Enterprise NX-01 battle the Borg
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I just love how the security personnel were smart about maintaining distance. Can’t say the same about future Starfleet members.
They lived in a more dangerous time. The 24th Century was mainly an era of peace, so Starfleet lost a lot of the "bravado" of the early Starfleet members, who were well aware they were small fries in the big ocean of space and there were aliens far more powerful than they. The Borg was a wake-up call for the 24th Century while in the 22nd Century they were a confirmation.
in the future they have compression rifles thus a means to fight up close. Klingons have it even easier they can HARDLY be boarded by the borg (thus i belive with the Klingon fleet being not late to 359 they would have won, if barely, against the cube already. Picard knows starfleet stuff, but not Klingon. And given its shortly prior to the dominion war they already had at the very least Vor'cha's ready as well as MAYBE 1 or 2 Neg'Var's wich would have basicaly slaughtered the cube. Boarding? Like i said, klingons dont need them disruptors, they will beat you with their Bathlet's)
I alway find it funny people believe that the Borg wouldn't adapt to the Bat'leth. It like the fact they ignore the face the borg can erect forcefield that stop people being able to wonder where ever they want on their ships. or even how One was able to erect a shield around himself to stop the Doctor from saving him. @@christianresel8051
Well, they were no redshirts back then :)
@@christianresel8051The Federation did NO damage to the Cube at 359, what makes you think the Klingon's would fare any better?
The best thing about this writing is that the fact the audience knows the full scale of the borg threat and the crew don’t is really emphasised and built around. It makes archers actions believable and tense without needing the threat to be explained
I love the ruthlessness and logic of the Vulcans - I am saying that you should DESTROY it.
Simple solution, no messing around......
This was the reason why even the Klingons respected the Vulcans....
Like in Star Trek Disco: the "Vulcan Hello."
Like Spock in the TOS episode "Balance of Terror", advocating for stopping the cloaked Romulan ship at any cost.
I agree. From my " interpretation " of Picard from TNG, had he been in Archer's shoes he would probably have considered either negotiating with this new/unknown species, or trying to study it.
It's not ruthlessness its PURE logic
Too bad the Vulcans became pussy later on. With all the that pacifist bullsh*t get the f outta here.
I love this episode simply because of the clever writing and how they avoided any kind of time travel paradox by making it predestination. In First Contact, Captain Picard and the Enterprise-E destroys a Borg sphere when it travels back in time to the Earth of 2063, that wreckage crashes and remains hidden for almost 100 years until scientists find it and unintentionally wake up the Borg, causing these events to happen, then by the end of the episode these Borg manage to send out a signal to the Delta quadrant which will take hundreds of years to arrive, eventually causing the events of the future to happen, which then causes these events to happen again, a perfect loop with no continuity ruined.
Indeed.
Yep. That Borg Cube encountered a few years from Fed space in Q-Who was waaaaaay far from home, because it was investigating that signal
The only problem with this is how this Borg encounter was not recorded in the Federation annals. If it was, why didn't a Starfleet flagship like the Enterprise D and it's preeminent captain Jean Luc Picard not know about this earlier Borg encounter? He was completely clueless in Q-Who.
@@metsrus Probably classified due to temporal law and only known to Section 31 and a few high ranked admirals?
@@RequiemPoete Yes, I can buy that explanation.
Always cracks me up how, after transporting, they check themselves out to make sure all their molecules were put back together correctly.
Well, this transporter was originally built for transporting cargo, not people.
@@Whitestar901 Actually it was recently (at the launch of NX-01) approved for biological use. Although everyone seems to not trust it. On the pilot, Archer looks terrified that they used it on him in order to get him out of a jam.
There were accidents early in the development of the transporter! McCoy hated it on the original series; even as an old guy being drafted back by Kirk in the movies produced 35+ years ago! ;-) - - - scifiblogs3.blogspot.com
@@midnightrun5622 yeah, it was recently approved. That doesnt mean anyone is ready to believe that wholeheartedly
@@gordonf5553This show has been off the air for 18 years and I still get nervous for em. I still love this show though 😂
This episode was good because it tied it all together and once again showed Q as a hero, The borg was coming because of the message this ship sent and Q threw the enterprise in front of it making the federation aware of them, of course, Q had to disguise it as one of his "games" but he saved humanity.
Alternatively, depending how you interpret the time loop, Q doing that is the reason this ship was there to send the message!
@@thegabrielhyde The whole federation existing might be a paradox, if the enterprise hadn't gone back zefram cochrane might have shot the Vulcan like we saw in the mirror universe episode in Enterprise... the enterprise crew told him all about first contact before it happened so... who knows.
@@kevinedward6132 that as well. The Temporal Police or whatever would've stopped Picard and his crew from having contact with Dr. Cochrane due to having broken a prime directive, however, the prime directive doesn't work if that event in itself helps the federation without too much damage caused to others/leads to actual better future. The history of Dr. Cochrane's first contact is so vague, but with the interference of the Borg and the bombardment of Dr. Cochrane's camp, who knows, maybe Earth of his time would become xenophobic and turn into the mirror earth of xenophobes
@@jerryalbus1492 yes, it was confirmed in voyager when 7 of 9 was recruited by the time police and was learning about paradoxes. She confirmed the Borg presence in first contact was preordained in history
@@thegabrielhyde paraphrasing Captain Liam Shaw, when it comes to Q saving the Federation, he's got a real 'chicken and egg' thing going there.
