Jonathan Ross' Essential Guide To Star Trek: First Contact

Jonathan Ross' Essential Guide To Star Trek: First Contact was a twenty-five minute promotional documentary that looked at the making of . The documentary was produced by United International Pictures, and released in the UK on VHS in 1996.
Like the similar promotional release, Your Guide To ... Star Trek Generations, the video was purchased via the collection of tokens in newspaper and distributed by .
A Dutch subtitled version was released the following year in the Netherlands. There was also a German dubbed release titled Your Guide to Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt. These versions were also distributed by UIP.
== Contents ==
;From the back cover:
:An exclusive behind the scenes look at the biggest ever Star Trek blockbuster.
Hosted by , the feature contained interviews with the cast, clips from the films, as well as "Data blasts", in which information is given via screenshots of written text in quick succession, so that the viewer can pause the individual frames and read the text at their own pace.
Well known in the UK, Ross was perhaps chosen to be host due to his well-known fandom of Star Trek, as well as his appreciation for film in general. The feature takes a somewhat informal approach, featuring Ross watching clips from a sofa, and also makes use of his humor – at one point he asks for information on the Borg, but specifies that he doesn't mean "."
The video also included a competition in which entrants could win a Pioneer LaserDisc player and discs, as well as the entire (at the time of release) back catalogs of VHS releases from CIC Video and Star Trek novels from Simon & Schuster. (This commercial part is deleted on both the Dutch and German VHS versions.)
The theatrical trailer for the film was also included on the video, playing at the end of the documentary.
==Interviewees==
*Rick Berman
*Brannon Braga
*James Cromwell
*Michael Dorn
*Jonathan Frakes
*Gates McFadden
*Ronald D. Moore
*Marina Sirtis
*Brent Spiner
*Patrick Stewart
*Alfre Woodard
Category:Documentaries