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Why don't the Borg "adapt" to recognize Picard and his crew?
In the movie, Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg can "adapt" to withstand shots from the weapons that Picard and his crew carry. The Borg also ignore Picard and his crew until they are deemed a threat,...
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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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Is Sisko referring to the events of First Contact here and if so how does it affect things?
DS9 "In Purgatory's Shadow (Part 1)":
SISKO: A Dominion invasion of the Alpha Quadrant will affect Cardassia
every bit as much as it's going to affect us. Besides, we need all the
help we can ...
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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 Borg come into being? [duplicate]
Pretty straight forward question. How did the Borg start? Is there anything in the STU, or in novels, or anywhere that deals with the creation of the Borg, Borg Queen, first Drone, etc.? Was there an ...
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Why didn't the Enterprise disappear in the Star Trek movie First Contact when the Borg traveled back in time?
The Enterprise is near Earth and a Borg sphere travels back in time to a period before the Enterprise and the federation itself existed.
Almost immediately the entire earth changes to a Borg ...
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How was it so easy for the Borg to transport aboard the Enterprise in First Contact?
In Star Trek: First Contact the Borg somehow transported themselves aboard the Enterprise when they knew that their ship was doomed. Was it ever explained how this could have happened?
Why would the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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