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Released
1996 · FILM

Star Trek: First Contact

Captain Picard must confront his traumatic past and lead the Enterprise against a relentless Borg Cube threatening Earth, even as Starfleet forbids him from interfering.

“Resistance is futile.”

Directed by
Jonathan Frakes
Written by
Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
111 min
ActionAdventureDrama

Synopsis

The Borg, a race of cyborgs, travel on a direct course toward Earth. Defying orders to avoid the battle, Captain Jean‑Luc Picard and the crew of the newly commissioned USS Enterprise‑E pursue the Borg through time in order to prevent them from altering Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 40

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John W WheelerShot by Matthew F LeonettiScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Herman F Zimmerman

Box Office

1996 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$146.0M

Budget$46.0M
Worldwide gross$146.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $92.0M — 63% of worldwide · International: $54.0M (37%)

Opening weekend: $30.7M — 33% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $43.0M — 47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,812 theaters

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Also known as

  • Star Trek - Der erste Kontaktde
  • Star Trek VIII: Der erste Kontaktde
  • Star Trek: First Contacten
  • Star Trek VIII: primer contactoes
  • Star Trek : Premier Contactfr
  • Primo contattoit

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