Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
Star Trek: First Contact
Scored from 275 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
The crew of the Enterprise-E pursues the Borg back through time to mid-21st century Earth, where the cybernetic collective aims to prevent humanity's first warp flight and its resulting first contact with alien life. While Captain Picard battles a Borg incursion aboard his ship, Commander Riker works planetside to ensure reclusive inventor Zefram Cochrane completes the historic launch that will reshape humanity's future.
Released in 1996, Star Trek: First Contact is an action, adventure and drama film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,826 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 275 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 282 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Star Trek: First Contact lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1990s (4,082 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 275.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
