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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 10566
Released: March 7, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Star Trek Fan Collective - Borg:
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
Star Trek Fan Collective - Borg Reviews:
Borg lover's delight 
2009-07-29 - A good collection of Borg Episodes. The first episode in a high quality full widescreen format from Enterprise was great. But it is a letdown as you are then back to 4:3 format for the rest. All good episodes, as many other reviewers have mentioned the Descent I & II are the weakest of the episodes. Really enjoyed the Voyager episodes, Jeri Ryan rocks. Live long and prosper.
Great VIdeo 
2009-06-22 - Fantastic! if your a fan of the BORG...you'll enjoy
this as much as I still do!
Great Episode Choices
2009-06-15 - Excellent episode choices but wish they wouldn't have repeat episodes in the group dvd series.
Excelent asimilation.
2009-06-13 - For Borg fans this is a Fan Collective, indeed. Best episodes of Borg out there including Voyager's finale and the controversial Enterprise tie in.
resistance is futile...
2009-05-29 - the borg were the baddest in the galaxy,until they had to go and give them a personality and individuality ( yuk ).i still love this set,will order other sets in the series.i grew up with captain kirk but also love patrick stewert.star trek tng was a great series,should make a new series ?
