on November 22, 1996. It is the eighth in the Star Trek film franchise
and the first without any characters from the original series. On mid-
21st century Earth, characters from the television series Star Trek: The
Next Generation struggle to save their future from the cybernetic Borg.
After the seventh film, Star Trek Generations (1994), Paramount tasked
writers Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore with developing a sequel. Cast
member Jonathan Frakes made his directorial debut. Production designer
Herman Zimmerman and illustrator John Eaves created a sleeker starship
than its predecessor, and Industrial Light & Magic's traditional optical
effects techniques were supplemented with computer-generated imagery.
First Contact made $146 million worldwide. Critical reception was
mostly positive, especially for the Borg and the special effects. The
film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup and won three
Saturn Awards. Scholarly analysis of the film has focused on the nature
of the Borg and on Captain Jean-Luc Picard's parallels to Herman
Melville's Ahab.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_Contact>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1635:
Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month
pacification campaign against Taiwanese aborigines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_pacification_campaign_on_Formosa>
1830:
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, one of the primary architects of
the Reform Act 1832 and namesake of Earl Grey tea, began his term as the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey>
1910:
The crews of the Brazilian warships Minas Geraes, São Paulo,
Bahia—all commissioned only months before—and several smaller
vessels mutinied against what they called the "slavery" being practiced
by the Brazilian Navy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Lash>
1928:
Boléro (audio featured), Maurice Ravel's most famous musical
composition, made its debut at the Paris Opéra.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%C3%A9ro>
1986:
Mike Tyson defeated Trevor Berbick to claim the heavyweight
boxing championship of the World Boxing Council, and became the youngest
boxing champion ever.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
glass harp:
A musical instrument consisting of wine glasses tuned by putting
different amounts of liquid into them. Sound is produced by rubbing
one's fingers around the edges of the glasses, causing them to vibrate.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glass_harp>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
With what reason canst thou expect that thy children should follow
thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example?
Thou dost but as it were beckon to them with thy head, and shew them the
way to heaven by thy good counsel, but thou takest them by the hand and
leadest them in the way to hell by thy contrary example.
--John Tillotson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Tillotson>
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