The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek First Contact

3. Faith In Minions

Star Trek: First Contact
Paramount

At the film’s climax, once Data overrides the computer lockouts, the Queen orders him to give her direct computer control. You have to assume he does so because, being Borg and all networked, she’d know if he hadn’t. With such control, instead of the Collective causing the ship to immediately lock onto the Phoenix and fire the weapons, or even ram it, she trusts Data to do it, because she’s just that good. And when it turns out her sexy-time with him could not overcome his virtue and he deliberately misses, the Collective doesn’t just immediately adapt to this circumstance and take action itself.

Instead, the Queen screams in outrage and leaves Data time to deliver his punchline before rupturing the plasma coolant and dooming them all.

If she hadn’t been so busy twirling her cybernetic mustache and paying attention instead of needlessly taunting Picard and intoning “Watch… your future’s end,” the Borg might’ve actually won.

No wonder they could never defeat the Federation. Dumb Borg.

 
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Maurice is one of the founders of FACT TREK (www.facttrek.com), a project dedicated to untangling 50+ years of mythology about the original Star Trek and its place in TV history. He's also a screenwriter, writer, and videogame industry vet with scars to show for it. In that latter capacity he game designer/writer on the Sega Genesis/SNES "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Crossroads of Time" game, as well as Dreamcast "Ecco the Dolphin, Defender of the Future" where Tom Baker performed words he wrote.