Star Trek VIII - The first Contact - Teaser Trailer

[Peskdale61]

This must have been so misleading when it aired... Enterprise-D, Enterprise and Voyager all somehow fighting Borg together.

[DaddlerTheDalek]

Best TNG Movie. But this teaser is so much fun, so wonderful weird! =D

[MikeAM78]

This was the movie that even my non-TREK fan friends wanted to see when it came out. Haha!! It was epic on the big screen. This is STAR TREK. Not that crap J.J. Abrams churned out.

[SpreadingtheMuse]

Behold, the only TNG movie worth a damn. The others were such a waste its painful to remember.

[xerobane]

I never realized before but they didn't show the Sovereign in this teaser. I guess it was still a secret when this was put out in theaters.

[scarred2112]

@xerobane I've read the design of the E-E was kept a secret until just before release, but if you look carefully all the battle scenes are from previous films (with some elements altered) - this was the "teaser", and it's very likely the SFX weren't completed in time for it.

[xerobane]

@scarred2112: I agree. They're all from other Star Trek movies or TV episodes and the music was (I think) from Star Trek VI. But if they wanted to keep the Sovereign a secret, they STILL let it slip through the editing cracks. At 0:50 on the video, you can see a schematic of the Sovereign-class Enterprise on the wall in the bridge. Only for like a second but its funny that they tried SO hard to keep the design a secret that even the trailer was probably heavily edited and supervised.

[StarTreksFollower98]

Voyager did not returned in 2373 she didnt came until 2378

[TOK150]

YEAH VOYAGER WILL BE IN THIS I CANT WAIT!!!!

[EduardoTVideos]

@TOK150 Dude... are you from the past or something? That film was released about 15 years ago.

[EduardoTVideos]

Enterprise-E as a Galaxy class and the Voyager getting home sooner. That's what I call a trailer.

[GuitarHeroRockStar98]

i reckon nemesis and generations are the best

[ico3232]

In my opinion, this is the best Star Trek movie.

[80smusicfanNO1]

@ico3232

Star Trek 2, 4 and 6 are superior in my opinion.

[ico3232]

@80smusicfanNO1

I agree that 2 is one of the best, but not 4 and 6. They're good, but not great. But, then again, that's my opinion.

[TheStartrekkid]

Good movie ,good music

[TheStartrekkid]

The best Star Trek movie.

[Medhiv83]

the first 30 seconds of the video are a masterpiece of drama and buildup of the movies setting, the theme from st6 plus the fade done to the "best of both worlds" track were the enterprise encounters the borg cube and you finally get what it is about! as the queen would say: "perfection"

[blameist]

The movie could have been done better more epic but I suppose one can't complain too much or we wouldn't have had a trek movie with the Borg still I was expecting more instead of a ship in the bottle movie!

[MarcoArsenault]

I'm glad they redid the "the line must be drawn HERE" in the movie, his speech is so much more powerful

[TranyaAddict]

@MarcoArsenault yeah, the version here is pretty weak in comparison..

[Fbueller129]

The script should have been based off the Giant Novel Vendetta where the TNG crew encounter a bigger, meaner and far more advanced version of the Planetkiller from TOS which is piloted by a woman seeking revenge against the Borg. Lots of space battle action and good sub-plots (Picard has a strange soulmate-esqe relationship with the woman and tries to get her to abandon her plan; Geordi tries to restore a female drone to normal but has nothing but trouble).

[EpicFailUnited]

why do they keep using generations scenes? The enterprise d blowing up. Dead givaway.

[fleetadmiralj]

I do have to say, I do get chills everytime the borg music comes on, though

[fleetadmiralj]

*facepalming at all the complaining* it was a teaser trailer. I'm guessing many of the effects shots for the movie weren't even done yet, thus why they reused scenes from the series. I do have to laugh at the putting Voyager over the scene from BOBW. Don't know why they didn't just use the original scene. I guess it doesn't matter, it still got me pumped up, anyway.

