Bill,

Found it!

The first episode where the Borg were introduced/engaged/confronted is "Q Who" -- sixteenth episode of season two. It's where Q sends the Enterprise to the Delta Quadrant.

Didn't take long -- just had to look it up in my Trek Navigator (g).

>Thanks Evan. Don't spend too much time on it. I am mostly just curious. :-) The general concensus of the thread was STNG. But no one seemed to remember the exact episode.
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>>Bill, the quote -is- originally from ST-TNG -- I'll dig up the exact episode tonight. I also have the entire original sequence from the first confrontation with the Borg in a WAV file -- *somewhere*.
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>>Been away for about a week and a half, or I'd have cleared this up earlier (G).
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>>>Resistance is futile... you will be assimilated (oops, too late!).
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>>>Say, does anyone know where this quote originally came from, i.e. its first occurence?