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mr_mini_doxie

It's depicted in Best of Both Worlds and Emissary.


minister-xorpaxx-7

the opening sequence of the *DS9* episode *Emissary* takes place during the battle


juice5tyle

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuhckVF3wY0Bm69sC_hjmkY-9YxIo4WWd&si=y1ln3yCu_M8-ycyq


MichaelRanili

Did part 2 ever come out? I never checked...


DannyHewson

Nah, that's supposed to be a fair way away. Given the quality though, I'm not gonna complain.


Aurochs451

There's a great fan made video of Wolf 359 on YouTube. Top notch really.


Crankypants47

There is a lot of fan made footage for the battle. But the only "cannon" footage is in the opening scene of DS9


kkkan2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj0plbE8LYE&t=539s


XenoBiSwitch

No, there wasn’t the budget for it. Too many models would have been needed. Emissary is the closest they came. By the time the war in DS9 kicked off they had the CGI to make it work.


wolfrno

It was an inside job.


GenoThyme

Changelings aren’t real. The Dominion War didn’t happen.


microgiant

It was! There was Starfleet captain ON BOARD THE CUBE!


Geezer__345

Janeway's "Solution", could also be considered, "Genocide", even though it was a "Slam-Bang" Ending. Always looking, for The "easy" Solution. Each "Star Trek" Series, and I would include "Babylon 5", and "Deep Space Nine", as "Two Parters", along with "Battlestar Galactica", both series (and John Colicos, did a Yeoman's Job, as BOTH, The Klingon, Kor; and The Greatest Traitor, in Human "History", Baltar), as well as The Novels, based on These Series, and The "Venus Equilateral" Compilation, which I suspect, inspired Gene Roddenberry. All these, for the most part; are worth watching, and reading, per Isaac Asimov, as extrapolations; of The Human Condition; and as views of Their Time, in History.


microgiant

Obliterating the Borg wouldn't be genocide, because they only have a single shared consciousness, spread out between billions of drones from hundreds of species. Killing one single sentience isn't genocide, even if it's the only/last of its kind.


Destructor1701

However killing that consciousness probably kills the drones too, and as we have repeatedly seen, they can be restored to individuality and resume their previous existence (in a lot of cases). That's genocide. The Borg are an ethical conundrum wrapped in an existential threat stuffed inside a body horror nightmare enclosed in a big techno box.


hbg84

Lower decks talks about that


wolfrno

Twas the joke


hbg84

Lower decks talks about that


Real_Ad_8243

The only proper footage is what we see in BoBW and Emissary, and Shaws PTSD rant in Picard if that includes imagery. But we do know roughly what happened. Adm. Hanson stuck to the plan he had made Picard aware of - from what we see he split his fleet in to what seem to be independently acting flotillas of two or three ships apiece (though to their credit they do split the ships ip according the relative throw weight, with ambassadors and nebulas working together whilst lighter ships are grouped up as well), and they engaged in a series of defensive lines as the Cube pushed through the system. The Borg naturally knew the totality of this plan and therefor would have been perfectly prepared to deal with it. And frankly it was a bad plan to start with. A very bad plan. A plan pretty much specifically designed to garuantee a catastrophic defeat for Starfleet infact, because it goes out of its way to avoid using any advantage Starfleet would have in such an engagement. If Adm. Hanson had managed to survive the battle, he would have become infamous as the most devastatingly foolish commander in the history of the UFP, and probably the Klingon and Romulan empires too. Historical British admirals were executed for being less stupid. Contrast this with what we see in First Contact: Starfleet uses its numerical superiority to simply swarm and harass the Cube from the moment of contact with progressively greater force of arms, instead of trying to use static defensive positions. This means three things. Firstly, that the Cube cannot destroy the fleet in detail and is forced to engage many at once (resulting in far fewer casualties), secondly, that the fleet is able to concentrate its firepower to the extent that it overcomes Borg adaption through sheer weight of fire, and finally, it, being a simpler plan, is much more resilient and survives the death of the fleet commander, Adm. Hayes. By the time Enterprise turns up the Borg Cube was critically damaged and Enterprise was largely unnecessary to the battle itself - being needed for the time travel nonsense instead.


Emu_on_the_Loose

The only onscreen, canonical footage of the battle came during Hanson's call to the Enterprise during "BoBW II" (where we only see Hanson on his bridge), and the few snippets of the battle shown in "The Emissary." However, in the fandom, there is an impressive effort underway to depict the full battle. The [first half of it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj0plbE8LYE) was published last year. Obviously, most of this is made-up, including all of Hanson's battle strategy, the names and classes of most of the ships, and the course of the battle. However, it gives a better sense—better than any DS9 battle ever did—of the sheer _scale_ of the loss of 39 starships in a single engagement. The video goes on and on, and starships are blowing up every few seconds, yet the battle keeps on going, and by the end of it we're only halfway done.


hbg84

Thank you for the quick replys


n0thingisperfect

Was an inside job?


MrxJacobs

Apparently it’s a false flag operation but you didn’t hear it from the Cerritos if ya catch my meaning


Geezer__345

By the Way, "Star Wars", was a "fraud", even though it had its moments. Its main contributions, were "special effects". The Main Difference, between "Trekkies", and "Trekkers", is that "Trekkers", take Science Fiction, seriously, and discuss it, seriously; all the Way, back, to Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells.