First Contact was a reimagining of TNG

[Lance]

The only nitpick I have with the film is we (the audience) have no real connection to the E. While it's a fine ship we're only just introduced to it, so we don't really get the feeling that it's a tragic thing that the Borg are slowly assimilating it.

Now if it had been the D, and it was slowly being taken over by the Borg I think it would have added a lot more drama.

Have to agree, I've always thought the same thing.

 

[Trek Survivor]

The only nitpick I have with the film is we (the audience) have no real connection to the E. While it's a fine ship we're only just introduced to it, so we don't really get the feeling that it's a tragic thing that the Borg are slowly assimilating it.

Now if it had been the D, and it was slowly being taken over by the Borg I think it would have added a lot more drama.

Have to agree, I've always thought the same thing.

Me too. I wish the Ent-D hadn't been destroyed in "Generations".

Then again, if it had been the D, you'd have had civilians and kids being Borgified which might've been too much.

 

[Dream]

Me too. I wish the Ent-D hadn't been destroyed in "Generations".

Then again, if it had been the D, you'd have had civilians and kids being Borgified which might've been too much.

Well, if you immediately stopped watching after "All Good Things" and skipped all TNG movies then the E-D was never destroyed. You also get to skip three bad movies too!

 

[Tomalak]

FC made changes to TNG in the same kind of way WoK made changes to TOS. The changes are far more noticable in this early script, which features the Enterprise as an armed-to-the-teeth battleship, Troi as communications officer and a bridge where all consoles face inward, toward the captain.

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Trek-First-Contact.html

Though of course that script is also more faithful in some respects to the series in terms of characterisations, with Picard on Earth with Cochrane and Ruby, and Riker on the Enterprise doing the action stuff with Worf and Data. Patrick Stewart I think asked for their roles to be switched, because the captain should be in the thick of the action.

Other parts of that first draft are way off, like the way Starfleet is depicted. IIRC during the spacewalk scene, Riker and Worf pivot a torpedo launcher around and blow up the deflector dish. The stuff about "phaser batteries" seems really out of place, though the Borg-busting quantum torpedoes would be revisited years later for Voyager's finale. There are also some scenes totally lifted from Aliens, which were cut or altered.