I love the nuance of Patrick Stewart’s acting here. He remains steely and composed outwardly but gives subtle hints as to the terror he’s feeling inside. Sort of like a general leading his troops to certain death in battle.
The beauty of this scene isn't just in the delivery of the lines, or the epic music... it's also the monolithic Cube filling the screen behind Picard. Perfect in every way.
Absolutely! Even the first 20 seconds of this scene, I can feel being on that bridge, yellow alert, and this palpable sense of uneasiness descending on the crew, wondering what is about to come next.
Cjl99, And at the back of the crews mind whispering is that voice that tells you what they are and how this will end “you can’t fight them you can’t escape them, they will destroy every ship we send, every defense we muster will fall, they will wipe the Federation of life, they are death”
@@paladinboyd1228 Worse. They'll strip that life of its individuality, to be forever held in a state of unlife, subservient to the hive mind...inflicting the same horror to others that was inflicted to it.
0:49 seconds, as soon as that image shifts and you hear the choir-like music kick in.......really fucking eerie! I remember back then the Borg were feared! As viewers, you DID fear them!
It was short-sighted for the producers to get rid of him soon after this episode. They said his scores were becoming too complex. The fans loved the quality of his work, but the suits prevailed.
It was Rick Berman. He believed in background music that you don't notice is there. Jones hung on a while after the Roddenberry era ended, but it was inevitable that he'd be canned. You may have noticed that all series to come after TNG also had the same bland music.
Oh man, when I first saw this episode, a chill went up my spine when I saw the cube. I had just seen Q who and knew how hopeless it was to fight the Borg. But unlike before, Q wasn't there to snap his fingers and teleport the Enterprise away. This is without a doubt the greatest Star Trek episode of all time. Never before have my emotions been so jarred by a television show. If anyone watching this clip or reading my comment hasn't seen it, SEE IT.
Spartan111 Yup. I was 12 or 13 when this aired. For over a year, the knowledge that "The Borg will be coming" had been hanging over the series. This was the moment when the other shoe finally dropped. (Chills!) I can't wait to show this episode to my son. He's only 5, so I'm going to wait a while longer until he can really process the heaviness of this episode. Maybe when he's 9 or 10.
I fully agree with you. After I watched the first (cliffhanger) episode I thought it would be the end of Jean Luc. I was in total shock too; this episode is truly the greatest episode _ever_ !!!! :-) For over a year there was a shadow hanging over the series because we all knew The Borg were coming; this particular moment is epic....they have arrived! BEST TV series _ever_ :-)
I remember when the episode first came out and we had to wait a whole year or at least a few months for part two right after riker said "Fire" as a kid it was all I thought about during those months.
I remember having to wait three whole months to see the conclusion of this. That's a long time for a kid. I practically wished my whole summer away just to see the conclusion of a damn television show. Truly one of the best television shows ever.
This and All Good Things are perhaps the finest episodes of TNG. In particular, I love the music and the tension. Stewart does an excellent job of a captain facing a superior foe but retaining his composure.
The tension in this scene! The way Picard is pacing at the beginning and he almost looks tired or defeated already. The music is so eerie and then we see the cube and it's epic! Sooooo good for it's time.
There are very few moments in trek where you go 'oh shit'. This was number 1 on that list. The moment Picard uttered those infamous words you knew things would never be the same again. Very few moments in fiction let alone just Star Trek resonate so strongly as this scene did.
Yup!! That and when the 12 borg cubes, flew past thr voyager, one stopping scanning the voyager, and proceeding. First time i saw it, i was like "well there dead" lol
Jon Harper I agree completely. The pre-Hugh, pre-First Contact Borg were way scarier. But I can also see why subsequent writers had to make SOME changes to them. As they were introduced, they were this ancient, unstoppable, implacable force of Death. That's a difficult antagonist to work into one story, let alone a series of them. :)
@@jonharper4478 Did the Borg get weaker due to losing their best cubes or something? Like only the most badass Borg were on the frontier but not the 'heartlands' of the Alpha Quadrant?
the borg have to be the most fearsome villain ever. I mean it all seems dumbed down now all these years later but at the time, this music, the resistance is futile, it was brilliantly chilling, the whole atmosphere of fear. It didn't need to do anything grotesque or disgusting.
