Amazon.com: While hardcore Trekkers may not find a lot of new material in Star Trek Collective: Borg, newcomers experiencing 16 action-packed, fan-selected episodes of the Federation's greatest villains may have to prepare to be assimilated. All the episodes have been previously released on DVD, but there are new text commentaries on three of the episodes, and the per-disc price is significantly less expensive than the full-season Trek sets. It's a great entry point for novices, or for budget-minded fans.
The episodes are presented in Stardate order, which means starting with Enterprise, the latest series but also the earliest in chronological order. In "Regeneration," an exploration team finds a pair of apparently dead humanoid-mechanical hybrids that turn out to be members of the Borg, a nearly invincible race whose simple goal is to absorb--"assimilate"--every individual organism it encounters into its collective being. Because the Borg has the ability to adapt itself to resist any threat, resistance is futile. Shift ahead to The Next Generation and a visit by the quirky god Q turns out to have deadly implications when, in a pouty mood, he throws the Enterprise into their first encounter with the Borg. That's followed by the classic two-part cliffhanger (bridging seasons 3 and 4) "The Best of Both Worlds," in which Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) is assimilated into the Borg and a frustrated Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) has to make a fateful decision. "I, Borg" attempts to give the Borg a humanized aspect, and the two-parter "Descent" has some interesting developments for Data (Brent Spiner). Skip Deep Space Nine in favor of Voyager, the series in which Captain Janeway's (Kate Mulgrew) ship is stranded far from home in the Delta Quadrant. That happens to be home turf for the Borg, so they had a number of run-ins. The first two-parter (which bridged seasons 3 and 4) is "Scorpion," which introduces the Borg's nemesis, Species 8472. By the time of "Drone," the ship had its first Borg crew member, the sexy Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), but her loyalties are tempted by the Borg Queen (Susanna Thompson) in the double-length "Dark Frontier." In the "Unimatrix Zero" two-parter, which bridged seasons 6 and 7, Seven discovers an idyllic haven for members of the Collective that the Queen is determined to find and destroy. That eventually leads to an ultimate confrontation with the Queen (now played by Alice Krige, repeating her role from Star Trek: First Contact) in the series finale, "Endgame." --David Horiuchi
Product Description: The Borg Fan Collection has the top ten most popular Borg episodes as picked by the fans! Witness all the characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Enterprise and Voyager as they defend their ships, galaxies, and their own kind. For thousands of years the Borg have been spreading throughout the galaxy, conquering, assimilating and thus destroying countless civilizations. Following every encounter, the Borg catalogue each new species with a numerical designation instead of a proper name. The goal of the Borg, in most cases, is to completely assimilate each species by incorporating their knowledge and technology into the unified Borg Collective. One by one, each living being is converted into Borg Drones. In many cases, all that remains of an assimilated civilization is the memory of its unique contributions that now resides only within the accumulated knowledge of the Borg. That and the numerical species designation. Often even the name is lost, forgotten or deleted as irrelevant. Conversely, the species designations give a sense of the long and terrible history of the Borg and the thousands of species they have encountered and absorbed.
BORG! Probably the best villain they ever created and one I wish they had done allot more with in all the series.
great boxset Simply put if you like the borg and don't have all the boxsets this is for you. IMO this is probaly the best fan boxset they have out. It has eps from enterprise, TNG, and Voyager. The first disc IMHO is worth paying for.
For the Borg-maniac... The Borg have always been mysterious... so powerful, so pitiless, and so... cubical. Since I had skipped Voyager, the series (yes, I ended with Deep Space Nine), I had no knowledge that the Borg tales had continued. Captain Janeway's adventures in the Delta Quadrant surpass Picard's. The Borg collective's home base is IN the Delta Quadrat! No more of this being chased by a single Borg ship... picture being chased by many. Then prepare to be introduced to species 8472, who knock off Borg ships like fleas off a dog. In a switch from Picard's friendly drone, Hugh, the crew of the Voyager captures and "tames" their own drone, Seven of Nine. The big new addition is the introduction of the Borg Queen, and the secret world of select drones, Unimatrix Zero. Finally, the ending episode has Captain Janeway and Admiral Janeway (!) working together to get Voyager home and destroy one of the hearts of the Collective.
Wow! Many of these episodes were complex, two-parters. You will understand the Borg better.
Resistance is futile. These Collective sets (Borg, Klingon, Time Travel, and Q) are really icing on the cake for the Trekkie. And as the Coneheads say, "We will enjoy them."
Best DVD Ever! What a collection! All the best from all the Star Treks. The other collections are just as classic.
Perfect! Great combination of Star Trek episodes, a must have for any Star Trek Borg fan!
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