The one that kicks ass.This is the hardest Trek movie outside of II. Picard straight up smokes a couple Borg with a hologram Tommy Gunn like Albert Finney in Miller's Crossing. Credit to the boy Jonathan Frakes for directing this one. Probably the most successful because it gets that it's a movie and has a plot that starts right away, steadily raises the stakes and keeps the momentum and action going all the way to the end. A lot of the other Trek movies end up replicating the pacing and beats of a one hour TV episode, so much so you can almost feel when the commercial breaks are supposed to happen, and then have an extra 20-30 minutes to fill. In Alice Krige as the Borg Queen, we get easily the horniest villain in Star Trek history. A wet dom who fucks Data and it's implied also fucked Picard when he was Lakutis. Of course the introduction of "the one Borg with a personality, who also fucks!" makes no fucking sense and actually kind of undercuts everything that make the Borg scary in the first place, but whatever, it works for the movie. Previously, I've shown how in VI, we can see the dna of ideas that were successfully developed later in DS9, and here with the Borg Queen, we can see the genesis of a plot device that pretty much ruined Voyager. In addition, we get cameos by Robert Picardo as the EMH, and Ethan Philips, who thankfully is not Neelix, but a 1930s style hologram character. Also, Adam Scott has a brief appearance as a bridge officer on The Defiant. Shout outs to the boy James Cromwell as yet another guy from the future who's affectation is "really into the music of a century before his birth."UPDATE - I totally forgot Reg Barclay gets a cameo in this one, annoying the shit out of Cromwell's character. That's real Trek baby!