Amusingly enough, Picard and Data's solution, sending a signal through Locutus tricking the Borg into overloading and self-destructing, isn't too far off from Kirk's habit of talking computers into destroying themselves. Charisma: 100
He would have interrogated them to the point where they suffer an existential crisis and self destruct. Failing that, he would have karate chopped them in the shoulder.
Kirk would have karate chopped his way through the male drones then seduced the borg queen and all the female drones and by the time he left there would be a lot more baby drones on the way and he probably would have a nanite based std
I love the soundtrack for this episode. I don't know why, but the very beginning of this clip was probably the first time that the Enterprise felt completely isolated in space. It's just them and the endless expanse of space, knowing that the Borg cube is out there. Then the tension as they detect the cube, followed by the pure dread knowing that it really is the borg, and that they are simply out of time.
Nah, he didnt face his fear. He faced the Borg something he knew was out of their league to stop alone. He embraced being a Starfleet Officer to the fullest that day. He bought the fleet time to actualy get SOMEWHAT ready for Wolf 359 althou we know how that went. MAYBE this lose of ships propelled them to prepare more and THUS could actualy WIN the Dominion war at all. Without them refits and new shipclasses like the akira they would have ben toast. Its just sad that they could have had them earlier when conducting more joint fleet ops with the klingons..
I watched this episode for the first time last night. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Waiting a day or two before I watch part 2 to let it sink in.
Fearless 512, “If I told you once I told you a thousand times, don’t provoke the Borg!” If the Q don’t fear them then explain that line. The Borg by Q’s own admission are relentless they will never stop they will wear down your defences and they will assimilate you. Nothing can stop them.
Being completely honest I'm a little late to the TNG party. I only watched the entire show for the first time earlier this year during lockdown from Covid19 and it's one of the greatest pieces of television I've ever seen. Even 26 years after the show finished now I had absolute chills watching this moment.
@sethmacfarlane was quoted as saying that he literally wore out his VHS tape of the cliffhanger of BOBW part 1 while waiting for part 2 after the summer. That guy knows what's up.
this was a utterly pant shitting moment. the last time the crew of the enterprise fought the borg, they barely escaped with their lives and only because Q saved them. now they face them, alone with no help.
For me, this is a defining moment for Star Trek. Not only did the series demonstrate how powerful the Borg were, but it made the federation realize just how vulnerable they were when the Borg came. In comparison to the Borg, fighting the Klingons or Romulans was like a walk in the park. Their weapons were useless against them and the engagement at Wolf 359 between the Borg and the Federation demonstrated that. I may be stating the obvious here, but the Borg could have easily destroyed the federation in a short amount of time.
The first half of that 2-part episode was probably the best of the entire series. Movie quality rather than a tv show. As big a cliffhanger as possible.
Whenever you hear a chorus in the episode soundtrack, you can be sure that the good guys are about to have their asses handed to them. The summer of '90 was a tough one for me. 😳😲😵😨😱
Here's a thing. When Worf hails another ship, he NEVER gives the other ship time to respond, before saying "no response, sir". In this clip, Worf hails the other ship at 24 seconds in. At 26 seconds, he says there's no response. A response to a hail would always be a manual thing... in other words, not an automated response...so when hailing anyone, they should be given time to respond. It's the equivalent of calling someone on the phone and after one ring, hanging up because they aint picked up.
First time in a while I've seen this clip. And after "Magnify" I was thinking - what a genius bit of visual composition to have the cube turned so that one edge is coming straight forward. Leaving half of the cube in utter blackness (because space - and not much self-lighting on the Borg ship). And not only that - coming "edge on" is like it's coming at you - like a KNIFE - despite it being a cube. Not only does this amplify the whole bit about the Borg not playing by "the rules" of starships in Star Trek - in other words, unlike every other ship that seems to by chance happen to wind up in the same orientation and where you can easily discern a top, bottom, left, right, forward and rear - the Borg has NONE of that. It's just coming at the Enterprise in whatever orientation it happened to be in when they spotted them. (If the effects artists had had even more guts - they could've turned the cube so that not only an edge - but a CORNER of the cube was what was leading! And it STILL would've worked!) And the combination of the music, the acting, and the choice of visual effects all contribute to that monumental feeling of DREAD. The Borg don't care. The Borg don't play. And we are so outclassed...
