My favourite thing about this scene is that we see the rebirth of Zefram Cochrane. The entire first part of the movie he was an drunken ass only in it for the money but the second he lays eyes on a small earth his outlook and path changes. He finally starts to realize everything he's been told about humanities potential is true. Beautiful really.
It actually does have that effect, and there’s a name for it: the Overlook Effect. It doesn’t happen to everyone…but the realization that you are looking down at the cradle of Humanity where almost everything we have ever built and fought and lived and died for is contained…it’s humbling.
I can understand Cochrane's trepidation at the Enterprise coming so close. Imagine you're a little kid coasting down a hill in a piddly little soapbox car, when suddenly a freaking 30-foot truck pulls alongside you.
Yonkage I think the Enterprise should have been closer, so as to look bigger to Cochrane to evoke such feelings. OTOH, they would have been in firing and transporter range...
+Mart Rootamm Perhaps, but i don't think it would have been necessary. I mean, just seeing a massive spaceship from the future and knowing that what you are doing now made that thing possible would probably be enough to evoke such feelings.
The greatest thing about this clip is how much fun Riker and Geordi were having. You know in the back of their mind they were like "OMG pinch me... is this really happening?!!!".
+Alonzo Branson I feel like "Push it to the Limit" from Scarface would be more fitting. Especially when one considers that we consider the speed of light to be the ultimate "limit" of speed. I can only hope I'll live to see such a day. Ensign, lay in our course. Maximum warp....ENGAGE!
Imagine the Vulcans on their survey mission seeing it launch. At first they see an ordinary vessel at sublight speed, nice but still a sign of a primitive lifeform. Then it hits lightspeed. I think they respond the closest expression of a surprise. "Fascinating" They abandon their mission and make first contact.
+Victor Orozco Well, I guess they only noticed the Phoenix when it entered Warp Speed. If the Vulcans' had been close enough to monitor it while being at sublight speed they would have seen the Enterprise as well. ;)
According to Star Trek: Enterprise, the Klingons eventually join the Federation. However it is correct that it is never actually shown happening on the shows and it wasn't stated when this would happen.
What I love about Cochran's transformation is that it's rooted in an actual psychological effect. It's called "the overview effect" and it happens to almost everyone who spends time in space.
As TVTropes puts it "Then the side panels come off, and slowly a pair of Star Trek-style warp nacelles unfold and lock into position. And that is when the discerning Trekkie knows epic-ness is about to ensue."
It was easily one of the most joyous experiences I've ever had seeing a Star Trek movie in a theater, right up there with Kirk outwitting Khan to lower Reliant's shields and Enterprise and Excelsior destroying Kang's BOP.
We get to see it just like in a movie theater because we sit down in a dedicated room and our basement with a digital light projector beaming the 1080P image onto an 11 foot wide by 6 and a half foot hi screen
Oh yeah this audio altered version hurts. My brain replaced all the correct sound. I've got surround at home and wife hates I now but she knows where first contact comes out it's all systems are on
I will, quite frankly, be disappointed if there isn't an official Star Trek convention in Bozeman, MT on 5/4/2063 with a replica of the Phoenix and T'Plana Hath
And being that you are talking about the possible extinction of our species. You know, something pretty dam monumental - what are *you* doing to try and prevent it ? Or are you just sitting online, probably even contributing to it, bitching about it ? For anything to change, we must first reduce things down to the singularity and start there - ie. Start by changing *yourself* and lead by example.
Ethan Boyd Edgy guy is edgy. LOL. But I'll play along. Assuming that we're just couch potatoes with nothing better to do that piss and moan about things....what would you have us do? The floor is yours, preacher. Rock our worlds.
"Is that earth? It's so small." "It's about to get a whole lot bigger." I just realized - he's not just talking about coming back to Earth....he's talking about Earth's place in the galaxy.
The moment at 3:15 is one of my favorite moments from Trek; both for its humor and philosophy. Just because you're pushing the boundaries of human exploration and knowledge does not automatically disqualify you from crapping yourself while doing it. Boldly Go.... while frantically going...
I remember being a little disappointed at the Phoenix just being a rocket - until the panels broke away and she extended her nacelles, truly finishing her transformation from a missile into Humanity’s first faster-than-light starship.
I've always admired the irony that Cochrane took a human weapon of war and transformed it into the instrument by which an new era of peace would begin.
My favorite scene in the movie. At 2:43, Cochrane sees the Enterprise E and realizes that fulfilling his mission will indeed come to mean all the difference to humanity's future, and the Enterprise is a brilliant symbol of that bold and wonderful future.
I always love the people at the bar sitting there drinking in the middle of the day while everything starts shaking and then this big rocket built by one of their drinking buddies come out of the ground.
I was 14 in 1996. I remember going to see this on opening night. It was the last film I saw at the cinema with my mum before she passed. I still love this film.
I always wished they let the song play out a little longer and made the launch and flight to space longer just so we could really soak in the most important moment in Star Trek history
One of the most hopeful movie scenes ever made, especially when the blue sky comes into view through the windows. Imagine lying on your back as you're being fired into the sky like a bullet. Go NASA.
one of my favourite scenes in First Contact, the other was when the Vulcans landing. I hope one day all the people on Earth will experience these moments.
"And so it became known that the person who invented warp travel, having reached light speed, began screaming and possibly soiling himself in the process."
I really love the nod towards the Original Series and Enterprise. The warp nacelles on the Phoenix have the same look as the ones on the Enterprise NX-1 and NCC-1701 (no bloody A, B, C, D, or E).
rctelles I remember when Marina Sirtis was a Sci - Fi sex goddess. Haven't seen her in much except TNG, & 1 downer Syfy Channel movie where the Earth gets blown up by a chain of giant nuclear reactions. The only good thing about it was her character with the lousy fake Southern accent gets vaporized along with everybody else.
