Website review · December 20, 1996
Entertainment
Weekly
Star Trek: First Contact gets a close look.
The December 20 issue includes a review of the project’s first-contact.com experience and its early use of plug-ins, Shockwave, and VRML.
Entertainment Weekly · Star Trek: First Contact · December 20, 1996
“(www.firstcontact.msn.com) Utilizing more high-tech plug-in software—Shockwave, VRML, Active-X—than your average Borg, this lavish site is as far beyond the competition as Zefram Cochrane’s warp drive is beyond the steam engine. As in the best Trek episodes, though, the creators don’t allow the blinking computer screens, 3-D-rendered scenery, and highfalutin jargon to overwhelm the human element: Starfleet ‘cadets’ who log on to this site can take periodic breaks from their combat simulations to communicate with one another in the Observation Lounge. And if they don’t have anything very interesting to say, you can’t blame Star Trek. A”