Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

[Drunk Monk]

April 4 2063 will be First Contact Day, when humans first meet vulcans.  On April 4 2020, we were sheltering in place and the forum was down, so I couldn't post this.  I just remembered I watched it again in my SIP binging.

The last good Star Trek movie was First Contact - which also had Picard quoting Melville. Yeah Melville!

I think you're too smitten by Sir Pat Stew reading Melville here KB.  ST: FC doesn't hold up well.  It feels more like a long episode than a feature film. Although I confess that I was never very impressed by any of the TNG films. The humor misses a lot, or at least it does now.  Overall, it felt rather tepid.  The only redemption aside from Melville was Alice Krige's Borg queen.  I always thought that was an awkward character, somewhat deflating the whole Borg concept, but Krige is such a creepily seductive villainess that we'll allow it.

[King Bob]

I watched it as well (free HBO weekend), and also thought it wasn't as good as I remembered, but it really worked well on the first viewing. As Vonnegut said, "So it goes."

[Drunk Monk]

I watched it as well (free HBO weekend), and also thought it wasn't as good as I remembered, but it really worked well on the first viewing.

Great minds think alike.  I'm both amused and troubled when revisiting something I enjoyed decades ago only to discover that it's not nearly as enjoyable as my memory would have it.  Sometimes it's just the dated-ness of it.  More often it seems that it was my own immaturity of character upon first viewing.  

That being said, I still liked the Borg Queen. Even though I still think the character spoils the whole Borg concept, Krige kills it in the role.