Talking about the movies Generations and First Contact, what else was out there when you were making those films?

Independence Day came out close to First Contact, and set a new level in special effects and action in science fiction projects. It really sort of raised the threshold of what an audience expects and I think it might have hurt First Contact, and the Star Trek features as a whole, because Star Trek�s just never going to spend that kind of money on their feature movies so they always are going to kind of suffer in that comparison.

Same with Star Wars. The Phantom Menace came out the year after Insurrection, and the special effects work is just at such an order of magnitude bigger than Star Trek that it makes Star Trek look an also ran in visual effects, which is too bad.