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Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact

FromUnclear and Present Danger


Star Trek: First Contact

FromUnclear and Present Danger

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Length:
83 minutes
Released:
Jun 30, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

For this week’s episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John watched Star Trek: First Contact, the eighth movie in the Star Trek film series and the first film in that series to focus solely on the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.First Contact stars Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner Marina Sartis, Michael Dorm, Alfrie Woodard, Alice Krige and James Cromwell. It was directed by Frakes with a score by Jerry Goldsmith.In First Contact, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of Enterprise races through time to Earth’s past to confront the Borg, a cybernetic hivemind that has gone back to humanity’s moment of first contact with an alien species in order to destroy the Federation and change the future. Picard and his team must fight two battles. On Earth, they must ensure First Contact. On the Enterprise, they must defeat the Borg, who have taken root on the ship.The tagline for Star Trek: First Contact is “Resistance is futile.”You can find Star Trek: First Contact to rent or buy on demand on Apple TV or Amazon Prime.Episodes come out roughly every two weeks, and we’ll see you then with an episode on Independence Day, the 1996 blockbuster directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and many others.And don’t forget our Patreon, where we watch the films of the Cold War and try to unpack them as political and historical documents! For $5 a month, you get two bonus episodes every month as well as access to the entire back catalog — we’re almost two years deep at this point. Sign up at patreon.com/unclearpod.The latest episode of our Patreon podcast is on Rambo: First Blood Part II, the second film in the Rambo franchise starring Sylvester Stallone.Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.Contact us!
Released:
Jun 30, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie and freelance writer John Ganz delve into the world of 90s post-Cold War thrillers with Unclear and Present Danger, a podcast that explores America in an age of transition to lone superpower, at once triumphant and unsure of its role in the world.