History Fridge / StarTrekPicardS3E09Vox

*** Furthermore, the other ships in the Museum -- even the ''Defiant'' -- ''are'' technically exhibits, meaning they've not only been stripped of their weapons and other sensitive systems, but a majority of them are at least already a century old. The clock's ticking, Earth's at the mercy of the assimilated Starfleet, and Geordi ''doesn't'' have the time to make any of these vessels space or combat worthy. By contrast, the ''Enterprise''-D has proven itself in plenty of fights and is already all but on standby; it just requires minimal preparations for launch. Additionally, Geordi worked on the ''Enterprise''-D on a day-to-day basis for seven years and knows her systems inside and out, something far less likely to be the case with the ''Defiant'' or ''Voyager'', even though those two ships are newer.

*** Then there's the question of why the Enterprise is combat ready in the first. The ship would need to be fully restored if Starfleet ever needed it to be recommissioned, just as the Klingon ship Kirk stole still had its cloaking device. With the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards gone, the museum where the ship's chief engineer works would be the next best place, so Geordi was supplied with live weapons and ammo for testing once the repairs were done.

*** Furthermore, the other ships in the Museum -- even the ''Defiant'' -- ''are'' technically exhibits, meaning they've not only been stripped of their weapons and other sensitive systems, but a majority of them are at least already a century old. The clock's ticking, Earth's at the mercy of the assimilated Starfleet, and Geordi ''doesn't'' have the time to make any of these vessels space or combat worthy. By contrast, the ''Enterprise''-D has proven itself in plenty of fights and is already all but on standby; it just requires minimal preparations for launch. Additionally, Geordi worked on the ''Enteprise''-D on a day-to-day basis for seven years and knows her systems inside and out, something far less likely to be the case with the ''Defiant'' or ''Voyager'', even though those two ships are newer.

** While at first it seems like a cop-out that the rogue Changelings were a red herring and that the Borg were the ''real'' antagonist all along, it's actually quintessentially Dominion in-universe and on a Meta level. Throughout ''Deep Space Nine'', the Founders proved to be consummate masters of the KansasCityShuffle and at distracting with the big stunt so you missed the smaller, more crucial play (ex. [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E15ByInfernosLight the Dominion "attack" on [=DS9=] when the ''real'' plan was actually blowing up the Bajoran Sun and wiping out the station, the system, and the combined Alpha Quadrant fleets]]). And that's ''exactly'' what Vadic and her faction did all Season long: They kept all the attention on them and made characters and audiences alike think they were dealing with renegade Founders out to avenge the Dominion's defeat decades earlier. By the time Vadic goes down and everyone finally realizes it was really the Borg running the show all along, it's too late. Worf and Raffi ''were'' right: The Founders ''were'' doing a Kansas City Shuffle, they just neglected to consider there might be more than one in play...

** Sending individual Borg cubes to target Earth (as seen in "The Best of Both Worlds" and ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'') can be explained as one-off events, but now we have the Borg trying to (and seemingly succeeding) in taking over all of Starfleet to conquer the Federation. Even if this particular plot gets averted somehow, how does this not spark an all-out war between the Federation and the Borg, especially as member governments will be clamouring for revenge and even genocide? The alternate-timeline [[EvilCounterpart Confederation]] headed by "General" Picard and "President" Hansen may have ironically been ahead of their time by conquering and destroying the Borg before they could pull something similar in their version of history.

** Vadic's murder of T'Veen in "Surrender" also plays differently now in the wake of the "Anyone under 25 is susceptible to the Borg genetic malware" reveal. Vadic didn't have to execute any of the younger crewmen like Mura unless it was necessary; if anything, killing them would spare them of the far more horrifying fate the Changelings and the Borg Queen had planned mere hours later when Frontier Day commenced. But as a Vulcan, T'Veen ''was'' older and thus expendable to serve as Vadic's first hostage.