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Published: 2013-12-15 16:58:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 8283; Favourites: 167; Downloads: 0
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I based this one on a Doug Drexler render, I think. I always find funny most of this scenes involve the Enterprise fleeing from the Borg Cubes. Come on, people, it's the Enterprise! Picard knows the Borg better than anyone! He knows their weak spots, their lapses in defence! So let's give the good Captain some credit and let's watch as he unleashes his badassdom
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Great piece and good point!
BTW, did you make the Borg cutting beam or get it someplace? I'm always looking for good png fx like that.Β
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I'm glad you like it!
I did the effect, I think it's a maltreated piece of gradient I did in PS.
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Β If I had my ass beat so badly during the first engagement, I'd run like hell too!
Β Unless I had at least a dozen Defiants to back me up.Β
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Or the Polaris. You don't eff with the Polaris
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Β And maybe several Sabers. Maybe half a dozen Norways and Steamrunners, and maybe an Akira or two. I don't wanna have an inclination to just stick around for a while. I wanna blow that Cube out of space!
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"Retreat? Hell. I've had enough of running, Number One. Hard about, Wesley. Red alert! All hands, battle stations! Full power to weapons! And reverse shield polarity,Β Mr. Worf." *smirk* "I think it's about time we taught these cybernetic miscreants a little lesson on crossing swords with the Enterprise."
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F' yeah!
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...I wonder how the Gundam's would have performed against The Borg...
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Poorly. Mechs against an enemy that assimillates tech...
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I don't know. They would first have to catch them. Gundam's may not have warp drive, but have excellent short range speed. Plus, because of how small they are, they could get into spaces on the cube and do damage. Plus many Gundams could be converted to use physical weapons instead of energy if needed.
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Evacuate everyone to the Saucer section, get it to safety, then use the Drive section like a battering ram.
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Just launch Warp Cores at Borg Cubes. Instakill.
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To be fair, Enterprise spent the second half of "Best of Both Worlds" and the first half of "Descent" charging directly at the Borg.Β
You know, I always thought Enterprise could have destroyed that cube in "Q Who" if Picard had pressed their initial attack.Β Enterprise's main phasers visibly obliterated 20% of that ship, which really seemed to make the Borg think twice about who they were messing with.Β
That said, really good work!Β
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Thank you!
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ENTERPRISE D TRIES TO IMPRESS THE ORIGINAL ENTERPRISE
Enterprise D: Hey, Connie! Guess what? I went toe to toe with a giant space monster. It latched onto my back, thought I was it's mama!
Enterprise NCC-1701: Is that quite so, Dee? Well I was grasped by the hand of a Greek god. A real ship would have gone through something like that.
*Later*
Enterprise D: Connie! I just downed two Klingon Birds of Prey! It was hard, but I pulled through!
Enterprise NCC-1701: Hmm? I destroyed three Klingon battle cruisers in one engagement. A real ship would have at least one engagement like that under her girdle.
*Later still*
Enterprise D: CONNIE! I went head to head with a Borg Cube!!! My hull's cut to ribbons, half the crew are dead or injured, but I did it! What do you think about THAT?
Enterprise NCC-1701: I survived direct hits from a planet-destroying, ship-absorbing, people-assimiliating vessel that may well be related to the Borg and was untouched even after it exploded around me. Natch.
*Yet later still*
Enterprise D: CONNIE!!!! I just saved all of reality, battled back a dark mirror version of myself, blew up a rogue Romulan Warbird and looked good doing it! What do you think about THAT?!
Enterprise NCC-1701: I think, Dee... if I hadn't been pushing you, you wouldn't have done half of that.
Enterprise D: *Groans*
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Polaris and NextGen Polaris look at each other:
"Pfsssh, amateurs"
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gallade and gallade-C rais their non-existant eyebrows
glade: ok what have we gone Cee?
