Star Trek: First Contact
Summary
Jonathan Frakes receive a phone call from his favoriteStar Trek : The Original Seriesactor whenStar Trek : First Contactbecame a hit . Frakes directedStar Trek : First Contact , the most popular and successfulStar Trek : The Next Generationmovie . With a crowd - pleasing main chronicle of Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) facing the Borg and their leader , the Borg Queen ( Alice Krige),First Contactgrossed $ 146 - million worldwide and is widely consideredone of the bestStar Trekmovies .
In theStar Trekoral history " The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years " by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , Jonathan Frakes recounts an unexpected earphone call he received from the legendary DeForest Kelley , who playedDr . Leonard " Bones " McCoyinStar Trek : The Original Series . Kelley call up to felicitate Frakes onStar Trek : First Contact ’s succeeder , which is a memory Jonathan still treasures . Read his quotation below :
I stupefy a speech sound call from DeForest Kelley , whom I had only met for a day or two once when he was on the Next Generation set . I had also seen him at a formula and had dinner with him and his wonderful wife at [ Rick ] Berman ’s mansion . So I had meet him probably three time . First Contact open up on a Friday , but on Saturday , while I was in Great Barrington , he call to preen me on the success of the moving-picture show . And to tell me how pleased he was that the enfranchisement was in good hired hand . Oh , piece , it was the most paying attention , unneeded , pleasant surprisal . De Kelley of all people ! I adore him . He was my favorite , and probably the good in the entire Star Trek family in terms of who he was as a Isle of Man .
Star Trek : First Contact is not only one of the most beloved big blind entry in the enfranchisement , it also play a polar use in Star Trek : Picard .
DeForest Kelley Was The First TOS Actor To Appear On Star Trek: The Next Generation
Sarek, Spock, Scotty, and Kirk eventually met the Enterprise-D crew.
As Jonathan Frakes noted , he conform to DeForest Kelley when theStar Trek : The Original Seriesicon cameoed inStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s premiere episode , " Encounter at Farpoint , " as Admiral Leonard McCoy . Although McCoy only had a vista with Data ( Brent Spiner ) , Kelley understandably spent some prison term interacting withStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s castoff - projection screen . It shows whata kind and considerate human being DeForest Kelley was that he call Frakes to tell him the Star Trek franchise was in dependable hands .
DeForest Kelley change state down appearing as Dr. McCoy in the prologue view ofStar Trek Generations , preservingStar Trek VI : The Undiscovered Countryas the last time he play Bones .
After DeForest Kelley ’s cameo , otherStar Trek : The Original Seriesactorsgradually made appearances inTNG . Mark Lenard recapitulate his office as Ambassador Sarek , and then repay for Leonard Nimoy ’s instalment as Spock inStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 5 ’s " jointure " two - parter . James Doohan then reprise Scotty inTNGseason 6 ’s " Relics . " Doohan returned as Scotty , along with Walter Koenig as Chekov inStar Trek Generations , which featured William Shatner ’s Captain James T. Kirk team up up with Captain Picard . But it wasDeForest Kelley who primitively passed the torchto the cast ofStar Trek : The Next genesis .
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seed : " The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The sodding , Uncensored , and Unauthorized unwritten chronicle of Star Trek " by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
