Factory sealed DVD</br></br>Product Description</br></br>The Borg Fan Collection has the top ten most popular Borg episodes as picked by the fans! Witness all the characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation?? Enterprise and Voyager as they defend their ships?? galaxies?? and their own kind. For thousands of years the Borg have been spreading throughout the galaxy?? conquering?? assimilating and thus destroying countless civilizations. Following every encounter?? the Borg catalogue each new species with a numerical designation instead of a proper name. The goal of the Borg?? in most cases?? is to completely assimilate each species by incorporating their knowledge and technology into the unified Borg Collective. One by one?? each living being is converted into Borg Drones. In many cases?? all that remains of an assimilated civilization is the memory of its unique contributions that now resides only within the accumulated knowledge of the Borg. That and the numerical species designation. Often even the name is lost?? forgotten or deleted as irrelevant. Conversely?? the species designations give a sense of" terrible history of the Borg and the thousands of species they have encountered and absorbed.</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>While hardcore Trekkers may not find a lot of new material in <I>Star Trek Collective: Borg</I>?? newcomers experiencing 16 action-packed?? fan-selected episodes of the Federation's greatest villains may have to prepare to be assimilated.  All the episodes have been previously released on DVD?? but there are new text commentaries on three of the episodes?? and the per-disc price is significantly less expensive than the full-season <I>Trek</I> sets. It's a great entry point for novices?? or for budget-minded fans.<p>   The episodes are presented in Stardate order?? which means starting with <I>Enterprise</I>?? the latest series but also the earliest in chronological order.  In "ation??"an exploration team finds a pair of apparently dead humanoid-mechanical hybrids that turn out to be members of the Borg?? a nearly invincible race whose simple goal is to absorb--"ssimilate"--every individual organism it encounters into its collective being.  Because the Borg has the ability to adapt itself to resist any threat?? resistance is futile.  Shift ahead to <I>The Next Generation</I> and a visit by the quirky god Q turns out to have deadly implications when?? in a pouty mood?? he throws the <I>Enterprise</I> into their first encounter with the Borg.  That's followed by the classic two-part cliffhanger (bridging seasons 3 and 4) " Best of Both Worlds??"in which Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) is assimilated into the Borg and a frustrated Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) has to make a fateful decision. "I?? Borg"attempts to give the Borg a humanized aspect?? and the two-parter "escent" has some interesting developments for Data (Brent Spiner).  Skip <I>Deep Space Nine</I> in favor of <I>Voyager</I>?? the series in which Captain Janeway's (Kate Mulgrew) ship is stranded far from home in the Delta Quadrant.  That happens to be home turf for the Borg?? so they had a