My favourite moment comes shortly after this. When Picard says : "Sleep. Sleep, Data." With three simple words, and enormous strength of will, Picard is able to communicate a means of stopping the Borg
@@qwadratix the inability to follow along is characterized by many great people in our history, if you believe it. Dastardly, benevolent and benign, make more than memes, please. We need you.
Picard to data : Unhand me Data to Picard : Ok - removes hand Picard - looks at stub- you took my hand, that was my tea drinking hand. Well fuck now I cant have my earl grey
even while under control by the Borg, Picard still managed to find a way to snap Data out of his awe-struck technological babble to let him know he had reached his ACTUAL target: Picard himself.
@@davecrupel2817 I believe so ..... and it was that. there were indicators during this episode that Picard was still conscious during his assimilation. he confirmed that he remembered ALL of it when the cube was destroyed, AND when he was on his brother's vineyard in France.
I remember reading somewhere that the reason that Picard's fate was left ambiguous at the end of Best Of Both Worlds Part 1 was that, due to contract negotiation issues, Patrick Stewart staying for another season was not a sure thing. So it'd be a chance to kill Picard off if an agreement couldn't be reached. Unsure if there's any truth to that or if it's just rumours, although it makes some sense at least...
What is causing the increased neural activity is unclear. No, it's not. it's him ... it's Picard. and Deanna would have been WELL within her rights to tell Data: and if you hadn't shut me up, Data .... I would have told you that a minute ago. lol
Yeas. No drones, no large beam emiters. Just 2 patrol ships. The worst part is earth is not even defended beyond that. With the amount of fear in this century that would be unthinkable.
Love how traveling from Saturn to Earth is treated as though it's the local bus service, taking only a few minutes at sublight speeds, while in reality it would take nearly 2 hours traveling at the speed of light.
This whole Borg thing could have been solved by an away team armed with actual firearms instead of energy weapons who's discharge can be turned can be turned with an electromagnetic field. Remember that Picard later figured that out when he used a Thompson gun to burn down those 2 Borg that followed him into the holodeck in 'First Contact'.
Yes, but the Borg would have just as quickly adapted to that as well, which Picard admits in the same movie. The actual irresistability of the Borg was toned down considerably, ironically beginning with First Contact and the introduction of a 'Borg Queen'.
@@nm2358 Picard turned off the safety's so the bullets were quite real. Plasma energy can be contained within an electromagnetic field. Kinetic energy weapons would not be affected by such forces. Simple physics.
@@johnmcdonald587 TNG: "A Fistful of Datas" Worf cobbled together a personal force-field using his combadge to stop hologram Datas from gunning him down with holographic bullets after the safety protocols had been turned off. Fore-fields in Trek can work just fine on holographic projectiles or real ones.
This cube pretty much bee lined straight to Earth and was faster than any starship in the starfleet roster including the Enterprise. The home defence fleet during peace time only consisted of around 12 ships, most of which joined up with any nearby vessels that could get to Wolf 359 in time and they made their stand there. 39 Starfleet vessels were destroyed. The smaller vessels like seen at the Mars defence grid that couldn't make it to 359 engaged as the cube passed through and were consequently destroyed.
I was pissed when he said, " DATA, primitive artificial lifeform..." If he was such a primitive artificial lifeform, why speak of his erradication? He would be no threat.
The Borg believed that the highest form of life was one that married organic and cybernetic life. As such, they did not see Data as alive at all or as necessary, since they were capable of doing what he could do as an innate part of their collective consciousness and he had no organic parts - nothing living as they defined it. The Borg would have have seen independent AI as worth assimilating, though they would have assimilated his positronic technology into their own if it could be used to improve their collective computing power. To them Data is 'primitive' in the sense that a higher lifeform would not need a computing device to assist it, since it would be already fully integrated with a higher life forms being. To the Borg, Data was an impressive example of digital calculator, but he was only a fancy calculator.
The starfleeters should've gained access to the borg's knowledge on transwarp technology, weaponry and defence once Data connected with Locutey-pie of borg like that!!!!! Not only that, they should've gained knowledge about the borg's homeworld and origin, too!!!!
"Sector 001"? That's an illogical classification for a species that exists in the Delta Quadrant. Why would machines label something so far away from their home base 001?
It's common understood that we the audience hear a translation of what is said, especially by aliens. "001" is probably what humans call it, which makes sense. So that's what we, as humans hear.
