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Do the Borg not wonder why everybody hates them?
The Borg tend to justify their actions by claiming that they are "improving" species, bringing them closer to perfection. They are bringing order to chaos. Basically they reckon they're the good guys.
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Why do the Borg care so much about Earth?
So the Borg are introduced to the Federation by Q, but the fact remains the Federation lives on the other side of the Galaxy, and aside from more possible encounters with Q / Caretaker like beings, ...
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How could Picard take control of the fleet so easily?
In the Battle of the Sector 001, when Picard came to Earth to engage Borg after violating his direct order, he had a special coordinate in mind which could blowout the Borg cube and Starfleet had no ...
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How did Cochrane obtain dilithium for the first warp flight?
In the Star Trek Illustrated Handbook (based on The Official Star Trek Fact Files 1997 - 2002) I read:
Following the model established by Zefram Cochrane, Federation vessels' warp engines accomplish ...
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Is Borg adaptation only temporary?
It seems like Borg adaptation, at least in terms of battle, is temporary. In every episode and movie I can think of, the initial attack against the Borg is effective. Unless the countless species ...
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ST: First Contact: how did the crew get back to the future having destroyed the main deflector?
In the film First Contact, when in the past, the Borg from the future try to contact the Borg in the past's time period by building a transmitter out of the particle emitter on the main deflector dish....
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Why mute the countdown?
From Star Trek: First Contact:
Picard: Initiate auto-destruct sequence.
[snip various characters giving authorization codes]
Picard: This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Destruct sequence: Alpha 1. ...
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Why didn't Data give Picard the stardate instead of the Gregorian date?
In the movie Star Trek: First Contact the Enterprise enters the past through a temporal vortex created by the Borg. Upon arriving there is the following exchange:
PICARD: A missile complex? ...The ...
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Why did Geordi have his visor replaced with ocular implants between Generations and First Contact?
In First Contact, Geordi is not wearing his VISOR and instead has ocular implants. In the previous movie, Generations, Geordi still has his VISOR for the whole movie. Why did he change?
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Which Defiant was shown in ST: First Contact?
In Memory Alpha, the page on the U.S.S. Defiant states that two Defiant-class ships had that name: the prototype Defiant, and a successor, the U.S.S. Sao Paulo, which was assigned to DS9 and renamed ...
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What did Picard actually hear when he heard the collective in First Contact?
In Star Trek: First Contact, Picard hears the collective and orders the fleet to fire on an area of the cube that seemed low priority.
What did he hear? Not to be "illogical" about it but was the ...
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Why do the Borg refer to Earth as 'Sector 001'?
A note for future readers of this question: this is based on an incorrect memory of the Voyager episode 'Dark Frontier'.
The term 'Sector 001' indicates that it is a point of origin. Unless I'm ...
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How did the Phoenix land?
We see how the Phoenix was launched, and that its flight was successful - however it doesn't look like it would survive re-entry (no heat shield etc and we have no mention of deflector shields being ...
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In Star Trek: First Contact, why didn't the Borg go back in time before they entered into Federation space? [duplicate]
In Star Trek: First Contact (1996), during the battle with Starfleet which takes place very near to Earth, a Borg Sphere comes out of the damaged Borg Cube and then it uses time travel to go back in ...
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Why can Picard still hear the Borg?
Towards the end of the TNG episode "The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2)", we have the following dialogue concerning Picard's condition:
CRUSHER: Life signs are stable. The DNA around the ...
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