Star Trek: First Contact (1996) - Blast Off! Scene | Movieclips

[@Fortuneartist]

I like the weary face expression of Deanna* at "Begin ignition sequence", referring to some hangover, and with the feeling on it by: Just get over this already! :D

[@realgamerguyvlog32]

You mean, Deanna?

[@Xingmey]

Aka the actress the didnt find anything useful to Do the whole movie?

[@Prisoner_849]

Glad we finally got to hear some Rock and Roll on Star Trek. Most of Star Trek all we heard was Jazz, Blues, Opera and Classical music.

[@pheenix42]

I remember this in the theater -- all I'd seen was the rocket before, and then the panels blew off and the warp nacelles extended. Oh yeah.😁

[@manuelalvarado6510]

The counselor got an earful of '60s rock and roll when it blared over her headset.

[@koro_kokoro]

You mean what the future calls classical music

[@JohnE9999]

Right after she gets a face full of nitogen tetroxodie and what 's that other one? Oh, unsymtretcal dimethyl hdrazine.

[@OneofInfinity.]

While having an hangover.

[@CaptainBardiel]

History records that Dr. Zefram Cochrane, Commander William T. Riker (USN), and Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge (USN) were on the Phoenix.

[@marcusjustice6165]

Did they have a visit from The Agents of The Temporal Investigations Division to explain how they were credited as serving in The United States Navy USN Once the Enterprise-E returned to the 24Th Century?

[@CaptainBardiel]

@@marcusjustice6165 Yes.

[@Rebel.s197]

I come here after every Starship IFT launch. It's just the same ... :D

[@harlemsfinest141]

Man this scene does wonders for my morale

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

Humans reaching the stars kind of hope. 🤟😎

[@Duelinator]

Can’t lead on a historical moment without “the classics”

[@NickFleming92]

Jonathan Frakes both starred and directed this movie.

[@silversnail1413]

Originally Riker was going to be on the ship leading the fight against the Borg and Picard was going to be on the planet assisting with the Phoenix project, but since Frakes already had his hands full directing he decided to switch the roles so he wouldn't have to exhaust himself doing tons of action scenes. And dramatically it makes a lot more sense given Picard's prior history with the Borg.

[@walterengler5709]

I like how he sort of looks bored in the ship. Almost like yeah I know this works so just enjoying the ride yawn.

[@cagal1066]

​@@walterengler5709he rode the Phoenix at the amusement park 😂

[@walterengler5709]

@@cagal1066 I can just imagine the ride .. a simulated first ride of the legendary ship .. oh wait the overheating mainfold caused an issue .. we have to dodge some asteroids .. on no we are on a collision course with the moon pull up pull up .. wheew under control and warping back to earth.

[@cagal1066]

@@walterengler5709 I was talking about Lower Decks 🤭. Although an actual theme park ride would be awesome!

[@MrArcadia2009]

To be fair, I do live that song. I wasn't alive during that time, yet I still enjoy it.

[@letsplaylucas9766]

"let's bring the warp core online." Riker just clicks a small trigger, in the F***ing FIRST WARP SHIP

[@posham219]

the entire thing was hand built basically, it was done along the lines of "let's just make it cheap so long as it will work"

[@partyguy101ify]

To be fair, the switch was protected by a toggle switch lock guard. Many of which can be found on pretty much everything that isn't a car or the average boat.

[@itsmephil2255]

And some of the switches were labeled TOS (the original series)

[@suzanneroberge494]

Love that they kept the traditional nacelle design

[@Azurek1991]

Frakes has the best "this is gonna suck" face

[@danielwalker26]

Imagine one day you are sitting in a bar and all of a sudden that crazy doctor guy launches a rocket out of the ground. The. That night some weird pointy ear people land in a space ship. Would be an awesome time to be alive.

[@Specter5053]

Don't forget the night before you were bombarded from space by who knows what, and then a bunch of strangers appeared from seemingly nowhere to help said scientist complete his project.