@@celebrim1 The universe has no known absolute center, and perhaps no center at all. As a result, we have to pick a relative center for reference- our home makes at least as much sense as any other candidate.
@@unlimiteddj3908 Says who? There are several instances in nearly every Star Trek series (not sure about TOS) where ships warped directly away from a planet or right up to a planet. And the Kelvin timeline throws that rule out entirely.
Commander Elizabeth Shelby, First Officer of the USS Enterprise-D under Captain William T. Riker. She was played by Elizabeth Dennehy, daughter of Brian Dennehy.
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“Processing - processing - stand by - processing - fascinating.”
Data had become a walking progress bar.
lol i ikr! for a theoreotical positronic brain to be like that!!!!1
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My favourite moment comes shortly after this. When Picard says : "Sleep. Sleep, Data." With three simple words, and enormous strength of will, Picard is able to communicate a means of stopping the Borg
and he only needed to say sleep twice for Data to catch what Picard was telling him to do.
he must be exhausted
Data could have just looked at next week's script.
@@qwadratix the inability to follow along is characterized by many great people in our history, if you believe it. Dastardly, benevolent and benign, make more than memes, please. We need you.
Picard is awesome
“‘Obsolete’ ain’t what your Momma called me in First Contact!”
“Data, I said turn off that humor subroutine!”
Lmao
LMAO
After he hacked them, the borg reevaluated how obsolete he actually was!
2:20 The mighty mars defense fleet
Not so much a shot fired...let alone a kamikaze strike!!
Picard to data : Unhand me
Data to Picard : Ok - removes hand
Picard - looks at stub- you took my hand, that was my tea drinking hand. Well fuck now I cant have my earl grey
even while under control by the Borg, Picard still managed to find a way to snap Data out of his awe-struck technological babble to let him know he had reached his ACTUAL target: Picard himself.
Is that what it was?
If so, that's one HELL of a testament to Picard's strength of mind and will!
@@davecrupel2817 I believe so ..... and it was that. there were indicators during this episode that Picard was still conscious during his assimilation. he confirmed that he remembered ALL of it when the cube was destroyed, AND when he was on his brother's vineyard in France.
@@dhinton1
That makes me wonder what would happen if the Borg were to assimilate someone of even stronger will.
4:24 Great shot of Deanna.
So this is where Elon Musk got his idea for the NEURALINK
2:20 Any RTS game where you're still trying to mine enough ore to build solarpanels, but the enemy shows up early.
3:27 And when you try to quickly build defenses
I remember reading somewhere that the reason that Picard's fate was left ambiguous at the end of Best Of Both Worlds Part 1 was that, due to contract negotiation issues, Patrick Stewart staying for another season was not a sure thing. So it'd be a chance to kill Picard off if an agreement couldn't be reached. Unsure if there's any truth to that or if it's just rumours, although it makes some sense at least...
It would make sense, but I don't think TNG would have been TNG if Stewart had not come back for season 4.
Mário Brito noo that was a thing. Not a rumour. I’m sure he has talked about it. Yep
Makes sense,
@@dhinton1 "The Enterprise will continue, with Riker as captain."
So would Shelby have stayed on as the new first officer, then, in that case?
Data is in complete control here. In command of the situation, and has provided thorough orders for all of them.
Even though the Doctor outranks him, he is in charge here.
Why am I watching clips instead of full netflix episodes?
I always wondered wtf where they thinking sending those 3 tiny ships against a cube knowing what has already been going on.
4:14 The most intense holding of hands ever put to film!
Data don't fuck around when he decides to disarm you, don't matter if you're Borg.
Back when the Bord were a legitimate and terrifying threat... I liked Voyager but they turned them into villain of the week.
Love the RC-servo on Picard's forehead :D
Data is not to be fukt with. He goes from intrigued scientist to fuk u up badass like nothing
One of the most Intense staredown standoffs in TV/Movie History. 4:13
Serious bad assery on display
Me, watching TNG: Its him Its Picard
Me, watching STP: IT'S A FAKE!
Easy now Vreenak.
Borg Picard called data primitive but he just ripped half your arm off he has ten times your strength
What is causing the increased neural activity is unclear.
No, it's not. it's him ... it's Picard.
and Deanna would have been WELL within her rights to tell Data: and if you hadn't shut me up, Data .... I would have told you that a minute ago. lol
4:10 that move was all stuntman 👌
The first couple seasons they didn't do a good job hiding stunt guys.