+Daniel Appleton it wasn't meant to be interpreted as a Southern accent. When she got the role of Deanna, she was literally told that she was from Betazed with no context. That meant she had to make up an accent.
I will never forget the excitement I felt in the movie theater when I saw this scene for the first time. I was actually watching one of the greatest moments in Star Trek history. Earth's very first warp vessel. I could barely move
The Enterprise F in STO looks even better, but then the Odyssey-class takes what was best about every Enterprise before it. And she's always someone you're happy to see watching your back the few times she shows up.
the greatest event in Federation history. Cochrane's warp jump lead to the Vulcans arriving on Earth and the Vulcans joining the Federation. Cochrane would later go on to invent The Warp Core which is now in every Federation ship.
Warp cores already existed. Please specifically hear it in the dialogue that the warp core aboard the Phoenix was being activated once they left Earth.
bernisweltredsun don't worry, nasa and a few private inventors are already on the task. it's looking promising, the question is are their going to be multiple versions of this drive or not
You can, trust Jesus Christ for salvation, and you will have eternal life. In the next 300 years we will most likely be well within a couple hundred years or more of the millennial reign of Christ in the renovated earth. where animals will no longer be carnivores, humans will live for hundreds of years, the earth will be garden of eden conditions etc. Its all in the bible read the lst few chapters of the book of revelation.
3:15 Cochrane: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Whhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Gets me every time I watch this movie.
1:20 - the fact that Cochrane was about to call off the mission due to not having his music ready yet totally could care less about the red "check engine" light is amazing 😂😂😂
Saw this movie in theaters when it came out. All my friends and I were big on 70s rock and roll Steppenwolf included. We all knew Magic Carpet Ride. When he put the disk in we all looked at each other anticipating what song was gonna play. When it was Magic Carpet Ride we all jumped out of our seats and literally cheered. People thought we were nuts.
Daniel Appleton I noticed that Cochran is like 40 here and this is 2060 something and they said he oversaw the building of the nx-01 in 2151???? He'd be over 100 years old?
Cochrance disappeared 2120 or so. He wasn't around when the NX-01 launched, there was just an old speech from him played that was recorded when they built the Warp 5 complex.
There's a damned good book called FEDERATION that offers a great deal more to read about Zefram Cochrane, spanning not just TOS, but TNG and pre-Federation as well. It's not canon, of course, and contradicts the events of FIRST CONTACT, but is an awesome story nonetheless. And when you read it, see if you can guess the true identify of Cochrane's friend, Micah Brack. Hint: his true identity lies in the original series.
The look of the Phoenix is close enough that a modified starship rocket could be made to look like the Phoenix before it opens its nacelles. Having the first Mars mission with a ship that looks like the Phoenix would be epic.
So this Cochrane guy single-handedly cobbles together a warp drive out of some spare parts and disused ICBMs? Where did he get the anti-matter? Apparently there was some sitting on a shelf in a back room? And he does all this after a war has devastated all of Earth's technology? Wow---this guy is some genius!
Fair questions. He didn't do it single-handedly - he had a team. The difficulty of finding the materials was discussed in the movie. The writers did consider the power source - and whether is was derived from the original fusion warhead rather than antimatter and dilithium, but I'm not sure that they reached a firm conclusion.
@Chris> Part of the enjoyment is being able to discuss the shows with our friends. I guess you're not one of the friends with whom we can share our enjoyment.
Riker did say...warp core, la feorge mentioned plasma injectors. And remember barclay was rebuilding a coil, which in star trek supposedly is in the nacelles that produce the warp field. So maybe anti matter was used?
LaForge "we've got a red light on the 2nd intake valve" Cochrane "here in the 21st century, if the check engine light isnt on, something's wrong" Also at 1:52, remember when cochrane said "you think I wanna go to the stars? I dont even like to fly! I take trains". Thats the moment where he changed his mind
20.000 km/s, that is 72 MILLION km/h... For comparison the Parker solar probe, the fastest ship to date has reached a top speed of 586,800 km/h (163 km/s). So the Phoenix was already quite revolutionary even before using its warp speed!
I just realized that Cochrane, upon seeing the nacelles of the Enterprise, immediately understood that it was a "Phoenix" from the future and that he had just created the future.
Thanks for editing out the Borg stuff. I think this clip is SO much better without it and I wish the writers could have come up with a better reason to travel back in time than by dusting off the Borg. (again).
Try to even imagine being Will & Geordi on that flight. That'd be like going back to 1776 and crossing the Deleware with George Washington or to 1969 and landing on the moon with Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin. It's truly unimaginable.
I think this scene with Zefram Cochrane breaking the Warp Barrier is inspired by the opening scene in the film The Right Stuff, a 1983 American epic historical drama film about Project Mercury and the start of the American Space Program. The opening scene of the film features Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier, proceeded by the narration: "Narrator : There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier." The film then dramatically covers Yeager breaking the sound barrier on Oct. 14, 1947. With Sam Shepard playing Chuck Yeager, who also made a cameo as an extra in the bar in the opening scene of the movie. Great film. Based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe.
From the first time I saw this movie I can't help thinking that Zefram Cochrane's warp engine wouldn't have worked without Geordie "fixing" it, and Geordie just decided not to tell anyone...
I just remembered an episode where, in New Ground, Geordi says, “This is going to be like being there to watch … Zefram Cochrane engage the first warp drive!” He was finally able to do that.
Love this movie. Probably my favorite Trek movie. A few nitpicks about this scene though, not that I care, but just because that's what we do: 1) No compression suits, let alone proper spacesuits. 2) As a corollary, inertial dampers? Shouldn't that type of acceleration turned them into paste? 3) I'm thinking take off would have seriously damaged that camp. I know it's not a Saturn, but still, it's an ICBM. Titans are still monsterously powerful. 4) Funny how Cochrane's need for his mission music mirrored Captain Hiller's need for mission cigars in Independence Day. They came out the same year too.
