Synopsis of ST:FC

The Borg are back and they mount an attack on Earth once again. The Enterprise-E engages and stops them. The Borg ship blows up, but not before something escapes. An orb. It flies towards Earth, and the Enterprise goes after it. Suddenly, a time portal opens in front of the Borg orb, and the ship disappears. The Enterprise follows, and they disappear as well.

Both ships go back to the year 2029, where the orb crashes on Earth. The Enterprise crew figures out that they arrived a day before the first warp ship was tested, and that the orb landed not far where the test is about to take place. An away team goes down to see if the test site is okay, and Picard goes with them. They find the test site to be in order. Soon, Picard gets a feeling that his ship is in trouble, and he beams back aboard. The Enterprise has been taken over by the Borg.

Picard tries to make his way back to the Bridge. The Borg are everywhere, but they pay him and the Enterprise security people no mind. The crew makes it back to the Bridge and plan a way to get the ship back. Picard realizes that the Borg want to use the main defector dish to send a subspace message to the Borg of the 21st Century. Their plan--to tell the Borg of that century to come to Earth and conquer it.

The Enterprise crew realizes that in order for the Borg to accomplish their mission, they would have to plant themselves in Main Engineering. When the crew makes it to Engineering, they find the room to be completely "borgified." Suddenly, a figure appears from above. It is the Borg Queen. She's a creature from the waist up, but the rest of her is made up of wires and such. Picards pleads with the Queen to let the crew go, and to use him instead. She responds by saying that she doesn't need him--she has someone far better. Suddenly, from behind her, Data walks out. He looks like a Borg.

Not only does Data appear to have been turned into a Borg, but he also appears more human. The Borg changed him, so that he has flesh and bones. For the first time, Data is "alive." And he has a horrible dilemma to wrestle with--stay a Borg in order to be part flesh, or return to the way he was. Data apologizes to Picard. Then he reaches over and hits a switch. The room decompresses.

The Borg Queen is sucked out into space (very much like Aliens). The ship is taken back by the Enterprise crew, and they remain in the past long enough to make sure everything goes well for the first warp ship. It does. The next day, a ship comes into orbit, then lands on Earth. "Aliens" emerge from that ship--Humans have now made first contact. With the Vulcans.