Did this scene really happen?

[ZapBrannigan]

This is lame, but I have a memory of a scene and I can't place it. It might even be a false memory. It would either be from a movie or a Berman-era episode. It's a space fx shot where the camera pulls back suddenly to show our region of the galaxy, then the camera whisks across a great distance, and then it zooms back in on another part of the galaxy-- to reveal a bunch of Borg cubes ominously heading our way.

So, was there such a moment and I stupidly forgot where it was, or did I dream it?

 

[1001001]

Sounds like The Best of Both Worlds.

Or maybe Q Who?

 

[Unicron]

The closest I can think of at the moment is when Voyager almost gets trampled by Borg cubes in the first part of Scorpion, before they get wiped out fighting Species 8472. That's a possibility, but I might be wrong.

I can't really think of any other episode where there are large Borg fleets, unless maybe Picard S3 did such and I simply don't recall. But the fleet shots in Scorpion don't have the sort of zooming in and out on a galactic scale. There were other VOY episodes where the Borg unicomplex/base was seen, but that's probably not it.

 

[Cicero]

Maybe "Unimatrix Zero" or "Endgame" mixed with a memory of "Scorpion?"

 

[Shawnster]

Did you check Trekcore and their images. They have screen grabs of everything.

The number of Borg episodes to entire franchise is pretty limited.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

It’s weird. I also feel I can remember this and can’t place it.

 

[Orac]

I think you may be conflating 2 or more memories, one from Star Trek Voyager or TNG, the other from another speculative fiction from the 1990s, maybe Contact or Men in Black?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I think you may be conflating 2 or more memories, one from Star Trek Voyager or TNG, the other from another speculative fiction from the 1990s, maybe Contact or Men in Black?

Insightful idea. But I'm too familiar with Contact (the Jody Foster one) to be in any way foggy about it, and I never saw MIB. Still, now I wonder if my imagination shoehorned the Borg into a "galactic distance" fx shot that came from somewhere else.

Also, thanks guys! If this many of us can't place what I thought I recalled, I wouldn't bet on it being a canon ST memory.

 

[NCC-73515]

Something on the astrometrics display in VOY?

https://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/screencaps/s5/515-dark-frontier/515-dark-frontier-0167.jpg

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Something on the astrometrics display in VOY?

https://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/screencaps/s5/515-dark-frontier/515-dark-frontier-0167.jpg

I'm thinking the big Astrometrics sequence in Generations would in the running too, for a camera POV that pulls out, pans, and zooms in among the stars. That's an underrated movie, btw. Not brilliant, but a very decent ride.

 

[B.J.]

It's a space fx shot where the camera pulls back suddenly to show our region of the galaxy, then the camera whisks across a great distance, and then it zooms back in on another part of the galaxy-- to reveal a bunch of Borg cubes ominously heading our way.

Until you got to the part about the Borg cubes, this reminded me heavily of the Battlestar Galactica season 3 finale Crossroads Pt II, where we zoomed out from the ragtag fleet and then zoomed back in to Earth.

 

[David cgc]

Insightful idea. But I'm too familiar with Contact (the Jody Foster one) to be in any way foggy about it, and I never saw MIB. Still, now I wonder if my imagination shoehorned the Borg into a "galactic distance" fx shot that came from somewhere else.

Also, thanks guys! If this many of us can't place what I thought I recalled, I wouldn't bet on it being a canon ST memory.

Except for the Borg, it seems a lot like the last shot of the third season of the Battlestar Galactica remake.

 

[Mage]

Just a thought..... But could it have been from one of the Star Trek video games?
I don't have any suggestions for which one, but there were many amazing cinematic shots through out all of the games, so perhaps it was from one of those?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Until you got to the part about the Borg cubes, this reminded me heavily of the Battlestar Galactica season 3 finale Crossroads Pt II, where we zoomed out from the ragtag fleet and then zoomed back in to Earth.

@B.J. and @David cgc -- I think that must be the kernel at the heart of this false memory! I saw BSG long enough ago as to have no conscious memory of that moment, but I did see it at the time. Then at some point more recently, while envisioning ST during a soundtrack CD, my imagination might have plagiarized the fx shot for Borg-infused drama. And now I can't remember that day either, but I have the scene in my head.
This really shows the value of crowd-sourcing for vexatious questions.

 

[somebuddyX]

I was thinking of the Stargate Atlantis episode Search and Rescue, which has a big zoom in across the galaxy to a Wraith ship

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