"We are the Borg... all your trash compactors are belong to us... because we need to make us more of them Borg cubes to fight Species 8472!"

3:00 Mr Worf dispatch a subspace message to Admiral Hanson...We have engaged the Borg!

Best of Both Worlds was the high water mark of Trek hands down.

I don't know how many years it's been since the original "Best of Both Worlds" but even this short version still gives me the chills.

"We have engaged the Borg." - Jean-Luc Picard

This is some of your best work to date, and I want to thank you for that! You put a lot of love into this. Well done!

I play STO and some people say they don't see why Wolf 359 was such a tragedy, and that it was only 40 ships of Starfleet's almost 1500 ships. It's a fleet just like the real world. It took years to build each ship and has a crew serving aboard. When so many Captains lead their crew into impossible battle, when thousands die to save billions, the least we can do is respect their memory, even if it is just a show.

@thespecialneedsgroup Thanks. The size of the Borg cube is not stated in any series or film, but considered to be 3000m across with the Enterprise-D at 642m long. I scaled this correctly in these shots but in BoBW they were limited by the physical models to get the perspectives right, so they couldn't do distant shots moving closer in such as at 3:01 for example, which really show the sheer size of the cube.

Thanks Q for introducing the Borg to the Federation...'Nuff Said.

Man you bring that pain memory of 1993 when the best of both worlds first aired. Hell of a night on T.V. that night....utterly we did not know what was going to happen until the next night. The most memorable Battle in Star Trek history as hopeless as it was. Were about to start that would echo down the time line until the battle of the Tyra Nebula!

One more thing... This is the first time I've seen an Excelsior class jump to warp... that touch makes me happy! Rock ON and well done.

These models are amazing. It's like the show never ended.

The borg cube looks perfect

Yes indeed. I do enjoy the scene where Picard is shown to be wrong about being able to face any threat in the galaxy and has to ask Q to save them.

this is very accurate, i absolutely love what you've done here

7:27 that’s when it all goes wrong. (that music reminds me of when I was 7, I was scared of going on stage and I cried and ran off stage in elementary school, and one of my teachers asked “are you OK? why are you crying?” It’s like my stage fear was so big and angry at me that I actually cried) That song sounds like a song when it’s a twist and everything goes wrong. And that part what I said in parentheses is that actually reminds me of an incident that happened 5 years back. Cause, ya know, instant regret=The “Something goes brutally wrong” theme. “Top 10 Times I actually misunderstood” Is what I’m thinking from the incident that happened 5 years back.

1. I love that you kept the wrong phasers on the nacelle struts, just like it was in the episode. That's some ironic accuracy there :) 2. I hope Paramount one day decides to remaster the TNG special effects, just so that they can hire you to join the team!

There has been alot of love put in to this. Thank you 😊 .

the sounds the cubes make are well done, with the sound and the sight of them chasing the enterprise it is almost like a giant monster relentlessly chasing it's prey

Old but gold

gee, u don't wanna mess with the borg..

The Borg flash when it entered warp..lovely!💗✨ Beautiful renderings

1) at least enterprise is or was safe for the moment again anyway 2) oh no it's them! THE BORG! 3) if they changed their position the Borg would've had to start from scratch 4) the deflector thing was worth a try i think too

Such good work lol tractor beam and shield effects are awesome, the ships entering warp looks epic, the borg cube looks sweet as fuck also.

Fantastic video, thank you..great work loved it....more pleeeeeaaaassssee!! 😁

Amazing work again mate. Love the stellar nursery, Great background. I can't wait for part 2. :)

This is truly a fantastic work you have done. I've never seen something like that made just for fun on youtube or anywhere else. Keep on the excellent work. You've got huge talent for sure.

Brilliant!

I’m a Star Wars fan, mostly, but this looked epic and makes me want to see the movie.

@CJCA915 Yes. Tractor beam is fractal noise stretched vertically with some other noise as well and shield is just an 3D ovaliod with some masking. I basically "hand draw" all my effects which takes along time!

good work! ps: I like your warp effects. and the music also fits well.

The environment lighting seems to be a little dimmed. Overall, the animation is excellent.

Outstanding.

Bravo! Anxiously awaiting the second part!

I'm simply speechless! I don't think Paramount could hold a candle to this! Awesome work, guy!

There were some very good scenes, from other aspects. Good job 👍👍👍

Awesome!

nice work, looking forward to next part

Wow, you people who made this, (at this present moment), are really cool! :) ...

absolutely stunning especially when you used the music from that episode

Awesome!!!!

That was really good.

I must concur, excellent job!!! Adam ;)

Awesomely Done.

Frequency, amplitude and the intensity of the beam

Ooooo, I can't frakking wait for part 2!

Nicely done.

I love how you managed to get the timing of the music right with specific parts of the video as how they appeared on the episode! Well done :)

This is beyond epic, amazing awesome work. Paramount needs to hire you!

ONLY issue visually after watching first 6 minutes: No Borg Cube, Borg Rectangle!

Great job😀

You know I could watch films about zombies, vampires, and the usually scary crap but when i saw the borg for the first time wen i were little it scared me shitless, even now looking at that cube and when I see the borg it sends a shiver down my spine.

awesome ! 👍

A few incongruities. The Borg never fired into the nebula…it was producing the storms that forced the Enterprise out. Second…the Enterprise couldn’t pursue the Borg cube after firing the massive discharge due to repairing the main deflector dish…not the engines.