+James Martin You wouldn't need a compression suit if you had inirshial dampeners, and according to the Fleet Manual, whcih came out before the movie, the Pheonix had one in the cockpit. Aditionaly the camp would be fine as it's stated that they were launching from an old ICBM silo, there are underground vents which direct exaust away from the launch tube becuase the misscile controll and launch facility is arround them and theay re mean tto serve as emergancy military bases as well. The ground 20 meters away from the rube is perfectly safe, but closer than that and you will be burned a bit.
@@MeepChangeling Not really. The missile command and control facilities are several miles from the actual silos, and the missile launch control is buried underground and insulated by several yards of concrete. In addition, if that's a Titan II like they seem to imply it is, the exhaust is toxic and corrosive. What goes up must come down, and the area around a Titan II silo after launch would've been contaminated with nitric acid and other nasty Aerozine 50/nitrogen tetroxide combustion products as the exhaust plume settled. Not to mention the noise would've killed everyone aboveground that was closer than about a mile.
Interesting that Magic Carpet Ride is the music played during the first warp flight since the Alcubierre Warp Metric is literally shaped like a magic carpet.
It was decided early in Season 1 that the accent wasn't really working for the character, so Sirtis dropped it in favor of her own, without modification.
Honestly that is one example of something that would justify Section 31 involvement. I mean between Cochrane's statement at Princeton, Archer's report on his encounter with the Borg and all the odd little details around Cochrane's flight (Why did his copilots immediately vanish into history, along with most of the support personnel? Who was behind the attack on the facility just days before launch? Why did a group of strangers show up to help immediately after the attack and then vanish just as quickly?) there's plenty to point to something being off about the official account of his first flight.
exactly what was wrong with insurrection? It really wasnt that bad was it? Id personally watch it over Nemesis, the new Star Trek Beyond, and lets not even get started on how crappy the new Discovery show is. I think we can all agree that Star Trek, no matter what generation or cast, has always been about giving us amazing first class theater and story..... while simultaneously taking a dump on us at the same time
The Same Production LTD. That makes the ships and special things was working on starwars. There's an easter egg in this movie. Where the hand solo's Falcon is seen battling the borg cube in this movie.
We are very far...The Casamir Effect? That's like saying FinFet or GinFet technology is close just after you've "discovered" electricity...Not quite. Still got a loooooooooooong ways to go
When you have a fully trained Starfleet Engineers who specialises in warp drives, your chances of success do increase. Granted, Geordi wasn't there the first time. But it's good to have an expert in the practical side of the iconic FTL drive.
The movie depicts Earth after a devastating war, and most technology is gone. Yet this Cochrane guy single-handedly builds a warp drive out of some spare ICBMs? Where did he get the anti-matter? The dilithium?
+delavalmilker I don't want to check the details just now but I think the antimatter is just fuel and dilithium is used to regulate the antimatter reaction. Another power source would do; given that they're using a nuclear missile I bet I know where the fuel came from. However it probably wouldn't last for more than few short warp flights which is why modern starships use antimatter.
He didn't use anti-matter or dillithium. He used power from the ICBM's warhead to make a (very) crude warp engine. Also the movie takes place not too long after world war 3 so technology isn't exactly rare just difficult to maintain. Not to mention that you shouldn't doubt human ingenuity. In real life Marvin Heemeyer made a battle tank with composite armor and life support systems IN HIS GARAGE with no engineering experience compared to Cochrane who's a PHd(albeit fictional). It's was also this ability to "Maguyver" a warp engine out of scrap parts that impressed the vulcans enough to help humanity usher in a new era...
The impulse engine and gravity control must have been mastered before Warp Drive.. These were the main weapons of World War 3. Most of the destruction of WW3 occured in China (where Q's 21st century court of horrors took place), and India (ruled by Khan)
IamTenzin Enterprise E crew had a pretty big role in this. Its like a self fulfilling time loop. People have died that should have been alive, the buttery fly effect on this, I have no idea how this would be effected. For example the entire planet of vulcan was destroyed.
webduelist Which is why everything after Kelvin is considered divergent. We may never encounter Q because he's probably as sick of JJ'verse as we are. Only those people alive at the time of Kelvin are a given. Everything after, mutable. No experience with the Borg, no intervention - no intervention - Phoenix flies minus Riker and Geordi who may have never even been born.
Pretty sure that was lensing and Cherenkov radiation. …Or just VFX to make the warp drive more apparent. Since you can still see Earth with the naked eye from where they ended up, I don't think they were even traveling at warp factor 1.0, let alone fast enough to pass entire star systems.
I think they were moving at exactly warp 1 - that was the point of the exercise. You're right that these days the powers that be rationalise that the streaks are not stars - throughout Trek history, even at high warp, there have always been too many of them for them to be stars.
At warp 1 it takes more than 5 hours to leave the solar system behind, they're barely away from Earth, they'd not be even half way to the orbit of Mars should they remain in the ecliptic plane
Even at exponential superluminal speeds (such as, say, Warp 7), the stars would appear fixed, more or less. At Warp 7, it would take 2.39 days to reach the Alpha Centauri system from Earth (based on ST:TNG Warp Factors). At Warp 1, the speed of Cochrane's ship, it would take 4.35 years (it's 4.35 lightyears away). The shorter version is that the blurred stars are artistic license rather than accurate science.
My headcannon is that the "streaking stars" when a ship move in warp are not actually stars, but particles and dust hitting the warp field and becoming incandescent.
There were a couple things they "glossed over" when they did this. Such as the Doctor being this party animal... And never mentioning "inertia dampening field" before hitting warp (which is important... without it your jelly on the back wall). But other then that, it was good!
