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by SHERRY GLAZER & GREG HOWELLS

Originally produced in New York by DAVID STONE, AMY NEDERLANDER-CASE and IRENE PINN

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the Borg-infested Enterprise to
"draw the line" and fight body and
atrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, soul for survival.
Jonathan Frakes, James
Cross-cutting between these
Cromwell, Alfre Woodard. events slows the action, while giv-
Star Trek: First Con-
ing Picard opportunities to
tact, which "enterpris-
spout ponderous Trekkie
ingly" has included
MOVIES
philosophy lessons.
"First" in the title to
More problematic is the
make us think everything old is conundrum that makes breaking
new again, awakens with a start. the time barrier appear easier
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's than cracking an egg or, more im-
(Patrick Stuart) worst nightmare portantly, finding a phaser set-
seems to be coming true. He is be- ting that will annihilate the Borg.
ing assimilated by the Borg, an
Inconsistencies abound. Pur-
inhuman bio-mechanical race of sued, Picard ducks into the
intergalactic body-snatchers holodeck room, then mows down
whose motto appears to be "En- the implacable Borg in a hail-
gulf and devour."
storm of real bullets because he
From the cosmic zoom that be- has "disengaged the safety" on the
gins in the inner recesses of Pi- program. Likewise, during a per-
card's mind and pulls out to reveal ilous space walk, Worts Klingon

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Picard (Patrick Stewart, left center), Data (Brent Spiner, right center) and their
team stalk the Borg.

the labyrinthine Borg hive, com-
plete with its malevolent, lasciv-
ious queen (Alice Krige), the
movie echoes and amplifies the
humanistic themes within the
Star Trek mythos.
Audiences won't be disap-
pointed by First Contact's look
and sounds. Interplanetary vis-
tas featuring the streamlined
starship Enterprise cruising out-
er space are majestically en-
thralling. Dolby stereo effects and
voices have an ethereal, other-
worldly resonance you won't get
on television.
First Contact's premise: We
must protect the past to save the
future. Director Frakes skillfully
strands Riker, Geordie and Dean-
na Troi on Earth circa 2063,
awaiting first contact with benign
ETs, an arrival that will signal
the dawn of the United Federa-
tion of Planets. Meanwhile, the
single-minded Borg collective has
traveled through time to prevent
this serendipitous occurrence,
forcing Worf, Data and Picard on

Dick Rockwell reviews holodeck
adventures and has established
a trust fund to send his great-
great-great grandchildren to
Star Fleet Academy.

scimitar does a pretty good job of
slicing and dicing Borg. Better
fire-up that replicator and start
turning out machine guns and
swords instead of Romulan ale.
"Here Borg, adapt to this!" What's
the difference between obsolete
(weapons) and state-of-the-art?
Obsolete works!
"Illogical, Captain," Mr. Spock,
the film critic, says unapologeti-
cally about the eighth feature film
in the Star Trek franchise. Go
anyway and have fun. "Resistance
is futile."
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—Dick Rockwell

Missed Cues In The
Nov. 22nd Issue

The laugh's on us: The Distin-
guished Clown Corps members
and all-around good sports who
were transformed before and
after for the cover of The Jew-
ish News Entertainment cover
are: Gary Wasserman, Howard
Dubin, Nanci Kantor and Alan
Harvith.
Joshua Bergasse, featured in a
West Side Story cast photo, was
misidentified. Bergasse was sec-
ond from the right.