I honestly dont see kirk and co winning, even the enterprise-D barley survived its first encounter, if Q diddnt send them back, they would of been assimilated, then earth
tragic how the Borg would decay from this unstoppable force of nature to powerless mooks over course of the series.. the Borg should of been the ultimate enemy of Trek and left as such.
Story time kids! So I was playing Star Wars:Empire At War Forces of Corruption with the Absolute Corruption Mod with a random music playlist in the background, and playing as the Rebellion in a Rebellion vs. Empire only galactic conquest. The Empire made the Death Star, so naturally I gathered my whole fleet since the Death Star was escorted by the Eclipse, a Super Star Destroyer, and all sorts of map filling fighter and bomber spawning nasties. Their first target was, fittingly, Endor. So my whole fleet of expanded universe big stuff met up with my Level 5 space station. Of course, this is the thing on my playlist that hast to start playing. The moment that the announcer said "The Death Star is in range" was almost dead on with the musical que for the Borg ship being in range. Not the most encouraging moment in that game for me.
@@paladinboyd1228 I know the episode and understand your reference but I dont think the energy coming out of the deflector would have near the power of the Yamato's Wave Motion Gun.... Remember this,is the same gun that obliterated a floating continent
We have engaged the Borg. Wel'll let you know later whether it ill be a white wedding or not, dependign on whether we can keep Riker and Data away from the Queen.
I love the nuance of Patrick Stewart’s acting here. He remains steely and composed outwardly but gives subtle hints as to the terror he’s feeling inside. Sort of like a general leading his troops to certain death in battle.
It's even more apparent later when he's talking to Guinan,
"We... may yet prevail..." So good, and conveys the fear and desperate hope so well.
His pacing definitely gives that feeling.
No matter how many times I watch this, the musical cue after “Magnify” gives me goosebumps.
It's so weird and unworldly. And perfect for the moment when shit got real.
Just worf saying, "Sir, the vessel has already changed course to intercept us." God this was a masterpiece.
And to think that they dumped Ron Jones as composer at the end of season 4 because they wanted the score to be ‘less dramatic’. Madness.
good music does that.
@@andrewm3210 Not just the otherworldly aspect... Its the way it conveyed 'dread'. You just knew... 'something very bad is coming'...
One of the most unforgettable Star Trek Captain quotes ever:
“We have engaged the Borg.”
You know something is wrong when Picard is nervous and is walking around at the bridge. Brilliant scene.
Objects on viewscreen may be more pants-shittingly terrifying than they appear.
The beauty of this scene isn't just in the delivery of the lines, or the epic music... it's also the monolithic Cube filling the screen behind Picard. Perfect in every way.
Look closely and you'll see how Wes and even Data stop what they're doing to look at that cube getting closer and closer … and closer.
Even the way it doesn't stay static is chilling. It's full-screen, and then keeps getting bigger.
This was the exact moment when The Next Generation became better than the original series.
I agree....this moment was the turning point....what a cast!
I still love it!
FomorViceroy, And better than star wars.
This comment nailed it. It was at this moment it became better. 👍🏿
encounter at farpoint was better than any episode that TOS had, a little hard to digest for a first episode
The viewership agreed
This is the definition of "tension." This scene gave me chills 25 years ago and still does today!
I thought I was the only one who got chills down the spine...good to know.
Absolutely! Even the first 20 seconds of this scene, I can feel being on that bridge, yellow alert, and this palpable sense of uneasiness descending on the crew, wondering what is about to come next.
Cjl99, And at the back of the crews mind whispering is that voice that tells you what they are and how this will end “you can’t fight them you can’t escape them, they will destroy every ship we send, every defense we muster will fall, they will wipe the Federation of life, they are death”
Another tension moment MR.WORF FIRE...................TO BE CONTINUED
@@paladinboyd1228 Worse. They'll strip that life of its individuality, to be forever held in a state of unlife, subservient to the hive mind...inflicting the same horror to others that was inflicted to it.