This is one of the best Borg episodes, it made them legitimately scary again. The music was top notch and the visuals amazing. I loved how we got to see that arctic transport go from normal ship to fully assimilated throughout the course of the episode.
It should have made them much worse. I want the episode to make people think the series will end that night.
Have it start with the science team exploring the Borg cube, and in the background show a fusion powered air-breathing transport (like a cargo 747, or Airbus A380, or something obviously atmospheric). After the scientists get infected by the Borg, have Earth Spacedock notice the transport leaving atmosphere (aka impossible for an air-breathing vessel), then the plane goes to warp (the transport certainly didn't have a warp engine).
The first Enterprise encounter has Enterprise intercepting the Borgified ship, and a scan shows that the Borg can only get three shots from a cobbled-together energy weapon, and those three shots are not enough to punch through the polarized armor. Surprise, the Borg fire the three shots, and manage to damage a critical warp conduit. Borg vessel gets away because the Enterprise is still powerful enough to defeat it at the time. After-battle evaluation shows that the Borg scanned Enterprise, and the first two shots caused a 'splash' among the polarized armor leaving a faint ripple between the two shots that the third shot could (barely) punch through. T'Pol advises that this opponent is technologically advanced, clever enough to exploit this advantage, and intelligent enough to retreat from a fight it cannot win.
After a bit of more pursuit, the Borg vessel is detected changing course to intercept a freighter. The freighter is hauling materials that are useful in starship construction, and the Borg are about to run out of material for their own upgrades. The scary part is that the Borg are also grabbing passengers and bringing them back to their ship for assimilation. The freighter crew don't know that, but one of them accidentally shoots a freighter crewmember (instead of the Borg who grabbed them). The Borg then drops the dead person, and heads over to the person that fired the shot (Borg have to get new members, and dead people can't be assimilated). Give this the horror vibe where if you try to save one of your friends from the Borg, they will come after you. The phrase "can't outrun the bear, but can outrun your friend' should be the mindset.
Have the Borg beam over to the Enterprise for a bit, and assimilate some of the equipment. This won't be shape-shifting the equipment to Borg equipment, but instead will be program upgrades to enhance the efficiency. The Borg use one of these efficiency-enhanced nodes to support their boarding operations, using it to power themselves and recharge their shields. Eventually the Borg are kicked off, and Trip gets to examine the equipment. Cue a bit of temptation to Trip, as he sees just what the Borg did to improve the Enterprise and imagines what the Federation can do with this technology. Also have a couple people get assimilated. Phlox gets a scratch from a nanoprobe unit.
Another boarding operation is done vs the Borg ship, where they are just on board to analyze the Borg technology (the Borg are refitting their warp engines to be faster and as a result the Enterprise was able to catch up). Have Trip get lots of scans of the tech, as the interfaces between Earth civilian tech and Borg tech give lots of ideas. Trip might even see one power conduit and mention that a certain piece of equipment is critical to the power flow, and putting demo charges on it means they can detonate after beaming out (charges receive a constant signal from a transmitter, beaming out cuts the signal, and the detonators then activate their internal timers). As he is describing what could be done the equipment gets removed, and no problem is detected to the power system. The Borg tech is better than what Trip could imagine.
As this is going on, Phlox notices that the skin around his scratch is turning gray. He performs a scan and spots a couple Borg nanoprobes working in his finger. He has to have his finger amputated to prevent assimilation. A little while later he notices a similar graying on his hand, and has to have his hand amputated.
Final battle is Enterprise vs Borg. Enterprise is using all of its firepower, taking heavy damage, and so is the Borg vessel. The existing Borg upgrades are communicated with and wind up having to be removed/destroyed. Boarding parties are sabotaging on both sides, and finally Enterprise is able to damage enough of the right components to make the Borg ship blow up. Sighs of relief, bridge crew relaxes, and damage control gets to work. Then someone on the bridge reports that one of the Borg components still has energy, and they are reading signs of low-level transporter activity, along with a couple Borg lifesigns. That piece is repairing itself, and will soon get back into the fight. Looks of disbelief all around, but they have to blow up that piece, and make sure all of the other pieces are sufficiently destroyed or tossed into a local star.
While this was going on, Phlox also noticed his arm starting to turn, so had his entire arm amputated, and the rest of his body given a radiation bath to try and kill any nanoprobes still in him. Give a sense of Body Horror of Phlox wondering if his body was going to turn against him, leaving him a prisoner until the nanoprobes assimilated his brain. After-battle has Phlox in a regen chamber wrapped in medical tape to help him live.
The tropes in play during this episode would be:
1) The Borg only need a small advantage to get started
2) The Borg will be smart, effective, and aware
3) Being tempted by the Borg and using even some of their technology is a real danger
4) Run. Just run, and pray they don't take you alive. Giving your friend a final mercy means they will come after you
5) You have to destroy all of it to win ("From a single Cell")
If people write in and complain that they had a nightmare thanks to this episode, I would consider it a compliment.
Actually you're wrong about the transport not having warp drive when in fact it does because if you watch the episode where Archer tells the senior staff that tracking stations had the transport leaving at warp 3 and Tucker says 'That's impossible those transports can't exceed warp 2' so it's possible the transport can not only fly through the atmosphere of a planet but can go into space as well and travel at warp but only for short distances unlike the NX Class can.
