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JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here the ''Enterprise-D'' makes first contact with...[[TheAssimilator the Borg]].
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* TheDreaded: Q's description of what lies waiting for humanity as they continue out into the galaxy. The Borg are his immediate example.
-->'''Q:''' Picard, you are about to move into areas of the galaxy containing wonders more incredible than you can possibly imagine-- and terrors to freeze your soul. [...] You judge yourselves against the pitiful adversaries you've encountered so far. The Romulans, the Klingons; they're ''nothing'' compared to what's waiting.
-->'''Q:''' Picard, you are about to move into areas of the galaxy containing wonders more incredible than you can possibly imagine-- and terrors to freeze your soul. [...] You judge yourselves against the pitiful adversaries you've encountered so far. The Romulans, the Klingons; they're ''nothing'' compared to what's waiting.
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* TheDreaded: Q's description of what lies waiting for humanity as they continue out into the galaxy. The Borg ''Borg'' are his immediate example.
example. The ''Dominion'' shows up later.
-->'''Q:'''Picard, you are about to move into areas of the galaxy containing wonders more incredible than you can possibly imagine-- and terrors to freeze your soul. [...] You ''You'' judge yourselves against the pitiful adversaries "adversaries" you've encountered so far. far... The Romulans, ''Romulans'', the Klingons; ''Klingons''; they're ''nothing'' '''''nothing''''' compared to what's waiting.waiting. ''Picard''! You are about to move into areas of the Galaxy containing ''wonders'' more ''incredible'' than you can ''possibly'' '''''imagine'''''. And ''terrors'' to ''freeze your soul''. I offer myself as a ''guide'', only to be rejected out-of-hand.
-->'''Q:'''
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* TranquilFury: Picard's reaction to Worf's report that 18 crew members have been killed by the Borg. He is clearly seething but he remains collected and never raises his voice.
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* TheUnreveal: We never find out how Q and Guinan know each other, and why even the omnipotent Q seems wary of her.
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* TheUnreveal: We never find out how Q and Guinan know each other, and why even the omnipotent Q seems wary of her.her; not even ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', released almost 30 years later (and featuring both characters, though mostly at different times) ever answered the question.
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** After the away team beam on-board the boarding party, Riker initially assumes that they haven't been attacked because the Borg don't consider them a threat, but Data later clarifies that the Borg are actually focusing on repairing the damage their ship took in the firefight with the ''Enterprise'', implying that they just saw the repairs as the more immediate priority and otherwise would probably have attacked the away team as soon as they beamed in. In their future appearances, the Borg ''never'' attack intruders until they actively become a threat.
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** After the away team beam beams on-board the boarding party, cube, Riker initially assumes that they haven't been attacked because the Borg don't consider them a threat, but Data later clarifies that the Borg are actually focusing on repairing the damage their ship took in the firefight with the ''Enterprise'', implying that they just saw the repairs as the more immediate priority and otherwise would probably have attacked the away team as soon as they beamed in. In their future appearances, the Borg ''never'' attack intruders until they actively become a threat.
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* DeathGlare: After the Borg take a sample out of the saucer section, Worf informs Picard that 18 people were in that section, and are now missing. Picard turns to the viewscreen and gives the cube an absolutely ''murderous'' glare. Without saying a word, his expression clearly communicates that he would like nothing better than to blow that ship to pieces. It almost comes as a relief when he calls a conference, instead.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: Guinan and Q have met before, Guinan goes into a defensive position with oddly specific hand gestures and Q shows annoyance at her presence but otherwise restrained in confronting her. This is not explained at all in the episode, though Guinan is an El Aurian with abstractly defined qualities. ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' 30 years later provided a little more information, but is hardly conclusive[[note]]El Aurians apparently made a treaty with the Q Continuum millennia prior, but the details are left just as vague[[/note]]
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: The ''Enterprise'' crew is able to dispatch one Borg with their phasers. When another comes on, it quickly adapts a personal force field to repel the phasers, making them useless.
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* FinalBossPreview: The early encounter with the Borg, which the Enterprise was completely unprepared for.
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-->'''Picard:''' I understand what you've done here, Q, but I think the lesson could have been learned without the loss of eighteen members of my crew.\\
'''Q:''' If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. 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:''' If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. 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.
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* HyperspeedEscape: The ''Enterprise'' attempts one when the Borg cube starts regenerating. {{Defied}} when the Borg [[HyperspeedAmbush catch up to them]] and knock them out of warp.
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* HyperspeedEscape: The ''Enterprise'' attempts one jumps to warp when the Borg cube starts regenerating. {{Defied}} when the Borg [[HyperspeedAmbush catch up to them]] and knock them out of warp.
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* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Guinan can feel that something bad is about to happen at the beginning of the episode, though she isn't sure what-- however, when Q makes his appearance, she declarers "I ''knew'' it was you," suggesting that she was actually more suspicious than she let on.
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* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Guinan can feel that something bad is about to happen at the beginning of the episode, though she isn't sure what-- however, when Q makes his appearance, she declarers declares "I ''knew'' it was you," suggesting that she was actually more suspicious than she let on.
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* KickTheDog: Q simply does not care that eighteen crew members of the ''Enterprise'' are dead [[AFateWorseThanDeath or worse]] to the Borg's machinations. To him, it's all to teach Picard a lesson in humility and the growing risks of interstellar travel, never mind a firm threat of the Borg that would come again soon enough.
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** The Borg's VoiceOfLegion sounds different in this episode, with a less prominent echo effect.
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** The Borg's VoiceOfLegion VoiceOfTheLegion sounds different in this episode, with episode and has a less prominent echo effect.
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** The Borg's VoiceOfLegion sounds different in this episode, with a less prominent echo effect.
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* TheJuggernaut: Riker describes the Borg this way while aboard the Borg Cube when he sees how intricate their collective consciousness is.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The away team is surprised that the Borg ignore their presence aboard the cube, before realizing that they're focused on repairing their ship. Though later episodes would state that it's in the Borg's nature to ignore intruders till they actively threaten them.
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* HardTruthAesop: The main plot is instigated when Picard tells Q that they are doing just fine and don't need his help. Q sends them into the path of the Borg, who are really not that far away (and previous episodes have been hinting at odd incidents reported along the Neutral Zone) as a demonstration of how outmatched they really are at what is coming. Picard is reduced to begging Q to save them, and muses at the end of the episode that Q [[CruelToBeKind did them a favor in letting them get kicked around as a warning]].
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Overall, this episode is the one time we see Q get genuinely angry and it's bone chilling. In particular, when Q explains the nature of the Borg to the senior staff, he's quiet, calm, and very direct, which is at odds with his LargeHam trickster persona. It's part of what makes his 'oh, please' line so memorable.
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** Overall, this episode is the one time we see Q get genuinely angry and it's bone chilling. In particular, when Q explains the nature of the Borg to the senior staff, he's quiet, calm, and very direct, which is at odds with his LargeHam trickster persona. It's part of what makes his 'oh, please' line so memorable.
** Overall, this episode is the one time we see Q get genuinely angry and it's bone chilling. In particular, when Q explains the nature of the Borg to the senior staff, he's quiet, calm, and very direct, which is at odds with his LargeHam trickster persona. It's part of what makes his 'oh, please' line so memorable.
