Q is kicked out of the continuum. Denied a position on the Enterprise, Q throws the ship 70,000 light years into the Delta Quadrant, where they must battle the Borg, ruthless cyborgs with a collective mind.

Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)

John De Lancie ("Q")
Lycia Naff (Ensign Sonya Gomez)
Colm Meaney (Chief Miles O'Brien)

• This classic episode introduces the Borg. The Borg return in season three's finale "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I".
  
• Pulaski does not appear in this episode.
  
• This episode won two Emmy awards: Outstanding Sound Editing and Outstanding Sound Mixing. (It was also nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects).