Jonathan Ross' Essential Guide To Star Trek: First Contact

Jonathan Ross' Essential Guide To Star Trek: First Contact (catalog number VFB 12646) was a short promotional documentary released in 1996 in the UK on VHS that looked at the making of.

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 (catalog number 2199925) was also released the following year in the Netherlands. There was also a German dubbed release titled Your Guide to Star Trek: Der erste Kontakt.

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.

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