It feels like a Christmas movie to me, even though it takes place in April and has pretty much nothing to do with Christmas.
Maybe because it came out around Christmas time in 1996, and I remember getting the enhanced CD soundtrack as a gift. Good times.
I mean, Generations has a Xmas Tree. Also Picard gets to change the future. And you can even say that Guinan is an Xmas ghost.
And Picard…Stewart played Ebenezer…this tracks.
I think Generations is the Christmas movie. Due to the Nexus scene.
Yeah, that's the strange thing for me. Generations is technically more of a Christmas movie and even has that Nexus fantasy Christmas scene. Yet it doesn't feel like Christmas to me. At the end, the Enterprise D is destroyed, Kirk's dead and so is Picard's family. Plus, their future is uncertain. Kind of a non Christmasy bummer if I'm honest.
Maybe I think FC is Christmasy because it ends on a more upbeat note. The future is saved from the Borg; First Contact happens; Picard, Worf and Data forgive each other; Lily and Picard part on good terms; Goldsmith's score is fantastic, one of his best. It just leaves me feeling better in the end.
Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
Starship Mine is a Star Trek version of Die Hard.
Therefore by the transitive property:
Starship Mine is a Christmas episode of Star Trek.
Picard's gift?
... a saddle.
I suggested this in an earlier post.
I got the vhs for Christmas in 1997!
A little surprising you say that since parts of it are more horror-oriented.
Generations is the only one that can count as a Christmas movie, just in terms of content and featuring Christmas as an actual, major plot-point.
Dickens's A Christmas Carol also has elements of horror. A nasty man haunted by ghosts and risking eternal damnation of his soul and torment if he doesn't change his ways.
But it was Christmas, lol.
First Contact is... not Christmas.
It did come out around Christmas time. When I first saw it as a kid it was maybe a week before Christmas.
I saw it the night after I finished my last exam of the Fall semester at college. The next day I flew home for winter break. Under the Christmas tree that year was the Playmates Collector Edition Borg Ship, a gift from my Dad (which I happily took back to my dorm and displayed in my room).
Based on my experience, OP is correct.
I'm definitely dating myself with this, but I went to see it in the theater for my 12th birthday. It's not a Christmas movie, it's just a movie that came out at the end of November. Die Hard also is not a Christmas movie, while I'm spouting the hot takes, it just takes place during Christmas. If you said it during any other office party, it'd be the same movie. A Christmas movie, needs to be about Christmas, or at the very least be so tied to and influenced by Christmas that it couldn't happen any other time. So, at the risk of going completely off-topic, Harry Potter is also not a Christmas movie, the Addams Family is not a Halloween movie, Leprechaun is not a St. Patrick's Day movie, Independence Day is not an Independence Day movie, but Groundhog Day is a Groundhog Day movie, and finally, Nightmare Before Christmas is both a Halloween and Christmas movie, fight me
Kinda works. The antagonist is defeated by the power of friendship.
I already did this post last year! But I included evidence:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarTrekTNG/comments/1hlog3k/star_trek_first_contact_is_a_christmas_movie/
TLDR: Picard's plotline is "Die Hard", Data's plotline is material versus spiritual, and Riker's plotline is "misfits help Santa save Christmas" with Cochrane as Santa and the Vulcans as the elves.
Best of both worlds and first contact are a Christmas tradition for me.
Because it's die hard in space
Insurrection is the Christmas movie. Take out the action, you have...
Old timey Christmas village
On again, off again romances
Rediscovering youth
A musical number whilst chasing Data
An annoying kid
Family reunion with the Baku and Sona'a
All the components of a Hallmark family Christmas movie, all it's missing is Lacey Chabert.
Sold. Adding to the Xmas movie roster.
That's funny. I just watched it again last night. First time in ages.
It recently came up in one of my Facebook groups that First Contact is a Hanukkah movie. It's about fighting a superior force against assimilation.
It's because it has a Picard-as-McClane feel, and Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
"Now I have a phaser rifle. Ho-Ho-Ho."