[@Madman13K]

or the fact that nuclear war is living memory still and most of those people had no expectation of civilisation ever recovering. Gotta wonder how many of those people thought that the war was about to spin up again at this moment.

[@mchawk315]

If I hadn't already loved this song this movie solidified it.

[@choogheem]

such a wonderful movie

[@Arcturus572]

Considering that there's usually a 3 mile minimum distance from a launch, to keep from killing people from the noise, I wonder how much more advanced these rockets were to be able to be that close to the settlement when launching... But yes, I know.... Suspension of disbelief...

[@larrycopeland2413]

Yeah, and how did they get back to Earth after the flight? Not exactly a Space Shuttle setup in the Phoenix.

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

Top part probably popped off and returned like how they are IRL.

[@Ama-hi5kn]

Making first contact with a Titan II ICBM.

[@TheGreatGooglyMoogly430]

If i ever get the chance to go into space, I'm definitely playing this song.

[@bandittweintraub]

that is the live 1970 Version of "Magic Carpet Ride"

[@Lorijenken]

if I ever go to space im yelling this and playing that song XD

[@JasonGabler]

Before the Enterprise came along, what was Cochran's original plan to get back to the surface of the Earth after testing the wrap drive?

[@channelchupathingee9195]

I assumed it would be something similar to how the Apollo rockets landed

[@JasonGabler]

Could be ... though without the US Navy to pick him up in middle of the Pacific.

[@jeffstrawn3073]

On my turn to ride this it’s Enter Sandman from Mettalica

[@riogrande5761]

What I'd like to know is how they got back to earth. I didn't see any heat tiles on that ship.

[@jasonchard8636]

The hull is titanium which could take the heat.

[@riogrande5761]

@@jasonchard8636 Just the cockpit which is what I recall. So Titanium can withstand the heat of re-entry? What about those getting cooked inside?

[@jasonchard8636]

Titanium is a poor conduit of heat. Assuming a proper re-entry angle and appropriate design it would work. It was under consideration for the space shuttles originally.

[@algoy001]

How did they got back on earth? Could the Phoenix fly through the atmosphere and land on soil like a shuttle?

[@Sahilprakash1999]

next week i want Air Force One (1997) and I'm mean it

[@johnrodgers8457]

Get off my plane!

[@jeffjames4064]

That far into our future and they still use toggle switches 😊

[@0megacron]

In the Star Trek timeline, 2063 still saw the world recovering from WW3. I mean, these people are living in run-down shacks & shanties, so yeah - it's not that unbelievable that they're using toggle switches. Cochrane built the Phoenix out of whatever he could scrounge up. Heck, the NX-01 was built almost a hundred years later and it STILL used toggle switches for some panels.

[@SSGLew]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[@DrumToTheBassWoop]

We landed on the moon using simple toggles and switches, don't bad mouth tried and tested equipment.

[@Jupiter-p7f]

Great video😂

[@adamhicks1108]

Lol scene cracks me up every time

[@davidlaney6153]

I want to know what happened to that Quantum Drive test, the ship is missing...

[@deniseeulert2503]

I really am reluctant to say what that rocket resembled as it appeared.

[@matthewst537]

What was the red light on the second intake valve?

[@DavidLS1]

Ignore it.

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

Like the Star Trek crew would know which buttons and procedures to engage in a 300 year old rocket

[@stevenhenry5267]

You ever hear of something called the historical record?

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

@@stevenhenry5267 Historical record of a homebuilt makeshift rocket?

[@slashingraven]

@@80s_Boombox_Collector Of the very first human-built warp ship? Pretty dang important and worth preserving for the historical record, I'd say.

[@BigB14]

Like riding a bicycle dude.

[@DrJekyll38]

Of course there would be. Picard said that in their day, the Phoenix resides in the Smithsonian, so it only makes sense that out National Archives or Starfleet would have the blueprints. Otherwise, how would the Enterprise computer have them?

[@DanWint]

Steppingfoot, great music, crappy band.

[@Mr-Samurai1]

Please can you rurouni kenshin the beginning

[@KC-nd7nt]

Riker was a dumb character