The Battle
The Next Generation never actually depicts the Battle of Wolf 359 on screen, as we follow the battered Enterprise as it tries to give chase after emergency repairs. The most of it we ever see on television comes years after in Deep Space Nine’s premiere episode, “Emissary,” and much later still in flashes of Star Trek: Picard. What we do know from those moments is that the battle between Starfleet and the Borg is over in a matter of minutes.
Uncertain of how to tactically approach the Borg, while the Borg and themselves had assimilated all of Picard’s experience and strategic information, the Battle of Wolf 359 was arguably over before the first phasers were fired: line after line of Starfleet ships charged the Borg cube, and at Locutus’ command, the Borg cut them down in a barrage of strategically timed tractor beams and lancing phaser volleys.