[mkoo]

Odd part is the scene in which voyager fires on borg cube is completely original for this teaser. 

[GeorgeMillerAtkinson]

This was a horrible trailer.

There's clips of the USS Voyager, clips from Generations, clips from the Enterprise-D Nothing makes sense it's just stupid.

[Batman8657]

I wasn't even that big a Star Trek fan back then but this trailer always got me hype as hell. It was the first trailer on the Mission Impossible tape.

[TURBODORK2]

did i just see ENTERPRISE D

[tesseraktik]

@TURBODORK2 Yeah, there appears to be a shot there from Generations; looks like the Duras sisters' Bird-of-Prey firing disruptors through the D's shields.

[ReadmanJ]

Hah it shows an Intrepid class lol

[drockjr]

@ReadmanJ look at the markings. they failed...its voyager. :/ I'm glad they edited this in the final cut because that would be stupid to have that large of a continuity error.



[pinoi78]

I first saw this trailer when Independence Day came out.

I shouted FUCK YEAH at the top of my lungs. True story.



[nekodesigner]

whatever happened to the last part? i remember it ended like this "on november 22nd resistance is futile... Star Trek:First Contact" but in every clip i see that part is missing

[sgtmyers88]

When we seen this trailer how many hoped that they were gonna rebuild the Enterprise-D? lol

[HUSKY57887]

I love the Borg!

[CrypticWatcher]

there is a lot of other series footage, like ds9 and tng

[drockjr]

@CrypticWatcher yeah they failed at creating a unique teaser.  Startrek XI ..regardless if you liked it or not..had an AMAZING teaser.

[JakeT7]

Wow Oh wow this was the very first Star Track preview for the new movie I saw. It was on my tape for FACE/OFF i think. or some other movie around that time. MAy Bee the relic. I cannot remember. But yes indeed the first BORG theme from TNG was top top top of the pops.

[Wired2X]

They should've used the Dennis McCarthy music from The Best of Both Worlds, along with the Goldsmith.

[liptonBlueBirdAdd]

0:45 - 0:53

Random starfleet member: Looks like they control decks 26 up to 11.

Worf: They have assimilated more than have the ship.

Who? Black women? Damn you Oprah! Stop sending your minions back in time to enslave humanity! We gave you the 13th amendment... what more do you want?!?

[DarkAngel182]

It seems they hadn't finished doing the effects for this film when they decided to put the trailer togethor so had to use snippets from the Borg episodes of TNG, DS9 and Voyager. I'm sure I saw a couple of clips from Generations in there too.

[sumbuddyx]

@DarkAngel182 I don't think the voyager scene came from any real episode. Maybe it was some kind of fx shot they made up for the show. Still makes no sense here though.

[whitemanstand72]

worest trek film ever

[sgtmyers88]

Its a pity that they did not bring back the Enterprise-D for this movie.

[Xxzoidbergx]

wuz that voyager?

[crieff405]

Wow! A lot of footage from Best of Both Worlds! Crusher with a phaser, the Enterprise D getting sliced open (actually, that might be from "Q Who?") and it goes on. A great teaser in my opinion...it looked like, six years after Best of Both Worlds, it might finally get the sequel it truly deserved.

Incidentally, they should have released the edited TV movie version of Best of Both Worlds with this so one could watch both on the big screen, one after another.

[regeya]

According to Memory Alpha, they hadn't done many of the fx shots yet. Still...oy vey, what a corny trailer.

[Austindude3954]

Most of this wasnt even from that movie...And why was Voyager at 0:44?

[TazG2000]

@Austindude3954 The voiceover was saying "...must succeed where all others have failed" as it showed clips from TNG, DS9 and Voyager.

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@Austindude3954

At 0:44 thats a clip of the Enterprise D from Best of Both Worlds part 1

[Austindude3954]

@SpreadingtheMuse I know THAT. I meant the part with Voyager

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@Austindude3954

Looks like a random gluing together of images. Voyager ontop of the original Enterprise D from the shot from Best of Both Worlds. I havent one good idea why they would do that, except to try to be stupid.