0:49 seconds, as soon as that image shifts and you hear the choir-like music kick in.......really fucking eerie! I remember back then the Borg were feared! As viewers, you DID fear them!
Yeah it’s pretty awesome ... one of the best TNG moments ever.
The Borg theme by Ron Jones is Epic
It was short-sighted for the producers to get rid of him soon after this episode. They said his scores were becoming too complex. The fans loved the quality of his work, but the suits prevailed.
Yes, the mix of the real instruments of the orchestra and the synthesized voices was chilling, truly, the best of both worlds...
It was Rick Berman. He believed in background music that you don't notice is there. Jones hung on a while after the Roddenberry era ended, but it was inevitable that he'd be canned. You may have noticed that all series to come after TNG also had the same bland music.
An actual quote from Berman.
"Does your music have to be so expressive?!"
WHAT.
I love the Roland D-50 🥰
Oh man, when I first saw this episode, a chill went up my spine when I saw the cube. I had just seen Q who and knew how hopeless it was to fight the Borg. But unlike before, Q wasn't there to snap his fingers and teleport the Enterprise away. This is without a doubt the greatest Star Trek episode of all time. Never before have my emotions been so jarred by a television show. If anyone watching this clip or reading my comment hasn't seen it, SEE IT.
indeed this was the most bone chilling moment of the series! LOVED IT!
Spartan111 Yup. I was 12 or 13 when this aired. For over a year, the knowledge that "The Borg will be coming" had been hanging over the series. This was the moment when the other shoe finally dropped. (Chills!)
I can't wait to show this episode to my son. He's only 5, so I'm going to wait a while longer until he can really process the heaviness of this episode. Maybe when he's 9 or 10.
I fully agree with you. After I watched the first (cliffhanger) episode I thought it would be the end of Jean Luc.
I was in total shock too; this episode is truly the greatest episode _ever_ !!!! :-)
For over a year there was a shadow hanging over the series because we all knew The Borg were coming; this particular moment is epic....they have arrived!
BEST TV series _ever_ :-)
Steven Albert Hume You are right, I feel it damaged and changed Jean Luc forever!!!
I remember when the episode first came out and we had to wait a whole year or at least a few months for part two right after riker said "Fire" as a kid it was all I thought about during those months.
I remember having to wait three whole months to see the conclusion of this. That's a long time for a kid. I practically wished my whole summer away just to see the conclusion of a damn television show. Truly one of the best television shows ever.
I was the same way. Ended on a cliffhanger and the ENTIRE summer I was wondering what would happen.
00:46 UNMAGNIFY!!!!!! UNMAGNIFY!!!!!!!
LOL
hahaha good one. your comment cracked me up a whole 7 years after you wrote it :)
This and All Good Things are perhaps the finest episodes of TNG. In particular, I love the music and the tension. Stewart does an excellent job of a captain facing a superior foe but retaining his composure.
The Borg as they were intended...a force of nature where mere survival was victory.
The background music is so perfect
Agreed
You can feel the tension on the bridge, awesome acting
The music, The tension and suspence, feeling of dread before contact with the Borg, everything is amazing in this scene !
They don't make them like this anymore.
what a perfect scene. perfect music. perfect acting...
This episode had the Borg absolutely terrifying...and that MUSIC, this was television at it's best.
The moment TNG truly eclipsed TOS. And the moment I shat myself
The tension in this scene! The way Picard is pacing at the beginning and he almost looks tired or defeated already. The music is so eerie and then we see the cube and it's epic! Sooooo good for it's time.
You can FEEL the DREAD in his voice when he quietly says…”Magnify.”
Ron Jones really brought a sense of tense fear to this scene we wouldn't have gotten in later seasons. That man was simply incredible.
I beg to differ, "Chain of Command" was creepy as Hell.
There are very few moments in trek where you go 'oh shit'. This was number 1 on that list. The moment Picard uttered those infamous words you knew things would never be the same again. Very few moments in fiction let alone just Star Trek resonate so strongly as this scene did.
