20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek: First Contact

12. The Borg Eyepieces Secretly Flash Morse Code

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Each Borg drone of course wears an electronic eyepiece which can be seen periodically blinking red, but what you surely didn't realise is that these blinks were actually spelling out Morse code.

Makeup designer Michael Westmore's son, Michael Westmore, Jr., programmed the lights to spell out the names of various members of the film's production team.

Though you'd struggle to make any of these names out given that a single Borg drone is rarely lingered upon for long, it's a most fascinating, peculiar Easter egg for sure.

Allegedly some of the names included are producer Rick Berman, former Paramount CEO Sherry Lansing, and Michael Westmore Jr.'s dog Bonnie.

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