8 Best Number 8 Films In A Franchise
3. Star Trek: First Contact
The famed rule of Star Trek films is that the odd numbered entries are much like Neelix from Voyager: they're not very good. And whilst not always true, it certainly held fast for the seventh entry, Generations.
The first cinematic outing for Picard and the Next Generation crew was a forced, and ultimately dull affair. Its attempt to merge two Star Trek eras was an honourable failure but its sequel, First Contact, was thankfully warp drives better.
Number eight in Star Trek's voyage to the cinema saw the best new era baddies, the Borg (sorry, Ferengi), attempt to take down humanity through a sneaky bit of time-travelling. Jean-Luc and the Enterprise is on hand to stop them though, and the result is a full-blown Star Trek action flick which is as entertaining as Riker's attempts to woo the ladies.
First Contact did everything right with a Star Trek film. It managed to stay faithful to the Star Trek universe so it didn't upset core Trekkies, but it was also jam-packed with stuff that could draw in a non-Trekkie audience too.
It was basically a pure adrenaline rush of Star Trek goodness, one that gave the TNG crew a decent cinematic outing, and made Patrick Stewart into the bad-ass action hero we all knew he could be.