Yup!! That and when the 12 borg cubes, flew past thr voyager, one stopping scanning the voyager, and proceeding. First time i saw it, i was like "well there dead" lol
Zeina107 Not really. Buy that time the Borg had been kinda nerfed by then. They weren't quite the boogymen they once were.
Thats very true, the first version of the borg should of assimilated the earth
Jon Harper I agree completely. The pre-Hugh, pre-First Contact Borg were way scarier. But I can also see why subsequent writers had to make SOME changes to them. As they were introduced, they were this ancient, unstoppable, implacable force of Death. That's a difficult antagonist to work into one story, let alone a series of them. :)
@@jonharper4478 Did the Borg get weaker due to losing their best cubes or something? Like only the most badass Borg were on the frontier but not the 'heartlands' of the Alpha Quadrant?
1:06 Picard looks really heroic there
the borg have to be the most fearsome villain ever. I mean it all seems dumbed down now all these years later but at the time, this music, the resistance is futile, it was brilliantly chilling, the whole atmosphere of fear. It didn't need to do anything grotesque or disgusting.
The pre Voyager Borg were.
what makes it really terrifying is that there is absolutely no proof they aren't real, no way whatsoever to categorically deny their existence
When the BORG were still an embodiment of terror.
"We have engaged the Borg."
Another way of saying "we are dead men walking."
“Mr. Worf, dispatch a subspace message to Admiral Hanson. We have engaged the Borg.”
Tell them, we are boned.
Denis Gauthier, Picard: Q you know that favour you owe me? I’m calling it, now!
This scene STILL gives me the chills...
The music still puts chills on me.
A chilling moment in the series.. love the time indexes you chose..fits perfectly...to send a chill down the spine.
The look on Picard's face carries the entire scene.
This moment was a defining moment of the franchise. Chills every time the music hits and the line "we have engaged the borg."
Somehow the Star Trek team made a box scary
by far the most ominus moment in star trek history... imagine having to engage a enemy with no hope... I wonder how kirk would have handled the borg
He would have called out for his brown pants! ;-)
Amusingly enough, Picard and Data's solution, sending a signal through Locutus tricking the Borg into overloading and self-destructing, isn't too far off from Kirk's habit of talking computers into destroying themselves.
Charisma: 100
He would have interrogated them to the point where they suffer an existential crisis and self destruct. Failing that, he would have karate chopped them in the shoulder.
Kirk would have karate chopped his way through the male drones then seduced the borg queen and all the female drones and by the time he left there would be a lot more baby drones on the way and he probably would have a nanite based std
@@jimsparro McCoy: Goddamit Jim what have you been up to?
Borg episodes always frightened me
Ron Jones was the 'hidden' star of early TNG. His music was excellent.
The music says it all
most intense moment in star trek ever.
Will always love this crew, its great to see Picard again and I can't wait to see the enterprise E or F
I love the soundtrack for this episode. I don't know why, but the very beginning of this clip was probably the first time that the Enterprise felt completely isolated in space. It's just them and the endless expanse of space, knowing that the Borg cube is out there. Then the tension as they detect the cube, followed by the pure dread knowing that it really is the borg, and that they are simply out of time.
Facing your fear, great scene.
Nah, he didnt face his fear. He faced the Borg something he knew was out of their league to stop alone. He embraced being a Starfleet Officer to the fullest that day. He bought the fleet time to actualy get SOMEWHAT ready for Wolf 359 althou we know how that went. MAYBE this lose of ships propelled them to prepare more and THUS could actualy WIN the Dominion war at all. Without them refits and new shipclasses like the akira they would have ben toast. Its just sad that they could have had them earlier when conducting more joint fleet ops with the klingons..
and then they destroyed 39 starships and killed 11,000 starfleet officers.
Or as we now know killed X number of starfleet officers and assimilated X number of starfleet officers
I watched this episode for the first time last night. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Waiting a day or two before I watch part 2 to let it sink in.
The music in this scene was perfect for building that tension
The music sure does increase the intensity of the scene
Still sends chills down my spine. Bit more than, "Contact starfleet, we've engaged the Klingons". Doesn't quite have the same tension. ;-)
Jamie House, Ah Klingons just punch out the leader and they’ll back off.
The borg on the other hand even the Q fear them.