I always think of Riker vs Quinn in S1 conspiracy. Makes me crack up everytime.
That reaction to getting thumped in the shoulder was worthy of William Shatner himself!
I guess in the future wireless technology is obsolete. Let's hook up a cable between them!
I mean, the entire Mars perimeter constitutes just a few ships?
how often does earth get attacked, almost never.
Yeas. No drones, no large beam emiters. Just 2 patrol ships. The worst part is earth is not even defended beyond that. With the amount of fear in this century that would be unthinkable.
@@trowawayacc there were 3 ships.
@@forgetyourlife With 4 the Dominion would have surrounded already.
Those things weren't the entire defense, just all that was left. The Borg trashed the rest of the defenses off screen.
This is the point where the Borg realised they had picked the wrong Enterprise crew member.
Picard: 'Looks down at Borg outfit'
"When did I join a BDSM club?"
Ah, yes, yellow shirts in action on Security. Poor bastard is going to have his back looked at after being slammed into the floor / wall.
data holds pircard's borg arm *how obsolete am i now!!*
They could have maintained warp even within the Terran system given the circumstances. That's been done in cases of emergency.
0:33 Billy "the kid" Riker looked like he was going to beat Shelby up there, coming onto the bridge like that!!!! :(
Data my favorite character
Love how traveling from Saturn to Earth is treated as though it's the local bus service, taking only a few minutes at sublight speeds, while in reality it would take nearly 2 hours traveling at the speed of light.
It’s him!! It’s...its....👍🏿😱 GO MIKEY‼️‼️‼️😁
You know what this episode is missing? SOMETHING GODDAMN TERRIBLE HAPPENING TO MILES O'BRIEN
Jebediah Clang that was awkward.
I shouldn’t laugh, but this is making me giggle
It could have happened at 4:12, but then he was like "nah, I don't get paid enough for this"
This whole Borg thing could have been solved by an away team armed with actual firearms instead of energy weapons who's discharge can be turned can be turned with an electromagnetic field. Remember that Picard later figured that out when he used a Thompson gun to burn down those 2 Borg that followed him into the holodeck in 'First Contact'.
Yes, but the Borg would have just as quickly adapted to that as well, which Picard admits in the same movie. The actual irresistability of the Borg was toned down considerably, ironically beginning with First Contact and the introduction of a 'Borg Queen'.
Each Borg is walking around with a personal force-field, which also on TNG worked fine to repell holographic bullets when made to.
@@nm2358 Picard turned off the safety's so the bullets were quite real. Plasma energy can be contained within an electromagnetic field. Kinetic energy weapons would not be affected by such forces. Simple physics.
@@johnmcdonald587 TNG: "A Fistful of Datas"
Worf cobbled together a personal force-field using his combadge to stop hologram Datas from gunning him down with holographic bullets after the safety protocols had been turned off.
Fore-fields in Trek can work just fine on holographic projectiles or real ones.
It took more bullets to take down the second one, showing that they were already adapting
Imagine if 7of9 was on that cube, but secretly jetisoned with the queen via the sphere !
I know that TNG was more of a family-style utopia .... but I would have liked to seen Shelby stay beyond the season cliffhanger.
Where is home defense fleet ? Or again Enterprise is "the only ship in range" ?
"Where is home defense fleet?"
In pieces in the Wolf 359 System thanks to very same cube we see here.
This cube pretty much bee lined straight to Earth and was faster than any starship in the starfleet roster including the Enterprise. The home defence fleet during peace time only consisted of around 12 ships, most of which joined up with any nearby vessels that could get to Wolf 359 in time and they made their stand there. 39 Starfleet vessels were destroyed. The smaller vessels like seen at the Mars defence grid that couldn't make it to 359 engaged as the cube passed through and were consequently destroyed.
The Federation was cocky. THey thought for a long time nothing could touch Earth. Well, the Borg and the Breen showed them otherwise.
Those three Mars vessels that got instant KO'ed. Spacedock/Star Base 1 wouldnt stand a chance in that era.
I was pissed when he said, " DATA, primitive artificial lifeform..." If he was such a primitive artificial lifeform, why speak of his erradication? He would be no threat.