@@nicholasmorsovillo2752 (Not sure if you are replying to me, as your post without a name at the front looks like it was replying to E Nikata) That is why I mentioned that it would be a fusion-powered air-breather instead of a warp-capable transport as seen in the episode
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wait did you say a transport made it to warp? that must be .... wait for it ... transwarp.
They were scary to begin with. Shitty writing made them worse. Fair play to the Enterprise team for making them scary again, though. Shame it didn't last.
This was an underrated episode. The Borg is the most terrifying enemy in Star Trek. I always thought the way they included them in Archer's time was creative, having them get revived from the remnants after their fight with Picard and the Enterprise-E. Archer and his crew had no idea how close they were to getting assimilated.
Archer and his crew had no experience or knowledge of the borg only what Admiral forest imformed them but they had to of started somewhere and all it takes is one time.
Yes, voyager kinda ruined them.
This brought them back to the scary bastards they are. Frozen in ice, wake up. Get a non warp transport. And make it into a beast of a ship real fast.
Archer still kicked @$$ like Janeway did try to do with the borg at one time. With ensign Kim placing cards or spacial charges as I recall.
@@baskkev7459 the vessel the borg stole was able to only do warp 1.9 maximum then later warp 3.8 then 4.8 almost out ran the Enterprise at warp 5.2.
That's the point where the timeline changes
Those Borg started out from the year 2373, got sent to 2063, and got revived here 90 years later in 2153 if I recall, correctly. It's like seeing Nibbler's shadow in the pilot of Futurama.
I love this depiction of the Borg cuz it actually shows technology being assimilated , seeing the Borg tech spread through and on that earth vessel like a metastasis was so cool
What happened to continuity? Picard was supposedly the 1st to encounter the BORG! WTF? ;-) - - scifiblogs3.blogspot.com
"It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.." ~ Q
So, Q sends the D to encounter the Borg... Picard and Guinan agree that the Borg are now aware of them and perhaps it's good to be shaken out of complacency... But the Borg went back to the time of the first Warp Flight test and their drones reactivate in the past and send a message to the Delta Quadrant telling them where to come...
Q seems to have not only set into motion a self fulfilling prophecy regarding the Borg that arguably nudged humanity away from becoming the Mirror universe. Cochrane met the crew of the E and was a changed man. Enough that he didn't blow away the first Vulcan he met and steal their technology ala ENT's fourth season mirror universe episodes.
Rewatching this Episode i came to a realization. Any longer and that ship would have become a new Fully functioning BORG CUBE. You can see the edge of it being formed on the left side. As it increased in mass, it would have become harder to hit that EPS relay Archer was going to target.
Looks more like it's becoming a Probe like the one in VOY. Would be more fitting given the resources available to it. Still, a 24th century Borg Probe in the 22nd century is a terrifying prospect.
I don't think that's how the borg work, borg vessels are likely produced through salvaged materials from assimilated ships, but it's unlikely that they convert everything they assimilate into a cube, at best that thing could have become a probe like the one Voyager accidentally destroyed with a remote detonated torpedo.
This is why I loved enterprise. I wish that they could come back for just one more season and fight the romulan empire.
The Earth-Romulan War should have been in place of the Xindi story arc. Wasted potential.
@@hawkeye5955 No, Xindi story arc was great. The Romulan war should have been in the 5 and 6 season.
Honestly I was looking forward to that as well. It would have been so nice to see the Romulans be front and center for a galatic battle instead of the Klingons. So much wasted potential...
@@lukesky9627 Yeah. I think the idea was "early exploration stuff" and a temporal-based conflict that primarily focused on the years leading up to the Federation's foundation (as that would be a very important time in galactic history) earlier, and, with the expectation that it was going to last as long as TNG to Voyager all did, planed on the actual start of the UFP in the second half of the series.
@@shade8816 I miss Enterprise.
This does explain why the Borg were so adamant to assimilate humans by Picard's time. It wasn't just because of the technology and knowledge: it was because of their adaptability. This whole episode showed the Borg the human's threat level towards them.
and yet they always just sent off a single ship to assimilate Earth, when they could have sent dozens, hundreds, even thousands at the same time. earth has a massive plot shield surrounding it haha
@@udontneed2know801 which goes towards a theory that the Borg are attacking humans just enough to keep them having to adapt and advance. The Borg can't advance on their own so would need others to come up with new technology which could then be assimilated.
@@jhathaway8026 naah man its plot armor xD
@@jhathaway8026 in Voyager, it only took Janeway minimal "negotiation" to make them agree to an alliance to defeat 8472, the borg were fighting a losing war and their one salvation ploped on their front door at their vulnerable time
@@udontneed2know801 : First Contact was no brute force operation, they needed to just get a ship into Earth's past. I wager from the perspective of the Borg, who have immense ressources, this was just one of many plans they just tried out (despite their queen having been on board, who does not seem to be an irreplaceable entitiy either).
This was a great episode. It showed how advanced the Borg are, when they MacGuyvered the non-warp capable science vessel to match even the enterprise max speed in such a short time.
My only complaint is, that the Borg always seek the superior tech, so instead of beaming back to their inferior ship, they instead would've boarded and assimilated Enterprise. They were even immune to hand phasers by now and could've taken over the ship without any losses.
