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1* ActorInspiredElement: One of the original drafts had Picard down on Earth while Riker was fighting the Borg back on the ''Enterprise''. Patrick Stewart said it made no sense, because Picard hated the Borg more than anyone, and felt it'd be a missed opportunity to not have him fight them directly. Jonathan Frakes (as the director) wanted more time behind the camera, so they switched roles.
2* BeamMeUpScotty: Picard actually misquotes ''Literature/MobyDick''. The change is obviously to simplify the text for modern audiences by putting it into more modern language, and also just to make a bit more snappy for delivery in the scene itself. There are three possibilities: in the future, someone has revised one of the greatest novels of all time, Picard's exhausted and either misremembering or paraphrasing the quote, or Picard's [[TranslatorMicrobes translator]] gives it in modern English for Lily rather than the original language.
3** '''Picard''': "And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it."
4** '''Original''': "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."
5* CaliforniaDoubling: The ''Phoenix'' launch complex in Boseman, Montana was filmed at the Titan Missile Museum in Tuscon, Arizona, with the surface encampment filmed at the San Gabriel Mountains just north of Los Angeles.
6* CastTheRunnerUp: Adam Scott auditioned for the role of Lieutenant Hawk. Though he lost out to Creator/NealMcDonough for the role, he was given the role of the unnamed helm officer of the USS ''Defiant''.
7* DeletedScene:
8** A short scene cut from the film happened on the holodeck, when a drunk named Buster grabbed for Lily Sloane's arm and was pushed back.
9** Zefram Cochrane – reluctant to make the first flight of the ''Phoenix'' – was chased by officers from the ''Enterprise'' and became trapped at the edge of a cliff. As he was about to jump to his death (thereby committing suicide), Troi had to climb onto the cliff and try to persuade him to come back down. She eventually told him to jump, though, and even pushed him off the ledge. His descent was not fatal, however, as his fall was stopped in mid-air by a force field that Geordi had rigged up. Creator/BrannonBraga explained, "That just got cut for time. We felt we had enough Cochrane character bits, so we just cut that out". Creator/JamesCromwell said, "I was sorry they took that [scene] out, but we discussed it and it didn't make sense." Cromwell believed that, if Cochrane was suicidal, he would have had no problem with agreeing to make the initial warp flight, though his reluctance to do so (and him overcoming this hesitancy) is one of the film's main story points.
10* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/JonathanFrakes was already a popular director for ''TNG'' and ''Deep Space Nine'', and also did a few episodes for ''Voyager''.
11* ExecutiveMeddling: Two positive ones:
12** Ira Steven Behr insisted that the "tough little ship" exchange be added to the opening battle, so it was clear that the ''Defiant'' had survived and could still be used on ''Deep Space 9''.
13** When discussing what the next movie should be about, Creator/BrannonBraga and Creator/RonaldDMoore wanted to do a movie featuring the Borg while Rick Berman wanted to do a time travel movie. Their solution? Do both!
14* OnSetInjury: Creator/AlfreWoodard was burned by a pyrotechnic effect that left some mild scarring on her upper arms.
15* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/JamesCromwell replaces the late Glenn Corbett as Zefram Cochrane, who first appeared in the original series episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E9Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]]". However it is now almost a given that more people know Cromwell's performance over Corbett's, making Corbett ThePeteBest.
16* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Creator/TomHanks was never seriously considered to play Zefram Cochrane. It's often claimed that Hanks was nearly cast in the role but had to turn it down at the last minute due to scheduling difficulties. Producer Rick Berman [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/star-trek-first-contact-patrick-stewart-ron-moore-1235051675/ cleared this up]] during a retrospective interview about the film, saying Hanks was floated in some capacity by the studio, but Creator/JamesCromwell was always the first choice for the role.
17* RealLifeRelative: While Music/JerryGoldsmith composed most of the score, his son Joel wrote some of his own cues.
18* RecycledSet: Aside from exceptions like the Bridge and Engineering, most of the ''Enterprise''-E's sets are actually modified versions of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'''s sets. It's particularly obvious in Sickbay, whose layout is almost unchanged. (You could argue that's Starfleet design or even budget issues- why make sickbays look different on their larger ships?)
19* ReferencedBy: The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E8SomethingYouCanDoWithYourFinger Something You Can Do With Your Finger]]" samples Picard's BigNo when Randy angrily tells Stan not to join his friends' boy band.
20** In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "[[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS4E8TheTwentyOneSecondExcitation The 21-Second Excitation]]", Sheldon Cooper quotes Picard's "The line must be drawn here" speech while Creator/WilWheaton cuts in line at a ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' screening due to the fact that the [[ScrewTheRulesImFamous theater owner is a fan of his]].
21* RefittedForSequel: Data's gray burned-off endoskeleton started out as an alternate skin tone early in ''TNG'''s production.
22* ShowAccuracyToyAccuracy: The [[http://www.fantamodellismo.altervista.org/STAR-TREK-FILE/star-trek/PLAYMATES-FILE/playmates/enterprise%20E%20playmates/data1/images/enterprise_e_03.jpg original Playmates version]] of the ''Enterprise''-E takes some cues from an unused design for the ship, most notably the uncovered bussard collectors and the large singular impulse engine.
23* TroubledProduction: Filming only really had trouble early on, due to Rick Berman's demands that it involve popular recurring villains the Borg, while also being a time-travel comedy in the vein of ''The Voyage Home''. Moore and Braga were re-hired as screenwriters, and initially produced an outright comedic screenplay named ''Star Trek: Renaissance'', showing the Borg taking over a castle in renaissance Italy, and the ''Enterprise'' crew foiling them with the help of Creator/LeonardoDaVinci; this screenplay was regarded by just about everyone as far too silly, and Patrick Stewart killed it altogether by insisting that he wasn't going to wear tights. Moore and Braga's second attempt, ''Star Trek: Resurrection'' was nearer the mark, but relegated the Borg to an action sub-plot aboard the ''Enterprise'' and focused mostly on Picard's time-travel shenanigans while impersonating the inventor of warp drive, with Picard never even finding out about the Borg's involvement. Finally, the people involved decided to make the film a proper follow-up to the events of the acclaimed "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E26S4E1TheBestOfBothWorlds}} The Best of Both Worlds]]" two-parter from the series and have Picard confront the Borg head-on, resulting in the film that was released.
24* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/StarTrek See the page]].
25* WorkingTitle: ''Star Trek: Resurrection'', ''Star Trek: Borg'', ''Star Trek: Destinies'', ''Star Trek: Future Generations'' and ''Star Trek: Generations II''.
26* YouLookFamiliar:
27** Creator/JamesCromwell was previously seen in two roles on ''Next Generation''. He was the Angosian Prime Minister in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E11TheHunted The Hunted]]" and a Yridian information dealer named Jaglom Shrek in both parts of "Birthright". He also played a Karemma merchant in [=DS9=]'s "Starship Down".
28** And [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Neelix]] tries to stop the Borg from entering the Dixon Hill nightclub. Ethan Phillips explains on the DVD that he mainly did the cameo to see if the fans were paying attention.
29** Don Stark, who plays Nicky the Nose, also previously played a Yridian, Ashrock, in the [=DS9=] episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E06Melora Melora]]".
30** Michael Zaslow, who played ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s first ever RedShirt, Crewman Darnell from TOS' "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap]]", appears as Eddie the bartender.

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