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Do the Borg not wonder why everybody hates them?
A refusal to submit to assimilation is prima facie evidence that the individuals involved are acting like stupid, spoiled children. I've selectively quoted the Borg Queen to give an overview of their ...
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How could Picard take control of the fleet so easily?
Citing the event's of Equinox, we know that
"Starfleet Regulation one hundred ninety one, Article fourteen. In a combat situation involving more than one ship, command falls to the vessel with ...
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Why do the Borg care so much about Earth?
There may be a clue in the ST:TNG episode Hide and Q (S1 Ep10):
Q: Well if you'll stop interrupting me. This is hardly a time to be teaching you the true nature of the universe. However, at Farpoint ...
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How could Picard take control of the fleet so easily?
All the other captains, and definitely not those of lower rank, wouldn't be privy to the rationale behind the orders Picard and the Enterprise were given by the admiralty.
While perhaps not the ...
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How did Cochrane obtain dilithium for the first warp flight?
Cochrane didn't need dilithium to use as the power source for his warp experiment. He used a 'nuclear power core' to create the energy required.
The nuclear core in the missile: it was the same fuel ...
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Why do the Borg care so much about Earth?
1. Q himself answered your question in Season Two Episode 16 when he sent the Enterprise to encounter the Borg for the first time - "Q Who".
"The Borg are the ultimate user. They're ...
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Is Borg adaptation only temporary?
Because the borg adapt to a frequency
Star Trek shields work on a frequency, and once you know that frequency, you can alter your weapons to bypass those shields, which is why you'll often hear ...
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Is Borg adaptation only temporary?
Because they value resources over drones.
While it's true that the Borg adapt to phaser frequency, they would rather lose a few drones than waste the energy and resources to constantly have defenses ...
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Do the Borg not wonder why everybody hates them?
Everyone is the hero of their own story. The Borg are no exception.
A true hero says " I have good in me and evil in me, I need to suppress the evil and elevate the good.
A villain says "I only have ...
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Why do the Borg care so much about Earth?
A ship pops out of nowhere in front of a Borg cube. Then after a brief tussle that ship vanishes. While they know about Earth and the federation from assimilating 7of9 and the border colonies, there ...
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In Star Trek: First Contact, why didn't the Borg go back in time before they entered into Federation space?
There aren't really any evidence to support any theory, but when First Contact was released, controlled time travel in universe was rare and usually unstable. Other Borg spheres encountered by ...
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How could Picard take control of the fleet so easily?
Nobody had time to stop and say "hey, wait a minute… we need to contact Starfleet to get their approval for this change in authority!". The ships were in the middle of a huge battle. They had ...
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Why was Seven of Nine upset at Borg drones being ejected into space, when they can survive in a vacuum?
According to the top-voted answer on this question, Star Trek: Voyager establishes that Borg drones can only survive in the vacuum of space temporarily, not indefinitely. The question itself notes ...
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Why mute the countdown?
Picard gave the order to evacuate the Enterprise a few seconds before the destruct sequence order was given, which explains why people were piling into the pods even as the audio warning (of the fact ...
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In Star Trek: First Contact, why didn't the Borg go back in time before they entered into Federation space?
To quote the Borg from First Contact:
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt ...
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Why mute the countdown?
Picard has "issues" with noise
Picard may have a lingering sensitivity to sound due to his childhood experience with Shalaft's Syndrome (Nemesis, 2002). Although Picard received treatment for the ...
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How does First Contact occur in the alternate timeline (from Star Trek 2009)?
First contact would have happened exactly as it historically happened in the prime universe. On April 5, 2063 Zefram Cochrane made his first warp flight, alerting the Vulcans and the rest is history. ...
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Were the events of the Star Trek movie First Contact always a part of history?
According to Seven of Nine (in Voy: Relativity), the whole event was a causal loop. Given that the Borg have a pretty reasonable grasp of temporal mechanics, I think we can take her at her word:
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What are the changes of the timeline made by "First Contact"?
The events of First Contact appear to be a predestination paradox. The Enterprise didn't cause any damage to the timeline because their presence was (unbeknownst to them) always part of the timeline. ...
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When was the design for the "original" Enterprise (NX-01) created?
None of the ships in the case resemble the NX-01 except in as much as the NX was designed to resemble the ships already depicted.
The ships displayed are the Constitution class (TOS), A, B, C, D and ...
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Why didn't Picard use a tractor beam to stop the borg sphere from going back in time?
Tractor beams are easily shaken off and cannot work if the target has their shields up. While the Cube was destroyed, the Sphere appeared undamaged when it came out of the Cube and headed towards ...
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Where is the deflector array on the Phoenix?
Based on this Paramount-licensed poster from artist Matt Cushman, the ship doesn't have any shields or deflectors. La Forge mentions that the ship's "structural integrity" is holding, but ...
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Why did Data say Picard would be "an excellent drone" in Star Trek: First Contact?
I wouldn't take that statement entirely at face value if I were you. Remember that after the Borg Queen was killed, Data told Picard that he was tempted by her offer for a sum total of 0.68 seconds:
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'Star Trek First Contact', small room with forcefield use/purpose?
It's called an umbilical docking port.
The scene you describe appears in the transcript as follows:
[Enterprise-E umbilical docking port]
PICARD: There's a... There's a new faction that wants to ...
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How did Cochrane obtain dilithium for the first warp flight?
It may be worth noting that Lithium crystals were what was said in dialog in the first episodes of Star Trek "Where No Man has Gone Before" for example. It was later that it was turned into ...
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Why did Data say Picard would be "an excellent drone" in Star Trek: First Contact?
IMHO opinion Data was insulting Picard. The movie reveals that the Borg Queen had been present on the cube which had assimilated Picard in"The Best of Both Worlds" and had survived somehow.
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Why was the year 2063 chosen for First Contact?
The novelization of Star Trek: First Contact from 1996, which is available for anyone with a scribd membership here, has a section after the story titled “A First Look at Star Trek First Contact” on p....
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How can First Contact happen in 2024?
she believed was sentient
already explains it. If her believe would have turned out true, Picard would have said "She found sentient life" or similar.
Also, sentient does not mean ...
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