@Chet Carson well then it's time to correct that minor oversight!!😆😆
The Borg believed that the highest form of life was one that married organic and cybernetic life. As such, they did not see Data as alive at all or as necessary, since they were capable of doing what he could do as an innate part of their collective consciousness and he had no organic parts - nothing living as they defined it. The Borg would have have seen independent AI as worth assimilating, though they would have assimilated his positronic technology into their own if it could be used to improve their collective computing power. To them Data is 'primitive' in the sense that a higher lifeform would not need a computing device to assist it, since it would be already fully integrated with a higher life forms being. To the Borg, Data was an impressive example of digital calculator, but he was only a fancy calculator.
The starfleeters should've gained access to the borg's knowledge on transwarp technology, weaponry and defence once Data connected with Locutey-pie of borg like that!!!!! Not only that, they should've gained knowledge about the borg's homeworld and origin, too!!!!
The mars defense perimeter is defended by three little birds. Nice.
Datas like with all do respect captain i must say my house bitch. Lol
Now, it's a good job that Borgs have switches on their necks that turns off all functions except being led passively to the Brig.
"Sector 001"? That's an illogical classification for a species that exists in the Delta Quadrant. Why would machines label something so far away from their home base 001?
It's common understood that we the audience hear a translation of what is said, especially by aliens. "001" is probably what humans call it, which makes sense. So that's what we, as humans hear.
Why were the Borg even bothering with English?
It's not what the Borg call it; it's what terrans call it. As is typical of humanity, they described the universe as being centered on the Earth.
@@celebrim1 The universe has no known absolute center, and perhaps no center at all. As a result, we have to pick a relative center for reference- our home makes at least as much sense as any other candidate.
mars defense perimeter: 3 tiny metal tubes. Drones maybe? Thats not even worth reporting
"Defence perimeter" that of three ships that did nothing?
Why does Picard have to be practically naked when they do this? Couldn't they have done this with his borg-onesie on?
FANSERVICE
@@nm2358 I guess that makes sense. I'll buy it. :)
It's him. It's Picard. The evil little man wants to destroy Star Trek.
2.15 2.40 so many times enterprise staff drawing warped sized salariees to stand around and do nothing but look pretty
4:10 Hit to the shoulder = Falls back
:D
The Mars Defense Perimeter is a joke.
Borg: (Pew! Pew! Pew!) 😁🤣
First time I saw this I was like, why are you slowing down now? Keep your foot on the gas until you're right on Earths doorstep...
Warp is a no no within a solar system.
@@unlimiteddj3908 Says who? There are several instances in nearly every Star Trek series (not sure about TOS) where ships warped directly away from a planet or right up to a planet. And the Kelvin timeline throws that rule out entirely.
Inconsistancies i guess.
Might shoulda removed that arm thingy before you started.
Yeah, but it's more dramatic with that arm wrestling scene. That was the highlight of the clip.
my boi obrian
The Borg has broken the Mars defense system....which consists of three tiny shuttle-like ships....
1:25
The lighting on her body is the true hero.
It is almost like it highlights the areas you want.
Is there a link to the part where Picard becomes human/regains consciousness?
Look up "Almost Human"
Why didn’t they remove the arm in the first place?!
You end it there???@#$%& what the hell??????????
IKR!!!???
Mars Defence Fleet. 3 ships crewed entirely by redshirts.
Not Picard, Locutus.
The Borg remind me of Communists, Socialists.
Did Democrats put cybernetic implants in you again? 🙄
@@laz7354 not yet but Elon and Swaab are working on it and very proudly doing so.
That's because you're a moron.
Who's the blonde chick in tha Captain chair?
Commander Elizabeth Shelby, First Officer of the USS Enterprise-D under Captain William T. Riker. She was played by Elizabeth Dennehy, daughter of Brian Dennehy.
the mars defense permimeter...was made of 3 ships? when there are ship yards full fo ships XD
Those weren't the entire defense, just all that was left. The Borg trashed the real Mars defense force off screen
Why do they always stop 20 minutes before reaching their target to travel at impulse power.
Dropping out of warp early lets you scout and avoid ambushes around the target
even though data does not have emotions the look in his eyes said ive had enough of your bullshit
Hihihihi
I mean it looks like anyone could have broken through the mars defense perimeter Doesn’t look that hard
Those 3 tiny ships weren't the entire Mars Defense, they were just all that were left after the Borg smashed through most of it off screen
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Good grief the Borg were completely boring as bad guys.