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This article could do with a cleanup and re-write. The plot synopsis is far too reliant on quotes and, in my opinion, does not read well.-- Crais459 12:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Why is it the ships in First Contact can damage the Borg Cube, but not the deflector dish beam, I know they upgraded thier weapons since then, but the beam channels almost all the energy in the Enterprise-D! That should be way more powerful. One explanation I've heard proposed is the beam isn't really that powerful, as in Night Terrors a hydrogen explosion in space liberates the Enterprise-D, "proving" whereas when they use the beam it doesn't, but again the beam channels all the energy in the ship, which uses dilithium crystals and anti-matter as fuel, much more powerful than a chemical explosion. I just don't understand. 66.189.90.207 15:48, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, first of all, novels aren't canon in Star Trek. And besides frequency what about the pure raw power of the beam. It should be a case that they simply can't make a shield strong enough to resist it. It hits it way too hard. I'm not exactly sure how adjusting the frequency blocks something like this. Of course, I think I'd need more information about how a frequency stops phasers. but borg shield could adapt to photon torpedo's too, an M/AM explosion which is pure energy.
What is it the frequency of? Does the shield refresh itself so many times per second. Like how your monitor screen has a rate of how many times it redraws your screen? If so then perhaps the phaser is faster than the shield, and gets through in the split second intervals when the shield isn't up.
Some fans have extended that the Borg can adapt to anything, which is ludicrous, like being able to shrug off a death star superlaser hit, no matter how they adjusted thier shields, again they simply couldn't make a shield strong enough. The snare 05:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
I've pulled this:
Anyone have a source to back this up? I don't think this is true. AlistairMcMillan 05:49, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
"Technically, he would have automatically become first officer" why is that? there is no rule that says guarenteed promotion if your superior leaves/dies, Star fleet command can put whoever they want into any position they want. Also data was not command he was operations officer (yellow uniform) he could assume command but not permanently Smitty1337 ( talk) 16:03, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
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As far as the final sequence of the borg, They were are at 100% power. They were put into "sleep sequence" What does everyone do at sleep sequence? they build up energy and power. If the Borg were at 100% power, and built up power? Why shouldn't the article state they overloaded and exploaded? Griffiths1900 03:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)griffiths1900
Does Picard/Locutus call himself "Locutus of Borg" or "Locutus, a Borg"? It sounded to me more like the latter. 84.71.43.87 ( talk) 21:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
It was "locutus, a borg" originally. Just listen to it in best of both worlds. Later it was retconned. I always hated the idea of sth. like borg gentry/royalty. Borg Queen was a good villian but absolutely incompatible with the original borg concept. Thanks a lot voyager;) KhlavKhalash ( talk) 22:50, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
Slow down the scene, you will be able to hear it. KhlavKhalash ( talk) 16:39, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
As mentioned in the article, Ron Jones' score for this episode is widely regarded as one of the best in all of Star Trek, and I agree. I'm by no means an expert in music theory so I'd like one to comment on whether the following observation is significant enough to be in the article.
During the Picard capture sequence, Jones uses what to me is a very interesting leitmotif for each Borg that materializes on the bridge. It is a march in 3/4 time - waltz time -- instead of the universally standard 2/4 military march time.
I think this was a very effective way to combine the Borg's extremely aggressive, conquering behavior with their utterly alien nature; human armies simply don't waltz into battle, so to speak. It also suggests the stilted robotic movements of individual Borg drones. Any comments? Karn ( talk) 01:56, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
In a shot at the end of the episode, you see picard look at the earth. Then you see the moon. In "Star Trek: First Contact", William Riker comments that their are living 50 miljon people on the moon. In this shot you just see the how it looks today. Not with the cities new Berlin, etc. Should this somehow be included in the main article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.197.194.125 ( talk) 04:00, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
The article text lists the week of June 18, 1990, for when Part I first aired. The infobox says Part I first aired on July 1, 1990. Neither statement is cited. postdlf ( talk) 01:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
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On April 30 2020, I was reading the "Best of Both Worlds" article page and noticed that while the Next Generation (I.E, TNG) Season-3 episode template was shown at page bottom, the Season-4 template was not being shown. Of course, most should know that "Best" was a 2-part episode spread over two Star Trek-TNG seasons, Part-I airing as the last TNG season-3 show, and Part-II airing as the first TNG season-4 show.
