The 14 Dumbest Things In Star Trek First Contact
10. Borg Car-Bombs
The Borgball successfully generates 1.21 gigawatts of chronometric particles to send it back to 1955, er, 2063, in order to prevent the titular First Contact from occurring, and cause Picard and company to fade away from all their Starfleet class photos.
All fine and dandy. So, upon arrival in the past, how do the terrifying Borg go about changing the future?
They fire little pew-pews at the planet that cause car-bomb size explosions.
That’s it? The big bads of the Milky Way Galaxy, with technology that can almost instantly adapt to photon torpedoes, can’t fire a weapon that can take out a small town in one shot? Hell, even assuming the Borgball is really just a Borg DeLorean time machine with pathetic weapons, they demonstrate that they can beam aboard the Enterprise, so why not beam a drone or three down to big sky Montana and assimilate Cochrane and the local yokels?
Because that would make sense.