[Austindude3954]

@SpreadingtheMuse Or they're terrible at making trailers

[SpreadingtheMuse]

@Austindude3954

Nothing wrong with the trailer, just didnt have enough footage yet and they needed it ready to put in front Independence Day summer of 1996. Its almost better than that whole movie.

[VanhaKarvanaama]

They used a different cut of the "line must be drawn here", also not even a glimpse of the Ent-E, reuse of clips and music. Ah, teasers..

[GQguy24]

This trailer was so weird!! They used clips from STVII and clips from the TNG series. At :35 they show a scene from "All Good Things..." With the USS Pasteur blowing up, then they show the Enterprise D which was destroyed in STVII and then they start showing all these different clips from STVII. Anyone know what the scene at 1:00 is from? First Contact was by far the best film from the TNG series though.

[NathMedi]

@GQguy24

The scene is from the movie Star Trek Generations after the warp core breach..

[GQguy24]

@NathMedi

You are wrong my friend. Go look again and pause this video right at :59 seconds actually. This is definitely 100% NOT from ST Generations. Look at the saucer section of this ship. It is clearly some kind of older Federation ship from the Kirk days. The registry looks like it says NCC-310? something. Is it the USS Reliant from STII maybe??

[shieldagent001]

@GQguy24 No it is a ship called dthe saratoga from star trek deep space nine when you watch the frist episode

[EagleTempest]

@GQguy24

I believe the Miranda variant that's shown is the USS Saratoga (NCC-31911) from DS9: Emissary.

[NathMedi]

Yes, you're right, its an old ship, possibly a reliant class vessle, its a scene from a TNG-Episode.. maybe from "the best of both worlds"?

[MrPsychic8472]

@NathMedi Miranda class USS Saratoga from Emissary Part 1, on DS9.

[Chevron7engage]

Narrated by Miguel Ferrer. Who played the helmsman/first officer of the USS Excelsior in STIII.

[Titanium0X]

I love the use of the overture from Trek 6, and the classic Borg theme from Best of Both Worlds. Awesome.

I know why all the stock footage is there, but I never heard an explanation for that close-up of Geordi's eyes opening. Always wondered about that.

[cowboykenny21]

the close up on geordis eyes in in the film =- at the part where reg barclay shakes cochranes hand geordie says ' Yeah reg , but you'll need to re-inforce this copper tubing with......'

there you go :)

[captain5enterprise]

picard is a wiz at connect the dots.

"the line must be drawn HERE!"

[Carcass1701]

lmfao

[SGTBizarro]

I'm VERY glad they changed the way he says "the line must be drawn here!", this version doesn't deliver well at all compared to his final version, has so much... 'oomph' to it :D

[majicebe]

Man, I remember watching this on my computer back in 1996 before it came out. I was so pumped for the movie, and it didn't disappoint (just watched it earlier today on blu-ray, in fact). But yeah, I assume they stitched-in all those other clips because maybe they hadn't completed the post-production fx yet.

[kuribayashi84]

Where does this clip of the Voyager fighting the Borg come from? Its obviously not from the Series, when this teaser was made VOY was in the third season.

[sirinferno]

if you look closer, the borg is attacking the galaxy class enterprise-d in half of them. this is because back in generations you still had the enterprise-d, so this film would be the first time you'd be seeing the enterprise-e

[meiitbe]

Those were test shots of the VFX they were planning on using, they just used Voyager as a stand-in, as the Ent E hadn't been completed. Also, if you look at the cube, it isn't the cube from the film, nor the television show. There is another test shot of the cube just before the Voyager shot, but it is from a cube design that didn't make it in the film.

[jagger2001]

First off I really don't like this trailer lol ... seems like they spliced it together in about 2 hours. Secondly, anyone who's watched the movie notice how that one bridge officer claims the Borg control decks 26-11, but later in the movie Picard says the ship only has 24 decks? Gotta love Star Trek but you'd think they'd at least try and be more consistent ....

