"We are the Borg... all your trash compactors are belong to us... because we need to make us more of them Borg cubes to fight Species 8472!"

Best of Both Worlds was the high water mark of Trek hands down.

I don't know how many years it's been since the original "Best of Both Worlds" but even this short version still gives me the chills.

@nicholasmorsovillo2752

Жыл бұрын

To answer your question Star Trek The Next Generation season 3 'The Best of Both Worlds part 1' aired on June 18th 1990 and 'The Best of Both Worlds Part 2' of season 4 aired on September 24th of that same year.

3:00 Mr Worf dispatch a subspace message to Admiral Hanson...We have engaged the Borg!

Man you bring that pain memory of 1993 when the best of both worlds first aired. Hell of a night on T.V. that night....utterly we did not know what was going to happen until the next night. The most memorable Battle in Star Trek history as hopeless as it was. Were about to start that would echo down the time line until the battle of the Tyra Nebula!

@Scyllax

6 жыл бұрын

1990.

@aa-ig2lj

2 жыл бұрын

It was aired a couple yrs b4 93 lol

"We have engaged the Borg." - Jean-Luc Picard

I play STO and some people say they don't see why Wolf 359 was such a tragedy, and that it was only 40 ships of Starfleet's almost 1500 ships. It's a fleet just like the real world. It took years to build each ship and has a crew serving aboard. When so many Captains lead their crew into impossible battle, when thousands die to save billions, the least we can do is respect their memory, even if it is just a show.

@eddieolshefski6467

Жыл бұрын

When I play STO, I would often go to Wolf 359 to pay my respects. Especially on the date when Best Of Both Worlds Part 2 aired. Cause that’s when the battle took place.

One more thing... This is the first time I've seen an Excelsior class jump to warp... that touch makes me happy! Rock ON and well done.

This is some of your best work to date, and I want to thank you for that! You put a lot of love into this. Well done!

These models are amazing. It's like the show never ended.

Thanks Q for introducing the Borg to the Federation...'Nuff Said.

@DeusExMachina10001

3 жыл бұрын

The Borg already knew about the Federation. In "The Neutral Zone" episode it was revealed that something had been basically scooping Romulan and Federation outposts off of their respective worlds, and in "Q Who", Worf mentioned that a number of planets in the system where Q flung them had areas upon them with a more or less identical pattern of damage. Q essentially sent them there to give Picard a somewhat dickish heads-up.

@rueceless7580

3 жыл бұрын

Q actually kind of saved the federation doing that.

@jeancabaille

3 жыл бұрын

Q have said to the voyager crew if not William T Riker, the borg would have assimilited the Federation

@thespecialneedsgroup Thanks. The size of the Borg cube is not stated in any series or film, but considered to be 3000m across with the Enterprise-D at 642m long. I scaled this correctly in these shots but in BoBW they were limited by the physical models to get the perspectives right, so they couldn't do distant shots moving closer in such as at 3:01 for example, which really show the sheer size of the cube.

this is very accurate, i absolutely love what you've done here

@aaronbeaty3980

7 жыл бұрын

Definitely... I was seeing CMDR Riker and Shelby arguing in my head while watching this..

@adamshuhart8633

6 жыл бұрын

Except for the Borg cutting beam. In the episode, it was cutting into the Enterprise's starboard side. Here it's on the port side.

@kevinfurey2470

3 жыл бұрын

I think this is fantastic. Really captured everything the episode did.

There has been alot of love put in to this. Thank you 😊 .

The borg cube looks perfect

Amazing work again mate. Love the stellar nursery, Great background. I can't wait for part 2. :)

Fantastic video, thank you..great work loved it....more pleeeeeaaaassssee!! 😁

This is truly a fantastic work you have done. I've never seen something like that made just for fun on youtube or anywhere else. Keep on the excellent work. You've got huge talent for sure.

Bravo! Anxiously awaiting the second part!

Such good work lol tractor beam and shield effects are awesome, the ships entering warp looks epic, the borg cube looks sweet as fuck also.

the sounds the cubes make are well done, with the sound and the sight of them chasing the enterprise it is almost like a giant monster relentlessly chasing it's prey

good work! ps: I like your warp effects. and the music also fits well.

The Borg flash when it entered warp..lovely!💗✨ Beautiful renderings

I'm simply speechless! I don't think Paramount could hold a candle to this! Awesome work, guy!

