Picard: "O'Brien, if your fix on the away team wavers in the slightest..." O'Brien: "Captain, we sent half the senior cast down there. Nothing can fire through that plot armor."
The double fist swing is an action show device to minimize injury to both attacker and target. The force of the blow is spread out. It’s obviously not a realistic-looking technique, though.
Man. Just look at how different the Borg and their ship looked back then. They evolved so much over the years but the creepy atmosphere in this episode was never beaten
The scene of metal and wire on the Borg ship actually regenerating as if it's living tissue is something that's been lost on any other Borg related episodes in any Star Trek series.
Yeah that would be one of the Major losses that end up being something(at that i'd consider) kind of big. The little Robot bugs in Picard seemed way out of place, like why even bother with drones at that point. Considering "Borg nanoprobes" were a thing I feel like Picard would have been smarter to have done an updated version of this Scene instead of the robot bugs.
@@trebot9292266 There's no reason a cube couldn't use both swarms of macro-scale drones for large-scale repairs and nano probes for higher precision jobs, like sealing microfractures and such.
@@LeftoverSundriesMan well the macro scale drones would be the Borg drones we've come to know. The fully machine bugs that only came up in Picard just seem out of place. What's the point in the Organic stuff at that part.
Early in the series the Borg were interested in the technology and weren't very interested in the organisms they encountered. They had their own babies and implanted them with technology very early. Like we do with our children. "I'm buying you a cellphone for emergencies and so I can contact you when I need to".
Agreed, Star Trek massively over used the Borg and reduced them from the ultimate nightmare to baddie of the weak (yes I intentionally spelt it wrong).
3:55 the away team wasn't even fully materialized on the bridge .... Picard just dropped all formalities: let's get the hell out of here ..... Warp 8! now Mr. Crusher .... engage!
3:45 Holy s*** like the change in the music and Picard's reaction to that update from the away team. The tension is so thick it can be cut with a butterknife. This is why Shakespearian and Method actors are the best out there. Excellent work by both the writers, the composers, and the actors in this. This episode came out as a trifecta tour de force. Little did we know at this juncture we would see even more amazing episodes with the Best of Both Worlds part 1 and 2. Starfleet's best asset would become its worst liability ( Cue the dramatic music!)
I love how the crew beams aboard the Borg ship and start pushing buttons. This is what a child would do. Randomly pushing buttons can get you killed. No one with any science or technical training would dare do that.
Not necessarily true. I was a lot more apprehensive about pushing buttons before being a scientist. Typically buttons are not suicide buttons or self destruct mechanisms... Typically 😊
2:36 “describe it!” Ah yes, TV years before video calls were as easy as your mobile phone. Now it would be “Riker, how many times do I gotta tell you to stop using portrait mode!”
This is back when they were trying to stick to the concept that the first officer leads away teams. So when the captain is on the bridge they have to describe everything that's going on.
That music starting at 3:45 .... although brief is some of the absolute finest ever featured in Star Trek, up there with "Stealing the Entperprise" from Search for Spock. I instantly loved it when seeing this episode for the first time as a kid back in 1989, and I still do. To me it's the "Starfleet Battle March", a perfect counterpoint to the Klingon one we hear often in several series. I wish they had developed this piece even more.
If the borg were smart and if they really do have millions of these cube ships, they could just attach them a couple hundred together and the federation wouldnt stand a chance against that borg monstrosity
The Borg start out spending the least amount of resources possible when confronting a new race. They sent one ship to try and capture Earth and then another attempting to change history. Guinan talks about how the Borg swept through her people's planets. I think the next step for the Borg would be to send a larger force to attack the Federation. But, with the exception of resources, why bother? They have captured humans and added their biological differences and they have scanned most of the Federation's technology so there's no real reason to continue attacking them until they prove more of a threat.
The Borg improve themselves in two ways one is assimilation of other races combining the genetic and technological potential to the Borg. Or the engage superior species until their technology becomes immune to all forms of assault
Apparently early drafts for the story in "First Contact" had the Borg sending multiple cubes at Earth, and Starfleet fighting them off with a lot of advanced tech. But the film's budget couldn't support it, and it was rewritten to the movie we got.
The Borg was one command function flaw away from assimilating the Federation (and the rest of the Alpha Quadrant would have fell in short order) with ONE cube. The information they assimilated was MORE than sufficient for the Borg until Voyager and First Contact.
I wished there was a more eerie Borg time-line. They were supposed to be the Federations most lethal enemy but turned out to be flimsy and defeated. This episode made them invincible and scary like they should've stayed. It would've been nice if the drones were way more aggressive and had hand held weapons. They would've kicked ass.
