The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek First Contact
1. That’s Why The Lady Is A Vamp
The Queen as a concept wouldn’t be half as terrible had the film not gone the unwelcome extra kilometer of making her an outrageous seductress. An all-too-common trope of cinema since the silent era is to portray strong females as vamps…short for vampires. They are seductive, amoral creatures who use sex to get their way. Which was regressive even when the film was released in 1996.
It’s not enough for the face of the Borg to be a woman. No, she must be an overtly sexual creature who employs sins of the flesh to win out over or corrupt innocent and stalwart men. First Contact so delights in this stereotype that it can’t imagine trying not to make the Queen physically attractive, right down to her ridiculous ruby red lips. And that outfit? As advice columnist Nixola Greely wrote in 1918, “No one ever saw a vampire in a high neck dress. All vampires must reveal their collar-bones and the contiguous territory.”
That describes First Contact's vampy Queen bee to a tee.
BORG QUEEN: Was that good for you?
No, and ultimately not good for Star Trek. And that's the dumbest aspect of this movie, hands down.