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Star Trek: First Contact

🕑 Added 2025-03-01 05:00:09 +0000 UTC

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Swoll Tits

I dont know if they knew what they had during the inception of the Borg, but they definitely knew what they had after they saw Q Who. It's the scariest Trek has ever been. They naturally get scaled back over time as we learn more, but this movie does a great job bringing it back to that. Also "He's older than he is tall" made me giggle for so damn long. Favorite line in the episode.

Jason Nucatola

The Brutalist director was the star of Thunderbirds (2004)! This is blowing my mind

Rad Rodge

Peter Hyams is a great call. Damn. Alas for Jonny

Banjo Pussywhistle

I always felt like they were doing a Hellraiser thing with the Borg. Even down to the cube

Rad Rodge

This is what we train for, we’re ready

Big Charelton

It just dawned on me that we're about to have 1 episode a day for 3 days lol

Rad Rodge

“Crom is like a waterfall” hahahha paging Stuart Wellington

Rad Rodge

Yup

Amos Happ

Amazing to hear Griffin cite “Worf with a lute” as broad without the context of Worf smashing Geordi’s lute. Do we think this is savant shit or has he seen a meme ambiently?

Olivia Haidar

https://youtu.be/KzdhFsWeHyg?si=AUi0OVQjHnWOg1DN

Scott Carberry

Robot Repair Rulez!

Rad Rodge

There’s rarely been a more quintessentially Blank Check episode summary detail than “Cromwell drip”

Brendan McFall

I have to be at work in four hours... Fuck you

Jules

Griffin is right... Crusher with her blonde version of The Rachel haircut is quite pretty

Rad Rodge

Calling him Jean-Luc CAN be a power move but happens more often in the show than I tend to remember, when she does it here she has the power of it being the only time anyone ever dared, it’s so great

Robert Forand

Word with a lute does play silly, He is not a Merry Man

Rad Rodge

Now that I think about it, I guess Spielberg movies actually do this several times in close proximity in the current miniseries, that’s interesting

Jules

No surprise, that's maybe my fav Williams score (I'm never gonna get into a debate about what's the BEST with Williams, but it's my fav)

Rad Rodge

Jurassic Park is actually another example of this, I would say, coming up soon haha

Rad Rodge

I just always have special affection for the specific subset of big sweeping classical blockbuster themes that actually are not either action-adjacent or love themes. They’re a less numerous part of the Big Willie Style/Goldsmith/Silvestri/Horner/etc. sort of zone, but it makes sense that a Star Trek movie would be one of the rare times that a blockbuster quintuples down on that type of theme