In researching previous incarnations of the article page, I discovered that the Season-4 template had been edited out sometime during 2019. In restoring the season-4 template today (4-30-2020), I realized the possible reason for its being previously edited out. The first line of all seven Star Trek:TNG season templates (excluding V-T-E and show/hide) reads "Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes" -- and that's it. There's no further text on that particular line to indicate the specific season in question. In the "hide" (or collapsed) state, one would see both the season-3 and season-4 templates in their unexpanded state, but with nothing to show that these are two distinctly separate templates. Unless otherwise, I believe that may be why the season-4 template got edited out. Thru no fault of their own, that particular editor may have been confused by the appearance of both templates.
In addition to restoring the season-4 episode template, I set the display state of both the season 3 & 4 templates to "expanded", hoping it would in some way clarify that "Best of Both World" spans two seasons.
Regarding the seven TNG season episode templates themselves, I have made -NO- attempt to apply distinguishing labels to each -- for example "Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes (Season 3)" -- on the aforementioned first line of each template. But I personally feel that such a modification to the templates should be at the least taken under consideration.
Thanx-A-Lot. Stay Safe and Well. Fgf2007 ( talk) 16:54, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
There was a big delete a while back [1] decimating the "best of" lists. I can understand the motivation and also dislike the result. The "best of" lists could be regrouped condensed and summarized without needing to discard any sources. Some of the sources could be reused to provide actual commentary and insight instead of a mere bullet point on a list. The boiler plate repeated text specifying "best of series" "best of franchise" and number rankings or unnecessary specifying of years could all be condensed. I don't immediately recall which article it was but User:Ajd has done exactly this kind of summary before (I'll try to add a link later if I remember). Anyone interested in improving this article would do well to restore all those references that were deleted and then rewrite the article. I might even get around to doing it myself eventually. -- 109.79.164.242 ( talk) 17:27, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
The text that the anonymous editor keeps reinserting is problematic in a few ways, most of which derive from its bad sourcing: 1) A brief article on a fan blog in which he talks mostly about about himself and explains that he wasn't even watching the show at the time. This is a terrible source: self-published and second-(third?)-hand. 2) Reader comments on a company blog by Keith DeCandido, who writes for the franchise. Even if a Trek freelancer was an objective source for Trek commentary (he is not, and quoting his review later is equally iffy), and his quips at the end of this particular episode summary were anything other than one person's thoughts (they are not), the article isn't even citing him. The "many watchers note the frustration...." bit is based on the comments posted on the article. That's WP:OR at best, and further assumes that the blog's readers are somehow representative of a much larger population. This is a textbook example of how not to source facts on Wikipedia. As I alluded to in my original edit summary taking out that text: the Reception section already talks about the storytelling impact of the cliffhanger, and does it better than this, by citing credible, independent critics in real publications. This adds nothing to the article except to make it look like a fan gushing awkwardly about a favorite episode. - Jason A. Quest ( talk) 16:57, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
For anyone else trying to make sense of the above comment (which I didn't happen to notice at the time) Jason made a delete complaining that some text in the Broadcast section was "embarrassingly written" [2] I try to WP:PRESERVE the good faith edits of others, so I restored it. If something is poorly written I try to rephrase and make it slightly less badly written. The text said the season finale cliffhanger was "noted in television history" which is not the best phrasing but I don't think the sentiment was wrong. (It wasn't as significant a TV event as Who shot J.R.? but what is!) A cliffhanger ending for a season of television was a big deal back then, and not something Star Trek had done before. I didn't think it was unreasonable to mention it in the context of the Broadcast. I would like better references for sure but since it was a slight generalization I thought it was better to keep both references. (Tor.com is the website of Tor Books a well known publisher of science fiction books, part Macmillan Publishers. Keith DeCandido has been used as a reference throughout Wikipedia:WikiProject_Star_Trek. I think he is very objective source, not afraid to criticize Star Trek, but even if he was WP:BIASED he could still be a reliable source. CNN is biased but nonetheless reliable. The specific parts from his review that seemed most relevant to the Broadcast section were "It’s only the second two-parter in Trek history" and "also the first [...] season-ending cliffhanger".)
