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. 

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Brensec pal, you're thinking of "Ballance of Terror" from the first season of the original Trek. I'm talking about the last show of season one of TNG. The episode is called "The Neutral Zone". Y2Craigie has already spelled out the plot so I won't add to it.

Craig, I agree about a few things you've said about Enterprise there. They do seam to be re-writing Trek history a tad, but the Romulons and Klingons turn up quite early in Trek history. Even in the first season of the Original Trek we find out that Earth and Romulus have been at war at some point in the past and this lead to the Treaty of Algeron that set up the Neutral Zone and banned the Federation (but not the Romulons) from developing cloaking technology. Enterprise seams to have re-written this. Also in TNG (can't remember what show, but it was the one where Ryker is in disguise as an alien on a pre-first contact observation mission and is captured by the native population) Picard states that a disastrous first contact with the Klingon Empire over a century before lead to seventy years of un-remitting hostility. So we know that these two races turn up quite soon in Trek history. TNG however does introduces the Ferengi and so to have Archer and co meet them in Enterprise is incorrect. And with all that Borg wreckage on Earth by the time Picard and co meet then the Federation should know all about them!
Quite a few Enterprise shows have been directed by former Trek cast. LeVar Burton has done several and so has Robert Duncan McNeal and Roxanne Dawson. Can't remeber seeing Johnathan Frakes name as a director yet though.

Since the subject was mentioned. Why doesn't the Federation have cloaking technology, at least by the end of Voyager series or DS9.

You mentioned the treaty with the Romulans, but surely by now the Federation should be able to develop their own, a hundred or more years after the Romulans and Kligons managed to do it.
They even have access to the one on the Defiant to study, if it's all been to difficult to come up with on their own.

With all the advancements that have taken place over the length of all the series you think by now they would have something so valuable.  

Don't worry too much about letting me in on future 'Enterprise' episodes. I'll watch them and enjoy them anyway, whether I have an inkling of what might happen or not.
I continually watch all the others over and over, so if you let something out about episodes that I haven't seen yet, it really won't matter. You'd have to go into quite alot of detail to spoil an episode for me.
Thanks for the thought though.

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That's OK pal, it's very easy to get confused with so many shows. Both shows have a similar theme.
Trek is famous for re-writing it's own history and Rick Berman once said that events from the original Trek need not be taken for granted.
You know, I've not noticed if Jeri Taylor is involved in Enterprise but I would guess she would be.

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The Klingons got hold of cloaking device technology through a sort of technical treaty/exchange they had at one time with the Romulons. The Romulons got hold of some Klingon star ship designs (Original Trek, season three-" The Enterprise incident") The Federation has developed a cloak of sorts but it was a phasing cloak that altered the structure of the vessel enabeling it to phase out of normal space. (TNG, season seven-"The Pegasus")

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I agree with you here Craig. If Picards quote is accurate, Archer and co meet the Klingons at least 50 years too soon! I thought that Star Trek six movie rip off was a bit weak. It was much harder for Kirk and McCoy to escape also. Archer just walked out!

It's perfectly understandable that Gene and Co had obsolutely no idea that Star Trek would go on for so long, in so many different series and movies and that so much would be dependant on getting the 'Original' history right. For instance Gene explained that the star dates had no significance whatsoever. The production team, after a while, tried to have them sequential, but some ended up out of sequence because of episodes going to screen in the wrong order. So, officially, there is no sense or formula to relate the stardates to any year or time.
I understand the Original almost didn't go to series. There was a year gap between the pilot and the beginning of the series.
Also TNG was a bit of a worry to begin with too. There was alot of 'resistance' fron the 'hard core' Original fans that just couldn't see Kirk and Spock etc replaced. Especially after the Movie. But of course they were never replaced. They played there parts, and still do (God rest McCoy) in the new series and the movies.

I think. maybe the 'Enterprise' series is partly an attempt at trying to re-tell some of the history so it fits a little better with the later series. Kind of a re-organising of events and historic moments. I think First Contact was a good start to that process.

well since you asked, it was explained that an escape pod from the borg ship crashed in a polar ice cap. and a team of scientists found them years later still frozen. I havent seen first contact ina  long time so i cant remember to well what actually happend, but they explained it from the battle between the enterprise and the borg over earth, they even mentioned it in the episode, something about cochran being visited  by men from the future trying to stop his first warp test then another group of men from the future actually helping him. but everyone dismissed the claim by cochran thinking he was insane:). what i dont understand is in the first series archer was given information from the future containing tons of ships and species, when going through that one time you could even see the borg ships and enterprise A through E. and various other ships from future, why he didnt just check that about the borg i dont know, well i do know they try to pass it off as the temperal prime directive, but so far picard and janeway have broken that more times than the rest of starfleet combined:)

Star Trek is full of these errors brensec old pal. You would think that with a show so big with so much information available they would get their own history correct!
I remember reading that Rick Berman (the new big boss at Star Trek) said that events from the original (ie. from before his time in charge) should be taken with a pinch of salt and not considered as officially correct. Reading between the lines here, he is saying that the film exploits of Kirk and Co are OK, but the first series is not really part of Star Trek history.