Brent screamed back at their hypocrisy - he knew the bomb was a real defensive weapon: "Is that bomb out there, is that an illusion? It""s operational, isn""t it?" Mendez called them "the keepers of the Divine Bomb.After the Borg sphere fired multiple torpedoes at an unspecified location on Earth (it was a missile complex in central Montana at the shanty town of Bozeman), theEnterprisefired upon the sphere and destroyed it; it was learned that the exact date was April 4th ("The day before First Contact"), only one daybeforepilot-astronaut and inventor Zefram Cochrane""s (James Cromwell) historic warp ship (thePhoenix,constructed from a nuclear missile) flight from Montana - it was the first vessel capable of entering warp speed and having "first contact" with aliens who were on a survey mission ("one of the pivotal moments in human history"), something the Borg wanted to prevent from happening (since it would lead to technological developments and resistance to them).She was well aware of the alien""s deadly powers: "She""ll breed.You""ll die."The extracted alien baby grew to be a full-sized queen (called "wondrous"), and was kept alive by a secret military faction led by General Perez (Daniel Hedaya) for their nefarious objectives (villainous Dr.This was the reason she had stopped sending love letters to Mark, and had burned all of his letters that he had previously written to her - except for one ("You probably know the one I mean").