[jnwestray78]

this is the worst teaser trailer ever..lol

[FanaticalStarTrek]

what's wrong with it?

[jobifresh]

Voyager's fighting the borg!

[Stuurm]

they purposely used footage of other enterprises to conceal the new one, they wanted it to be a surprise revealed in the full trailer

[TURBODORK2]

enterprise D is in this trailer

[welshfilmbuff]

1:01

Not quite the same, is it?

:)

[watchinginaz]

Borg=commies

[thompsoncolton]

There's a few frames from Star Trek Generations right after the Borg tell the Enterprise to surrender itself.

[bombarde1701]

Hey the music for this is the theme from Star Trek VI!!

[sirinferno]

extremely similar, yup!

[gnr2396]

it is with music from the best of both worlds borg episode where picard is assimilated.

[keridog1]

the opening music is the undiscoverd ocuntry theme

[Natural11001001]

Awesome teaser. I remember when I was a kid and saw this for the first time. I was so hyped for this movie.

[cerebralshrike]

I first saw this trailer when it came packaged with Mission Impossible VHS release.

[keridog1]

yay undiscoverd country music

[cdj800m25]

fucking stupid i just whant 2 fuck janeway

[ensignjoe]

Well most scenes are from different movies/episodes. And the "The line must be drawn here" scene isn't the final one.

[jameslove888]

it is but its said in a different way, with more oomph

[RyJ]

The Director chose to take the line read with 'HERE!' being emphasized more.

This trailor must have been made before any of the special effects were done... Quite interesting. Seems like this movie was very rushed.

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

Yep. The movie was still in post-production when the trailer was released.

[TheManiacOnWheelsUSA]

Or it could be a different take from the one used in the film.

[FoxWolf87]

Was that Voyager at 0:44?

[80smusicfanNO1]

Yes

[rurh1981]

the borg sounds like republicans....sorry...I had to say it. I like all cultures and religions, and just feel that way. I apologize for bringing up politics...I just had to say that.

[commandox20]

Yeah because we Republicans are totally amassing numbers right? We're just totally the ones that had hordes of zombies go to the polls and vote for a guy, and now many of them are starting to see cracks in their decision. You know what I think? All you jackasses that bash Republicans and Conservatives have no understanding of a damn thing in life, except how to bitch at the powers that be. I give Obama and the democrats till 2010, and then all of you assholes will change to a different tune.

[Mysenthrope]

Well, you hate-filled repressed hypocritical slime have done your best to destroy the country over the last 8 years, so I'd say Obama et all should have more than 2 to try and fix hate.

Maybe Ja-HEZ-us will save us. Or rich white crooks. Ah, just bomb us back to 1950 when things were peachy keen.

[HunterKiller999]

WOW. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS. I'm amazed at how fast you idiots can derail a video from Star Trek to politics.

[IamAmunRe]

If anything, the Borg are like the radical left. In fact, the concept of the Borg was developed as a criticism to the Radical Left (the Che/Stalinista/Castro/Alinsky types).

[spartanlegend01]

What the hell are you on about? The Borg were developed as a new villain in The Next Generation because the original intended villains (the Ferengi) sucked. I hope your comment was meant to be sarcastic, but you know the internet and sarcasm.

Besides, the Federation is described as a Socialist Utopia.

[wantsvictory]

Actually they sound like communist. Nobody really owns anything, everyone has one voice, a common goal, nobody has anything more than anyone else.

[RyJ]

Communists are humans...who are individuals...who have their own opinions. The Borg do not have this.

[tombo1984]

Enterprise D in trailer...

Enterprise D clip from Generations included...

Music from Trek 6...

Clever!

[FekLeyrTarg]

Not to forget: The Voyager, the Saratoga (the DS9 one not the STIV one), et cetera.

[CaptJono]

A bunch of the scenes from this "trailer" were not from the movie. oh well, it was fun to watch!