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My favourite thing about this scene is that we see the rebirth of Zefram Cochrane. The entire first part of the movie he was an drunken ass only in it for the money but the second he lays eyes on a small earth his outlook and path changes. He finally starts to realize everything he's been told about humanities potential is true. Beautiful really.
Seeing the Pale Blue Dot in real life probably tends to have that effect.
It actually does have that effect, and there’s a name for it: the Overlook Effect. It doesn’t happen to everyone…but the realization that you are looking down at the cradle of Humanity where almost everything we have ever built and fought and lived and died for is contained…it’s humbling.
humanity's*
You could say that, like his ship, he rose from the ashes.
Then he waited for the Vulcans to land, murdered and enslaved them and began Earth's conquest amongst the stars! It's such a beautiful story.
I can understand Cochrane's trepidation at the Enterprise coming so close.
Imagine you're a little kid coasting down a hill in a piddly little soapbox car, when suddenly a freaking 30-foot truck pulls alongside you.
+Yonkage I give the driver a look and buckle down for a serious race knowing i'll loose, but what the hell why not?
Yonkage I think the Enterprise should have been closer, so as to look bigger to Cochrane to evoke such feelings. OTOH, they would have been in firing and transporter range...
+Mart Rootamm Perhaps, but i don't think it would have been necessary. I mean, just seeing a massive spaceship from the future and knowing that what you are doing now made that thing possible would probably be enough to evoke such feelings.
+Yonkage And also imagine you've never seen a car before :)
+Daniel Appleton imagine if he saw the Vengeance
The greatest thing about this clip is how much fun Riker and Geordi were having. You know in the back of their mind they were like "OMG pinch me... is this really happening?!!!".
Epic fanboys flying with their hero
Geordi is almost at nerdgasm. For me it would be like meeting Tesla
The silly look they give each other when he says, "engage"
Geordie's high school was named after him!!!
You know he was freakin out inside!
Breaking the Warp barrier together with Zefram Cochrane would be like landing on the moon together with Neil Armstrong. Only much more important.
Someday, if we ever DO launch an FTL spacecraft, SOMEONE had better be playing Magic Carpet Ride. Just sayin'.
+Alonzo Branson I can't wait for that long/ Let's play it toward mars.
+Alonzo Branson give it another 1000 years
+Alonzo Branson I feel like "Push it to the Limit" from Scarface would be more fitting. Especially when one considers that we consider the speed of light to be the ultimate "limit" of speed. I can only hope I'll live to see such a day.
Ensign, lay in our course. Maximum warp....ENGAGE!
To much disco for my taste. It would be better during the Iron Man scene in the Martian
Kreutzwerkz
Totally!
Imagine the Vulcans on their survey mission seeing it launch. At first they see an ordinary vessel at sublight speed, nice but still a sign of a primitive lifeform. Then it hits lightspeed. I think they respond the closest expression of a surprise. "Fascinating"
They abandon their mission and make first contact.
+Victor Orozco Well, I guess they only noticed the Phoenix when it entered Warp Speed. If the Vulcans' had been close enough to monitor it while being at sublight speed they would have seen the Enterprise as well. ;)
yup and we know the rest of the story The Vulcans joined the Federation fallowed by the Andorians, The Tulians, many races, and finally Klingons.
The Klingons did not join the Federation. They are Federation allies.
According to Star Trek: Enterprise, the Klingons eventually join the Federation. However it is correct that it is never actually shown happening on the shows and it wasn't stated when this would happen.
NATIK ? possibly talking about the federation Klingon alliance and a possible member around 26th century or something
What I love about Cochran's transformation is that it's rooted in an actual psychological effect. It's called "the overview effect" and it happens to almost everyone who spends time in space.
The pale blue dot did that for me...and I never left earth.
@mrbob4u495 darn right any time there's a scene in any film looking down on earth... I just go wow that's my home.. I want too too never die
To me, the point at which the nacelles extend, is the beginning of everything we come to know as Star Trek.
You should have seen it in the theatre. When nacelles extended the entire theatre blew up in applause and cheering. It was wild.
@@adamJKpunk EXCELLENT!! I remember that as well!!
As TVTropes puts it "Then the side panels come off, and slowly a pair of Star Trek-style warp nacelles unfold and lock into position. And that is when the discerning Trekkie knows epic-ness is about to ensue."
Watching the launch in a theater was nothing short of awesome. It was so loud, the theater shook.
It was easily one of the most joyous experiences I've ever had seeing a Star Trek movie in a theater, right up there with Kirk outwitting Khan to lower Reliant's shields and Enterprise and Excelsior destroying Kang's BOP.
We get to see it just like in a movie theater because we sit down in a dedicated room and our basement with a digital light projector beaming the 1080P image onto an 11 foot wide by 6 and a half foot hi screen
Oh yeah this audio altered version hurts. My brain replaced all the correct sound. I've got surround at home and wife hates I now but she knows where first contact comes out it's all systems are on
Riker and Geordi’s look when Cochrane says “Engage” is my favourite underappreciated gem of this scene
I will, quite frankly, be disappointed if there isn't an official Star Trek convention in Bozeman, MT on 5/4/2063 with a replica of the Phoenix and T'Plana Hath
+Anup Sonigra
On an unrelated-related note, 11 days ago, players of STO was given a free Phoenix.
Hopefully by then we'll have an actual, fully-functional Phoenix.
Given our political situation right now, I'll settle for not being extinct.
And being that you are talking about the possible extinction of our species. You know, something pretty dam monumental - what are *you* doing to try and prevent it ?
Or are you just sitting online, probably even contributing to it, bitching about it ?
For anything to change, we must first reduce things down to the singularity and start there - ie. Start by changing *yourself* and lead by example.
Ethan Boyd Edgy guy is edgy. LOL. But I'll play along. Assuming that we're just couch potatoes with nothing better to do that piss and moan about things....what would you have us do? The floor is yours, preacher. Rock our worlds.
