long day not much happening so why dont all you trekkies reveal your favorate three race's and ships(names not nessicary if not known, or if type not known then name can be used)
mine would go down as
1:borg, borg ship:Cube, its huge its got an unbelievable arsenal of weaponary, and its almost indestructable.

2:Humans, human ship: Enterprise D(galaxy class) still the most powerful vessel in starfleet, when upgraded to warship standards, its only failings are its aft shielding which is where its weak point is and thats where it looses out  to  the soverign class as well as it is unable to carry quantum torpedos even after upgrade.

3:Romulans, Romulan ship: D'Deridex super battleship(only ever shown on tv once) but was destroyed by the enterprise if i remember rightly before it could be completed. standard D'Deridex vessels are not as effeciant as the galaxy class vessels as the sheilds are only 70% the strength of the galaxy class and its not as manouverable.

honourable mention goes to the vulcans and klingons.
so share with us your favs

cool:)
and yeah any sci-fi ship is welcome widens the topic up a little more then:)

they are pulse phasers, originally designed against the borg incursion of the alpha quadrant with the original being tested as you said on the defiant. those toe thingys on klingon boots are knifes to kill enemys with their feet, and the klingon thing was also addressed it was a disease klingons have always looked as they did in their later stage but for a period of time a disease caused them to revert to a human like form apparently a very embarresing time:)

like i said, it was a disease,
i cant remember how it came about, if you notice in the original series the older klingons have the ridges, its just the younger klingons who dont, i think it might have had something to do with the tribbles?

well this is the writers who now are blaming the NX-01 crew for the borg finding out about humans, i could just about buy their excuse that the borg went back to when cochrane was about to test the first warp drive, and the enterprise crew went to and got into a fight which was in the move. but the history of star trek still states that Q was the reason for the borg being introduced to picards crew. not archers crew.
i'll see what i can find but i think the episode was when the DS9 crew went back in time to catch a criminal and the episode tied into the OS episode where tribbles invaded the enterprise because of that trader. and theres that really funny line up with kirk and the crew after that fight. asking who started it and so on.
i'll see what i can find

I'm not getting into the Klingon head lump debate or the fact that since Q introduced the Borg to humanity several other "first contacts" have happened with the Borg (Seven's family going off to look for them, Finding the "First Contact" movie Borg remains frozen in the arctic in Enterprise etc.) But here are my three favourite  races and their ships:

Federation: Defiant class, Intrepid Class, Soverign Class, Nebula class, Movie style Constitution class.

Klingon: D7, Vor'cha (God knows how you spell that!) class Bird of Prey, D10 (Huge great battleship never seen in show but had a model of one once from Starfleet battles.)

Borg: Cube, sphere, that long one that Voyager blew up at the start of "Dark Frountier". Don't think the Borg have any other ships. You'd thing after assimilating half the galaxy they would get a few more interesting ships! I guess when they introduced the Borg in TNG they were a bit short of buget in the model making department. I remember those rouge Borg in "Decent" had a different looking ship.

I like the Romulons and the Dominion also. The Romulons only seam to have that one D-Type Warbird however. That and a small scout ship. Cardassian ships look a bit crappy.

Since some of you have thrown in a couple of over Sci-Fi shows, here are my top five other Sci-Fi starships and shows/Movies.

Earth Force Star Fury (obviously named after the superb Sea Fury!) from Babylon Five.

Darth Vaders Super Star Destroyer the "Executor" from Empire Strikes Back.

Battlestar Galactica from Battlestar Galactica.

Earth Force battle cruisers from Babylon Five.

Millenium Falcon from Star Wars/Empire/Jedi.

As far as the Borg discovering humanity is concerned, it seems you blokes know something that I don't about the newest 'Enterprise' series.
My only access *(unless I wait the mandatory 18mths - 2 years for it to came to prime TV) is Blockbuster Video.
But they only have up to series 1 episode 26. That's left me hanging in the middle of a double episode (as ST do quite often at the end of a Series). They get a new video (2 episodes each 5 weeks or so).
I'm actually beginning to get into it and the characters (I recently said I was having difficulty enjoying it as much as the other series but I would persevere).
I assume there is some future episode where the NX-01 has a 'Borg' encounter.

Anyway, they can't blame the 'First Contact' encounter for introducing the Borg to Humanity because the Borg would only have been aware IF the ones that went back had made contact using the Enterprise's Deflector, which is what they were trying to do. (They actually did do it, Humanity disappeared, and then it was undone by Pickard and crew).
So, the earliest encounter with the Borg, that hasn't been undone, is the 'Q' episode 'Farpoint', except for 7's parents which I think must have been about 10 -12 years earlier (she about 24, I thuink and was 4 when she was assimilated.
When you think about it, who's to say that when Q took the Enterprise D to the Borg, they weren't already on their way to Earth as a result of 7's parents encounter 10 or so years earlier. After all, they wouldn't be in any great hurry, they'd just 'work' their way there as they have through the rest of th Galaxy.

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I remember the episode. I saw it not long ago. Australian TV is great for re-runs!
It starred the same bloke who plays Spocks Father 'Sarek' as the Romulan Commander.

I don't remember any reference to the Borg in that episode. Of course there couldn't have been, they weren't even a twinkle in Gene's eye at that time.
So you must be referring to some kind of reference in the Star Trek library or something. I thought the Romulans destroyed the outposts in that episode, even though they don't actually admit it. 

So with 'Enterprise', I'm a full seasion behind, eh!
Ah well.