Very nice

Very Nice

Chills

I noticed it some people in the comments were quite rude but I guess if it wasn't for those people people wouldn't strive to do better but I want to be honest I've watched every episode All Star Trek except the original series multiple times like several times and The Best of Both Worlds episodes is my one of my favorites and I know those ship scenes very well and I can tell that there was no copying and pasting so it looks like you animated all that so I have to say excellent job I mean you were spot-on as far as I can tell with how the actual scenes went except some of the things you did a better job than the original like when the I think it was the USS Crazy Horse breaks away from the Enterprise and goes in different direction in the episode it looks weird but I really like how you integrated that's light on this and yours but it looks a whole lot more fluent like much more natural very very good job I loved every minute of it and I've watched almost all your videos but my favorite one is the the one about the first Starship Earth's first Starship the Valiant that was awesome that was like really really cool story I would really love to see you like a fool made movie of that that was an awesome awesome story thank you very much

This is primo stuff, old chap!

this is really good i thoroughly enjoyed it. i recommend watching it in dim lighting. it makes a more tense feel to it.

OUTSTANDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow great work again. :-) Looking forward to see the battle against the fleet. :-D

Thanks. That's up him though and he has alot of good CG material.

good stuff right here.

Still gives me goosebumps.

That was thoroughly enjoyable but I would love to see something new and not just reproductions of what's done before and that might make it more worthwhile to you too.

real talent here

Well Done ! 👽💚

nice music

Note that the Enterprise phasers hit the Borg cube from the get-go. That means the Borg did not have their shields up. Without shields up, transporters can be used at will. (as evidenced by every single Borg episode eventually results in Federation crew beaming on board a Borg vessel at will) Therefore, any half-witted Federation captain could easily ask for engineering to beam over a few dozen quantum torpedoes right into the core of the Borg cube upon first encounter, all set for immediate detonation. Big boom = Borg cube fragments everywhere. (Consider that in the TOS episode "Obsession", a half-ounce of antimatter was used against the vampiric blood-eating cloud creature... and it shattered the crust of a *PLANET*. Being that quantum torpedoes are supposed to be the 'next-level' of photon torpedoes, with a bigger boom, a few dozen should create an even bigger *BOOM* than that. So, such an explosion, occurring from the inside out... would easily vaporize a Borg cube.) --- In other words, the Borg are the coolest-looking lame enemies the Federation has ever seen. Easily destroyed, except for the idiocy of the story writers.

I remember this,this episode here was to me the jumping off point for Star Trek Eclipse and Star trek the continuing voyages.

@holodock Thanks. That would probably look good. It does have an opacity map applied to the outer surface which shows through the inner glow. It renders very quickly like this and I won't be changing it for Part 2 to keep it consistent.

Dang, that dramatic music at the end still gives me goose bumps! Very well put together. Saddened, but can understand why the continuation had to get canned.

Sad that it was never continued. It really does look good.

Seems like the borg collective likes playing minecraft

Last you don't want is a confrontation with something like this. Very last thing don't need intend of being assimilated

You can't escape the CUBE :-D

To whoever made this video on the Best of Both Worlds you made a slight mistake of the first battle between the Enterprise and the Borg cube and that mistake was when the Borg engaged they're cutting beam and struck the secondary hull of the Enterprise you hit it on the wrong side the beam didn't hit the Enterprise on the port side it was on the starboard side.

Very good work :D Its nice to see that encounter in cgi. The impact blasts could have been bigger but i loved it anyway :D

Amazing stuff, but if I had to say anything it'd be that your warps aren't quite right....*sorry* But great work on the rest though, loving it!

@Thunderchyld Thanks. I haven't forgetten about the video you suggested either, I will get there eventually.

The concept of a single starship with a compliment of approx 2000 personnel (including families) patrolling through space is obsolete. My concept of a starship would be a much larger ship with a crew up up to 10,000 in the configuration of a mothership at 20x the size of current starships. When it arrives in a area to investigate an incident, it separates into dozens of smaller (but still deadly) attack ships with up to 100 SOLDIERS on board for a boarding party. Thus when the enemy tries to defend themselves, they will be faced with a fleet 60 smaller assault ships as well the the huge mothership.

Back in the day when the borg were bad ass

@sumbuddyx Thanks, I wasn't sure where to fit the Locutus voice bit into the video. I did record it off the episode to use but I never did. The music is from the TNG soundtrack some Star Trek games and other places.

@cdname47 Trying to match the actual "rubber band" effect is very difficult and time consuming so what I use is a method that takes 5 minutes. Besides they used about 4 or 5 different effects for warp in the series and films.

I'll never understand why Picard simply didn't ask Q for a favor?

Nice Animation skillz love this

And also by extension, the Federation was more prepared to encounter and fight the Dominion just a few short years later.

Time, interest, enjoyment, motivation, work, life...

Other sector would be in the Delta Quadrant where USS Voyager was in where the Borg also found.

very nice! I like it. waiting fpr wolf 359...:-) however, great work!!!

Just let me know when you are ready... I can send you some concepts and the story behind it. But this was a treat. Thank you!

That was very cool! I love all the little updates you did like the borg warp flash and think the design of the cube was great. The only thing I would have done different is used the picard voice over as locutus, sort of like how in the narendra 3 battle video you used the yesterday's enterprise picard speech. love your choice of music too! is that from the soundtrack or something?

@DazhFX Thanks. I'm permanently experimenting with lighting but my thought here was to make it seem dark and ominous.

@iiiangelsiii A bit of both, having the fleet attack in waves so it matches what is seen in Emissary.

Not for nothing, if it was me commanding the Enterprise, I would go through the nebula, rather turn around and let the cube capture me

Hate to be a nitpick, because your work is beautiful. In some of the initial shots, the Borg Cube comes across as being more like a rectangle standing on its short side.

We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technology distinctiveness will be added unto ours.

@NemesisMarine01 I agree. Borg embody what humans fear most: nothingness. The appearance of their ships says nothing yet everything.

The Federation needs to build Warships these exploring Ships. No match for Borg.