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Species_125
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 Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:58 pm I, Borg - an episode review |
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Dr. Crusher encourages everyone to have a moral dilemma. Go Beverley!
Finding a crashed Borg Scout vessel with 4 dead and 1 injured Borg on board, the crew of the Enterprise pick up the mess after Dr. Crusher's starfleet programming takes over and she begins to repair the damage to the surviving Drone.
Bringing the Borg "3rd of 5" on board, and silencing it's link to the collective, Geordi and Beverley try to learn a little more about what makes the Borg tick, and in the process devise a way to destroy the Collective once and for all. (Mwahahaha.)
Unfortunately for those involved, the Drone develops an individual personality, what with being reduced to an individual and all, is hardly surprising. What is surprising is that he has no recollecting of his life before he was assimilated, so presumably "Hugh" (as he has been named), must have been assimilated as a baby or something.
Geordi shares his angst with Guinan, who tells him to grow up. Then she goes to see Hugh and gets some angst of her own, so she goes to Picard to spread the love. The captain has a meeting with Hugh and realises that this individual is no longer a part of the collective (well, you know, you severed his link to the collective, go figure) and has second thoughts about using him to deliver Geordi's computer virus to the Borg.
Hugh nonetheless decides to return to the crash site when more Borg come along to collect the debris, and the captain suspects that his sense of individuality will be just as devestating to the Borg. Cue a future two parter...
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Brightstar82
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| Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:07 am |
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I loved that episode I never thought it was possible to change a Borgs way of thinking.
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Kilgore
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| Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:06 pm |
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and I think it shouldn't be possible. Hugh was the beginning of the downfall of the Borg. The Borg should just have stayed this emotionless seemingly undefeatable enemy.
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Brightstar82
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| Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:04 pm |
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| Kilgore wrote: | | and I think it shouldn't be possible. Hugh was the beginning of the downfall of the Borg. The Borg should just have stayed this emotionless seemingly undefeatable enemy. |
Thats true if they had'nt gone and gave hugh the ability to function as one then the borg would have remained fearfull.
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Untitled
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| Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:38 am |
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| Kilgore wrote: | | and I think it shouldn't be possible. Hugh was the beginning of the downfall of the Borg. The Borg should just have stayed this emotionless seemingly undefeatable enemy. |
- I disagree. It makes them seem more realistic to me, than for them to be a super power no one can understand and touch. And quite honestly I think it's made them more interesting.
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Thats true if they had'nt gone and gave hugh the ability to function as one then the borg would have remained fearfull. |
- I think Hugh gave them hope that they could break through the Borg in some way. But of course there was still fear of the Borg. As long as the Borg exist as the Borg, others will still fear them.
I find it interesting that the Borg seek perfection...but why can't they see that they will never achive their goal? Perfection is unobtainable to a flawed creature in the first place...and the Borg have flaws, weaknesses, and they will never get completely rid of them. Also as many Galaxy's and Dimentions they explore they will find another species that hasn't been assimlated--so they couldn't possibly assimlate every species the would want to into the collective. They couldn't breach Species 8472 - before the Doc's modified nanoprobes.
Not that this little ramble has anything to do with the topic...
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