Star Trek: The Best of Both Worlds, First Battle

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Plot
The Enterprise arrives at the New Providence colony at the edge of Federation space in response to a distress call from the colony. Beaming down, the away team find that the entire colony has been removed and nothing remains except a crater, a situation which the crew had encountered previously when investigating the disappearance of outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. In response Starfleet sends Admiral Hanson from Starfleet Tactical, accompanied by Lt. Commander Shelby, a Federation tactician and expert on the Borg, to join the investigation. Shelby is found to be highly ambitious. After their introduction in Picard's ready room, Commander Riker escorts Shelby to her quarters. While in the turbolift, she remarks that she wants Riker's job, since she heard Riker was leaving for his own command.

Shelbys bold actions lead to a confrontation with Riker, and matters are complicated further for Riker when Picard informs him that he knew that Riker had actually turned down a command for the third time, and echoed Admiral Hansons opinion that Riker was "hurting his career by staying put." This causes Riker to have a sit-down with Troi and re-evaluate his decisions.

An electromagnetic signature, a "Borg footprint", is found on the colony confirming that the colony was razed by a Borg cube. When Admiral Hanson, having returned to Starfleet to organize a defense, sends a message informing the Enterprise of a distress call from the USS Lalo, reporting that it had encountered a vessel described as "cube-shaped," Picard orders Data to set a course. Hanson informs them that they are sending every available starship but that the nearest help is at least a week away.

En route to the Lalo's last known position the Enterprise encounters the Borg cube. The Borg demand that Captain Picard personally surrender himself to them, which the crew find unusual in that, with the Federation's current knowledge of the Borg, they are only interested in technology and not individuals. When Picard refuses to surrender the Borg grab the ship in a tractor beam and start cutting into the hull. Initially the Enterprise's weapons have no effect on the cube, but when Shelby suggests adjusting the ships phasers to a higher 'EM' band they are able to destroy the tractor beam. The Enterprise escapes and takes refuge in a sensor-blinding nebula to effect repairs. Picard reasons that while the Borg are looking for them "they won't hurt anyone else."

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[ShadowSonic2]

@terrywest111 If the Borg attack never happened, Starfleet never would have developed the newer warships seen in DS9 and been totally unprepared for the Dominion only a few years later. Q was helping them prepare for an inevitable war by exposing them to the Borg.

[masere]

@Rhysesmum And they come out of the nebula the same way they went in, right past the waiting cube. Had they left the opposite end, the Borg wouldn't have known!

[AlexusDivine]

Awesome

[BrommaHerman]

@ShadowSonic2 In a Star Trek vs Star Wars story (A very good one at that), Q admits it was his purpose in the first place. He introduces the Federation to the Empire for the same reason.

I would not be suprised to see it originating in many places, since the theory is correct and logical.

[ShadowSonic2]

@BrommaHerman Really? I picked it up from Spacebattles and Trekbbs...

[BrommaHerman]

@ShadowSonic2 Somebody spent time on StarDestroyer . net where the theory was proposed ;-) 

[danzybananzy]

this was one of my favourite episodes (:

[saquist]

@guitargold77

Who cares....

It was a mediocre film. It won't be remembered for anything other than by horny Trekkies.

[Restayvien]

@funkervogt47 Don't forget the deflector dish ^^

[funkervogt47]

There are almost no problems in Star Trek that can't be solved by

1) randomizing the modulation of the shields or phasers

2) reversing the polarity of the shields

3) rerouting power through the EPS conduits

4) pulling out a wall panel by one of the doors and rearranging the little cards (are these things fuse boxes?)

[IDF1987]

I'd take the show a lot more seriously if that fucking kid Mary Sue wasn't at the helm. Fuck Wesley Crusher, worst character in Star Trek history.