I have a soft spot for First Contact because it sparked my last real conversation with my Mom, in which she finally started to understand, after 20+ years, why my dad, brother, and I were all such fans of Star Trek. Its echoes of Khan, mixture of hope & fear, and faith in humanity still work for me.
The cracks are showing in FC (i.e. Picard the action hero) but it’s a good script and most importantly Frakes understands Star Trek in a way that no director since has, and holds it together. Insurrection is a bad script but I also always thought that Frakes got it to feel like Star Trek, at least.
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