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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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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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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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How does First Contact occur in the alternate timeline (from Star Trek 2009)?
Based on what we know, how does First Contact occur in the Star Trek 2009 timeline? And does First Contact mean the Enterprise-E crew is still somehow canon in this timeline?
Star Trek: Enterprise is ...
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Where is the deflector array on the Phoenix?
In Star Trek: First Contact, the Phoenix reaches a speed of about 47,000,000 mph.
When the ship is seen from the Enterprise, we see no deflector array. In fact, shields are never even mentioned at ...
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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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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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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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What do the Borg think perfection is?
The Borg Queen tells us in 'First Contact' that they seek perfection. What do they view as perfection? They assimilate every race they think would benefit them. "Your biological and technological ...
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Why didn't Picard use a tractor beam to stop the borg sphere from going back in time?
After the Enterprise engages with the Borg cube, it witnesses a Borg sphere heading towards Earth and then go back in time.
Picard knows all too well the Borg are not allies and any Borg entering ...
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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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When was the first mention of 2053 as the end of the Third World War within the Star Trek franchise?
In any medium whatsoever — novels, interviews, movies, television episodes, etc. — what is the first mention of 2053 as the end of the Third World War?
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