C: lets see here, we have fought back a random dominion ambush who-yet again-took DS9
glade: i have fought back countless mirror ships
C: and i have beaten...oh what were their names again, oh right the voth!
(BTW all of this is in STO, plus quite a bit of borg, Q junior, klingons, romulans, breen, and species 8472 now known as the undine)
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Both Enterprises look back at the Polaris ships.
Dee speaks up. "Um... Nupol, you faceplanted into a Borg cube."
Connie clears her throat. "And you Pol, you almost got blown up by space cats..."
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Nupol: But I saved Earth.
Pol: The word, my dear chaps, is *almost*.
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Every Enterprise ever in response to 'I saved Earth'
"Been there, done that!"
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Okay, that's true... but none detonated an enemy ship's Omega Molecule device over the enemy's homeworld, triggering the most badass Warp denial weapon ever! Score!
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Enterprises: True, true, but who was featured in award-winning TV shows and movies?
Polarises: ... Shut up! It's not our fault wartime isn't as marketable. Dominion War, anyone?
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Just wait till I go to Hollywood and sell the concept to some Paramount bigheads. The Post-Commie Eastern European Trek sensation will rock the world
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It will never work if you push the Communism angle.
Even Hollywood bigwigs like their freedom and the thought that your life doesn't belong to you after the 24th century will rub them the wrong way.
Socialism may be an easier swallow, but I would just use the term egalitarian.
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Nahh, it's more like the Polaris is filled with tons of Eastern European and Soviet references. Don't forget, in the Polarisverse, Communism is a thing of the past on Earth, long overtaken by Crippsian Progressivism. But from a real-life perspective, I sprinkled this 'Verse with references I think most would miss. For example, the Polaris is of the Pallada class. The real-world Pallada class was a protected cruiser of the WWI era. Its second ship, the Aurora launched the Bolshevik Revolution in 1971. The USS Pallada NCC-780's sister ship is called USS Aurora
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- Sir, the enemy has surrounded us!
- Good. We can fight them from all directions!
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All your work is spot on!One problem though and Im not sure if I mentioned this to you already.I may have.But with the obvious skill you have,man Id sure love to see what you can make all from your own mind.No Trek related anything!
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Now that's a challenge! I have written a novel ages ago which I intend to re-write and publish one day. The story would involve sci-fi elements, but I still have to re-thionk most of them.
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Knowing Picard and the French, he's likely to retreat in such a way to make the Cube run into some horrible trap that will make the Tal'shiar think it was underhanded, the Klingon say it was too ferocious, and both agree the Borg had it coming.
I mean, Napoleon may be Corsican by birth, but his education was French, and he was rather artillery-happy...
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Or he'd do a Marshall Petain and defect to the Borg
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He's not THAT old. Besides, Petain WAS trying to do just that when De Gaulle stole his thunder...
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"They assimilate whole worlds, and we fall back...the line must be drawn here!"
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"We're surrounded.Β Β This simplifies the problem."
Lt. Col Chesty Puller, USMC
"Nuts."
General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, U.S. Army, under siege in Bastogne,Β when offered the chance to surrender.
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A few quantum torpedoes here and there along with a volly of phasers problem solved
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"I will not sacrifice the Enterprise... there have been too many comprimises already, too many retreats. They Invade our space.. and we fall back.. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. NOT AGAIN! THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HERE!! THIS FAR, NO FURTHER!!!... AND I, WILL MAKE THEM PAY, FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE..."
Wrong film but come on, about as bad ass as you can get 
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Who doesn't love hismelf some psycho-Picard?
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Agreed! xD
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"Retreat, hell! We just got here!" Nice work, Dave.
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What the later iterations of the Starship Enterprise have all needed is a MARDET (MARine DETachment) to handle pesky boarding/counter-boarding operations (handy when dealing with the Borg), and make Worf a Marine (he'd fit right in)...
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never did like this version of the enterprise, fuselage looks like ice cream sandwiches,greaT PIC THOUGH
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Finally someone that agrees with me....
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