Star Trek: 10 Secrets Of The First Contact Fleet

3. A Star Wars Story

Star Trek 10 Secrets of the First Contact Fleet
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This is probably one of the most famous easter eggs in all of Star Trek, so we'll make it quick: Star Wars' Millennium Falcon appears in the Battle of Sector 001, an in-joke inserted into the film by Industrial Light & Magic's John Knoll. Then recently rendered in CGI for the Special Edition release of the Star Wars Trilogy, the ship is nearly unrecognizable in its brief appearance (much like R2-D2's cameos in both of JJ Abrams' Kelvin Timeline films), but, like it or not, it's there.

For those of us who might chafe at those two fictional worlds colliding, Star Trek: Online designer and YouTuber EC Henry recently used his not inconsiderable talents to reconstruct the Falcon in First Contact as a proper Federation vessel, which you can view here:

And since we're on the subject of ships that may or may not belong in the battle with the Borg, Star Trek: First Contact's theatrical trailer actually featured footage of the USS Voyager firing phasers at the Borg Cube. Of course, canonically Voyager was nowhere near the battle at the time of Star Trek: First Contact and this footage was not included in the finished movie, likely simply created to fill out the trailer before ILM's work was completed on the film.

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I played Shipyard Bar Patron (Uncredited) in Star Trek (2009).