The Best of Both Worlds Part I

This Story: Season 3 Episode 26 (production code 174)
TNG Overall: Episode 74
Trek Overall: Story 174a, Episode 176
Airdate: 18 Jun 1990
Written by Michael Piller
Directed by Cliff Bole

Notes

• On screen, this episode is simply titled “The Best of Both Worlds”, not “The Best of Both Worlds, Part I”.  Part II however does have that distinction.
• George Murdock played Admiral Hanson in this episode, but was also “God” in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.  He was also Dr. Salik in the original Battlestar Galactica.
• Locutus is Latin for “he who has spoken”.
• The first time the Borg’s famous “resistance is futile” line is used.
• This episode is a sequel to “Q Who“.
• Only the second two parter in the show’s history to this point – the other was “The Menagerie“.
• The first ever end of season cliffhanger in Star Trek franchise history.
• There are hints later on in Deep Space Nine that the Defiant was part of the advance planning referred to in this episode in regard to weapon development.

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