in Green Valley, twenty miles South of Tucson, Arizona. This site is the only Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silo complex in the world that is open to the public. The one hundred ten foot tall Titan II rocket has been "de-militarized" (no fuel or nuclear payload) and, per the S.A.L.T. treaty and S.M.A.R.T. (Strategic Missile Arms Reduction Treaty), one of the two silo doors must remain blocked open for Russian satellite verification.