@@paladinboyd1228 The Q don't fear them, the borg can't do anything to them. They just know how dangerous the borg is.
Fearless 512, “If I told you once I told you a thousand times, don’t provoke the Borg!” If the Q don’t fear them then explain that line.
The Borg by Q’s own admission are relentless they will never stop they will wear down your defences and they will assimilate you. Nothing can stop them.
@@paladinboyd1228 Yeah don't provoke them because then the borg can cause hell for others. The Q can't be harmed by the borg.
Fearless 512, Given it’s the Borg the more encounters with the Q they have the more likely it is they will start trying to assimilate them.
This is the Borg when they were scary. They eventually got nerfed and part of the drama of engaging them did not have the same impact.
Good for him, I'm glad he found someone.
The ultimate pants-to-be-darkened moment in TV history!
So epic. so powerful. so beautiful........so Borg
Back when the Borg were a menace that created apprehension and fear.
Being completely honest I'm a little late to the TNG party. I only watched the entire show for the first time earlier this year during lockdown from Covid19 and it's one of the greatest pieces of television I've ever seen. Even 26 years after the show finished now I had absolute chills watching this moment.
go give voyager and enterprise a try!
They should never have given the Borg shields, their subspace adaption field was so unique and suited them perfectly.
Now this is star trek the borg the most terrifying enemy the federation has faced before voyager ruined them
I like the little look Data and the helmsman (Wesley?) give each other at the end, showing they are about to fight for their lives.
0:28 "Aye, sir" from Conn acknowledging Picard's order.
Sounds like Wesley Crusher's voice.
In a few short hours, Picard's life would change forever.
And had they stuck with the original pt2 script it would have changed severely thanks to the fact it was ended
@sethmacfarlane was quoted as saying that he literally wore out his VHS tape of the cliffhanger of BOBW part 1 while waiting for part 2 after the summer. That guy knows what's up.
I miss good TV.
this was a utterly pant shitting moment. the last time the crew of the enterprise fought the borg, they barely escaped with their lives and only because Q saved them.
now they face them, alone with no help.
For me, this is a defining moment for Star Trek. Not only did the series demonstrate how powerful the Borg were, but it made the federation realize just how vulnerable they were when the Borg came. In comparison to the Borg, fighting the Klingons or Romulans was like a walk in the park. Their weapons were useless against them and the engagement at Wolf 359 between the Borg and the Federation demonstrated that. I may be stating the obvious here, but the Borg could have easily destroyed the federation in a short amount of time.
The first half of that 2-part episode was probably the best of the entire series. Movie quality rather than a tv show. As big a cliffhanger as possible.
Awe, that’s cute! They had been seeing each other for quite a while- so happy for them!
The music in this sequence is pure brilliance. So is the acting.
My first thought was crap, Q isn't here to save them this time.
I love the bit at the beginning, where Picard just paces as they catch up to the cube. You can only imagine what is going through his mind.
If that scene doesn't give you chills... give up on Star Trek
Whenever you hear a chorus in the episode soundtrack, you can be sure that the good guys are about to have their asses handed to them. The summer of '90 was a tough one for me. 😳😲😵😨😱
The way the music stabs on the viewscreen magnification is magnificent.
I love how the music is synced up with the screen magnify.
Here's a thing. When Worf hails another ship, he NEVER gives the other ship time to respond, before saying "no response, sir". In this clip, Worf hails the other ship at 24 seconds in. At 26 seconds, he says there's no response. A response to a hail would always be a manual thing... in other words, not an automated response...so when hailing anyone, they should be given time to respond. It's the equivalent of calling someone on the phone and after one ring, hanging up because they aint picked up.
Picard: We have engaged the Borg.
(Borg cube gets closer on the screen.)
Ensign: Quick, turn the screen off!!
"The vessl has already changed course to intercept us"
First time in a while I've seen this clip. And after "Magnify" I was thinking - what a genius bit of visual composition to have the cube turned so that one edge is coming straight forward. Leaving half of the cube in utter blackness (because space - and not much self-lighting on the Borg ship). And not only that - coming "edge on" is like it's coming at you - like a KNIFE - despite it being a cube.
