“The Best of Both Worlds,” perhaps the most famous Episode of “Next Generation,” saw the invasion of a race of unthinking cyborgs called the Borg. While trying to hold back a Borg ship, Picard (Patrick Stewart) is kidnapped and assimilated. He is implanted with Borg machinery and renamed Locutus, a speaker from the otherwise mentally united cyber-beings. The first half ends with Picard, fully Borged out and robbed of his identity, announcing that the Borg are about to destroy the Enterprise. Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) gives the order to fire all weapons. Cut to black. “To be continued.” Those alive at the time recall shrieking in frustration that we would have to wait all summer to see the conclusion. 

Myers knows that frustration well, and aimed to emulate it with “Hegemony.” As he said: 

“The entire intent of doing [“Hegemony”] that way was that we were thinking about the great ‘Next Generation’ two-parter, ‘The Best of Both Worlds.’ It’s a fantastic end of the season, and it shocks the hell out of you, like, ‘I have to wait until the next season to see the next part!’ That’s all we were trying to do. It was just, let’s surprise everyone, and have this be a ‘Best of Both Worlds,’ let’s hold ourselves up to that level. We wanted people to be shocked and delighted because I remember experiencing that when I was younger, being blown away and loving it.” 

Myers was born in 1972 and had just turned 18 when “Best of Both Worlds” aired. He shares a whole generation’s delighted aggravation.