"Is that earth? It's so small." "It's about to get a whole lot bigger."
I just realized - he's not just talking about coming back to Earth....he's talking about Earth's place in the galaxy.
Funny, I never thought about it that way.
CrystalAce2 nice one, good observation.
I am sure most ppl didn't think like the first option...
he's talking about his cock
CrystalAce2 he wasn’t talking about coming back to earth , so it’s not “he’s not just”. He’s not at all.
The moment at 3:15 is one of my favorite moments from Trek; both for its humor and philosophy. Just because you're pushing the boundaries of human exploration and knowledge does not automatically disqualify you from crapping yourself while doing it. Boldly Go.... while frantically going...
I remember being a little disappointed at the Phoenix just being a rocket - until the panels broke away and she extended her nacelles, truly finishing her transformation from a missile into Humanity’s first faster-than-light starship.
Just like a Phoenix.
@@DanielAppleton-lr9eqespecially since it was a weapon of death causing ashes in WW3 and then led the vanguard into Humanity’s age of peace.
@@randomamerican5065 On the mark, dude. 125 %.
I've always admired the irony that Cochrane took a human weapon of war and transformed it into the instrument by which an new era of peace would begin.
@CommanderWolf888 maybe one day we will be there and celebrate the peace for us all!
My favorite scene in the movie. At 2:43, Cochrane sees the Enterprise E and realizes that fulfilling his mission will indeed come to mean all the difference to humanity's future, and the Enterprise is a brilliant symbol of that bold and wonderful future.
morbius109 ... And then that bold wonderful future symbol takes a swing at him.
Its drunk on borge nano probes and the hive minds not having any of it
However, the silhouette of the E is pretty foreboding since riker and La Forge don't know it's partially assimilated.
I always love the people at the bar sitting there drinking in the middle of the day while everything starts shaking and then this big rocket built by one of their drinking buddies come out of the ground.
I was 14 in 1996. I remember going to see this on opening night. It was the last film I saw at the cinema with my mum before she passed. I still love this film.
😢
This will remain a special memory for you.
I always wished they let the song play out a little longer and made the launch and flight to space longer just so we could really soak in the most important moment in Star Trek history
Aye, I would literally watch 2 hours of just the entire launch sequence and technobabling to warp and back.
One of the most hopeful movie scenes ever made, especially when the blue sky comes into view through the windows. Imagine lying on your back as you're being fired into the sky like a bullet. Go NASA.
one of my favourite scenes in First Contact, the other was when the Vulcans landing. I hope one day all the people on Earth will experience these moments.
First Contact is great. So is Trek 4. Ties it all into our world
"And so it became known that the person who invented warp travel, having reached light speed, began screaming and possibly soiling himself in the process."
This is probably true about more scientific breakthroughs than we will ever know.
@@hyrinshratu I'd be surprised if that happened when the wheel was invented.
I’d be more concerned if that didn’t happen.
I really love the nod towards the Original Series and Enterprise. The warp nacelles on the Phoenix have the same look as the ones on the Enterprise NX-1 and NCC-1701 (no bloody A, B, C, D, or E).
This film came out five years before Enterprise started to air. The nod goes the other way.
True. I remember seeing the warp nacelle light effect on the front and remembering them on the Original Series Enterprise and I swear I teared up.
@@imperium3556 I think they mean in chronological order.
I see what you did there
well yeah, it's less advanced technology so of course it's going to more closely resemble an earlier time in history lol
LETS ROCK AND ROLL! *Blasts Steppenwolf in Deanna Troi's ear*.
rctelles I remember when Marina Sirtis was a Sci - Fi sex goddess. Haven't seen her in much except TNG, & 1 downer Syfy Channel movie where the Earth gets blown up by a chain of giant nuclear reactions. The only good thing about it was her character with the lousy fake Southern accent gets vaporized along with everybody else.
+Daniel Appleton Last thing I saw her in was NCIS as the Director of Mossad replacing Eli David.
+Daniel Appleton it wasn't meant to be interpreted as a Southern accent. When she got the role of Deanna, she was literally told that she was from Betazed with no context. That meant she had to make up an accent.
+Anup Sonigra Daniel's talking about the Sci-Fi channel movie where she gets blown up.
She was also in the 2004 Oscar winner, Crash.
She was also in an episode of Stargate SG-1.
Break the "light barrier", have Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" playing on the sound system.
Got it.
And screw the red light on the #2 valve!
I will never forget the excitement I felt in the movie theater when I saw this scene for the first time. I was actually watching one of the greatest moments in Star Trek history. Earth's very first warp vessel. I could barely move
Didn't Geordie once compare observing some new warp tech they where testing to this in one of the TNG episodes? Well, now he IS witnessing it.
if warp drive ever comes to be i hope my childrens children remember me and never forget the name enterprise
Never cease to amaze me how magnificent the enterprise E looks. A true sovereign. It is one of my favourite part of the movie.
The Enterprise F in STO looks even better, but then the Odyssey-class takes what was best about every Enterprise before it.
And she's always someone you're happy to see watching your back the few times she shows up.
Zefram saying "Is that Earth? It's so small." is timeless.
"Engage!"
Yeah it sounds a lot better than PUNCH IT! . just to be different.
Jui-Wei Yang Theres the rank of cadet, but other than that there's nothing.
😏😏
Riker: It's about to get a whole lot bigger.
Geordi: That's what she said.
+antourte1 Thanks I fixed it.
the greatest event in Federation history. Cochrane's warp jump lead to the Vulcans arriving on Earth and the Vulcans joining the Federation. Cochrane would later go on to invent The Warp Core which is now in every Federation ship.
Well every Human ship. I believe when the Federation was formed, warp drives were mainly a collaboration of Human, Vulcan and Andorian science.
Warp cores already existed. Please specifically hear it in the dialogue that the warp core aboard the Phoenix was being activated once they left Earth.
