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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097360375145
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2006
Running Time: 719 minutes
Sales Rank: 7284
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 2001
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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.
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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
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Rating:  - Deception
Was looking forward to these DVD's
Turns out none of my DVD-players accept these DVD's: wrong regio-code.
Only suitable for US!not for Europe.
So my dear money is gone. Amazon should have mentioned this.
Rating:  - Watch "Star Trek" First Contact" before you are assimulated with this one
Another awesome collection for "Star Trek" fans who want just the Borg episodes, but including the feature film "First Contact" would have been a good way to start this one, simply because it explains how the first Enterprise, Captain Archer's ship from the show "Enterprise" encounters the Borg by accident , many complained about this one, why, I do not know, in this episode "Regeneration" an expidition team in the arctic discover the remains of the Borg sphere that Picard & Co. destroyed in 2063 as they pursued the Borg back in time to stop them from altering history in the feature film "First Contact", unless you have seen the film. this "Enterprise" episode will not make sense to you, unaware of what they have found buried underneath the snow, the team tries to preserve their new discovery, soon the Borg once thawed, regenerate themselves & assimulate the arctic team members, when contact is lost, Archer is ordered to intercept the stolen arctic freighter that the Borg are using to fly home, it is here that Archer comes in contact with the Borg as they try to access the ship's computers, Archer has them flushed out in the air-lock, as him & Reed plant explosives in the stolen freighter & barely escape with ther lives before it explodes killing the Borg, many didn't like this one, but it does help to explain how the Borg was able to find Earth in Picard's time, as T'Pol informs Archer that they sent a distress call to their homeworld in the Delta Quadrant that would take about 200 ... Read More
Rating: - fan the collective
great its like bush & mcain we are one party
borg voyager endgame & unimatrix 1 &2 the queen meetups
are great
one of the best
Rating:  - Resistance is futile.
Borg fans will enjoy if not love this collection. Instead of going out and buying every season of Star Trek, for 100 or so dollars at Best Buy, etc, you can purchase this DVD set and get all of the major Borg episodes, such as "The Best of Both Worlds", where Picard becomes Locutus, "Regeneration" which was a thoughtful on the producers part for connection the Borg that went back in time to prevent First Contact are the same ones that send the location of Earth to set the stage for the first Borg ship to be in the Alpha Quadrant, and ends with "End Game" with the return of Voyager to the Alpha Quadrant after it's many dealing with the Borg.
Rating: - Resistance is futile..prepare to assimilate this collection!
I always found my favorite episodes in any Star trek series were the ones with the Borg, They were opponents dreamt up after the Ferengi induced more laughter than fear, and they were good villains to have around. My favorite episode was TNG, the Best of both worlds, and I feel it was movie material. Look at this 2 part cliffhanger compared to wimpy movie productions like Nemesis, and you will see what I mean...
About the product:
1. It comes in a cardboard slipcase, with nice graphics inside
2. A plastic DVD book, unlike the bad packaging that the Enterprise DVD set came in
3. Opens like a book, should last a while, with care
4. Not a very sturdy construction
5. 4 DVDs, with 16 episodes at 32$, so that is 2$ each.. but all of them are good episodes, the Enterprise DVD quality is better
It is something every Trek fan should have, if you don't have the episodes separately. Best of both worlds alone, makes the set worth it, though the Voyager episodes are also good, especially Scorpion and Unimatrix 0. I enjoyed Endgame, though it had a shaky plot and was not a fitting end to a 7 year saga.
Definitely worth it. Thinking over this buy is irrelevant,thinking is irrelevant. Prepare your credit card for assimilation!
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