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* The Borg from the film " Star Trek: First Contact ".
Other possible plans for the season included: an episode showing the construction of the first starbase ; a Borg Queen origins story with Alice Krige as a Starfleet medical technician who makes contact with the Borg from Season 2's " Regeneration " and becomes the Borg Queen, and a Mirror Universe arc spanning four or five episodes.
Doctor Beverly Crusher activates him, albeit reluctantly, as a means of distracting the Borg, while she and other crew members escape from the besieged sickbay.
In the film's plot, the crew of the USS Enterprise-E travel from the 24th to 21st century to save their future after the cybernetic Borg conquered Earth by changing the timeline.
The Borg were redesigned to appear as though they were converted into machine beings from the inside-out ; the new makeup sessions took four times as long as on the television series.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare in which he relived his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier ( shown in the television episode " The Best of Both Worlds ").
Picard, Worf, and the ship's navigator, Lieutenant Hawk, stop the Borg from calling reinforcements with the deflector dish, but Hawk is assimilated.
As the ship sets out on its projected 75-year journey home, the crew passes through regions belonging to various species indigenous to the Delta Quadrant, such as the barbaric and belligerent Kazon ; the organ-harvesting, disease-ravaged Vidiians ; the nomadic hunter-race the Hirogen ; the fearsome, scorpion-like Species 8472 from a fluid-space realm ; and most notably the Borg, as Voyager has to move through large areas of Borg-controlled space in later seasons.
In the show's fourth season, Kes is replaced on the ship by Seven of Nine, a Borg drone ( known colloquially as Seven ), who was assimilated as a six-year-old Human girl but liberated from the collective by the Voyager crew.
In the sixth season, the crew discovers a group of adolescent aliens assimilated by the Borg, but prematurely released from their maturation chambers due to a malfunction on their Borg cube.
* January 22 – Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
After a seven-year journey, the ship returns to the Alpha Quadrant via a Borg transwarp conduit with the aid of the time-traveling Admiral Kathryn Janeway ( former Captain of Voyager ) from an alternate future.
As of 2377, the crew complement was at 146, having gained some crew from the Maquis, the Equinox, Samantha Wildman's child Naomi, and several liberated Borg drones, including Seven of Nine and Icheb.
During the years in the Delta Quadrant, the ship is augmented with custom, non-spec upgrades and modifications, some of which are modified from technology of other cultures, an example being Seven of Nine's alcoves and the Delta Flyer which both utilize modified Borg technology.
Seven of Nine and Harry Kim build an astrometrics lab from scratch with Borg-enhanced sensors, knowledge of which Seven of Nine retained from the Borg.
The Borg, a 52-node Beowulf cluster used by the McGill University pulsar group to search for pulsations from binary pulsars

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The character also appeared in the now-closed Star Trek: The Experience Borg 4-D Adventure at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Admiral Janeway also appeared in the Borg Invasion 4-D ride at the Star Trek: The Experience venue in Las Vegas, which closed in 2008.
In Peter David's 2007 Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Before Dishonor, which is set after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, Janeway is assimilated by a rogue faction of the Borg, and becomes the new Borg Queen.
It is implied in the episode and later stated in the Star Trek TNG Companion that the Borg already knew about Earth and were already en route, Q's actions actually giving humanity an early warning.
Their interest is such that they would go back in time, causing the alteration of the events of Star Trek: First Contact, and then encountering the Crew of the NX-01 Enterprise during " Regeneration ", and enabling the Borg of the 24th Century to become aware of Earth in the first place.
Q's actions created a stable time loop within the Star Trek Universe, explaining why the Borg were making their way to Earth by showing how they ' first ' became aware of the Federation.
The actions Q took in sending the Enterprise D to System J-25 — and thus maintaining the time loop, are expanded upon in the Star Trek novels as being partially ( though indirectly ) the reason for the existence of the Mirror Universe, explaining that Zefram Cochrane attempted to warn Earth and the worlds that would become part of the Federation about the Borg after First Contact.
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The USS Defiant, introduced in the third season of Deep Space Nine, was said to use ablative armor in addition to shields ; this technology also appeared in the alternate time line of the early 25th century shown in the Star Trek: Voyager series finale " Endgame ", where it withstood repeated assaults by Borg weaponry and tractor beams.
In Star Trek: First Contact the Borg Queen grafted artificial skin to his forearm.
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The Federation comes into military conflict with other major powers in the galaxy such as the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union, the Borg, and the Dominion.
* In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " I, Borg ", a plan was made to destroy the entire race of Borg — malevolent cybernetic aliens whose minds were interconnected — by showing one of the Borg a picture of a highly complex impossible object.

