I sincerely don't get why some people are so enamored of this flick. Nothing in it makes sense. First, we see Picard having PTSD nightmares and then we're supposed to share the crew's outrage that the brass thinks that Picard is not fit to combat them because of said PTSD... Whatever... later we see Picard making downright insane decisions, proving that the brass was right about him all along. Now he's suffered from PTSD for six years, yet he gets over it in a matter of minutes (nay seconds).... OK... So they decide to put Picard on the side, which is fine by me, but in a battle so crucial, why do so to the Enterprise E as well? Why deprive yourself of one of the most powerful ships of your fleet? Why not put Riker for example in temporary command of it?
Riker just lost the Ent-D when all he had to do was fire back at a far weaker BoP. They probably weren’t ready to lose the Ent-E so soon.
Picard knows the weak spot of a cube but he keeps it to himself until the last moment!! Why not put it in a report? What are reports for? I am sure the people who died in the attack would have been glad to have that information...
Considering Starfleet decided to put their best crew on a sensor sweep of the Neutral Zone, they probably would not have listen to Picard.
"Ramming speed?", someone has been watching "Ben Hur" lately...
Somehow I think our tactics have changed since the Roman Empire...
This is also the same time that the Federation has dealings with the Dominion. The logic is probably if a Jemhadar ship can take down a Galaxy class ship via a kamikaze attack, then maybe the same tactics will work here.
Plus glorious Klingon death during battle and all of that jazz.
The Borg know a way to travel back in time but they don't use it, until they're almost destroyed... Why? Why not do so first and then fly toward Earth totally unopposed?
Probably for the same reason that Kirk and crew flew around the sun in the Sol system instead of a different sun to travel back in time…they know where they want to go and it is of greater proximity for time travel, meaning they don’t have to deal with any unforeseen events if they start from a further location.
The Borg drop charges on Cochrane's camp that are ridiculous!!! One single torpedo would wipe out all life within several kilometers around it. So why not do it? Do they have scruples somehow? Is there a Borg museum where they wish to expose Cochrane failed attempt at warp speed or something?
The Borg don’t do anything that makes sense. The Borg could have swarmed the Alpha Quadrant at the beginning of the film with ships. The Borg could have destroyed the Vulcan ship that lands on Earth before it entered the system. The Borg would have gone to Vulcan in 2063 instead since they would be no match for them, preventing both first contact and the Federation. The Borg could have chosen to time travel to the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s (the original Third World War in Trek) and assimilated Khan and the other augments. The Borg even waste time with the Ent-E’s deflector dish instead of just beaming down and start assimilating.
Nothing they do makes sense.
Quantum torpedoes seem to be deadly to the Borg... So why didn't they use them during the battle? Or are they deadly only when Picard fires them?
Picard knew the weak points of the Borg Cube. But even Picard’s tactics are nothing compared to Janeway’s Deflector Dish and transphasic torpedoes.
Or maybe this cube and the one from the BoBW were the best the Borg had to offer. Since the rest were being destroyed by Species 8472.
Are we supposed to believe that the dwellers of that shanty town with nothing but rags on their backs will develop a starship so advanced that right now we have no idea how they could do it, even on a theoretical level? I mean these people look like they have trouble feeding themselves on a daily basis, let alone do anything else!
Just because they are wearing rags doesn’t mean they know nothing. They could be all military scientist for all you know, and warp drive could have been in the works for decades (i.e. the Bonaventure from TAS). They did just go through a nuclear war, and presumably a nuclear autumn at minimum, plus morality in some corners of the world went down the drain. I think it’s understandable that they don’t look their best here.
Cochrane reaches 30 000 kilometers per second without any problem at all. It's not even considered exceptional. Right now we can't even reach 30 kilometers per second without enormous expenses!!!
I’m pretty sure that Riker and La Forge read the history books about this event and were more enthralled that they got to experience it themselves. It would have been a bigger deal on Earth once Cochrane returned. We don’t see that part, since Picard and crew when back to their time.
And I promise you, this is only a fraction of what I could write on the subject.
Feel free to write more.
Apparently, there was no "Edith Keeler"* type of person among the dozens that were killed by the borg's bombardment when they attacked the camp otherwise the future Picard and crew would have found upon their return would have been a lot different than the one they left.
* Someone who seems unimportant but turns out, plays a key role for the future.
This is the same time period as the Earth-Kzin Wars. Thos people would have probably died anyways if that conflict was still ongoing.
Plus Lily might have been Edith Keeler for the Mirror Universe.
