Random thought: Part 29
Jan. 25th, 2009 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficSo in Star Trek: The Next Generation, they showed first contact with the Borg and plainly stated that this was the first time humanity had encountered the Borg and that the Federation had never seen anything like that. It was simple and clear, therefore all following series felt the need to contradict in. In Generations, they had the Borg attack Guinea's homeworld and leave numerous survivors who presumably took a vow of silence for some reason. Then in Voyager, it was revealed that Seven of Nine was the child of the Hansens, a couple who traveled into deep space to sing MMMMbop look for the Borg, following "rumors."
Sidebar: What rumors did they not follow? Was there a species of ear-raping marsupials that was just too dangerous to look into? Did the rumors not mention the whole "living death" aspect? "Oh, they have pasty gray complexions and they're man-machine hybrids... what am I forgetting...? like to turn people into soulless abominations or something, I don't know..." And they brought their little girl along! Parents of the year, right there.
Then in Enterprise, it turned out that Borg survivors from First Contact attacked the NC-01 Enterprise. So that's countless contacts with the Borg, yet Picard is still all google-eyed when Q shows him the gray fucks way back in TNG.
Therefore, I propose the new Star Trek reset continue this tradition and feature a Borg drone just wandering around in command gold.
"Hey, Bob, did you get my coffee?"
"Yes, two sugars, just as you requested. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated."
"Ha ha ha, not with my workload! Take care, buddy."
"Keep on keeping on, your biological diversity will be assimilated to serve us."
Sidebar: What rumors did they not follow? Was there a species of ear-raping marsupials that was just too dangerous to look into? Did the rumors not mention the whole "living death" aspect? "Oh, they have pasty gray complexions and they're man-machine hybrids... what am I forgetting...? like to turn people into soulless abominations or something, I don't know..." And they brought their little girl along! Parents of the year, right there.
Then in Enterprise, it turned out that Borg survivors from First Contact attacked the NC-01 Enterprise. So that's countless contacts with the Borg, yet Picard is still all google-eyed when Q shows him the gray fucks way back in TNG.
Therefore, I propose the new Star Trek reset continue this tradition and feature a Borg drone just wandering around in command gold.
"Hey, Bob, did you get my coffee?"
"Yes, two sugars, just as you requested. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated."
"Ha ha ha, not with my workload! Take care, buddy."
"Keep on keeping on, your biological diversity will be assimilated to serve us."
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Date: 2009-01-25 07:45 pm (UTC)The time travel elements of First Contact do allow for some sort of complicated Borg Time War that could reconcile it all, just about, if we assume that every appearance of the Borg in canon made after the film is from the new timeline, and they just forgot to ever mention it, despite the fact that the whole arc plot of Enterprise was about Time Wars.
Or maybe they were just desperate for ratings so chucked in the monster they knew got results.
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Date: 2009-01-25 07:53 pm (UTC)Austin: So those Borg cats attacking El-Auria were only doing it because of the signal sent during Enterprise, even though that episode hadn't been written yet and so they couldn't possibly have... Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed.
Basil: I suggest you don't worry about those things and just enjoy yourself. [to audience] That goes for you too.
Austin: Yes.
And then on to Kirk stealing a Corvette.