You're making a great point. I think there are a number of small narratives that could fix that plot hole though. My first thought is that assimilation does take some effort and resources, and at this exact moment the effort of assimilating the first vessel has left the Borg momentarily tapped out on conversion nanites and such. The several drones on Enterprise are just a raiding party and don't have enough resources among them to establish a fully operating collective and so have to be recalled. Something like that.
@@rcb3921 Each Borg produces nanites in their body though, as they are an integral part of getting the cybernetics work.
A Borg that ran out of nanites would die.
@@larnregis I'm sure you know the details way better than me. I'll I'm saying is we obviously don't want the story to end with the Borg jumping onto enterprise and assimilating it. The show is only fiction - there's probably a way to interpret the events so the Borg are well motivated to behave like they did.
the borg in this episode are borg of the 24th century
The Arctic Transport was Warp capable (Warp 1.4 at best) but yes they rapidly upgraded it. Polarised Hull plating seemed to be more effective against them as even crippling Enterprise with that console command...the Hull plating still worked (they later were shown transferring power to Hull plating vs the Klingons in Season 4 at Qu'vat Colony so I assume that the Hull plating kept whatever charge it had in the Borg Episode but could not be reinforced if you get what I mean.)
Even though this is a short encounter, with them still years behind Enterprise technology, this was heart pounding! They thought really quick on their feet and truly had no idea the repercussions to have come should they actually do get assimilated. Honestly this felt more anxiety-included to me than the first time I saw them on TNG.
Were they years behind? They'd have had 24th century Borg knowledge, all the tech they implemented would have been far in advance of Enterprise's.
Show me to comment Archer he ain't about that life not today Satan he is not going to get a simulated😅
These are the Borg from the First Contact movie. They are 24th century Borg, so their technology is actually superior to the Federation in this timeline. Enterprise is behind them, not the other way around.
@@gamewizard1760 oh that's cool to know thank you! I, haven't gotten to the movies yet sadly and I know I should. I recently only got into star Trek going two years, so I'm missing some lore for sure haha.
Edit: oh wait I read my old comment. I think I wrote it wrong. I meant to say that Archer's enterprise was years behind Borg technology in terms of how to deal with them, which is why I was amazed they thought quick on their feet on how to deal with them.
Huh they beat em’. Usually someone sneezes and ‘we’ve lost hull plating’.
I’m glad they made a episode with the Borg. 1 I can’t get enough of them, and 2 the episode wraps up what happened to the remains of their ship and also we get to find out how they know where to find Earth
"This is captain-"
"You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
CHILLS
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The Borg probably didn't include the usual "We are the Borg" because it would alter the timeline and then Wolf 359 might not happen
Can we just appreciate the fact that the Drones didn’t say they were Borg, cause they knew it would mess up the timeline.
They went on trying to assimilate, but they knew that the term ‘Borg’ had to be heard for the first time when the Enterprise D see that Cube in the far limits of the Beta Quadrant after Q sent them there and Ginun explains what they are.
Guinen also said "you could open a dialogue with them one day. Establish a relations."
they later retcon that with Hugh, with her going full genocide supporting. Ironic considering the actress wants the same IRL with white people lol
Its nice to see the borg adhere to the temporal prime directive. that must be a proof for the borg joining the federation in the future xD
Good call. You're absolutely correct.
it might also just be because the borg originally never said "we are the borg" and that came later
@@xyeahtony1 not really, when they took Picard they said it and even when Voyager encountered them in the Delta Quadrant they used to say it.
Anyway these are the Borg left over from the Sphere that the Enterprise E destroyed over 21st century Earth during First Contact. The now famous phrase ‘We are the Borg, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile.” was fine tuned from the version in TNG.
Clever inclusion of the Borg in the Enterprise series. An especially nice touch was how after the transport ship had been sufficiently assimilated it had that distinctive “hum” of a Borg cube.
That was a nicely done episode fighting the Borg, without letting you know they were the Borg
Well done, in keeping with the tenant of being at the beginning of space faring species
Maybe the "Borg" did not even knew their own name. When they hailed the Enterprise the only thing they say is "You will be assimilated" while it normally ALWAYS starts with "We are the Borg, you will be assimilated", so the name "Borg" was not known yet. But, in retrospect in TNG when they encountered the Borg for the first time Guinan was already aware of them, and knew their name, so it did not take that long for the Borg to acquire a name. The only missing link here is the lack of knowledge that in TNG there was no single knowledge about this encounter by Archer and the Borg.
@@Snowwie88 Most likely the logs for this mission is that "we encountered humanoid cyborgs that assimilate their targets, we destroyed their ship", something along those lines. It's too general for it to pin down to the Borg.
The scene suggests that Captain Archer missed the first words of their transmission. He was too busy talking.
And we all know his universal translator was still a buggy work in progress which didn't correctly translate proper names all the time.
Tell me you're The Borg without telling me you're The Borg.
@@Snowwie88 It's worth noting these Borg are from the Sphere that the Enterprise - E destroyed during first contact when the borg travelled back in time in attempt to assimilate earth, the borg here don't advertise what they are likely because they know to remain anonymous so that they don't give starfleet a heads up on them and create a paradox, they do however send a message to the delta quadrant that sets the whole thing in motion with the first borg ship being encountered by the Enterprise-D being the one making it's way towards the alpha quadrant because of that message.
WOW! I missed this the first time it aired. I never knew the first Enterprise crew met the Borg.
