20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek: First Contact
1. A Planned Video Game Was Scrapped Mid-Production
Publisher MicroProse originally owned the video game rights to The Next Generation, and in 1997 released the poorly received tie-in for Star Trek Generations, inexplicably arriving two-and-a-half years after the film's release.
That year, however, MicroProse also announced that an adaptation of First Contact was in the works, centered around the crew of the Enterprise fending off the Borg invasion.
But financial difficulties caused the studio to shutter as it prepared to be acquired by Hasbro in 1998, and so the game was never completed.
From that point the rights to the franchise were snapped up by Activision, who skipped over First Contact and in 1999 released the Insurrection tie-in Star Trek: Hidden Evil to mixed reviews.