I have yet to see any borg and i want to know which episode they first appear. After defeating a borg ship, captain janeway decides to launch an attack to steal a transwarp coil to shorten voyagers journey home. Fifteen years in the future, survivors chakotay, kim and the doctor attempt to send a message back in time to prevent the tragedy. I am watching all the episodes if star trek voyager and i just finished the 2nd episode of the third season. The borg seem to be one step ahead when the borg queen communicates with seven of nine. How star trek first contact and voyager ruined the borg. The borg set that was used for this episode was not from star trek. Which episode of voyager are the borg first introduced. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. In terms on cannon, their first appearance was in the movie first contact hen they went back in time to april 2063. Second, picard did ask q for help in a similar situation when they first encountered the borg. The final moments of impossible box call back to the first season episode of voyager, prime factors, and an alien race known as the sikarians. Not one of the hundreds of novels, comics, audio plays, video gamesheck, e. A borg for most of her life, seven had to relearn how to be a human being detached from the collective.
When q brings the enterprised to the j25 system in the tng episode q who. The episode first aired on the upn network on february 12, 1997, as part of sweeps week. Time and again is by the numbers but perfectly serviceable star trek, while eye of the needle is voyagers first really classic episode. Unity is the 17th episode of the third season of the american science fiction television series star trek.
Seven of nine was played by jeri ryan for four voyager seasons, featured in many episodes despite coming later to the series. The borg are first seen by voyager in the thirdseason episode. Voyager only because alice krige who played the role in the movie star trek. They also appeared in the star trek movie first contact. Should they be successful, they will steal the borg transwarp coil in hopes of integrating the technology into voyager s systems.
In voyager episode q2, even q tells his son, dont provoke the borg. The fictional raven spacecraft in the episode is a federation vessel of the 2350s in the star trek franchise, and its design has been made in miniature model. Seven of nine born annika hansen is a fictional character introduced in the american science fiction television series star trek. For example, the episode distant origin would not have been made with piller on the staff because of its unusual plot structure. Q who marked the first appearance of the borg, who were designed by hurley and originally intended to appear in the first season episode the neutral zone. In this episode, voyager encounters three aliens played by guest stars vaughn armstrong, bertila damas, and tim kelleher. Voyager follows the adventures of the federation starship voyager, which is under the command of captain kathryn janeway. Unity is the 17th episode of the third season of the american science fiction. During the remainder of voyagers run, captain janeway, seven of. Throughout the series, the number of crewmen on voyager has fluctuated despite the fact that several have died over the course of the series, and only around eight have been added.
Caretaker was really great, but as many other trekkers will note, voyager went way downhill from here. In that episode, q sends the enterprise to an far and uncharted part of the galaxy. A few weeks ago, i had the pleasure of participating in a podcast called geek fights, and the topic was worst episode of star trek. February 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message hunters is the 83rd episode of the science fiction television series star trek. Federation citizens and members of a terrorist organization must learn to band together to survive in an unknown part of the galaxy, is mostly forgotten by episode 4 of season 1. First contact, where the borg tried to construct an interplexing beacon on the navigational deflector of the uss enterprisee to contact the 21st century borg in the delta quadrant. When was the first appearance of the borg in star trek. Because this episode basically undermines the whole q thing and creates its own paradox. When i was first captured by the borg, i was young and frightened. For the best answers, search on this site the borg can time travel, and they went back and had her repaired. Note that q had nothing to do with the voyagers first encounter with the borg, but that he did do this to the enterprise and its crew, in a next generation storyline. Portrayed by jeri ryan, she is a former borg drone who joins the crew of the federation starship voyager. Voyager is in pursuit of a rebel maquis ship in the alpha. The number of the crew has been as few as 125 and as many as 160.
However, were the borg destroyed or did the virus just cripple the base and cause mass casualties. A borg mechanical arm was one of the costume pieces that had previously been used in star trek. It was also a dark and stormy episode of star trek. We boldly go and revisit the top episodes from star. The story is interesting and way above in the quality department then most of the voyager episodes.
With the next generation in the movies and ds9 not exploring space, the pilot for voyager takes audiences where they have never gone before. The crew of the 24thcentury spacecraft uss voyager deal with a cyborg, played by guest star j. Unlike plenty of things on youtube this is a legitimate, authorized release, but according to the studio it will only be available for a limited time. The pay streaming platform cbs all access has posted the first episode of its latest star trek series free on youtube. The episode first aired in broadcast syndication on may 5, 1989. The next generation tng writers began to develop the idea of the borg as early as the season 1 episode, conspiracy, which introduced a coercive, symbiotic life form that took over key federation personnel. My definition of a borg episode is an episode in which one or more borg drones appear or a functional borg ship is encountered. Drone is the 96th episode of the science fiction television series star trek. Not according to various extended lore shown afterwards, but one of the problems with trek is that nothing outside of the live action shows or movies are considered canon.