This is a rather blatant retcon, if this had happened then Picard should've had in the E-D's computer records of this encounter.
@@nicholasmaude6906 I doubt this encounter would have been useful against the 24th century borg, seeing as there is a rather big difference between the 22nd century borg ship and a full on borg cube.
@@xander1052 It still would've given Picard some knowledge as to what to expect and therefore be better prepared when he first encountered the Borg in System J-25 in S2 TNG.
@@nicholasmaude6906 I agree however, with the same logic, Picard, and everyone else in Starfleet for that matter, should have known about the Borg and even the fact that they were going to have to interfere in the first contract since it’s a loop in timeline and should already be in their database as well.
There's also a huge time between the incidents, in which there would be a file on record but very few people to remember it. Digging the files up is unlikely as you would need to know about it to look for it.
It's amazing how fast captain Archer 'adapts' to the new threat. From trying to save researchers to concluding there's no one to save.
If only we had another season, Archer would have been great during the Romulan-Earth War
Yeah, Archer lives in a very different time of Star Trek history. He has to be far more pragmatic rather than idealistic out in space since humans are settling their roots and still struggling to survive out there. Borg proven they can't be reasoned with, so he does the pragmatic thing and doesn't treat them as savable. 150 years later, it'll be possible to save them, but right now it's kill or be assimilated.
@@girl1213 Yeah. I'd say Archer is the second best Captain I Star Trek, after Picard of course.
@@Yaapodisagree. Sisko was the best. However, this is all a matter of opinion.
My new favorite is Captain Pike from Strange New Worlds.
I just love how Capt Archer is not afraid of most species.....he is always very serious, and wanted the job done!
Now if only Agent Daniels showed up to either temporally clean up the mess or get Archer and crew to erase all records of the Borg then this episode would have been pure perfect.
Archer and his crew were fortunate in this encounter, had they been faced with a Cube or a fully functional Sphere, NX-01 and it's entire crew would have been lost to history
Even a Borg probe would be more than what the Enterprise could handle.
Nah, the enterprise would have simply modulated their shield frequencies never give them time to adapt. Lol Just kidding but the Enterprise has a secret weapon. They own the show. They'll write the Borg's loss into the script. The Borg might be able to drag it out to a 2 part series but in the end the borg loses and there's nothing the Borg can do about that lol.
@@hellbent7066 Enterprise didn’t have shields at this time.
@@timothygoodall7182 So, you didn't see where I said "Just Kidding" about the shields??
@@timothygoodall7182 Tech advantages aren't how you beat the Borg. A creative caveman has more chance of beating the Borg than an uncreative Galaxy Class.
A truly excellent episode on all fronts. Great writing, great acting..and is totally believable as far as including the Borg in this timeline. And kudos to the writer who decided not to include the totally moronic idea of a Borg queen, which would have killed the episode. Damned shame the suits didn't realize just how excellent this series was until after it was gone. When I watch reruns, this is my go-to series after TOS
The writing and characters in this show were terrible. Season 3 was excellent and it's one saving factor. Even compared to trek.ds9 by far the best
I am really biased to saying this is my favourite star trek show. I've seen tng and tos but none of them hit my curiosity quite like this one. It's just uniquely more different to other shows even if the writing is "sub-par" compared to other shows.
Terrible? I think not. That word describs Voyager on EVERY level and every season. Even Discovery, which is nothing but a joke of a series.
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They really should have made the after action report required reading at Starfleet academy for centuries onwards.
After all, Archer knew the rough timescale of the transmission reaching its destination.
Had we only heeded the warning then perhaps Wolf 359 wouldn’t have been the massacre it was. I lost a lot of friends that day. Not to mention my arms and legs
Archer also know Cochran and his speech where he specifically talked about the cybernetic creatures and humans from the future. Archer also knew about the Temporal Cold war, he had no way of knowing if this wasn't a part of that and him making this public in such a manor would endanger the future.
I actually made an essay-length explanation about this on another video.. I really should save those things for situations like this.
Disagree, the main threats were with the Klingons, Romulans, Tholians, and other aggressive species out there. At this time period, even the Orions were kicking the asses of Starfleet ships. And I do mean to the point of exterminating Starfleet, so resources, energy, and commitments were appropriately made to learn and fight these species because they were in Starfleet's face practically every day.
The "Wait what... oh fuck" on the faces of Security when Borg shields adapt.
Great episode! One of Star Trek's best!
Really liked how, by the end, the assimilated ship had that Borg growl/hum to it. Nice touch.
Those Borg were about 20 minutes away from unstoppable by current Starfleet technology.
nicely cut together
In 3 minutes you encapsulated everything important in the episode--well done!
Definitely took notes from Master Chief when he delivered the bomb back to the covenant. 10/10
Taking all future Borg contact history out of the equation, this was actually a very good, stand alone episode, having said that, it's getting kind of old, using the Borg as the once-terrifying, now easily dealt with threat of the season
It's getting old overall yes but it's totally brand new with the ENTERPRISE NX-01, in fact it's just the beginning.
@@AndrewMLawson If the Borg had beam straight on to the bridge and started assimilating people, they probably could have took the Enterprise.
As the series progressed, it just became apparent that due to the way the Borg were structured, they had inherent weaknesses. In this situation, the Borg could have *easily* dominated if they had just been patient and used whatever resources the humans had in Antarctica to get to a more populated area and start assimilating. By the time anyone got a handle on what was going on and what was necessary to fix the problem (mass orbital bombing, basically) they would have already taken the entire planet and be getting out into the rest of the Solar system. The Borg would have been unstoppable.
