I was only 5 when the first part aired. This episode basically turned me into a Star Trek fan for life, and I've seen Best of Both Worlds many times since.
It also made me a huge fan of the Borg. Not that I was rooting for them. But it was so refreshing to see our heroes face off against an enemy that they couldn't really defeat. Not at first, anyways.
One Borg cube could take down an entire fleet of Federation ships. It was so powerful that this single Borg vessel could potentially assimilate the entire quadrant.
Thankfully, the Enterprise manages to save the day. But as a kid, I always relished the idea of what would happen if the Borg came back?
Star Trek eventually revisited the Borg menace, but I suppose I was never quite satisfied with those portrayals. My main question: If the Borg are so powerful, why can't they just take over the whole galaxy?
There's an actual thread on reddit that discusses this. http://www.reddit.com/r/
Whatever the reasoning, at least for me, the earlier version of the Borg were the best. An enemy that is so powerful and vast that perhaps nothing can stop it.
That notion went into my thinking for the invaders in my book. I wanted to try and replicate that feel.
"This is...just another page in history, isn't it? Will this be the end of our civilization? Turn the page." --- Captain Picard.
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