List of star trek borg episodes in chronological order. No idea why theres not been a voyager movie yet, but there is a star trek movie coming out next summer, so. In 2014, io9 rated the raven as the 75th best episode of star trek, and stated it was one of the best episodes about the character seven of nine recovering from her borg assimilation. Voyager finds a borg cube controlled by assimilated children who have. The borg appear in six episodes of the next generation, one episode of deep space nine, one episode of enterprise, the film star trek. Enterprise episode regeneration, mike sussman and phyllis strong, stated, in the audio commentary on the ent season 2 dvd release, that it was their explicit intent to have the episode deal with the consequences of events depicted in star trek. Her full borg designation is seven of nine, tertiary adjunct of unimatrix zero one. In 2015, whatculture ranked this the 22nd best episode of all time in the star trek science fiction universe. Picards first season is now complete, and through its 10episode run, it sees several trek characters return, both from the next generation and other series. List of star trek borg episodes in chronological order higgypop.
The borg appear in twentyone episodes of star trek and in one movie. The decision to create a borg episode for star trek. Voyager, which aired on upn from january 1995 through may 2001. It was written by executive producer maurice hurley and directed by rob bowman. Things get complicated once seven of nine joins voyager because, essentially, every episode becomes a borg episode. This show expands the story of the character seven of nine. Her introduction was in the second part of the episode scorpion, the first episode of the fourth season. Voyager mentions that before the episode collective that we have seen any borg babies,this is wrong we first saw them in the very first borg episode q who,wher an enterprise away team beam over to the borg cube and find a borg baby nursery. The borg are star treks most feared and most loved adversaries they appear in a total twentyone episodes in the star trek franchise in enterprise, the next generation and voyager, every television incarnation other than the original series and deep space nine. Picards sixth episode, the impossible box, an onscreen caption confirms the artifact is also located in the beta quadrant. Survival instinct is the 122nd episode the second episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series star trek. The borg detect her plan, and access seven of nines neural transceiver to deliver an ultimatum. In addition, the shows two most notable characters the. It marked the first major appearance of the borg in voyager, which were kicked.
In the series finale of voyager and arguably the series finale of all the star trek tv series if ds9s date is right in my head we see. One was rated the most overlooked of the best episodes of star trek. Of the three 1980s90s star trek series, voyager takes the longest to really get up a head of steam. So thats possibly a total of 32 episodes or 108 borg episodes and 1. A miscalculation by ensign kim causes a fatal crash during voyagers first test with slipstream travel.
The borg first appear in the next generation episode q who, which aired the 8th of april 1989. For the final episode, susanna thompson was not available because of shooting once and again so alice krige played the borg queen in the final episode. For me personally and im bracing myself for the backlash its the enterprise episode regeneration. This is the fourth television program in the star trek franchise, and comprises a total of 172 episodes over the shows seven seasons. And, if you count every single episode of voyager in which former borg seven of nine jeri ryan appears, thats 100 episodes right there. During that debate, i railed pretty heavily against a particular episode of star trek voyager called dark frontier, and alleged that that episode and voyager in general ruined the borg one of star treks most compelling villains. To solve this problem, i dont count her has a borg drone appearance. It was written by producer kenneth biller, and is the second episode to be directed by cast member robert duncan mcneill. This is an episode list for the sciencefiction television series star trek. In geographical terms, voyager places its defunct cube in the beta quadrant, and in star trek. I am having difficulty locating a good list in chronological order of borg episodesmovies. In terms of the timeline, the two borg cubes also coincide neatly. What episode of star trek voyager do the borg first appear.
Tng and voyager both featured plenty of borg episodes, but for a lot of fans, the most memorable storylines are. Members of the voyager crew train on the holodeck for a raid on a borg ship. The borg on the cube demand the uss voyagers navigational deflector to reestablish communication with other borg in the region. Third, the entire reason voyager is in this mess is because an omnipotent superbeing brought them to the dq, and for the first season the main plot involved them trying to track down a second omnipotent superbeing to ask her to send them home instead. Later chakotay discovers a population of exborg of various species in unity. The borg are first discovered by voyager in episode blood fever. Did admiral janeway destroy all the borg for all time on. This episode marks the first appearances of icheb, mezoti, azan, and. The 7 essential borg episodes to watch before star. In 20, we minored in film ranked one the fourth best episode of star trek. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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