Jason did rephrase the text in a later edit [3], and it was an improvement. I just didn't think we needed to remove quite as much as he deleted in his earlier edit. I hope the matter is resolved for now, but it may well be rewritten into something better in future. -- 109.79.176.100 ( talk) 06:15, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
In the fourth par of the Production section. "Patrick Stewart" or "Stewart" would be more appropriate. 2A02:C7C:BCA0:CA00:206B:572E:6988:3BEF ( talk) 13:12, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
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This article could do with a cleanup and re-write. The plot synopsis is far too reliant on quotes and, in my opinion, does not read well.-- Crais459 12:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Why is it the ships in First Contact can damage the Borg Cube, but not the deflector dish beam, I know they upgraded thier weapons since then, but the beam channels almost all the energy in the Enterprise-D! That should be way more powerful. One explanation I've heard proposed is the beam isn't really that powerful, as in Night Terrors a hydrogen explosion in space liberates the Enterprise-D, "proving" whereas when they use the beam it doesn't, but again the beam channels all the energy in the ship, which uses dilithium crystals and anti-matter as fuel, much more powerful than a chemical explosion. I just don't understand. 66.189.90.207 15:48, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, first of all, novels aren't canon in Star Trek. And besides frequency what about the pure raw power of the beam. It should be a case that they simply can't make a shield strong enough to resist it. It hits it way too hard. I'm not exactly sure how adjusting the frequency blocks something like this. Of course, I think I'd need more information about how a frequency stops phasers. but borg shield could adapt to photon torpedo's too, an M/AM explosion which is pure energy.
What is it the frequency of? Does the shield refresh itself so many times per second. Like how your monitor screen has a rate of how many times it redraws your screen? If so then perhaps the phaser is faster than the shield, and gets through in the split second intervals when the shield isn't up.
Some fans have extended that the Borg can adapt to anything, which is ludicrous, like being able to shrug off a death star superlaser hit, no matter how they adjusted thier shields, again they simply couldn't make a shield strong enough. The snare 05:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
I've pulled this:
Anyone have a source to back this up? I don't think this is true. AlistairMcMillan 05:49, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
"Technically, he would have automatically become first officer" why is that? there is no rule that says guarenteed promotion if your superior leaves/dies, Star fleet command can put whoever they want into any position they want. Also data was not command he was operations officer (yellow uniform) he could assume command but not permanently Smitty1337 ( talk) 16:03, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
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As far as the final sequence of the borg, They were are at 100% power. They were put into "sleep sequence" What does everyone do at sleep sequence? they build up energy and power. If the Borg were at 100% power, and built up power? Why shouldn't the article state they overloaded and exploaded? Griffiths1900 03:40, 12 October 2007 (UTC)griffiths1900
Does Picard/Locutus call himself "Locutus of Borg" or "Locutus, a Borg"? It sounded to me more like the latter. 84.71.43.87 ( talk) 21:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
It was "locutus, a borg" originally. Just listen to it in best of both worlds. Later it was retconned. I always hated the idea of sth. like borg gentry/royalty. Borg Queen was a good villian but absolutely incompatible with the original borg concept. Thanks a lot voyager;) KhlavKhalash ( talk) 22:50, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
Slow down the scene, you will be able to hear it. KhlavKhalash ( talk) 16:39, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
As mentioned in the article, Ron Jones' score for this episode is widely regarded as one of the best in all of Star Trek, and I agree. I'm by no means an expert in music theory so I'd like one to comment on whether the following observation is significant enough to be in the article.
During the Picard capture sequence, Jones uses what to me is a very interesting leitmotif for each Borg that materializes on the bridge. It is a march in 3/4 time - waltz time -- instead of the universally standard 2/4 military march time.
I think this was a very effective way to combine the Borg's extremely aggressive, conquering behavior with their utterly alien nature; human armies simply don't waltz into battle, so to speak. It also suggests the stilted robotic movements of individual Borg drones. Any comments? Karn ( talk) 01:56, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
In a shot at the end of the episode, you see picard look at the earth. Then you see the moon. In "Star Trek: First Contact", William Riker comments that their are living 50 miljon people on the moon. In this shot you just see the how it looks today. Not with the cities new Berlin, etc. Should this somehow be included in the main article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.197.194.125 ( talk) 04:00, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
The article text lists the week of June 18, 1990, for when Part I first aired. The infobox says Part I first aired on July 1, 1990. Neither statement is cited. postdlf ( talk) 01:09, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
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On April 30 2020, I was reading the "Best of Both Worlds" article page and noticed that while the Next Generation (I.E, TNG) Season-3 episode template was shown at page bottom, the Season-4 template was not being shown. Of course, most should know that "Best" was a 2-part episode spread over two Star Trek-TNG seasons, Part-I airing as the last TNG season-3 show, and Part-II airing as the first TNG season-4 show.
