Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: TNG Movie Novelizations

by John Vornholt

Picard and his comrades launch a journey through time to discover the Borg's deadliest secret when the deadly alien race threatens to assimilate the entire Federation. Original. Movie tie-in.

Genres: Star Trek, Science Fiction, Fiction, Star Trek The Next Generation, Audiobook, Young Adult

176 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1996

About the author

John Vornholt also writes as Caroline Goode.

Reviews

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wouldn't think a movie like Star Trek: First Contact would make good junior novelization material, but John Vornholt does a serviceable job of making it kid-friendly, which includes pretty much eliminating the profanity. However, I feel that the "adult" novels are better, not just when it comes to this franchise, but the author's writings as well.

[Ken · Rating 3 out of 5]

A play-by-play of the movie; it was fun to remember lines like "Assimilate this!" and the exciting ending with the Borg Queen.

[Jane K. Stecker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Novelization

This book follows the movie very closely and expands on some of the characters . More of the motivations of the various characters are revealed. A good book to add to anyone's Star Trek collection.

[John Peel · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent YA adaption of the film, with Jean-Luc Picard and friends fighting to stop the Earth of the past being assimilated by the Borg. One of the better films, and a lively, readable novelization.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a bad novelization. Didn't realize it was the young reader version when I got it.

[Albert Elnen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story of first warp flight

is the best. The borg have always been the best villains, even though they are not Swedish. They need to do more stories about Cochran.

[Joe Pranaitis · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this quick reads or young adult adaptation of the classic 1996 movie Star Trek: First Contact we are introduced to the new Enterprise-1701-E and the fact that she has been out in space for a year by the time these events come to pass. The Borg the Federations most dreadful enemy has sent a ship to attack Earth but this time they use a temporal vortex to travel back in time to assimilate Earth before First Contact and change history. The Enterprise follows them back in order to stop them but once they're both in 2063 the Borg ship is destroyed but the damage was already done as they shot the missile complex where Zefram Cochrane was building Earth's first warp ship the Phoenix. From this point on the book follows the script of the film and gives good incite into why Cochrane wanted to build the warp ship up to the point where he now understood why people from the twenty-fourth century looked at him as a visionary because breaking the warp barrier lead to First Contact and a whole new future for Earth. Regardless of the format I recommend picking up a copy of this book and the novelization by J.M. Dillard you won't be disappointed.            

[Jeremy Campbell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good but flawed novelization

This is my favorite Star Trek movie and one of my favorite movies of all time but this novelization falls short. I'll star with the good: it's fairly consistent in terms of dialog with the movie. Granted, sometimes a different character will say lines from the movie but I can look past that. The bad: there's no real expansion of the movie which for me is one of the joys of reading novelizations. Also, there were some poor editing (misspelled or missing letters) and the formatting on Kindle was aligned in the center which is very odd.

[DoomFist7 · Rating 5 out of 5]

The movie is definitely fantastic!.