Plot
After the Enterprise-D was destroyed a new ship has been build, proberly the
most advanced starship ever, however it's a bit smaler than the old one, the
crew is almost identical except Mr. Worf who has been given his own command.
Problems arise when it's reported that the Borg are on the way to earth, but
starfleet command orders the new Enterprise-E to patrol the neutral zone, simply
becouse they are afraid of Picard's relations to the borg. Picard and the rest
of the crew obeys orders but only until they hear that the fleet is in trouble
then they rush back to battle. The commanding officer of the fleet was killed
along with the flagship, so Picard takes control of the fleet, after rescuing
Worf from his dammaged ship, the fleet enters a final strike at the Borg vessel
that destroyes the Borg, but a small ship leaves just before the explosion. In
quickly persuit, the Enterprise discovers that the Borg are preparing for a
Time-travel, they folow the Borg in and discovers that history are changing
around them. Now the earth is inhabited by 9 million... Borgs, they go further
back to the day before the first warp-flight was done, this flight was monitored
by a Vulcan ship, and opened the posibility for a peacefull earth, and the Borg
are now going to prevent that.
After arriving in the past, The Enterprise easily destroyes the Borg ship, while
the crew beams down to check the damage on earth, the Enterprise begins to get
problems with the enviomential controles, they are not working. While investigating
the crew discovers that the Borg Queen has beamed on board before they were
destroyed, and they are now assimilating the crew of the Enterprise to get
more power. Simple atemps to fight them enter in disaster, meanwhile Picard
returns with an injured person from earth, Lily Sloane, but when sickbay has
to be evacuated, she leaves the group to try and save herselve, that quickly
turns around when Picard convinces her that she is on board a starship. To add
to the problem Data has been captured by the Borg, and they are trying to make
him work along with them. On Earth Riker and Troi searches for Cochrane, who's
the one to fly the warp-flight, Troi meets with him, but he manages to get very
drunk before she gets through to him. Riker and LaForge convinces him to make
the flight for the sake of humanity and decides to help him repair the warp-ship
after the Borg attack.
Picard manages to get a memorychip from a dead Borg, and finds that the Borg
is atempting to build a transmitter to send for Borg assistance, Picard and
Worf destroyes that plan, and the Borg speed their takeover of the Enterprise,
Picard decides to fight to the end, but Sloane talks some reasoning into him
and he sets an autodestruct sequence. But when it's time to leave Picard is not
going anywhere, he explains to Sloane that he's going to save Data, that turns
out to be quite a shock, couse Data has been assimilated and are now serving
the Borg, as mate for the Queen, with Picard watching she orders Data to cancel
the autodestruct, then to access the main computer. Finaly she orders Data to
launch torpeedos against the warpship, he does that, but the torpeedos does not
hit the ship. Data then realeases a gas that is fatal to all biological life,
Picard manages to escape by climing some tubes, but all the Borgs are killed, and
the warp flight is a success. And when the Vulcan ship approaches the Earth, the
Enterprise crew just need a way to get back into their own time.
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Trivia
- Although the role of Zephram Cochrane was actually written for
'James Cromwell', 'Tom Hanks' was originally considered for
the role.
- For inspiration prior to filming, director 'Jonathan Frakes' says he
viewed the films "Alien", "Aliens",
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Blade Runner" and "Jaws".
- When Picard sends the attack coordinates on the Borg cube to the fleet, the
voice which responds for the USS Bozeman is that of 'Kelsey Grammer',
who played the Captain of that ship in the episode "Cause and effect".
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Quotes
| Data: |
"I think I speak on behalf of the entire crew when I say 'To hell
with our orders.'" |
| Worf: |
"Perhaps today is a good day to die..." |
| Riker: |
"Tough little ship." |
| Worf: |
"Little?" |
| Riker: |
"Mr. Worf, you remember how to fire phasers?" |
| Sloane: |
"Borg? Sounds Swedish." |
[After having seen the Borg]
| Sloane: |
"Definitely not Swedish." |
| Picard: |
"Reports of my assimilation have been greatly exaggerated." |
| Sloane: |
"It's my first ray gun." |
[Picard and Lily are looking at earth from space]
| Picard: |
"You may want to hold your breath. It's a long way down." |
| Riker: |
"Someone once said 'Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man,
and let history make its own judgement.'" |
| Cochrane: |
"That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?" |
| Riker: |
"You did, ten years from now." |
[Data is feeling anxiety as they approach the Borg.]
| Picard: |
"I suggest you deactivate your emotion chip for now." |
| Data: |
[click] "Done." |
| Picard: |
"Data, there are times when I envy you." |
| Picard: |
"We are not going to lose the Enterprise. Not to the Borg. Not
while I'm in command." |
| Picard: |
"Mr. Worf, do you remember your zero g combat training?" |
| Worf: |
"I remember how it made me sick to my stomach." |
| Worf: |
"Assimilate THIS....." |
| Borg Queen: |
"Do you always talk this much?" |
| Data: |
"Not always. But often." |
| Cochrane: |
"You're all astronauts, on some kind of star trek." |
| Cochrane: |
"Okey, this is the good stuff.." [pours drink for Troi] |
| Troi: |
[Chockes] |
| Cochrane: |
"Hmm. That wasn't so good after all.." [Throws bottle away] |
| Troi: |
[Drunk] "This is no time to argue about time. We don't have the
time!" |
| Troi: |
[Very drunk] "He wouldn't even talk to me unless I had a drink
with him. Then he made me drink three shots of something called
"tequila" before he would tell me who he was." |
| The Doctor: |
"I'm a doctor, not a doorstop." |
| Picard: |
"They invade our space, and we fall back. They
assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must
be drawn HERE. This far NO farther. And I will make them pay for
what they've done." |
| Beverly: |
"So much for the Enterprise-E." |
| Picard: |
"We barely knew her." |
| Beverly: |
"Do you think they'll make another one?" |
| Picard: |
"Plenty of letters left in the alphabet." |
| Borg Queen: |
"I am the beginning and the end. I bring order into chaos." |
| Borg Queen: |
"Watch your future's end." |
| Borg Queen: |
"You are an imperfect being, created by an imperfect being." |
| Data: |
"You mean sexuality? I am fully functional. Programmed with
multiple techniques." |
| Picard: |
"You want to destroy the ship and run away, you coward." |
| Worf: |
"If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand." |
| Lily: |
"You broke your little ships." |
| Borg Queen: |
"DATA !?!?!?!" |
| Data: |
"Resistance is futile...." |
| Picard: |
"Data, Are you allright ??" |
| Data: |
"I proberly look a lot worse than I .......Feel, sir...." |
| Data: |
"And for a time, I was tempted by her offer." |
| Picard: |
"How long a time?" |
| Data: |
"0.68 seconds sir. For an android, that is nearly an
eternity." |
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