I was done with the Borg when they introduced a Queen.
Just like Zerg and Tyranids. I understand that narratively you need characters for stories, but coupling those completely alien swarm intelligences to discreet “Queens” commanding the swarm takes away this very alienness and transforms them from a terrifying force of nature you can never truly understand into yet another rulers personal army.
im going to buy you a “done with the borg since '96” tshirt
Dark gods!.. 96… 96… I’ve seen first contact on the big screen when it came out… I’m old as fuck.
I know I actually had to look it up twice to make sure I was correct and also not having another dimentia episode
DS9 was amazing. Certainly better than Enterprise (which is disappointing because the latter had such a good premise)
it shouldve went with romulan war buildup, instead of the xindi arc. they are always teasing ROMULAN in the series. s5-7 were suppose to have shran join the crew, but the NETWORK CANCELLED THE SHOW.
Honestly they could just bring Enterprise back it would be an improvement over constantly producing subpar Star Trek shows that no one really wants.
Correction the network didnt cancel the show: the network itself was canceled and enterprise did well ratings wise but it was expensive to produce and didnt do well enough for anothe network to pick up
oh yea at the time the 1st 2 episodes were 2million each, so the episodes got more expensive since, no doubt.
Still not as heartbreaking as the Firefly cancellation. I don’t know if I’ll ever get over that one.
That is because the borg were afraid of Sisko’s baseball.
It wasn’t so much the baseball itself but what it represents (a bazooka that shoots baseballs)
Nah, Baseball is the true sport of the prophets that Sisko brought to Earth by timetravelling in order to save humanity from a rogue Klingon faction that encountered earth before the Vulcans made contact. Inside the baseballs were genetic modifiers that would turn the Klingons into looking like humans and it embarassed them so bad they fled.
A timeloop is formed, which is why Sisko keeps the baseball in his office to remind him of it.
The Borg fear Baseball because they recognize it represents power over reality itself.
“Let’s assimilate some Ferengi ourselves instead”
I’d like to see a Borg vs Dominion war.
I was sure that’s the way they were going to go with it. They should never had species 8472 (their introduction simply increased the problem of Star Trek establishing whole other realities existing, and then forgetting about it for subsequent stories) and have the Borg encounter The Founders and not be able to assimilate them because their shapeshifters, after that point essentially have the stories be the same.
Unless there is some caveat like the nanites don’t work on the founders or Jem Hadar I don’t think it would be much of a contest
Then again the talking apes from earth seem to keep them at bay pretty well
The Founders strengths are genetic engineering and the ability to maintain individuality inside of a collective. I think both of these have been shown to absolutely crush the Borg and the Founders would see the Borg as a fitting solution to the solids.
The issue is then you have poked God Emperor Sisko of the sacred temple. A being with unending rage against the borg, a willingness to commit war crimes, and the ability to exist outside of time. Sisko is the only captain who faced a power scaling issue of his own power being too high as he was literally born with plot armor.
Also Season 8 of DS9 would have revealed that Sisko had laser eyes this whole time and just chose not to employ them
i wonder when the borg discovered the transwarp hub, they wouldve likely used to invade the gamma quadrant at some point. 8472 likely weakened thier influenced throughout the galaxy, hence they never encountered the borg in the series.
DS9 was too far away from where borg would attack, and first contact was happening around the same time of ds9, when they had to move defiant off-screen to fight the borg.