[HunterKiller999]

Saw NCC-1701 in there. And Voyager. And the Ent-D.

[meiray]

The shot of Voyager was an FX test - obviously there were no finished FX shots available for the teaser, hence the reuse of footage from TNG, "Generations" and DS9. There is actually no shot of an Enterprise besides D. This teaser first played before "Independence Day."

[Spectual1]

Apparently they were planning to use an Intrepid Class as the Enterprise E but decided that it something different from an Intrepid should be used.

[alcibiade666]

The line must be draw HERE!!!!

[keridog1]

OMG SAME MUSIC FROM STAR TREK 6

[WorfSOM]

The second half of the trailer is terrible, but the first half is brilliant at building up suspense.

[sserpent21]

Thats a lot of reused shit for a new movie, The generations trailer was like that too.

Thankfully another trailer (a better one) was made

[ytmndman]

I noticed a lot of those special effects shots were more primitive than the ones used in the actual movie, also I noticed one scene that was actually from the DS9 pilot and wasn't in the movie at all

[Morgothkilla]

iam a Star Wars Fan but Star Trek is GREAT

[witchking3434]

trailer = gay

movie = awesome

im pissed off cuz my First Contact dvd is scratched up so now i have to spend $20 or something to get a new one

[Barricade]

One thing that they really should have done was bring back the TNG version of the Borg Theme - you hear it for only a few seconds in this trailer when the 'Borgified' ST Logo is revealed. That theme was damn freaky.

[RafaleC77th]

@Barricade Think this was the best trailer for First Contact Simply because of the 'assimilated' logo and the use of the TNG borg theme.

[at1212b]

Nothing like the Series and Crew, esp Picard that originally engaged the Borg clashing and meeting in a ST Movie.

[DewbackRider88]

I always hated the TNG movie trailers, cause they just reused footage from the tv shows.

[FekLeyrTarg]

Well, I like it.

As you may have or have not noticed, Star Trek always reused elder footage.

[Zoutezak]

If you look at 0.43 you see an Intrepid class vessel firing at the Borg, you can also see its registry number, stating its NCC 74656. So that's Voyager! :-)

And it just looks if this shot was taken from TNG Best of both worlds part 2 where the USS Enterprise D saucer section is firing on the Borg cube. Very weird.

[FekLeyrTarg]

I agree. But the shot doesn't look like BobW Part 2 to me.

I could be unused footage originally made for "Unity" and/or "Scorpion, Part1" (both from ST: Voyager session 3)

[buchichu]

from memory alpha:

the first theatrical trailers for Star Trek: First Contact contain very little footage from the film? To launch the promotion on schedule, it needed to be released long before the film was completed. So the score from the Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country trailers were used, along with footage from "The Best of Both Worlds". Curiously, even USS Voyager appears in the trailer, in what appears to be a scene with the USS Enterprise-D from "Best of Both Worlds."

[keridog1]

dont forget the borg music

[RevanorSzeged]

yay!

[tincho359]

fortunatly the borg where destroid in 2378 be the crew of the starship voyager

[Mills88]

No they weren't. They were crippled. The queen has died like 4 times now but always comes back.

They'll be back and with advanced technology they stole from the future ship.

[FekLeyrTarg]

Or perhabs the renegade Borg of Unimatrix 0 will decide build a new collective.

And I think the only Borg which still exist are Seven, those former Borg drones on that Planet where Chakotay stranded, the children of Brg (Itchep and the others) and the Borg renegades of Unimatrix 0.

[ltflak]

for a trailer, it has almost nothing of the movie

[Cyke101]

It's a teaser trailer. Teaser trailers will often have very little footage of the movie, since teaser trailers are made and released so early in development.

For example, the teaser trailer for the latest Trek movie has very little footage to it.

[FekLeyrTarg]

This is one of my favourite teaser trailers.

