- Q tries to prove that Picard needs him as part of their crew by hurling the Enterprise 7,000 light years away where they encounter the Borg for the first time.
- Q pays the Enterprise another visit, much to Captain Picard's disapproval. He wants Q to keep his part of their earlier bargain and stay away. Q insists that Picard needs him on his side and to prove his point, hurls the Enterprise far into the galaxy. There, the Enterprise crew meet the Borg and their strange, cube-like space craft. The Borg are a race that is part biological and part machine that exists within a collective consciousness. They are also a formidable foe that can out power, out run and out fight the Enterprise. With their shields weakened, it's left to Picard to decide if they really do need Q's help.—garykmcd
- Q has been expelled from his species' continuum and wants to join the Enterprise crew. He appears in a shuttle-craft which he hijacked as a clever way to kidnap and blackmail captain Picard circumventing earlier promises, but is still denied even a fair hearing. So he transports the ship across the galaxy, where they get a taste of the horror fate of star systems invaded by the cybernetic Borg race, known to Guinan, whose people was scattered by them. Picard decides to fight them rather than accept Q's help at the price of admitting he's needed, but is proved wrong as the Borg seem invincible and unwilling to deal with hopelessly inferior races like humans.—KGF Vissers
- Q (John De Lancie) pays the Enterprise another visit, much to Captain Picard's disapproval. He wants Q to keep his part of their earlier bargain and stay away from the ship. Q says that he kept his end of the agreement, since Q and Picard are on a shuttle craft, far away from the Enterprise. The Enterprise finds the captain missing and begins a search pattern. But then Q puts Picard back in the Enterprise, in the crew lounge, when Picard agrees to give a full hearing to Q's request. Guinan knows Q, and their banter indicates that they dueled 2 centuries ago.
Q insists that Picard needs him on his side & should want him to serve on The Enterprise as crew. After the last encounter he was asked to leave the Q continuum. Q is bored. He wants to join the Enterprise and in exchange he will give up his powers. Picard says that they don't trust him. Q retorts that Picard may not trust him, but he definitely needs him. Q says that humans are not ready, but Guinan says that humans will adapt and learn. To prove his point, Q hurls the Enterprise far into the galaxy (7000 light years). Q says that Romulans and Klingons are not even close to the challenges waiting for the Enterprise in the galaxy and offers his services as a guide. Q wants to test how ready the Enterprise is to face the worst dangers the galaxy has to offer.
Guinan's people come from this part of the galaxy, and she asks Picard to start back for home. It will take 2 years and 8 months to reach the nearest star base. They find a M class planet where all mechanized structures have been "scooped" off the planet, just like the outposts on the edge of the Romulan neutral zone. There, the Enterprise crew meet the Borg and their strange, cube-like space craft. The Borg are a race that is part biological and part machine that exists within a collective consciousness. They send a scout that learns about the Enterprise. When Worf phasers him, the next scout comes with a self defense system against the phaser. He completes the work and beams back to the Borg ship.
Guinan says that her people had dealt with the Borg a century ago. They swarmed through her planet system, destroyed all cities and scattered her people all throughout the galaxy. Guinan says Borg won't do anything piecemeal and nobody has ever "negotiated" with them. They are also a formidable foe that can out power, out run and out fight the Enterprise. With their shields weakened, it's left for Picard to decide if they really do need Q's help. The Borg have attacked and actually drilled a section of the saucer section out and taken it into their ship for study. Picard uses his phasers to damage 20% of the Borg ship.
Riker advises to visit the Borg ship to learn as much as possible about them. Guinan advises strongly against it. Riker, Worf and Data beam there. They learn how the Borg connect into a collective and don't exist as individual life forms. The Borgs start as humanoid babies but start implants at an early age to achieve AI interfaces within the brain. They are also using their combined power to repair the ship. Picard beams them back and orders a warp 8 retreat, but the Borgs pursue. Phasers and torpedoes don't have an impact this time around. Borg fire and the Enterprise loses its shields.
Picard tells Q to end this since he has made his point that humans are not ready to face the worst of the galaxy. Q restores the Enterprise to its original location. The crew escapes for now. Guinan says Borg will be coming in the near future.
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