General Star Trek thread

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Cheers. Monday am asleep.

Heading to London at the weekend to see the Greatest Generation lads do a live show.

Apparently they're roasting The Survivors from TNG season 2 which should be craic.

I expect lots of Kevin Uxbridge impressions

They'd have taken the Enterprise regardless, as the Borg would simple have scanned it, identified it as something of interest given its size and power. Also, assimilation of babies might ensure more 'perfect' drones as they never really had fully developed personalities/individuality to begin with.

In context of Q Who/BoBW, they were portrayed this way…a simply unstoppable force with no bells and whistles like Queens, Unimatrices, and so on. It was far more interesting that way imo.

Yes good point. That would certainly make it noticeable alright. You woukd have to Wonder do if they had just listened to Guinens first Peace of advice turned around and headed home straight away would the Cube have came after them?

I am thinking they would have.

One part that really bugs me in that episode though is that Riker does not seem to learn that the torpedos are useless against the Cube. Twice he orders Worf to give them when they are at warp and then he orders him again a 3rd time after the Borg take down there shields and warp. Only for Data that would have destroyed them selves.

I don't blame Riker I think it was just bad and lazy writing. Worf should have asked what yield the first time Riker ordered him to fire the second time, either Riker or Worf would have said that they were increasing the yield of the torpedos and maybe the third time Worf could have suggested using phasers as the torpedoes did not work the last two times. Also Picard as the Captain of the ship should have really known firing torpedos with no shields that close to an enemy ship is a bad idea. But as I said it was lazy writing not the characters fault. But ye if I wrote it it would be better now and maybe time constraints and episode length was a thing too.

Q said it best really, "they've identified you as something they can consume." It's as simple as that for me. Large ship, huge power signature, assimilate.

The way they done it was better. Left everyone with loads of unanswered questions.

Would love to watch the early Borg episodes for the first time again. During the first episode you have no way of knowing these are not just another monster of the week.

Jesus no. The Borg were ruined enough without having Discovery get it's hands on them.

Queen never made sense. Just thr First Contact producers wanted a villain character.

Borg as a pure hive mind were much more scary.

A thing that just consumes, adapts, grows, and never, ever gives up.

I thought I Borg was great. It took nothing away from the power of the Borg. Interesting too that Hugh never became his old human self. I imagine he was assimilated very young.

Definitely a great episode, but going from "Resistance is futile" to "Geordi is my friend" was without a doubt the first step in declawing the Borg. After that we had Descent where the aftermath of Hugh was a group of Borg with names etc, then followed the Queen, and Voyager just took it from there.

Was Hugh human? I thought he was after near human alien.