"Sweet Jesus!" - Always brings a big smile to my face, when he sees the Enterprise
I wish i could see the next 300 years...
bernisweltredsun don't worry, nasa and a few private inventors are already on the task. it's looking promising, the question is are their going to be multiple versions of this drive or not
I already did...
It fucking SUCKED!!!
MobiusPrime 2035 LOL promising ? Yeah. Ok. You’ll be dead before anything like FTL is invented and is used.
Read Dune
You can, trust Jesus Christ for salvation, and you will have eternal life. In the next 300 years we will most likely be well within a couple hundred years or more of the millennial reign of Christ in the renovated earth. where animals will no longer be carnivores, humans will live for hundreds of years, the earth will be garden of eden conditions etc. Its all in the bible read the lst few chapters of the book of revelation.
3:15
Cochrane: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Whhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Gets me every time I watch this movie.
1:20 - the fact that Cochrane was about to call off the mission due to not having his music ready yet totally could care less about the red "check engine" light is amazing 😂😂😂
2:40 - "SWEET JESUS" - best look ever xD
If only this was true. Oh how wonderful it would be to travel among the stars
would it? space is extremely big, planets mostly, maybe primarily lifeless, not that interesting after seeing a couple. i appreciate earth, me
Marina Sirtis, hungover as all hell does mission control like a boss while looking great. She's a great one.
Saw this movie in theaters when it came out. All my friends and I were big on 70s rock and roll Steppenwolf included. We all knew Magic Carpet Ride. When he put the disk in we all looked at each other anticipating what song was gonna play. When it was Magic Carpet Ride we all jumped out of our seats and literally cheered. People thought we were nuts.
One of the best Star Trek scenes. Like Data finding emotion
And Kirk finds him a century later. Then promises to forget he ever saw him.
Daniel Appleton I noticed that Cochran is like 40 here and this is 2060 something and they said he oversaw the building of the nx-01 in 2151???? He'd be over 100 years old?
Oh ok didn't know that I haven't gotten around to watching tos on Netflix yet
Nvm that was in the 2260's I'm talking about zefram still being alive in 2150 when the original nx-01 was built.
Cochrance disappeared 2120 or so. He wasn't around when the NX-01 launched, there was just an old speech from him played that was recorded when they built the Warp 5 complex.
There's a damned good book called FEDERATION that offers a great deal more to read about Zefram Cochrane, spanning not just TOS, but TNG and pre-Federation as well. It's not canon, of course, and contradicts the events of FIRST CONTACT, but is an awesome story nonetheless. And when you read it, see if you can guess the true identify of Cochrane's friend, Micah Brack. Hint: his true identity lies in the original series.
90 years before the launch of the Enterprise NX. Amazing
0:20 Literally me in every roadtrip
The look of the Phoenix is close enough that a modified starship rocket could be made to look like the Phoenix before it opens its nacelles. Having the first Mars mission with a ship that looks like the Phoenix would be epic.
"PRIMER CONTACTO". De mis favoritas. Gracias por subir esta escena memorable... épica en el universo Star trek.
Love how there's an ICBM being launched, and just 50 yards away, people only seem to notice a slight breeze.
This is the best film for people who don't even like the Star Trek franchise.
It's so damn good.
I liked the way Cochran achieved liftoff to the tune of Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride."
1:36 🎶 faith of the heeaart 🎶
So this Cochrane guy single-handedly cobbles together a warp drive out of some spare parts and disused ICBMs? Where did he get the anti-matter? Apparently there was some sitting on a shelf in a back room? And he does all this after a war has devastated all of Earth's technology? Wow---this guy is some genius!
i don't think he used antimatter to power it, probably a fusion reactor
There is always an ass hole finding faults. Just enjoy it!
Fair questions.
He didn't do it single-handedly - he had a team. The difficulty of finding the materials was discussed in the movie.
The writers did consider the power source - and whether is was derived from the original fusion warhead rather than antimatter and dilithium, but I'm not sure that they reached a firm conclusion.
@Chris> Part of the enjoyment is being able to discuss the shows with our friends. I guess you're not one of the friends with whom we can share our enjoyment.
Riker did say...warp core, la feorge mentioned plasma injectors. And remember barclay was rebuilding a coil, which in star trek supposedly is in the nacelles that produce the warp field. So maybe anti matter was used?
I love that.
*warning light flashes*
Zefram Cochrane: Ignore it. It'll be fine.
Exactly what I said about the check engine light in my old car.
Oh, how I love when the Enterprise blocks the sun. Great scene!
If i am not mistaken they used the old warp sound from OST. I like that. :D
*TOS
Sorry my correction program. xD
So are the warp nacelles, pretty much same outer design
1:37 FAITH OF THE HEEEEEEEEEEEEART
The other day I played this song as I watched Crew -2 SpaceX launch, then looked outside and saw the rocket flying through the sky in Virginia!
New appreciation for this scene after watching Lower Decks season 3 episode 1!
Happy First Contact Day! Only 40 more years until we meet the vulcans!
Vulcans see humans: i sleep
Vulcans when humans go into warp: real shit
this was one of the best scenes in cinema history - taking off to Steppenwolf
LaForge "we've got a red light on the 2nd intake valve"
Cochrane "here in the 21st century, if the check engine light isnt on, something's wrong"
Also at 1:52, remember when cochrane said "you think I wanna go to the stars? I dont even like to fly! I take trains". Thats the moment where he changed his mind
20.000 km/s, that is 72 MILLION km/h... For comparison the Parker solar probe, the fastest ship to date has reached a top speed of 586,800 km/h (163 km/s).
So the Phoenix was already quite revolutionary even before using its warp speed!
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious sh*t.
0:38 is that classical music?
Yes. Yes it is.
