![]() The much-anticipated return of Star Trek to the small screen it is the first TV series in the franchise since Enterprise finished its run in 2005, Discovery takes us as much back to the past as the future, slotting neatly between the Original Series and its immediate predecessor. Indeed, the vibe is not unlike Alien as the purposeful zombies take over deck by deck - only to meet their match in human will and loyalty.At this stage of Star Trek’s just over 50 year old journey into the stars and the depths of humanity’s soul, you could be forgiven for wondering if there is anywhere left to boldly go where we haven’t already boldly gone before.Īfter all, from Captain Kirk to Archer, Picard to Sisko and Janeway, from the dawn of the warp age through to its conflict-ravaged depths, and from the glories of utopia, upon which Gene Roddenberry’s grand vision of the future was founded through to its corrupted reverse, there has been scarcely a moment left uncharted you might think.īut as is the way of endlessly expansive sci-fi for which there are no boundaries but those of an unadventurous imagination, and thank Sarek for that, Star Trek: Discovery, created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman, would prove you wrong. While the relatively tame stuff on Earth with Zephraim Cochrane seems to have drifted in from an entirely different (and more lighthearted) film, it gives you vital breathing space in between the Borg conflict, in which the stakes are literally a fate worse than death. In-joke lines and cameos that made audiences cheer in 1996 may seem puzzling and out of context today. Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart) is captured and turned into a Borg, will be a bit lost - and Star Trek: First Contact not only references them but also connects, to varying degrees, with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, among others. Someone who has not seen the cliffhanger episodes in which Capt. Though it comes on like gangbusters (or Borgbusters, as the case may be), as with many Star Trek movies, knowledge of the dense TV mythology is crucial to comprehending this maximum-warp theatrical expansion. Kids (heck, adults too) who have absorbed Treklore on the level of their Pokemon or Buffy the Vampire Slayer scholarship should be delighted by the well-modulated space adventure. That's played on a comic level more serious events unfold on the Enterprise, where Borg have taken root like an infection and are spreading throughout the ship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following in the same time warp, the Enterprise crew split into two teams one beams to the wilderness of Montana of 2063, to find a genius inventor-pilot named Zephraim Cochrane (James Cromwell), responsible for faster-than-light space travel - but he turns out to be a gangly wastrel, aghast that he's destined to be regarded as the planet's greatest hero. By striking at this crucial interval, the Borg will absorb humanity at its weakest point, altering history and preventing the founding of Starfleet. Responding to an attack on Earth by the Borg, the starship Enterprise (a new model since the previous one got trashed in the last film) discovers the invaders have sent a Borg expedition back in time, to a war-devastated 21st-century Earth. A theatrical spin-off of the fine TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation, STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT gets right to business with the most compelling of the villains from the program, the Borg, an army of ghoulish cyborgs from deep space, out to conquer all humanoid life. ![]()
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