Not only does this amplify the whole bit about the Borg not playing by "the rules" of starships in Star Trek - in other words, unlike every other ship that seems to by chance happen to wind up in the same orientation and where you can easily discern a top, bottom, left, right, forward and rear - the Borg has NONE of that. It's just coming at the Enterprise in whatever orientation it happened to be in when they spotted them. (If the effects artists had had even more guts - they could've turned the cube so that not only an edge - but a CORNER of the cube was what was leading! And it STILL would've worked!)
And the combination of the music, the acting, and the choice of visual effects all contribute to that monumental feeling of DREAD.
The Borg don't care. The Borg don't play. And we are so outclassed...
He has GOT to say those words in the new Picard series !
This was when star trek became scary...
The return of the borg and a great cliffhanger ending
With any doubt, Captain Picard at his best!
Ah back when the Borg were scary.
I could see a starfleet officer pissing in their pants after seeing the borg cube on screen
Dude, the next movie has to have Kirk and co against the Borg.
I honestly dont see kirk and co winning, even the enterprise-D barley survived its first encounter, if Q diddnt send them back, they would of been assimilated, then earth
RandyPantheGoatBoy Don't you thin that maybe the Borg have been used as villains a little too much? Have you watched Voyager?
+HawkGTboy I agree. The Borg were much better as the unstoppable yet distant threat rather than just the Elite Mooks of the Delta Quadrant.
tragic how the Borg would decay from this unstoppable force of nature to powerless mooks over course of the series.. the Borg should of been the ultimate enemy of Trek and left as such.
theres a two part comic book, Doctor Who (11th Doctor)/ The Next Generation cross over where the Cybermen and Borg team up with each other
Previously on Yugioh.
Still gives me goosebumps
Story time kids! So I was playing Star Wars:Empire At War Forces of Corruption with the Absolute Corruption Mod with a random music playlist in the background, and playing as the Rebellion in a Rebellion vs. Empire only galactic conquest. The Empire made the Death Star, so naturally I gathered my whole fleet since the Death Star was escorted by the Eclipse, a Super Star Destroyer, and all sorts of map filling fighter and bomber spawning nasties. Their first target was, fittingly, Endor. So my whole fleet of expanded universe big stuff met up with my Level 5 space station. Of course, this is the thing on my playlist that hast to start playing. The moment that the announcer said "The Death Star is in range" was almost dead on with the musical que for the Borg ship being in range. Not the most encouraging moment in that game for me.
What a stunning coincidence.
That's no moon, it's a Borg Sphere!
Your comparisons to SW have no place here, young Padiwan.
That's fuckin awesome. Omg.
The Borg HAVE improved themselves. The ships have gone from matt paintings to a full model.
Robert Currie, Oh no it’s in proper 3D!
If only the Enterprise had a Wave Motion Gun they could have obliterated that Borg ship in one shot
Chaos MCB, They did it was useless against them.
@@paladinboyd1228 when? Never seen it before,enlighten me
Chaos MCB, Part two of this episode, they use the main deflector. I should point out that I was using knowledge of the trope for my previous comment.
@@paladinboyd1228 I know the episode and understand your reference but I dont think the energy coming out of the deflector would have near the power of the Yamato's Wave Motion Gun.... Remember this,is the same gun that obliterated a floating continent
Chaos MCB, Ah, I was making reference to the trope, so apologies for the mix up.
The fiercest foe in starfleet history.
I with them a long and prosperous life together after their engagement.
See there was no ridiclous glare or over top cgi
Just quality acting and little music
'EPIC'!!!!
Interesting how they booted the ship’s counselor off the bridge during a crisis to make room for Shelby.
BigNoseDoggie, Well she was useless.
Well since they were expecting Shelby to be their next first officer they needed to give her screen time here
0:40 You can Actually Hear Some of the Terror Picard was Feeling. How much he was Hoping that it wasn't the Borg they were Encountering.
"Processing...processing..."
This was new in scifi, the borg is the best villian
0:48
The sound of the shit hitting the fan.
We have engaged the Borg. Wel'll let you know later whether it ill be a white wedding or not, dependign on whether we can keep Riker and Data away from the Queen.