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''Star Trek: First Contact'' is a 1996 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the eighth feature film in the ''Star Trek'' film franchise, and the second film in the series to star the cast of the television series ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''. In the film's plot, the crew of the USS ''Enterprise''-E travel from the 24th to 21st century to save their future after the cybernetic Borg conquered Earth by changing the timeline. After the release of the seventh film, ''Star Trek Generations'' (1994), Paramount tasked writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore with developing a sequel. Braga and Moore wanted to feature the Borg in the plot, while producer Rick Berman wanted a story involving time travel. The writers combined the two ideas; they initially set the film during the European Renaissance, but changed the time period the Borg corrupted to the mid-21st century after fearing the Renaissance idea would be too kitsch. After two better known directors turned down the job, cast member Jonathan Frakes was chosen to direct to make sure the task fell to someone who understood ''Star Trek''. It was Frakes' first theatrical film. The script required the creation of new starship designs, including a new USS ''Enterprise''. Production designer Herman Zimmerman and illustrator John Eaves collaborated to make a sleeker ship than its predecessor. Principal photography began with weeks of location shooting in Arizona and California before production moved to new sets for the ship-based scenes. The Borg were redesigned to appear as though they were converted into machine beings from the inside-out; the new makeup sessions took four times as long as on the television series. Effects company Industrial Light & Magic rushed to complete the film's special effects in less than five months. Traditional optical effects techniques were supplemented with computer-generated imagery. Jerry Goldsmith and his son Joel collaborated to produce the film's score. ''First Contact'' was the highest-grossing film on its opening weekend, making $30.7 million. The film made $92 million in the United States and an additional $54 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $146 million. Critical reception was mostly positive; critics including Roger Ebert considered it one of the best ''Star Trek'' films. The Borg and the special effects were lauded, while characterization was less evenly received. ''First Contact'' was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup and won three Saturn Awards. The film has been released on videotape, LaserDisc, DVD and Blu-ray home video formats. Scholarly analysis of the film has focused on Captain Jean-Luc Picard's parallels to Herman Melville's Ahab and the nature of the Borg. ==Plot== Captain Jean-Luc Picard wakes from a nightmare in which he relived his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier (shown in the television episode "The Best of Both Worlds"). Starfleet informs him of a new Borg attack against Earth, but orders the USS ''Enterprise''-E to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone so as not to introduce an "unstable element" to the fight. Learning that the fleet is losing the battle, the ''Enterprise'' crew disobeys orders and heads for Earth, where a single, damaged Borg Cube opposes a group of Starfleet vessels. The ''Enterprise'' arrives in time to save the crew of the USS ''Defiant'' which is being commanded by Lieutenant Commander Worf. After Picard hears Borg communications in his mind, he orders the fleet to concentrate its firepower on a seemingly non-vital section of the Borg ship.〔Nemecek, 326.〕 The Cube is destroyed after launching a smaller sphere ship towards the planet. The Borg sphere generates and enters a temporal vortex. As the ''Enterprise'' is enveloped in the vortex, the crew briefly glimpses an Earth populated entirely by Borg. Picard realizes that the Borg have used time travel to change history, and orders the ''Enterprise'' to follow. The ''Enterprise'' arrives in the past, on April 4, 2063, the day before humanity's first encounter with alien life after Zefram Cochrane's historic warp flight. The Borg sphere fires on the planet; the ''Enterprise'' crew then destroy the sphere and, realizing that the Borg were trying to prevent first contact, send an away team to the Montana missile complex where Cochrane is building his ship, the ''Phoenix'', to look for survivors. Picard sends Cochrane's assistant Lily Sloane to the ''Enterprise'' for medical attention, then returns to the ship and leaves Commander William Riker on Earth to make sure the ''Phoenix''s flight proceeds as planned.〔Nemecek, 327.〕 The ''Enterprise'' crew sees Cochrane as a legend, but the real man is reluctant to assume his historical role.〔 Borg survivors invade the ''Enterprise'', and begin to assimilate its crew and modify the ship, planning to use it to attack and conquer Earth. Picard and a team attempt to reach engineering to disable the Borg with corrosive coolant used in the warp core, but the android Data is captured and meets the queen of the Borg Collective, who gains his trust by giving part of him human skin. A frightened Sloane seizes the captain but he gains her trust, and they escape the Borg-infested area of the ship by using the holodeck.〔 Picard, Worf, and the ship's navigator, Lieutenant Hawk, stop the Borg from calling reinforcements with the deflector dish, but Hawk is assimilated. As the Borg continue to assimilate, Worf suggests destroying the ship, but Picard angrily calls him a coward and vows to continue the fight. Sloane confronts the captain and, reminding him of ''Moby Dick''s Captain Ahab, makes him realize he's acting irrationally. Picard activates the ship's self-destruct mechanism, orders the crew to abandon ship, and then apologizes to Worf. While the crew heads to escape pods, Picard remains aboard to rescue Data.〔Nemecek, 328.〕 As Cochrane, Riker, and engineer Geordi La Forge prepare to activate the warp drive on the ''Phoenix'', Picard confronts the Borg Queen and discovers she has grafted human skin onto Data, giving him an array of new sensations. She has presented this modification as a gift to the android, hoping to obtain his encryption codes to the ''Enterprise'' computer. Although Picard offers himself in Data's place, the android refuses to leave. He deactivates the self-destruct sequence and fires torpedoes at the ''Phoenix'', but they miss and the Queen realizes Data betrayed her.〔 Data ruptures a coolant tank, and the corrosive substance fatally dissolves the Borg's biological components. Cochrane completes his warp flight,〔 and that night, April 5, 2063, the crew watches as Vulcans, attracted by the ''Phoenix'' warp flight, land and greet Cochrane. Having repaired history, the ''Enterprise'' crew returns to the 24th century.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Star Trek: First Contact」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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