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"Featured articles" are some of the Memory Alpha articles that we believe are particularly comprehensive and well-written. However, we can't keep track of all of the thousands of articles that Memory Alpha contains – not even the really good ones. If you find an article that you believe belongs on the list, please nominate it.

Each week, one of our featured articles is selected to be the Article of the Week, which is displayed on the main page. To suggest an article for this honor, see Article of the Week. Articles in bold have already been on the main page and are ineligible to be featured there again. For a complete alphabetical list of articles, see the category page.

Note: If you believe an article listed here does not deserve to be featured, please nominate it for removal. Administrators should also remember to always add new articles here when they become featured.

Current Article of the Week
Starfleet vessels engaging the Borg cube at the Battle of Sector 001

The Battle of Sector 001 was a confrontation between the United Federation of Planets and the Borg Collective in 2373, when a Borg cube attempted to assimilate Earth. Although the battle resulted in significant loss of life for the Starfleet forces, it was still considered a victory for the Federation. Unlike the infamous Battle of Wolf 359 some six years before, Starfleet proved to be more prepared to fight the Borg. The fleet, though out gunned, ultimately managed to successfully destroy the Cube.

The second major Borg incursion into Federation space began shortly before stardate 50893, when the colony on Ivor Prime was destroyed. Nearby Deep Space 5 detected the attack, and long-range sensors detected a single Borg vessel. A Federation fleet mobilized in the Typhon sector to intercept the Borg cube before it reached Earth.

The fleet opened fire, but to minimal effect. The defense perimeter was quickly shattered, with numerous ships being lost, as the cube continued on unrelentingly towards Earth. The surviving ships, including the USS Defiant and the USS Bozeman, assaulted the cube all the way to the Sol system. Realizing that the battle was not progressing well, Captain Jean-Luc Picard ordered the USS Enterprise-E back to Earth in violation of his orders.

Picard, taking advantage of his residual link to the Collective, took command of the fleet and ordered all weapons to be targeted on a seemingly non-critical point on the cube. The resulting barrage destroyed the cube; however, shortly before its destruction, the cube launched a small spherical vessel from its interior. The sphere began generating chronometric particles, forming a temporal vortex, and disappeared inside the vortex near the boundary of Earth's atmosphere, traveling back to 2063 and disrupting First Contact.

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