| Star Trek: TNG episode | | "Q Who?" |
"The Enterprise encounters a massive Borg Cube in "Q Who?". | | Episode no. | | | Prod. code | 142 | | Airdate | May 8, 1989 | | Writer(s) | Maurice Hurley | | Director | Rob Bowman | | Year | 2365 | | Stardate | 42761.3 | | Episode chronology | | Previous episode | "Pen Pals" | | Next episode | "Samaritan Snare" |
"Q Who?" is an episode from the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this episode, the Enterprise enters a previously unexplored region of space, and encounters a future nemesis. Image File history File links STQWho. ...
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Q takes Picard aboard a shuttlecraft outside the Enterprise to warn him of the dangers in this region and advise him to turn back. When they return to the Enterprise, they materialise in Ten Forward, where a heated argument ensues between Q and Guinan, hinting at a two century long history of enmity between the two. A shuttlecraft, in the science fiction television and movie series Star Trek, is a smaller type of ship, usually capable of atmospheric transport, detachable from a larger starships shuttlebay. ...
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Picard refuses to heed Q's warning, stating that human-kind makes its own way in the universe without omnipotence to aid them. Enraged by this perceived arrogance, Q sends the ship 7000 light years away to System J25 as a lesson in refusing the Q. Shortly after their arrival, they are greeted by a large, cube-shaped vessel that Guinan identifies as belonging to the Borg. A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9. ...
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The crew is then startled by the sudden arrival of a Borg drone that beamed itself aboard despite the fact the the Enterprise's shields are raised. After it accesses a few of their records, they are forced to kill it, but a second drone appears, this time protected by a force field which is immune to phaser fire. After completing the work of the first drone, it leaves without making any attempt at communication. Only after this do they receive a signal from the alien vessel. (Having just achieved access to the Enterprise's computers, it is possible that no previous communication had been attempted since any linguistic knowledge of Federation space was unknown to the Collective until that time.) The message warns the Enterprise crew that the Borg "have analyzed (their) defensive capabilities as being unable to defend (against the Borg)" and that if they attempt to defend themselves, that they will be punished. The ship subsequently locks onto the Enterprise with a tractor beam which slowly drains the ship's shields. The Enterprise is able to disable the tractor beam, but not before the Borg use a laser-like beam to slice out a section of the ship's saucer section, resulting in the death of 18 crewmembers. The Borg or Borg Collective is a race of cyborgs in the Star Trek fictional universe. ...
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Picard then sends an away team to investigate the vessel. When they learn the the Borg are able to use their collective power to regenerate their ship, the away team is immediately beamed back. The Enterprise attempts to flee, but the Borg cube immediatly follows them. In biology, regeneration is the ability to recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs and limbs. ...
The Enterprise is rapidly losing the chase, so Picard is forced to turn to Q for help. Q, satisfied that not only are his words finally being heeded, but that Picard is actually asking for help, returns the ship to its original location.
Since Q rebuked Picard's stubborn refusal to heed his warning, (thus introducing the Borg to the Federation), the Enterprise's now compromised computers revealed the location of Earth. Picard and Guinan surmise over a game of 3D chess that it was then only be a matter of time before the Borg arrived at Earth, ready to assimilate Humanity.
Notes
- This episode is the first appearance of the Borg.
- Sonya Gomez was later used in the S.C.E. novels as second-in-command of the USS Da Vinci.
- Although this is technically the first appearance of the Borg, there is enough speculation from other Trek sources to indicate that Starfleet and the Federation were quite aware of the existence of the Borg. In Star Trek: Voyager, for example, Seven of Nine's parents were intrepid scientists who were intent on studying the Borg close up, following rumors about their existence that predated "Q Who". In the feature film Generations, we learn that Guinan's world had been destroyed by the Borg and that her people fled to the Federation, nearly a century before the Enterprise first encounters them.
- The existence of the Borg was first hinted at in the first season finale, "The Neutral Zone".
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