General Star Trek thread

Having a Borg lead show would be a vary strange concept indeed? As the link mentioned: -

I suspect these are shows no-one outside of Secret Hideout actually wants. Could be that their deal with Paramount requires a certain amount of material in the pipeline. I'm guessing the S31 show could only function so long in that role before they needed something new "in developement" to replace it.

This Borg show idea does reek of being a similar project to Section 31. No-one asked for it, no-one really wants it, but Kurtzman's people are probably going threaten us with it for years, like they did with S31. As far as a "Borg Show" is concerned, didn't we already get that? Following Season 4, Voyager essentially became the "Borg Show" with a Borg crew member and the Borg Queen setup as Janeway's arch-nemisis. They even ended the show with the Borg.

We really don't need a Borg Show.

Classic Borg rank right up there in my mind as some of the best Sci-Fi horror monsters you can think of. I still remember vivid Borg nightmares from when I was younger. We peaked with First Contact and alas...I think you could only ever go so far before you ruin it.

It's kind of like Doctor Who over using the Daleks. In breif bursts they were a classic, truly dangerous villain who were (for their time) the stuff that would also fighten kids. Then they went and over used them, and the trouble is; The Doctor has to win, and defeating them so very often like that serisously defangs them as a threat.

I think the same happened with the Borg. Breif bursts like with BoBW or even Scorpion let them remain a dangerous monolithic threat. But being defeated so often as a Monster of the Week, defanged them just as badly as the BBC's Evil Pepper-pots.