However, the Borg have an inherent weakness - their instinctive drive to belong to the Collective. They got their priorities mixed up, and instead of acting independently, decisively and having a very good chance of winning, they instead chose to expend all their time and resources in trying to contact the Collective, both to discuss a course of action and also to satisfy their urge. And that's the Borg's problem, really...they're so all about increasing the size of the Collective, they sometimes fail at strategy and seeing the big picture.
@@AndrewMLawson that and the fact that they’re from the remnants of the borg from First Contact, frozen for almost a century.
Yeah Voyager made the Borg less of the threat then they were. Species 8472, the Borg nanovirus during Unimatrix Zero, biological pathogens, the destruction of Unimatrix 01 and the Transwarp network.
i found this video on accident through recommendations, i wish i understood why the borgs were so high stakes but still i'm impressed by this scene
i still felt the intenseity of the scene, seeing the lasers not working on the second boarding borgs is a "oh shit" moment and reading the comments the stakes were bigger then anyone realized, good scene
Many claim bringing the Borg into Enterprise was a mistake. It was good use of a plotline that was previously established by First Contact
unlike what PICARD did with them on season 2, it appears they dropped the whole borg arc coming season 3. Just like they forgot about the romulans in season 1. they are follow the pattern of Discovery.
Cause we hardly ever hear it, I love hearing captains yell, "Target their warp core!"
I love how the phase cannon finishes off the ship right before it exits the frame lol, so badass. Enterprise was such an underrated show and I hope it's harsh critics realize Star Trek Discovery is the answer the overlords assumed fans wanted :-/
People criticized Enterprise too when it was fresh. Now they're loving it. Same will happen with Discovery.
@@amitakartok nope that's f tier garbage is just f tier it won't grow on me and I liked enterprise such it was a bit of a picasso in some episodes but it had good episodes and I like to believe Scott baluka did the best with what had offered to him as a captain and I mean in terms of writing which was sometimes borderline stupid.
Discovery hits a huge low on the imagination, feel and acts more like a b their star wars show than a decent star trek show I stopped watching that shit after season 2
@@amitakartok Exactly, i love all the Star Trek shows
@@solidsnake4595 Thats fine to have your opinion but i love discovery. For me Star Trek is my favourite.
@@lamueldagon7618 That STD is woke garbage politics disguised poorly, with terrible writing, literal plagiarism, and intentional insults to both fans and entire classes of people as an intrinsic part of its lore. That is NOT the spirit of Star Trek, let alone the culture, nor the universe.
That STD is NOT Star Trek. Neither is Picard.
I could have forgiven just about everything they did, but literally stealing a small time artist's core concepts, then using the show as a political bullypulpit to insult people for what they believe? No. I can't abide that. On top of that, the show's staff are intentionally ignoring everything that came before it, diminishing the rest of the universe in their quest to prove their misguided righteousness - to the point of insulting the achievements made by past Star Trek stars and characters.
It's garbage. All of it. It's not Star Trek, and you're damn right I'm mad.
Good episode. STE is one of the better series that just didn't get the light it deserved.
Dear Heavens Starfleet is incompetent. Not only did Zephram Cochrane warn everyone about them (by name) they ended up with an entire blown up Borg ship and several bodies to examine, and then completely forgot about the incident. Wolf 359 didn't need to happen.
Well, T'Pol did mention in the episode that Cochrane was a heavy drinker, which hurts his credibility about the story of the cybernetic beings. That's why nobody believed him.
@@MoniqueFromPlymouth Winston Churchill and Bible Moses were also heavy drinkers. Still credible.
A lot of people are hard on this episode, arguing that these Borg were too easy to beat. But in fairness, these were Borg made from nanoprobes that had been frozen in solid ice for over a century and were almost certainly in terrible condition as a result. Yes, Borg can regenerate and repair, but even with fully operational nanoprobes that takes time. Here, with the repair vector itself severely damaged and only primitive tech to assimilate for resources (plus it's pretty clear they are not connected to the main hive mind in the Delta Quadrant, hence the need for the message) it actually makes sense that they would be behind the curve. (Noting, of course, as the episode itself makes pretty clear, that it's a good thing Enterprise won when they did as this would not have kept for much longer.)
All other shows and movies have shown that Borg invade the enemy ship instead of trying to rescue their own. It made no sense that the Borg here transported back to their own ship. Especially since they adapted already to hand phasers and would have it easy to take over the ship. Another big issue, the Enterprise is technologically superior, so even more a reason to take it over than clinging to their own ship.
I would've rather seen them slowly become immune to all damage and finally only destroyed by being lured into some natural force, like a star or space anomaly. Or going the John Sheridan way and nuke them away (e.g. a deliberate warp core breach).
@@larnregis You are assuming the processing power of the collective. It's well established that a handful of Borg aren't competent.