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There have been a few exceptions, such as the alien-initiated first contact that begins the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, and the Vulcan-initiated first contact that concludes the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact ( although after a failed invasion by the Borg in the rest of the film ).

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The two-handed grip gained popularity in the 1970s as Björn Borg, Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors, and later Mats Wilander and Marat Safin used it to great effect, and it is now used by a large number of the world's best players, including Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.
Afterward, Sisko took a position at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards on Mars, overseeing the development of new ships, including the USS Defiant, which was created specifically to contend with the Borg threat.
Biblical scholars from the controversial Jesus Seminar, a group of textual critics ( including figures like Robert W. Funk, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, Bruce D. Chilton, and John S. Kloppenborg ), have said that the whole of Matthew chapter 28 is the result of later editorial work on the Gospels and was never uttered by Jesus or his immediate disciples.
Early automatic transmissions, including GM's Hydra-Matic, Packard's Ultramatic, and Borg Warner's automatic used by a number of independent manufacturers ( Rambler, Studebaker ) used a pattern of " P N D L R " which put Reverse at the bottom of the quadrant, next to Low.
He does so, and the drone instantly recognises Picard as " Locutus of Borg " so the Captain plays along with this ordering Hugh to assimilate the crew of the Enterprise, including Geordi.
Throughout the course of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the ship's crew makes first contact with multiple species, including the Borg in " Q Who?
It did offer a combination of features which were advanced in this category in Australia at the time: rack and pinion steering, power-assisted disc brakes, McPherson strut front suspension, front hinged bonnet, glued-in windscreen and concealed windscreen wipers, as well as the familiar Australian-made Borg Warner gearboxes ( including 3 speed column shift ) and a live rear axle.
Situated just off the N4 is Lough Key Forest Park, a parkland area that has been revitalised by an addition of a Visitor Center and Activity Facilities, including Boda Borg, a puzzle solving activity centre which is a Swedish concept originally unique to Ireland but now has locations in Sweden and plans to expand Worldwide.
As of 2008, several books have been set post-Nemesis, including several books dealing with The Borg.
Many top tennis players have participated in the league over the years, including: Billie Jean King, Rod Laver, Björn Borg, Chris Evert, John McEnroe, Evonne Goolagong, Jimmy Connors, Martina Navratilova, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Lindsay Davenport and Kim Clijsters.
Non-GM makes that bought Hydramatics from the corporation, including Ford Motor Co .' s Lincoln division and independent automakers Hudson, Kaiser and Nash, ended up looking for other sources of automatic transmissions as well, with Lincoln using the Borg Warner designed Ford-O-Matic transmission, while other automakers also switched to automatics from Borg-Warner during the downtime.
The original cast included Wes Borg, Paul Mather, Mark Meer, Jana O ' Connor and Donovan Workun, all of whom have worked with or wrote for previous comedy troupes, including Atomic Improv, the CTV sitcom Corner Gas, the improvised soap opera Die-Nasty, improv / sketch troupe Gordon's Big Bald Head, the CBC television show This Hour Has 22 Minutes and the comedy-musical group Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.
Student fabricated robot frameThe Ithaca High School FIRST Robotics Team, Code Red Robotics ( Team 639 ), notably sponsored by Borg Warner Morse TEC and Cornell University, has won first place in several regional competitions including the 2004 Canadian Regional and the 2005 Finger Lakes Regional as well as the GM Industrial Design Award ( 2002, 2004, 2005 Canadian Regional ).
Several companies supply the rotating vane type of variable-geometry turbocharger, including Garrett ( Honeywell ), Borg Warner, and MHI ( Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ).
Buddhist, Hindu, and neopagan examples exist, and a number of non-religious examples have proliferated from political, technical and other fields including the following variations: 666, Alien, Angler, Atheist, Bite-Me, Blow-Me, Budda, Card Shark, Cat, Cthulhu, Cyber Shark, Darwin, Dead Fish, Devil, Dinner, DNA, Dog, Enigma, Evolve, Fish Food, Fishn ', Flying Spagehetti Monster, Freud, Geflite, Heathen, Hindu, Hooked Fish, Ixnay, Jeebus, Jesus ( w / feet ), Jesus Is Borg, Lawyer, Lutefisk, N ' Chips, Pagan, Phish, Pirate, Prozac, Punk, Randi, Rasta, Reality Bites, Robot, Sales, Satan, Sci-Fi, Science, Scuba, Sinner, Ske? tic, Surfer, Sushi, Thor, Trek, Tuna, Vampyre, Veg, Viagra, Wiccan, Xanax, and Yoda.

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