An alternative setting for First Contact!

[sonak]

FC is one of the best Trek movies already, it doesn't need major conceptual changes to improve it. It's got action, drama, great effects, and humor.

Also, it makes sense from a box office standpoint to set it on Earth in the past, which the non-Trek audience has a connection to, rather than a random colony.

 

[Nebusj]

They infiltrate the castle and its swarming with Borg and they have to use medieval weapons to fight them, instead of phasers.

Yeah, that's what I remember too, though I'm sure there was a Da Vinci angle in there somewhere too. Sounds like a TNG holodeck episode which obviously didn't get very far (thank God). IIRC the budget would never stretch to a period setting, but Moore and Braga liked the idea of fighting the Borg with mediaeval weapons. It might be on the DVD commentary.

``You lunkheads! You beamed into the gritty remake of Monty Python and the Holy Grail!''

 

[PCz911]

While admittedly, on paper that would have been a better story, what FC really needed was a bigger budget, and to do away with the ridiculous shoehorned in comedy, like Zefrane (the mastermind who figured out the math, AND built the technology for warp drive) be portrayed as a fucking homeless town drunk, and Troi getting drunk and acting retarded while Frakes (not Riker, Frakes) laughs at her.

I would have loved to see a serious story about a massive Borg attack (think of that scene where a gazillion Vogon ships fly out of hyperspace in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). Holy crip, if that had been a FC scene, I would have wet my pants.

As it stands, FC was cool the first 5 mins, then we spend the rest of the time with drunkie on the surface half of the time, and the Borg Queen trying to have sex with Data the other half of the time.

Yech! It's the best TNG movie only because it was just mediocre as opposed to abysmal, like the other TNG movies were.

I totally agree. The movies with TNG were horrible (and this coming from a guy who was invited to a premiere ). Wish they had just let the series end, it really ended strong.

Plus cochrane had absolutely no resemblance beyond name to the character in metamorphosis. Drove me nuts that they ruined such a great story to use his character in such a crappy story.