10 Biggest Star Trek Battles We Never Got To See
Star Trek hasn't always been forthcoming with its battles!
While there is a great selection of on-screen battles on offer in Star Trek, with increasing regularity in Star Trek: Discovery, for example, there are even more that are mentioned but never seen. Some of these events have a great impact on the lore of the franchise, despite their brief or non-existent depiction.
The Dominion War contained some of the bloodiest chapters in Starfleet's history, with many of them consigned to on-screen reports or casualty lists only. The earlier Cardassian war was relegated entirely to discussion and the biggest events of the Klingon-Romulan enmity was merely a footnote, while continued diplomacy and hostility were the only real things that the audience got to see.
Depending on who is reporting the facts, WW3 may or may not have been swallowed up as part of another conflict involving supermen and tyrants, though without any video evidence to analyse, it is up to anyone to decide. The Borg, who have committed devastating assaults against the other races in the milky way galaxy have often done so whilst flying under the radar.
These battles may have been cloaked from sight though most definitely not from the mind.
10. The Borg Attacks
The Borg are easily one of the greatest villains ever conceived
in Star Trek. Their simplicity is also the source of the fear they inspire –
they are one mind and one force, leaving a devastating swathe in their wake.
Having said that, the audience has seen relatively little of the actual might
of the Collective on-screen.
Beginning with the destruction of the colonies, both Federation and Romulan, along the Neutral Zone, the Borg had a tendency to leave tokens rather than attack head-on. The giant craters of their invasions spoke to the terror they inspired, without ever showing the attacks.
Wolf 359, the first, greatest battle that the franchise offered the audience, was teased in The Best of Both Worlds and Emissary, though has yet to be fully depicted. The Battle of Sector 001, while incredibly impressive in what was seen in Star Trek: First Contact, was but a fraction of the full conflict that Starfleet took part in.
Despite the Borg appearing every other episode in Voyager, their true might has yet to be shown to the fans, something that could easily be rectified in Star Trek: Picard.