Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Some actors play a captain. Sir Patrick Stewart was one. We're honoring the legendary actor with a big-screen screening of Star Trek: First Contact, the 1996 film many fans call the best of the Next Generation movies.

The Borg have found a way to conquer Earth: change history. When the cybernetic collective travels back to 2063 to stop Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight, the moment that brings humanity's first contact with alien life, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E follow them into the past. For Picard, who was once assimilated by the Borg, this mission is personal.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker) in his feature directing debut, First Contact stars Stewart alongside Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, and Marina Sirtis, with James Cromwell as Cochrane, Alfre Woodard as Lily Sloane, and Alice Krige as the unforgettable Borg Queen. Add a soaring Jerry Goldsmith score and an Academy Award nomination for Best Makeup, and you have a crowd-pleaser built for a big screen.

Stewart's career spanned six decades, from the Royal Shakespeare Company to Broadway to the bridge of the Enterprise. He brought Shakespearean gravity to science fiction and made a generation believe in a captain who led with conscience. Come see him where he belongs, larger than life on the big screen. Engage.

Rated PG-13. Runtime 111 minutes.