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** Another bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]]. Picard's refusal to pull back may not have been purely out of revenge. We know he could hear the Borg in his head sometimes. Who's to say they weren't still able to influence him, especially with the Borg Queen herself there. It's not that hard to believe they were giving little mental pokes to enhance feelings that were already there.
* [[Fridge Horror]]: Combined with [[Nothing Is Scarier]], there are few things in recent cinematic history as terrifying as hearing the audio pickup of thousands of terrified men and women ready to fight... and then hear the famous, horrifying litany that made the Borg truly fearsome- followed by screaming.
* [[Fridge Horror]]: So the ''Enterprise-E'' is said to have roughly 800 crew aboard, not to mention the survivors they pick up from the ''Defiant'' (including Worf) in the opening battle. By the time Picard finally gives the order to abandon ship, it has been mentioned that the Borg "just took decks 5 and 6", leaving only four decks under the crew's control out of 24 or 26 (both numbers are given in the film). Even if Geordi brought dozens or maybe hundreds of engineering crew down to Earth to help repair the ''Phoenix'' overnight, and even if we saw scores of lifeboats leave in the evacuation, [[Redshirt Army|how many hundreds of crew members]] [[Inferred Holocaust|died or were assimilated at the hands of the Borg]]? Worse still, [[What the Hell, Hero?|how many did it take]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|before Picard realized the futility of staying to fight]]? Granted, plenty of the Borg victims were probably able to be rescued and surgically freed of their implants afterwards much as Picard was, but by the end of the film it would appear that the majority of the crew of the ''Enterprise'' are either dead or incapacitated, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|while the ship probably needs a long stay in drydock just to clean up the mess that the Borg left behind]].
** Also, psychological trauma of having been a Borg. And having to be a doctor removing the implants. And the Borg who got killed in engineering. And the people, if any, who were converted years ago and aren't from the Enterprise, currently far from everything they knew. And the ones that couldn't be saved by removing the implants because they make up so much of their body. And...
*** Yeah, probably by this point, after the events of Generations and First Contact, [[Vestigial Empire|there aren't that many of the old Enterprise-D crew left at all]].
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