Brilliant!

Awesomely Done.

There were some very good scenes, from other aspects. Good job 👍👍👍

Old but gold

Yes indeed. I do enjoy the scene where Picard is shown to be wrong about being able to face any threat in the galaxy and has to ask Q to save them.

1. I love that you kept the wrong phasers on the nacelle struts, just like it was in the episode. That's some ironic accuracy there :) 2. I hope Paramount one day decides to remaster the TNG special effects, just so that they can hire you to join the team!

nice work, looking forward to next part

absolutely stunning especially when you used the music from that episode

I must concur, excellent job!!! Adam ;)

This is beyond epic, amazing awesome work. Paramount needs to hire you!

Awesome!

Outstanding.

Nicely done.

That was really good.

Ooooo, I can't frakking wait for part 2!

Great job😀

Awesome!!!!

awesome ! 👍

Wow great work again. :-) Looking forward to see the battle against the fleet. :-D

This is primo stuff, old chap!

Wow, you people who made this, (at this present moment), are really cool! :) ...

The environment lighting seems to be a little dimmed. Overall, the animation is excellent.

this is really good i thoroughly enjoyed it. i recommend watching it in dim lighting. it makes a more tense feel to it.

gee, u don't wanna mess with the borg..

7:27 that’s when it all goes wrong. (that music reminds me of when I was 7, I was scared of going on stage and I cried and ran off stage in elementary school, and one of my teachers asked “are you OK? why are you crying?” It’s like my stage fear was so big and angry at me that I actually cried) That song sounds like a song when it’s a twist and everything goes wrong. And that part what I said in parentheses is that actually reminds me of an incident that happened 5 years back. Cause, ya know, instant regret=The “Something goes brutally wrong” theme. “Top 10 Times I actually misunderstood” Is what I’m thinking from the incident that happened 5 years back.

Very Nice

Very nice

1) at least enterprise is or was safe for the moment again anyway 2) oh no it's them! THE BORG! 3) if they changed their position the Borg would've had to start from scratch 4) the deflector thing was worth a try i think too

Well Done ! 👽💚

Thanks. That's up him though and he has alot of good CG material.

I’m a Star Wars fan, mostly, but this looked epic and makes me want to see the movie.

I love how you managed to get the timing of the music right with specific parts of the video as how they appeared on the episode! Well done :)

good stuff right here.

Very good work :D Its nice to see that encounter in cgi. The impact blasts could have been bigger but i loved it anyway :D

That was thoroughly enjoyable but I would love to see something new and not just reproductions of what's done before and that might make it more worthwhile to you too.

Dang, that dramatic music at the end still gives me goose bumps! Very well put together. Saddened, but can understand why the continuation had to get canned.

Amazing stuff, but if I had to say anything it'd be that your warps aren't quite right....*sorry* But great work on the rest though, loving it!

Frequency, amplitude and the intensity of the beam

Chills

You know I could watch films about zombies, vampires, and the usually scary crap but when i saw the borg for the first time wen i were little it scared me shitless, even now looking at that cube and when I see the borg it sends a shiver down my spine.

I noticed it some people in the comments were quite rude but I guess if it wasn't for those people people wouldn't strive to do better but I want to be honest I've watched every episode All Star Trek except the original series multiple times like several times and The Best of Both Worlds episodes is my one of my favorites and I know those ship scenes very well and I can tell that there was no copying and pasting so it looks like you animated all that so I have to say excellent job I mean you were spot-on as far as I can tell with how the actual scenes went except some of the things you did a better job than the original like when the I think it was the USS Crazy Horse breaks away from the Enterprise and goes in different direction in the episode it looks weird but I really like how you integrated that's light on this and yours but it looks a whole lot more fluent like much more natural very very good job I loved every minute of it and I've watched almost all your videos but my favorite one is the the one about the first Starship Earth's first Starship the Valiant that was awesome that was like really really cool story I would really love to see you like a fool made movie of that that was an awesome awesome story thank you very much

nice music

Just let me know when you are ready... I can send you some concepts and the story behind it. But this was a treat. Thank you!

very nice! I like it. waiting fpr wolf 359...:-) however, great work!!!

OUTSTANDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@CJCA915 Yes. Tractor beam is fractal noise stretched vertically with some other noise as well and shield is just an 3D ovaliod with some masking. I basically "hand draw" all my effects which takes along time!

Nice Animation skillz love this

Sad that it was never continued. It really does look good.

real talent here

To whoever made this video on the Best of Both Worlds you made a slight mistake of the first battle between the Enterprise and the Borg cube and that mistake was when the Borg engaged they're cutting beam and struck the secondary hull of the Enterprise you hit it on the wrong side the beam didn't hit the Enterprise on the port side it was on the starboard side.

Still gives me goosebumps.

A few incongruities. The Borg never fired into the nebula…it was producing the storms that forced the Enterprise out. Second…the Enterprise couldn’t pursue the Borg cube after firing the massive discharge due to repairing the main deflector dish…not the engines.

@VideoSpaceFX Maybe you could instert the borg greeting to the beginning of the battle but probably you already planned everything so i shut up now :D It will be awesome im sure :D

That was very cool! I love all the little updates you did like the borg warp flash and think the design of the cube was great. The only thing I would have done different is used the picard voice over as locutus, sort of like how in the narendra 3 battle video you used the yesterday's enterprise picard speech. love your choice of music too! is that from the soundtrack or something?

Hate to be a nitpick, because your work is beautiful. In some of the initial shots, the Borg Cube comes across as being more like a rectangle standing on its short side.

ONLY issue visually after watching first 6 minutes: No Borg Cube, Borg Rectangle!

I remember this,this episode here was to me the jumping off point for Star Trek Eclipse and Star trek the continuing voyages.

Time, interest, enjoyment, motivation, work, life...

@Thunderchyld Thanks. I haven't forgetten about the video you suggested either, I will get there eventually.

Beautiful video, I loved the look of the nebula and the warp effects! Did you scale-up the cube compared to the Enterprise? It looks way more imposing than I thought it did in Best of Both Worlds. Why was the star field so muted, though--it looked a little unfinished at times?

@holodock Thanks. That would probably look good. It does have an opacity map applied to the outer surface which shows through the inner glow. It renders very quickly like this and I won't be changing it for Part 2 to keep it consistent.

This and Wolf 359 are awesome! Great Work. Have you done the conclusion (where they rescue Picard (Locutus) and seperate the ship?

And also by extension, the Federation was more prepared to encounter and fight the Dominion just a few short years later.

@DazhFX Thanks. I'm permanently experimenting with lighting but my thought here was to make it seem dark and ominous.

You can't escape the CUBE :-D

Seems like the borg collective likes playing minecraft

Back in the day when the borg were bad ass

Hmmm, how many times have I opened a video on KZread and it wasn't what I expected?

Well done. I just watched the original "best of both Worlds" and the Animations here are better. How ever it seams like the Lightining isnt right.

Note that the Enterprise phasers hit the Borg cube from the get-go. That means the Borg did not have their shields up. Without shields up, transporters can be used at will. (as evidenced by every single Borg episode eventually results in Federation crew beaming on board a Borg vessel at will) Therefore, any half-witted Federation captain could easily ask for engineering to beam over a few dozen quantum torpedoes right into the core of the Borg cube upon first encounter, all set for immediate detonation. Big boom = Borg cube fragments everywhere. (Consider that in the TOS episode "Obsession", a half-ounce of antimatter was used against the vampiric blood-eating cloud creature... and it shattered the crust of a *PLANET*. Being that quantum torpedoes are supposed to be the 'next-level' of photon torpedoes, with a bigger boom, a few dozen should create an even bigger *BOOM* than that. So, such an explosion, occurring from the inside out... would easily vaporize a Borg cube.) --- In other words, the Borg are the coolest-looking lame enemies the Federation has ever seen. Easily destroyed, except for the idiocy of the story writers.

Last you don't want is a confrontation with something like this. Very last thing don't need intend of being assimilated

Other sector would be in the Delta Quadrant where USS Voyager was in where the Borg also found.

I'll never understand why Picard simply didn't ask Q for a favor?

@BoredomCorner Well the model is a perfect cube, what you are noticing could be distortion from using an anamorphic 28mm lens.

@iiiangelsiii A bit of both, having the fleet attack in waves so it matches what is seen in Emissary.

enterprise pizza: at your house in less than warp 9!