"Good Choice…"😏
They used the same line in Star Trek Beyond
JesusChrist yes we know
Howyaduing sorry
I just realized that Cochrane, upon seeing the nacelles of the Enterprise, immediately understood that it was a "Phoenix" from the future and that he had just created the future.
@2:19
Cochrane: Engage
*nearly 350 years later*
Picard: Engage
WWIII really took its toll on Zac Efron!
I wonder how Geordi and Riker did react when they saw that the Enterprsie fired Quantum Torpedoes at them
A bright flash. Cochrane thought they were zapped by a Cosmic Ray, which happens to astronauts and even airline pilots.
They never saw the torpedos.
I just love the sound of it hitting warp
Possibly my favorite scene in the Star Trek canom: the first time man experienced warp power
Anyone here after watching Lower decks season 3 episode 1
Thanks for editing out the Borg stuff. I think this clip is SO much better without it and I wish the writers could have come up with a better reason to travel back in time than by dusting off the Borg. (again).
Part of me wishes the movie focused more on earth and the actual meeting with the vulcans and didn't so much involve the borg
Try to even imagine being Will & Geordi on that flight. That'd be like going back to 1776 and crossing the Deleware with George Washington or to 1969 and landing on the moon with Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin. It's truly unimaginable.
I think this scene with Zefram Cochrane breaking the Warp Barrier is inspired by the opening scene in the film The Right Stuff, a 1983 American epic historical drama film about Project Mercury and the start of the American Space Program. The opening scene of the film features Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier, proceeded by the narration: "Narrator : There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier." The film then dramatically covers Yeager breaking the sound barrier on Oct. 14, 1947. With Sam Shepard playing Chuck Yeager, who also made a cameo as an extra in the bar in the opening scene of the movie. Great film. Based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe.
@@zed51aleph One of my favorites!
You can love or hate Star Trek, but you have to admit this was the most epic launch EVER in movie history!
From the first time I saw this movie I can't help thinking that Zefram Cochrane's warp engine wouldn't have worked without Geordie "fixing" it, and Geordie just decided not to tell anyone...
+TheDjbz The future reassuring its own future by making past events possible. Now that's a mind fuck.
Bootstrap paradox
Which is why I'm waiting for Crewman Daniels to show up and unfuck the whole JJVerse / Kelvin timeline.
Time travel movies always irritate me for that reason.
Now Zefram can outrun any Random Breath Testing Unit on Earth.
I just remembered an episode where, in New Ground, Geordi says, “This is going to be like being there to watch … Zefram Cochrane engage the first warp drive!” He was finally able to do that.
Best TNG movie. One of the best Star Trek movies. It's this scene that helped it get there.
1:48 looks like a sunglasses rack upside down in the background
Love this movie. Probably my favorite Trek movie. A few nitpicks about this scene though, not that I care, but just because that's what we do: 1) No compression suits, let alone proper spacesuits. 2) As a corollary, inertial dampers? Shouldn't that type of acceleration turned them into paste? 3) I'm thinking take off would have seriously damaged that camp. I know it's not a Saturn, but still, it's an ICBM. Titans are still monsterously powerful. 4) Funny how Cochrane's need for his mission music mirrored Captain Hiller's need for mission cigars in Independence Day. They came out the same year too.
+James Martin You wouldn't need a compression suit if you had inirshial dampeners, and according to the Fleet Manual, whcih came out before the movie, the Pheonix had one in the cockpit. Aditionaly the camp would be fine as it's stated that they were launching from an old ICBM silo, there are underground vents which direct exaust away from the launch tube becuase the misscile controll and launch facility is arround them and theay re mean tto serve as emergancy military bases as well. The ground 20 meters away from the rube is perfectly safe, but closer than that and you will be burned a bit.
Thanks for the info.
@@MeepChangeling Not really. The missile command and control facilities are several miles from the actual silos, and the missile launch control is buried underground and insulated by several yards of concrete. In addition, if that's a Titan II like they seem to imply it is, the exhaust is toxic and corrosive. What goes up must come down, and the area around a Titan II silo after launch would've been contaminated with nitric acid and other nasty Aerozine 50/nitrogen tetroxide combustion products as the exhaust plume settled.
Not to mention the noise would've killed everyone aboveground that was closer than about a mile.
IIRC, the really killer acceleration here is done entirely with the warp engines, which don't actually accelerate anything.
@@vicroc4 Yes, but it was in the middle of an encampment.
This scene encompasses the message of Star Trek for me. Overcoming nihilism and materialism for the sake of reaching and surpassing human potential.
Interesting that Magic Carpet Ride is the music played during the first warp flight since the Alcubierre Warp Metric is literally shaped like a magic carpet.
It really bugs me how Troi started out as a character with a thick exotic accent only to end up sounding exactly like Marina Sirtis.
It was decided early in Season 1 that the accent wasn't really working for the character, so Sirtis dropped it in favor of her own, without modification.
And for the rest of human history, nobody ever thought to ask, “so who was in those other two seats when Cochran made his warp flight?”
Personal Headcanon, La Forge and Riker asked Cochrane to use aliases for them, their actor names to be specific.
Benjamin Gates and Beethoven.
(Nobody will get that joke…)
Honestly that is one example of something that would justify Section 31 involvement.
I mean between Cochrane's statement at Princeton, Archer's report on his encounter with the Borg and all the odd little details around Cochrane's flight (Why did his copilots immediately vanish into history, along with most of the support personnel? Who was behind the attack on the facility just days before launch? Why did a group of strangers show up to help immediately after the attack and then vanish just as quickly?) there's plenty to point to something being off about the official account of his first flight.
This gives me the same goosebumps as Apollo 11 when I was but a pup. Its that real for me.
What i love of this scene is it's not typical Star Trek music.
One thing the Kelvin universe did right was updating the music.
Engage!!!
and then they both look at each other lol
Make It So!!
Yeah Great scene!
