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Enterprise E concept art by John Eaves via guiadenavesestelares

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(via 'Star Trek: First Contact' — The 'Next Generation' Crew's Greatest Movie | Hollywood Reporter)

This oral history of First Contact is amazing, especially some of the effects and budget stuff. There’s a bit where the producers actually considered not making another TNG movie because they felt they couldn’t top this film. Which they didn’t.

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Enterprise E concept art by John Eaves via guiadenavesestelares

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Star Trek First Contact

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“Tough little ship” is also how Thomas Riker describes the USS Defiant when he hijacks it on DS9.

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Enterprise E concept art by John Eaves via guiadenavesestelares

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John Eaves’ sketches for the USS Endeavour. In later drafts of Star Trek: First Contact, the Endeavour was replaced by the Defiant, as Worf had begun appearing on DS9. (The first draft had Worf at the Enterprise-E’s tactical station, as it was written before The Way Of the Warrior.)

The Endeavour was first mentioned in the TNG episode Redemption II and was named for the American space shuttle, which, in turn, was named for Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour, hence the British spelling. The Star Trek Encyclopedia posits that the Endeavour, under the command of Captain Amasov, was the sole Starfleet vessel to survive the Battle of Wolf 359. The New Frontier novels, however, establish that the USS Excalibur was heavily damaged at Wolf 359, but survived.

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USS Criterion, concept ship for First Contact by Alex Jeager

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Concept art for First Contact’s Borg Queen.

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(via Alex Jeager returns | Eavesdropping with Johnny)

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(via Alex Jeager and the ships of First Contact | Eavesdropping with Johnny)

Some early designs for the new ships introduced in Star Trek: First Contact. These are two of my favorites, neither of which made the film.

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Cast painting from “Star Trek - First Contact”

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Sovereign class blueprint

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Evacuation

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What's your favorite quote from the movie?

A lot of my favorite quotes are Worf’s.

“Perhaps today is a good day to die.”

“If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand.”

I’m also a fan of “Someone once said, ‘Don’t try to be a great man; just be a man and let history make its own judgements.”

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Top: Preliminary design for the USS Enterprise-E’s escape pod by John Eaves.

Middle: Final design by Alex Jaeger.

Bottom: Study model of the escape pod.

Jaeger commented on the design process:

"Lifeboats were never used on the last Enterprise, but this time a number of them are jettisoned from the ship when Picard orders the evacuation. They had been incorporated into the ship design–as triangular shapes on the hull–but we had to determine whether those shapes represented some kind of a hatch covering a lifeboat or the actual exterior surface of the lifeboat itself. We went with the latter idea, with the exterior surface serving as a kind of reentry heat shield."

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The temporal vortex

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