The Best of Both Worlds (episode)

In picard's assimilation flashback scenes as locutus in first contact, why did he, the other borg, and his ship look like first contact era borg (stardate 50893.5 (2373), when they should've looked like TNG the best of both worlds era borg (stardate 43989.1 (2366))? Is it because he was dreaming, and just incorrectly pictured himself as a newer, more advanced style borg? 🤔

It's already been established in canon that the borg and their ships looked different in first contact (stardate 50893.5 (2373) when they were less advanced, than they did in TNG the best of both worlds (stardate 43989.1 (2366)) when they had evolved to be more advanced.

Q would be one of the major reasons that the Federation won the Dominion War.

In the TNG episode "Q Who" Q introduced the Federation to the Borg, and said: "You're not prepared for what awaits you" and many people thought he was referring to future Borg encounters, but could he really have been referring to the Dominion?

In the episode "The Best of Both Worlds" Starfleet suffered the loss of over 40 ships to a single Borg cube and if they hadn't, Starfleet would not have started constructing more powerful ships and refitting current ones with better weaponry. So, the Federation may not have constructed the Akira Class, the Saber Class, the Defiant Class or the Prometheus Class and would not be prepared for the Dominion.

Perhaps there is like a sort of conference, with Q, the Prophets, the Organians and other species to decide the fate of the galaxy, and maybe the Prophets saw that at some point, the Dominion would attempt to take over the Alpha Quadrant and called Q to give the Federation a hint, a helping hand, so that the Alpha Quadrant would push the Dominion back to the Gamma Quadrant. It would be silly if the Q Continuum, the Prophets or any other god-like beings weren't aware of each other.

So, that's my theory. Hope you liked it!

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If disconnecting a borg drone from the collective was apparently something the collective couldn't do once a drone had been added to the collective because it would be like disconnecting an arm or a foot according to crusher in TNG the best of both worlds, then how come the borg queen could disconnect drones so easily, and even destroy entire cubes of drones (VOY unimatrix zero), thus disconnecting them from the collective?

After sixteen matches, our champion is The Best of Both Worlds. Here is the seeding:

1. The Best of Both Worlds beat All Good Things in the championship (1st Place) 🥇

2. The Trouble with Tribbles lost to All Good Things in round 2

3. The Inner Light lost to In the Pale Moonlight in round 2

4. Mirror, Mirror lost to The City on the Edge of Forever in round 2

5. The City on the Edge of Forever lost to In the Pale Moonlight in the bronze match

6. In the Pale Moonlight beat The City on the Edge of Forever in the bronze match (3rd Place) 🥉

7. All Good Things lost to The Best of Both Worlds in the championship (2nd Place) 🥈

8. The Visitor lost to Ensign Ro in round 1

9. Ensign Ro lost to The Best of Both Worlds in round 2

10. The Andorian Incident lost to All Good Things in round 1

11. Cause and Effect lost to In the Pale Moonlight in round 1

12. Year of Hell lost to The City on the Edge of Forever in round 1

13. Future's End lost to Mirror, Mirror in round 1

14. Scorpion lost to The Inner Light in round 1

15. Yesterday's Enterprise lost to The Trouble with Tribbles in round 1

16. The Defector lost to The Best of Both Worlds in round 1

In no way am I trying to say that VOY borg are as strong as the borg in best of both worlds. I'm trying to say that some of the complaints used against unimatrix zero can be said against best of both worlds.

Mechanical arms: I will admit that I thought that at least one of the three that got assimilated should've got an mechanical arm. But Picard/Locutus got a mechanical arm and was fine next episode. So even if they did, I don't think it'd be much of an issue. I'll reply with pictures.

Viruses/weapons: so in unimatrix zero they made a virus against the borg which is a complaint. But in best of both worlds they were coming up with weapons there too. And they'd only seen the borg once before that time. By unimatrix zero, they'd encountered the borg several times and even had a former borg apart of their crew.

Easily treated after assimilation: That was the case in best of both worlds too. Picard was normal as if nothing happened next episode.