High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Star Trek: First Contact is the eighth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise, released in November 1996, by Paramount Pictures. First Contact is the first film in the franchise to feature no cast members from the original Star Trek television series of the 1960s. The primary cast for First Contact is from the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, to which the film`s producers added Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard. In the film`s plot, the crew of the USS Enterprise travel from the 24th to 21st century to save their future after the cybernetic Borg conquered Earth by changing the timeline.