In researching previous incarnations of the article page, I discovered that the Season-4 template had been edited out sometime during 2019. In restoring the season-4 template today (4-30-2020), I realized the possible reason for its being previously edited out. The first line of all seven Star Trek:TNG season templates (excluding V-T-E and show/hide) reads "Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes" -- and that's it. There's no further text on that particular line to indicate the specific season in question. In the "hide" (or collapsed) state, one would see both the season-3 and season-4 templates in their unexpanded state, but with nothing to show that these are two distinctly separate templates. Unless otherwise, I believe that may be why the season-4 template got edited out. Thru no fault of their own, that particular editor may have been confused by the appearance of both templates.
In addition to restoring the season-4 episode template, I set the display state of both the season 3 & 4 templates to "expanded", hoping it would in some way clarify that "Best of Both World" spans two seasons.
Regarding the seven TNG season episode templates themselves, I have made -NO- attempt to apply distinguishing labels to each -- for example "Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes (Season 3)" -- on the aforementioned first line of each template. But I personally feel that such a modification to the templates should be at the least taken under consideration.
Thanx-A-Lot. Stay Safe and Well. Fgf2007 ( talk) 16:54, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
There was a big delete a while back [1] decimating the "best of" lists. I can understand the motivation and also dislike the result. The "best of" lists could be regrouped condensed and summarized without needing to discard any sources. Some of the sources could be reused to provide actual commentary and insight instead of a mere bullet point on a list. The boiler plate repeated text specifying "best of series" "best of franchise" and number rankings or unnecessary specifying of years could all be condensed. I don't immediately recall which article it was but User:Ajd has done exactly this kind of summary before (I'll try to add a link later if I remember). Anyone interested in improving this article would do well to restore all those references that were deleted and then rewrite the article. I might even get around to doing it myself eventually. -- 109.79.164.242 ( talk) 17:27, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
The text that the anonymous editor keeps reinserting is problematic in a few ways, most of which derive from its bad sourcing: 1) A brief article on a fan blog in which he talks mostly about about himself and explains that he wasn't even watching the show at the time. This is a terrible source: self-published and second-(third?)-hand. 2) Reader comments on a company blog by Keith DeCandido, who writes for the franchise. Even if a Trek freelancer was an objective source for Trek commentary (he is not, and quoting his review later is equally iffy), and his quips at the end of this particular episode summary were anything other than one person's thoughts (they are not), the article isn't even citing him. The "many watchers note the frustration...." bit is based on the comments posted on the article. That's WP:OR at best, and further assumes that the blog's readers are somehow representative of a much larger population. This is a textbook example of how not to source facts on Wikipedia. As I alluded to in my original edit summary taking out that text: the Reception section already talks about the storytelling impact of the cliffhanger, and does it better than this, by citing credible, independent critics in real publications. This adds nothing to the article except to make it look like a fan gushing awkwardly about a favorite episode. - Jason A. Quest ( talk) 16:57, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
For anyone else trying to make sense of the above comment (which I didn't happen to notice at the time) Jason made a delete complaining that some text in the Broadcast section was "embarrassingly written" [2] I try to WP:PRESERVE the good faith edits of others, so I restored it. If something is poorly written I try to rephrase and make it slightly less badly written. The text said the season finale cliffhanger was "noted in television history" which is not the best phrasing but I don't think the sentiment was wrong. (It wasn't as significant a TV event as Who shot J.R.? but what is!) A cliffhanger ending for a season of television was a big deal back then, and not something Star Trek had done before. I didn't think it was unreasonable to mention it in the context of the Broadcast. I would like better references for sure but since it was a slight generalization I thought it was better to keep both references. (Tor.com is the website of Tor Books a well known publisher of science fiction books, part Macmillan Publishers. Keith DeCandido has been used as a reference throughout Wikipedia:WikiProject_Star_Trek. I think he is very objective source, not afraid to criticize Star Trek, but even if he was WP:BIASED he could still be a reliable source. CNN is biased but nonetheless reliable. The specific parts from his review that seemed most relevant to the Broadcast section were "It’s only the second two-parter in Trek history" and "also the first [...] season-ending cliffhanger".)
Jason did rephrase the text in a later edit [3], and it was an improvement. I just didn't think we needed to remove quite as much as he deleted in his earlier edit. I hope the matter is resolved for now, but it may well be rewritten into something better in future. -- 109.79.176.100 ( talk) 06:15, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
In the fourth par of the Production section. "Patrick Stewart" or "Stewart" would be more appropriate. 2A02:C7C:BCA0:CA00:206B:572E:6988:3BEF ( talk) 13:12, 11 March 2023 (UTC)