History Awesome / StarTrekPicard

* Under heavy fire, Riker pops out and instantly one-shots two Borg drones back to back - one of them square in the head.

* After centuries of terrorizing the galaxy, threatening the existence of the Federation time and time again, and everything they’ve done to Picard, Seven, Sisko, and countless other victims, it’s finally over. '''The Borg are gone for good'''.

** Throughout ''TNG'', the limited VFX restricted her movements in battle, making her come across as a MightyGlacier. This time, however, the more advanced CGI lets her graduate to all-out LightningBruiser.

* We finally get to see the Fleet Museum for the first time, and she's as much a goldmine of old ships for ''Trek'' fans as a railroad museum is for {{Railfan}}s. For the first time in years, the ''Enterprise''-A, the ''Enterprise NX-01'' (and refit no less), the ''Excelsior'', the ''Voyager'', the unrefit ''Constitution'' class vessel (named ''New Jersey'') that Picard mentioned on "Relics" all those years ago--it's all there, just like it had been teased over the years. And if that wasn't wild enough? They recovered the ''H.M.S. Bounty''--the same Klingon ship Kirk and company stole--and the ''Defiant'' survived her near brush with death on ''Prodigy'' to make it into the Museum! The museum itself is housed in the old Spacedock from the third and fourth movies. Every single ''Trek'' ship from throughout the generations is all here, on screen at once. And Geordi [=LaForge=] has the honor of tending to the history of the franchise.

* After centuries of terrorizing the galaxy, threatening the existence of the Federation time and time again, and everything they’ve done to Picard, Seven, and countless other victims, it’s finally over. '''The Borg are gone for good'''.

* The Enterprise-D is finally able to show off its true battle potential thanks to modern CGI in a way the practical show model effects never could. It zipping around the innards of the Borg ship blasting bits of it looks like it could have come straight out of Star Wars.
** In effect, if, like many, you were disappointed in the last fight the Enterprise-D had, back in Generations against the Duras sisters' out of date bird of prey, the old girl makes up for it here against the Borg cube IN SPADES.

* The final scene of the series: Jack is unpacking his belongings aboard the USS Titan, now christened the USS Enterprise-G, when a familiar face appears in his cabin to prepare him for humanity’s next trial. Much like he did with Jack’s father [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1EncounterAtFarpoint thirty-five years ago]].

* The Enterprise-D is finally able to show off it's true battle potential thanks to modern CGI in a way the practical show model effects never could. It zipping around the innards of the Borg ship blasting bits of it looks like it could have come straight out of Star Wars.

* Seven, Raffi and a few older officers (or possibly enlisted crewmen) manage to retake the bridge of the ''Titan'' with the clever idea of supplying their phasers with transporter tags to beam the assimilated crew into the locked-off transporter bay. Oh and one of those crewmen happens to be the ''cook''.

* Seven, Raffi and a few older officers/crewmen manage to retake the bridge of the ''Titan'' with the clever idea of supplying their phasers with transporter tags to beam the assimilated crew into the locked-off transporter bay. Oh and one of those crewmen happens to be the ''cook''.

* Seven, Raffi and two elder ensigns manage to retake the bridge of the ''Titan'' with the clever idea of supplying their phasers with transporter tags to beam the assimilated crew into the locked-off transporter bay. Oh and one of those other officers happens to be the ''cook''.

** Fridge Brilliance adds to the Awesome. Spacedock wouldn't have been unaffected by the Borg Signal Activation last episode and they're almost certainly trying to stop the same "Instant Drone" uprising that hit the entire Frontier Day fleet. Yet, Spacedock has managed to either stop the Assimilated Starfleet personnel, or at least forced them into an impasse -- and this is also all the while fighting back against the Assimilated Starfleet flotilla.

* Although Earth's orbital weapons platforms have been destroyed, Spacedock's defences are still holding against the entire assimilated fleet, at least for the time being.

* Shaw's recollection of the Battle of Wolf 359 includes the 50 surviving crew of the USS ''Constance'' gathering on the life deck to AbandonShip, only to discover there is only one serviceable lifeboat left, enough for only 10 of them to escape. Despite their situation, the crew don't fight for seats on the escape craft, but instead a lieutenant starts pointing at crewmen and ordering them onto the lifeboat until it was full. Shaw was the tenth and final person to board, and the [[GoingDownWithTheShip lieutenant remained behind with the others.]] The story is a mix of Awesome and Tearjerker for the way the ship's officers decided to FaceDeathWithDignity rather than turn on each other.