Nigel Murphy never gets old watching that
How could they make a stinker like Insurrection after this? I mean how can you do that?
Let us never mention that film again. That film NEVER EXISTED, even if it really did......
Sadly, given what we've got at the moment, _Insurrection_ looks like a marathon of _Star Trek II, VI,_ and _First Contact_ by comparison. :-(
exactly what was wrong with insurrection? It really wasnt that bad was it? Id personally watch it over Nemesis, the new Star Trek Beyond, and lets not even get started on how crappy the new Discovery show is. I think we can all agree that Star Trek, no matter what generation or cast, has always been about giving us amazing first class theater and story..... while simultaneously taking a dump on us at the same time
Matt w4k my general rule is Star Trek has better shows than movies
The Same Production LTD. That makes the ships and special things was working on starwars. There's an easter egg in this movie. Where the hand solo's Falcon is seen battling the borg cube in this movie.
We are closer to this than ever now. DARPA created a micro warp bubble studying casamir power sources.
We are very far...The Casamir Effect? That's like saying FinFet or GinFet technology is close just after you've "discovered" electricity...Not quite. Still got a loooooooooooong ways to go
Insane to think that any old person watching that launch would be a mid 90s born like me
"Is that Earth?"
Yes, mister genius scientist who invented warp drive and piloted a spaceship. That's Earth.
It was a rhetorical question...
Is this from one of the Star Trek movies or one of the series? Thanks.
its from star trek first contact. a movie
Chris Gibson Thanks mate.
BEST STAR TREK MOVIE EVER!
When you have a fully trained Starfleet Engineers who specialises in warp drives, your chances of success do increase. Granted, Geordi wasn't there the first time. But it's good to have an expert in the practical side of the iconic FTL drive.
"It's so small." That's what she said. I'm sorry but that joke was coming from 93 million miles away.
Dom Oranzi Sigmund Freud would have something to say about the Phoenix. Looks kind of..... Phallic. :)
Dom Oranzi Yeah, took me a minute to get it....about 8 actually.(more geek humor...)
Daniel Appleton "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." ~Sigmund F.~
tophtml1"And sometimes it's not." - Bill Clinton. -
NorthForkFisherman Monica agrees. :)
The movie depicts Earth after a devastating war, and most technology is gone. Yet this Cochrane guy single-handedly builds a warp drive out of some spare ICBMs? Where did he get the anti-matter? The dilithium?
+delavalmilker I don't want to check the details just now but I think the antimatter is just fuel and dilithium is used to regulate the antimatter reaction. Another power source would do; given that they're using a nuclear missile I bet I know where the fuel came from. However it probably wouldn't last for more than few short warp flights which is why modern starships use antimatter.
+delavalmilker ...to complete my thought, the point is the actual warp field does not require antimatter, just a lot of power.
He didn't use anti-matter or dillithium. He used power from the ICBM's warhead to make a (very) crude warp engine. Also the movie takes place not too long after world war 3 so technology isn't exactly rare just difficult to maintain. Not to mention that you shouldn't doubt human ingenuity. In real life Marvin Heemeyer made a battle tank with composite armor and life support systems IN HIS GARAGE with no engineering experience compared to Cochrane who's a PHd(albeit fictional). It's was also this ability to "Maguyver" a warp engine out of scrap parts that impressed the vulcans enough to help humanity usher in a new era...
The impulse engine and gravity control must have been mastered before Warp Drive.. These were the main weapons of World War 3. Most of the destruction of WW3 occured in China (where Q's 21st century court of horrors took place), and India (ruled by Khan)
Riker and Geordi dance on the chair, moving to the music ... :-)
The meco and separation is amazing
I wonder how this works with the Kelvin Timeline
Just fine - it's the first human warp flight.
IamTenzin Enterprise E crew had a pretty big role in this. Its like a self fulfilling time loop. People have died that should have been alive, the buttery fly effect on this, I have no idea how this would be effected. For example the entire planet of vulcan was destroyed.
webduelist After the Kelvin, not before.
IamTenzin But if Vulcan is destroyed, then the events playing up to the E going back in time may not occur as they are suppose to.
webduelist Which is why everything after Kelvin is considered divergent. We may never encounter Q because he's probably as sick of JJ'verse as we are. Only those people alive at the time of Kelvin are a given. Everything after, mutable. No experience with the Borg, no intervention - no intervention - Phoenix flies minus Riker and Geordi who may have never even been born.
How the hell would they not be lost as fuck after passing that many stars?
Pretty sure that was lensing and Cherenkov radiation.
…Or just VFX to make the warp drive more apparent.
Since you can still see Earth with the naked eye from where they ended up, I don't think they were even traveling at warp factor 1.0, let alone fast enough to pass entire star systems.
I think they were moving at exactly warp 1 - that was the point of the exercise.
You're right that these days the powers that be rationalise that the streaks are not stars - throughout Trek history, even at high warp, there have always been too many of them for them to be stars.
At warp 1 it takes more than 5 hours to leave the solar system behind, they're barely away from Earth, they'd not be even half way to the orbit of Mars should they remain in the ecliptic plane
Even at exponential superluminal speeds (such as, say, Warp 7), the stars would appear fixed, more or less. At Warp 7, it would take 2.39 days to reach the Alpha Centauri system from Earth (based on ST:TNG Warp Factors). At Warp 1, the speed of Cochrane's ship, it would take 4.35 years (it's 4.35 lightyears away). The shorter version is that the blurred stars are
artistic license rather than accurate science.
My headcannon is that the "streaking stars" when a ship move in warp are not actually stars, but particles and dust hitting the warp field and becoming incandescent.
There were a couple things they "glossed over" when they did this. Such as the Doctor being this party animal... And never mentioning "inertia dampening field" before hitting warp (which is important... without it your jelly on the back wall). But other then that, it was good!
"It's about to get a whole lot bigger." Ha! That's what she said!