Oh, c'mon. You must've heard about [w:The Best of Both Worlds (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|the Battle of Wolf 359]]. Forty Federation starships up against one Borg cube. I was just in engineering -- just a grease monkey. And the next second... It's like... It was like space itself was burning. Fifty of us made it down to the life deck. But uh-oh! There's just one life-pod. Ten seats. Now, the thing is, we were all friends. They were all my Jack Crusher. We were... We didn't fight over who should live and who should die. No, we-- we waited for orders. And then finally, some Lieutenant comes down and she just starts pointing. "You, and you, and you." And she's pointing at me! What? Why me? I'm just some dipshit from Chicago! And now I'm Lucky Number 10. She didn't even count herself. "Get in," she says, "That's an order." I know, I know, I know. I ask myself the same thing: "Did she make a mistake?"
Eleven thousand dead. Do you know where your old man was on that day? He was on that Borg cube, setting the world on fire! Forget about all that weird shit on the Stargazer. The real Borg are still out there. And they have a name for you. "Locutus of Borg". The only Borg so deadly they gave him a goddamn name.
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