This movie starts with the new ship, the Enterprise E. In the first scene they learn that one of their arch enemy races, the Borg, has returned and are ready to assimilate humanity to their cyborg status. This time they intend to assimilate them in the past. Using a temporal distortion field the Borg travel back in time, accidentally sucking the Enterprise through the portal with them. They arrive in the past one day before the human race had first contact with foreign life form. They spend the rest of the movie learning that the man who introduced warp speed technology to the human race was not the hero they had imagined. In fact this "hero" was a drunken degenerate whom they had to force to go through with his mission so that history could sustain itself. They also manage to crash yet another enterprise so we can all look forward to the enterprise F in the next post. I probably should have been paying more attention while watching because I can't recall how they managed to get back to their own time. (I was playing Portal while watching this movie)
The thing I hated most about this movie was that they gave Geordi eye transplants that seems to be mechanical in nature but never explain why or when it happened. This upset me almost as much as when they just randomly killed off the two enemy Klingon sisters lursa and b'etor in Generations.
What I liked about this movie is that it showed us the roots of what links us (21st Century Earth) with the several series of Star Trek that we've seen over the decades. Then you start to wonder, if we were so primitive how did we become so prominent in Starfleet and the Federation? I wasn't a big fan of the "time travel" aspect, but it was an interesting glimpse. Also drunk Troi was hilarious!
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