History YMMV / StarTrekFirstContact

** The name of the Making Of documentary ''Film/StarTrekBeyond First Contact''.

** If the writers really wanted to play up the idea of first alien contact, they could have had Romulans, the Vulcans' eternal foil, be the antagonist species, raising the question of what first contact being with a race that wanted to conquer or corrupt us would do to the Federation's history.

** One is Picard's breakdown in his ready room, finally admitting and coming to terms with his true hatred for the Borg for what they've done to him.

** Despite having been de-borgified, Picard can still hear the Collective. ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' reveals why: [[spoiler: there's still a little bit of Locutus left inside him, and that becomes part of the Collective's plan to assimilate and destroy TheFederation]].

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Starfleet Command is portrayed as incompetent for not allowing Picard to lead the defense against the Borg invasion and indeed keeping him as far away from the battle as possible. However, considering what we see happen to Picard over the course of the movie, it's hard to say they were wrong. Having your battlefield commander undergo SanitySlippage in the midst of an enemy blitzkrieg is a pretty good argument for wanting Admiral Hayes to lead instead. Plus the Dominion was still a lingering threat, and the Romulans could been waiting for an opportunity like this to start trouble. As powerful as the Enterprise is, it's still only one ship to the many already gathered yet it'd be sufficient to provide security on the Federation borders. Given the nature of the galaxy at that time it's likely that Enterprise & Picard were intended to form the command of a battlefleet in the event of any new problem on the Romulan side of the quadrant.

** On the commentary, Moore and Braga talk about how awkward it was to have to {{Retcon}} the Borg Queen into "The Best of Both Worlds," which gets them talking about how the decades-long continuity of ''Star Trek'' has become such a burden to its latter-day writers, and whoever takes it next would probably be better off just wiping the slate clean. In 2009, that's exactly what happened. Later on though ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekProdigy'' came out and continue from the original timeline.

** Anyone who has watched ''Star Trek: First Contact'' and the team ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' films before ''Series/ChildrenOfDune'' finds it amusing that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnm5wdGMevU the Borg Queen is the grandmother of Professor X.]] (Creator/JamesMcAvoy plays the younger version of Creator/PatrickStewart's Charles Xavier.) By virtue of being a Kwisatz Haderach (a being who can access the genetic memories of its female and male ancestors), Leto Atreides II ([=McAvoy=]) has intimate knowledge of the Lady Jessica (Alice Krige) that he finds very uncomfortable, which mirrors Picard's distress that the Borg Queen knows everything about him when he was assimilated into her collective. Stewart also played Gurney Hallock in Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/Dune1984''.

** In ''Series/LukeCage2016'', Alfre Woodard is the one who violently bludgeons someone to death as they lie helpless on the floor.