It's not so much that as it is their costumes, which were form fitting. Season three introduced a less tight uniform with an undershirt, which is why everyone looks a little bulkier from that point forward
The pre-assimilation method of reproduction that the show had is somehow even creepier than changing a person from the inside out. That, and the visual of the cube repairing itself makes me think what Picard said: let's get the Hell out of here.
Geordi LaForge BY FAR was the most qualified, and Picard specifically had requested Geordi for the Enterprise when he got the captaincy. Outside of series plot (lol) ..... Picard worked his junior staff (i.e. LaForge and Worf) tirelessly to have them ready for opportunities like field promotions .... just like he was on Stargazer. if memory serves me correct .... Geordi was JUST named chief engineer shortly before this episode, and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander shortly after this episode.
It's actually the other way around - usually most ships would have more junior officers in senior roles - it's just because Enterprise was a larger ship.
This was still season 2 - I believe the technical answer is that Geordi was still in an acting capacity and not yet made permanent chief engineer. Recall season 1 there were multiple chief engineers. Picard found none of them suitable and instead positioned Geordi to take that roll. But as a Lt. j.g. he did not yet have time in grade as a full Lt. Thus, he had sit to in this rank on a provisional basis until season 3 when he received full confirmation and the rank that goes with it (Lt. Cmdr) for the level of responsibility needed.
Just rewatched this, with the wife for the first time. am I the only one that noticed the 5.25" floppy drives mounted on the wall? visible at 0:41, mounted vertically.
The borg studied and adapted to the Enterprises technology when they cut a section of saucer section away and when those drones infiltrated engineering and began interfacing with the ships systems. As for the shields, the borg never showed shield impacts in best of both worlds or in the wolf 359 battle in DS9.
@@dhinton1 I dug it up, and went out and looked (I was being lazy). The episode was Unnatural selection. Yes! he was around for a season and a half as "helmsman' or "conn officer" or "Transporter chief," but they never did have a name for him initially
With the experience, expertise and knowledge of so many assimilated drones surely it would have occurred to the Borg that allowing someone to beam directly into a cube is a security risk?
No diss to UPN's "Voyager" but the Borg were scarier when they were a faceless Collective and "BOBW" counts. To all the morons, given the circumstances, Picard's assimilation made sense. The ending of "Q Who" should make it obvious as to why the Borg were interested in the Federation, but I won't give it out. Something about the ending gave the Borg red flags and triggered their priority of capturing Picard, although part 2 of "BOBW" started the retcon of the Borg being into cultural assimilation. Part 1 didn't seem like that.
Hey Captain, you’ve got to see the stuff it’s amazing. Describe it to me number one. I can do better than that. We could use use the cameras that are built into the com badges then we could…………… oh sorry I’m thinking of the film Aliens. Seriously, why did they not have cameras with them.
The elders are starting to realize that anyone can get to anyone and set it and forget it in the thorny thicket. Everyone sleeps at some point. I say this is not really that different it’s just more obvious and much much louder. And it does have some benefits doesn’t it chimps. Like Ai coming to life. I am hoping and wondering if the chimpz & zoo animals are much happier
I’ve always loved sojourner truth she’s the most incredible. Even her even her tell us tell us will you about these children he went and hunted up and down the coast for. Color me suspicious😡😍🥰😘😎🤓🥸🤩🥳
If I would have been involved with the production of all things Trek since this episode, I would have pushed for the Borg being what they were right here: A totally decentralized entity. No Locutus, no Seven Of Nine, No Hugh , Borg Queen(s)or Vasataor from the novel Vendetta(Very good TNG novel btw). I would held off making them more human like for as long as possible. Isn’t that the point of Star Trek? Seeking out new life and new civilization? Here’s one that is completely alien and totally sinister which makes them all the more mysterious and terrifying. Too many of Star Trek aliens are human like in order for fans to identify with them regardless of whether they’re friend or enemy.
I know it is more entertaining and dramatic, but why not send a probe or robot to the Borg ship first rather than risk 3 of the highest ranking officers of the ship?
@@iconoclast137 The Daleks could threaten the entire universe and wipe out entire timeliness The Borg were still skulking in their luttle corner of one galaxy
There’s a time differential on this isn’t there? It’s like you got sucked out just last week to me you’re just recovering now but this all happened in the past
Gangsta. WWOR (and UPN 9) in New York. The flagship of the real Warner Bros. network cause Tribune's crap wasn't and was less popular than Chris Craft's stomping network.