* Shaw's recollection of the Battle of Wolf 359 includes the 50 surviving crew of the USS ''Constance'' gathering on the life deck to AbandonShip, only to discover there is only one servicable lifeboat left, enough for only 10 of them to escape. Despite their situation, the crew don't fight for seats on the escape craft, but instead a lieutenant starts pointing at crewmen and ordering them onto the lifeboat until it was full. Shaw was the tenth and final person to board, and the [[GoingDownWithTheShip Lieutenant remained behind with the others.]] The story is a mix of Awesome and Tearjerker for the way the ship's officers decided to FaceDeathWithDignity rather than turn on each other.

** And when it seems Raffi came out on top, old-timey viewers may have seen what happens next coming: an especially tough Klingon with multiple backup organs and decades of fighting experience immediately dropping dead after being stabbed with basically a ''pocket knife''? Not likely (remember he stabbed Gowron on both sides with blades twice the size at least). Sure enough, after being dragged off therefore perfectly set up to ambush the rest, he pulls a MookHorrorShow leaving only Krinn to interrogate. "Klingons never disappoint" indeed.

* We finally get to see the Fleet Museum for the first time, and she's as much a goldmine of old ships for ''Trek'' fans as a railroad museum is for {{Railfan}}s. For the first time in years, the ''Enterprise''-A, the ''Enterprise NX-01'' (and refit no less), the ''Excelsior'', the ''Voyager'', the unrefit ''Constitution'' class vessel (named ''New Jersey'') that Picard mentioned on "Relics" all those years ago--it's all there, just like it had been teased over the years. And if that wasn't wild enough? They recovered the ''H.M.S. Bounty''--the same Klingon ship Kirk and company stole--and the ''Defiant'' survived her near brush with death on ''Prodigy'' to make it into the Museum! The museum itself is housed in the old Space Dock from the third and fourth movies. Every single ''Trek'' ship from throughout the generations is all here, on screen at once. And Geordi [=LaForge=] has the honor of tending to the history of the franchise.

* Jack Crusher uses his new found psychic abilities to save Sidney's life by guiding ([[CreepyGood possibly controlling]]) her to fight the Changling Commander off with his own fighting moves

* The entire liberation of the ''Titan''-A once Data is back in control of his body. Taking back control of their systems, Data turns the entire ship against the Changelings as Raffi, Worf and the remaining ''Titan'' crew tear through the others to get back to the bridge. Once that's done, Picard orders the bridge's evacuation hatch open, shunting Vadic and the rest of her crew out into space while Jack and Seven are protected by a force field, Vadic freezing solid and shattering into pieces once she hits the ''Shrike''.

* A hell of a villainous moment of awesome for the Borg that trumps even their NearVillainVictory in ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' as we see the full scope of their plan over the entire season play out. By enlisting the help of the rogue Changelings to infiltrate Starfleet, the Borg are able to have them tamper with the Transporter tech with elements of the Borg DNA code from Picard's corpse across the entirety of Starfleet over the last few months as to infect as many people as possible with Borg nanomachines just awaiting activation through manipulating Jack, who's connection to Picard allows him to be a coupler to the DNA signal. All of this in tandem with instigating the development of a network infrastructure that links the fleet together and using the one day that the ''entirety'' of the Federation will be in one spot ensures that the moment they are ready to act, the Federation falls completely under their control with but a single command... and their enemies were none the wiser to their guile for the most sinister plan yet to finally assimilate them for good.

* A hell of a villainous moment of awesome for the Borg that trumps even their NearVillainVictory in ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'' as we see the full scope of their plan over the entire season play out. By enlisting the help of the rogue Changelings to infiltrate Starfleet, the Borg are able to have them tamper with the Transporter tech with elements of the Borg DNA code from Picard's corpse across the entirety of Starfleet over the last few months as to infect as many people as possible with Borg nanomachines just awaiting activation through manipulating Jack, who's connection to Picard allows him to be a coupler to the DNA signak. All of this in tandem with instigating the development of a network infrastructure that links the fleet together and using the one day that the ''entirety'' of the Federation will be in one spot ensures that the moment they are ready to act, the Federation falls completely under their control with but a single command... and their enemies were none the wiser to their guile for the most sinister plan yet to finally assimilate them for good.

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