Scenes From Star Trek: The Next Generation (Best of Both worlds and All good things), Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Emissary), Star Trek: Voyager (An Episode I don't know), Star Trek VII: Generations and Star Trek VIII: First Contact together in a brief trailer with music from Star Trek VI and VII and Star Trek TNG (Best of both worlds) in one brief teaser trailer: Freaking cool.

[Gorthaur42]

Wow. Music from Star Trek VI, scenes from the TV series, and acting that was obviously not final cut. Cute.

[gnr2396]

it was like a teaser trailer for the most part and a lot of the effects werent done yet. I remember this trailer when it came out though.

[Only1Transporter]

Does anyone know where to find any deleted scenes for First Contact?

[dingdong93]

Tis trailer becomes hilarious if you change the word Borg with Asian please don't flame me

[Wandsock]

might indeed be funny IF there would be said "borg" at least ONE time... ;)

[oxmys]

"Imagine a race of communist metaphors..."

[oxmys]

Imagine a race of beings possessed of one mind. They are called...Trekkies!

[meowza3k]

...republicans

[GQguy24]

This was by far the best of the Next Generation movies.

[nmcrae1982]

Great trailer. One of the best trailers for a Star Trek movie. Too bad almost none of it is from the actual movie. It's mostly footage from other movies and episodes. (As mentioned below).

[8UP1977]

Dick LaFontain's voice makes it " Driven by one WILL"

[retro38]

had both trailers on a VHS tape from the in-video store at my job after 1994 until the bitch I was married to sold or destroyed my star trek collection

[nmcrae1982]

Bitter much?

[retro38]

Bitter--NO! Couldn't be. Just a 10-11 year collection that cost thousands of dollard went down the drain and haven't seen one piece of it in 4 years

[tennisaus]

The movie "First Contact" is one of the best sci-fi movies of all time in my opinion. The story & acting is just fantastic. Thanks for posting !

[Clayton240183]

It appears they were also trying to keep the trekkys all in suspense with the look of the new Enterprise E. Which I reackon is the best yet

[werdorino]

you guys are forgetting their's footage from DS9's "Emmisary" as well

[retro38]

DS9,Voyager,Generations,TNG episodes

[EnterpriseKnight]

Don LaFontaine is a borg!!!

[mustang6172]

At the risk of sounding nerdy.

Is that a Constitution Class ship at 0:58?

[enterprise1701e]

It's the Miranda-class, USS Saratoga

Destroyed in the battle of Wolf 359

[EnterpriseKnight]

"The line, Must the draw here" IS DIFFERENT!!!!OMG!

[calinthesea]

Yeah it's from an earlier take - probs as this was just the teaser.

[commandox20]

Not, its just reused stock footage from TNG and Voyager. I can name every layers source. The cube and primary angle is from best of both worlds, the shot of voyager is from the pilot, the phasers are added in quickly, the explosion is a freeze frame from yesterdays enterprise, and a bunch of the shots of the Enterprise are TNG stock footage.

[cdname47]

That shot of Voyager firing at the cube doesn't come from any episode....or at least on TV

I wonder if it was cut out of a Voyager ep and used here?

[commandox20]

Its an intercut of the episode BEST OF BOTH WORLDS and a shot of the Voyager model.

[cdname47]

The flames surrounding the cube would seem to discount that idea however

[commandox20]

The flames infront of the cube look like a freeze frame of the stock explosion used in "Yesterdays Enterprise".

[retro38]

you're quite correct. From the Best of Both Worlds Part II when the saucer was separated and Shelby says 'fire anti-matter spread' to distract the Borg from the secondary hull section

[PCGameTrek]

I don't think they had the Enterprise E CGI model & effects complete at the time of this trailer.

[FloridaLawDawg]

It seems they were pretty desperate not to show the exterior of the Enterprise E

[JRKtheAdobeDude]

aye, this is the teaser trailer found on the DVDs

it uses music from the undiscovered country, generations, and the best of both worlds

its also got quite a few clips of many other episodes

and the scene of voyager firing on a cube at 0:43 was never seen again, idk why they put it in there