@@larnregis I assumed they beamed back to join emergency repair efforts on their ship, having decided they had a better chance of surviving to reconnect with the collective if they retreated and repaired rather than pressing onward on Enterprise, which was an unfamiliar environment that likely contained threats sufficient to possibly incapacitate the rest of their boarding party. They'd adapted to the phase pistols, yes, but there were more ways Enterprise's crew could take one or more of the drones out, and their mini-collective didn't have enough drones yet to treat them as entirely expendable.
when 7 ove 9 n her group got cut off they went mental so it's clear that without the hive there more defensive
This episode shows us that Enterprise did take place in an alternate timeline created by the Borg's time traveling, however the events played out in such a way _(no names discovered, no technology recovered, and even very little description given)_ that the two timeliness would be indistinguishable. TOS, TNG, DS9, and Voy could have just as easily played out in both timelines exactly as they are and to quibble about it is entirely academic. In fact the message that the Borg sent out to the Delta Quadrant in this episode could be viewed as ensuring a causal loop paradox rather than creating a new timeline at all.
It would also allow for the destruction of Paraagan II and the Xindi attack on earth being in this timeline and if Discovery is set here as well would allow for the discrepancies between that and TOS
@@ianbailey4667 That's a big if. I don't see a need to treat STD as canon if they don't see a need to follow it.
@@ianbailey4667 tbh, there are way to many timeline changes within each series which dont add up
False. just because the Borg are in the past doesn't; make it an alternate timeline. This is a closed loop. The Borg were always there. You are claiming that every TNG movie after first contact is in an alternate timeline too.
Yeah no, TATV taking place on the holodeck blows the whole alternate timeline thing out of the water.
giggled at the spiteful little phaser blast they finished with
Phase cannon*
In review, it amazes me how good the CGi of ENT looks. It wasn´t obvious cause most of us still watched it on CRTs vis cable television, but these DVD rips show how good it actually looked.
To me, it actually looks way nicer than the blurry mess of new Trek, with everything glowing, shaking, making strange toy noises.
OG Trek, even sound seemed to have an Okudagram of what goes and what doesnt, and it fitted perfectly.
Love that last jab.
Remember when absurd retcon used to be done in a non-tastelessly-bad way?
Despite some flaws a great episode!
Every video is a masterpiece. Keep doing what you're doing!
Live long and prosper
Amazing how this 3 minute sizzle reel of Enterprise is better than the entirety of the second season of Picard combined
To be fair, a video of me taking an agonising KFC hot wings dump would be better than the first and second seasons of Picard.
@pa_2600 bro, _Star Trek_ was ""woke"" from day 1. back when segregation was normal, _Star Trek: The Original Series_ (TOS) famously stoked controversy by treating Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) the same as white crew members. some viewers complained that Uhura was too much diversity. yet _Star Trek_ stayed diverse, ""woke,"" and very political. as Gene Roddenberry told the _Toledo Blade_ (1968 Aug 15), TOS "did shows about sex, bigotry, racism, unionism, and religion...and even Vietnam."
Nichelle Nichols recalls in her book _Beyond Uhura_ (pp. 195-198) that she, Roddenberry, and Shatner had to fight NBC's execs to keep the interracial kiss between Kirk and Uhura in "Plato's Stepchildren" (TOS S3E10). The execs wanted to cut out that kiss because they feared backlash from the Deep South. Shatner and Nichols purposely flubbed all of their takes without the kiss to make sure that the kiss was aired.
plenty of Star Trek episodes are heavy-handed allegories criticizing racism (like TOS S3E15 "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield") or homophobia/transphobia (like TNG S5E17 "The Outcast" and DS9 S4E05 "Rejoined"). if by "woke" you mean something like "heavy-handed," "preachy, tedious, and hilariously unsubtle" when promoting "an open-minded future," that is exactly how critics like Zack Handlen (in _The AV Club_ on 2010 Feb 5) described "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield." making so-called ""woke garbage"" is _Star Trek_ tradition.
Star Trek is ""woke."" Star Trek was always ""woke."" Star Trek will always be ""woke.""
I love how the phasers are fired from different sections of the hull depending on the shot they need for the camera. Even though they are mounted in particular locations.
'CAPTAIN! THEYVE ADAPTED!"-worf
Brian Tyler’s score in this episode was top-tier.
The last Phaser-Shot was personal!
Yeah, it had a definite "Why are you still existing?" vibe"
The last phaser hit was great. Blow with topedos and like Mortal Kombat "Finish Him" the phaser blow. Great
I do like how this show borg ship was only half cube ship, you can still see what was left of what ever ship it use to be while the back was slowly transforming into a cube ship
Daaaamn
1:42 That is just one AWESOME looking vessel! I love it.
Bringing the Borg back to this mysterious, intangible state made them the scariest they'd been since Best of Both Worlds, maybe even Q Who. A true return to form after Voyager neutered them.
Although this was a good episode, this caused an issue with the TNG episode "Q-Who". The Enterprise engaged the Borg Cure in the delta quadrant! At the end of the episode there is a chilling discussion between Guinan and Picard, he states "they know were here and they will be coming". I think introducing the Borg into Enterprise was a cheap shot and should have kept well away.
Borg already knew about humans cuse sevens family was studding them
They didn't even know they were called the borg. They just referred to them as a cybernetic like species.
Not even one species. the scientists had them classified as different species with similar cybernetics.
This was one of my favorite episodes of Enterprise. Well made...
I remember how much hate this episode received when it first aired, but genuinely it's one the best episodes Enterprise ever did.
This was a great episode. Felt like a sequel to the Star Trek First contact movie 👍
I thought about this. These were Borg left behind in 2063. Section 31 nabs a sample of their nanoprobes and eventually someone uses them to create Control. Everything Control does in Discovery Season 2 is something the Borg would do right down to how it assimilates Leland.
