Bingowings said:

First Contact on the other hand is vastly overated, it's basically a remake of Aliens (which was a remake of THEM!) it still got some nice bits in it but it did also introduce the bloody Borg Queen which contributed to the dilution of all that made those Cyberman/Cenobite hydrids so chilling in the first place.

Other than TMP all the Star Trek films were just glorified television episodes (usually rehashes of OS episodes, even TMP is guilty of that but at least it looked cinematic, but lacking any of the originality of the mother series) including the Colonel Abrams one.

Interesting take on First Contact being a remake of Aliens, and Aliens being a remale of THEM!. I have seen all three movies, and acknowledge that there is a similar theme, but I have a hard time seeing them as "remakes". They all fit into the us vs. the hoards of monsters! sub-genre of sci-fi/horror, but I think the similarities of the three end there. Movies with this theme are fun to watch, so tons of them have been made. It is exciting to see your protagonist survive against the odds when vastly outnumbered, and it is entertaining to watch as all the characters but the main ones get slowly picked off one by one. There are countless movies with this theme.

But yeah, Borg Queen sucks ass.

I think every TV show turned movie that ever exited has suffered from the accusation of being a glorified television episode. Interestingly, I found TMP to be the absolute least cinematic (of the TOS films) and the closest to being merely an episode of TOS, only with additional bells and whistles to beef up the run time and wooo theater goers in 1979.