I was getting that feeling with Control. Even it's name sounds ominous.
I’m glad there wasn’t that always annoying/unexpected “interference “ during transport because if so Archer and Malcolm would’ve been screwed 😟
I always really liked this episode!
When dealing with Borg, you stay and burn every piece of tech until it's nothing but ash, just to be sure nothing regenerates
Furthermore, When Borg know their vessel in in danger being destroyed they assimilate whatever ship they invade, they dont beam back to a doomed ship.
they did a good job on this one The Borg was one of the federation greatest enemiles even the dominion as well to.
Archer didn't like it but knew he had to execute two drones by ejecting them into space. Then he had to destroy their ship as well. It's what he had to do.
I have the DVD set called the Borg Collection. It has every episode that the Borg appear in chronological order using using stardates. This is the first episode. The last one is the finale of Voyager. It's fun to watch them in order and see how they changed over the years.
Needs to be updated.
No, it really does not. New trek is an abomination
Enterprise got really lucky those other 4 Borg decided to teleport back to their ship. It could of gone south real quick.
I'm surprised by the overwhelming positive reaction in the comments. This was one of the ENT episodes I thought was a misstep. It came off like a clumsy attempt to shoehorn a popular villain into the show even though it didn't make sense from a continuity perspective.
Wanna make the borg scarier? Imagine them taking over Gamma Quadrant without losing a single cube to the Dominion.
Ironically, I had seen the type of digital display in the NX clas Enterprise offered at a miltary tradeshow on youtube. So, it is now common on many warships in this time period.
Please include the episode number in the description in future
It's weird that the borg would go back in time when the NX-01 was in service. Like it was after the events of Star Trek: First Contact in 1996.
Who would have thought that the antidote to being assimilated was to be human popcorn in a microwave for a few seconds, rather than JL Picard's phaser set to kill.
I loved this episode...temporal paradoxes are a b**** aren't they?😄
My favorite part was that Flox figured out how to purge the nanoprobes from his body but at extreme risk.
Some Fans didn't like these few episode THE BORG was not seen until NG BUT I LIKED IT AND FELT IT TIED IN NICELY
The quantum leaped into the Star Trek series, it was there for a while
"Target their warp core, hit them with everything we got"
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*hit*
The only thing that bugged me in it was the borg not saying who they were..But a very good episode.
It makes sense that the writers left that out. Otherwise, Starfleet may have remembered Archer's encounter when the Enterrprise D encountered them much later.
How convenient that technology of rival civilizations always seemed on par with whatever technology the Federation or United Earth is at. Imagine if the Borg had TNG-level tech in this encounter.
The Borg were severely limited by the technology they had access to. That freighter was a human vessel, it was improved but in the first place it was nowhere near a NX design... until modified.
had me on the edge of my seat the whole tome
Love the music Brian Tyler u did very awesome & w Canamar too
Wish there was a 5th season. Would’ve been so cool to see the NX01 refit in action. This series was ended before it was done .
I know right, at the end of the series they were warp 7 capable. It probably would have looked like like a mix of NX01/NCC-1701 ❤️ Enterprise connected most with TOS tbh
1:46 Archer fights just like Picard.
Those brand new Photonic torpedoes came in handy.
I thought this episode was interesting & I recognized the connection this episode had with the movie Star Trek: First Contact.
Archer and the Enterprise crew did not realise they had encountered The Borg. All they knew what that they had encountered and defeated a ship containing members of some sort of Cybernetic race of which there were countless ones throughout the galaxy. Archer probably filed a report to StarFleet so it was aware of the existence of The Borg but did not know what the race actually was at that time nor the potential threat it posed. When Q "orchestrated" the encounter between Picard's Enterprise and The Borg, StarFleet became fully aware of the fact that race was The Borg and also became aware of the threat presented by it - hence the first "official" contact between The Borg and humankind.
Not even a race, a bunch of different races with the same disease.
It makes sense that Starfleet and its allies would forget this event as well, since it did not repeat and the real immediate threats were with the Romulans, Klingons, Tholians, Orions, and whatever else species you want to insert that were on the ongoing terror list.
Borg was still its early existence in the Alpha quadrant, but the Federation hasn’t known enough about the existence of the Borg, this episode predates the Federation and long before the Enterprise D became the first Federation starship to ever encountered the Borg. The crew of the Enterprise-E saved the past from further contamination of the existence of the Borg and First Contact was saved.
These Borg were the leftovers from First Contact
@@NerdydanDotCom Not necessarily, but Borg Queen died, at the time of First Contact, Starfleet known about the existence of the Borg, but only one Federation starship had made first contact with the Borg, Enterprise NX-01 had encountered the Borg before the Federation ever established, but they had no idea who they really were.
Q show and present the borg to picard, the firts time
This is the best episode of Enterprise.
Tell me you're The Borg without telling me you're The Borg.
I never saw this episode. I find myself strangely affected by this series. I wonder why. It feels more real than the other ones. Curious…
Maybe it's because it's closer in to our time than the other shows. Just a thought.
Which episode is this?
Regeneration.
This is captain *You will be assimilated, resistance is futile* of the starship Enterprise
It’s concerning how close the Borg came to winning. If Enterprise wasn’t able to catch them in time, they would have destroyed the entire quadrant.