The Borg.....Better or Worse
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Re: The Borg.....Better or Worse
However, in Voyager's defense, 7of9 was the best thing ever to come of the Borg.
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Re: The Borg.....Better or Worse
True. You cant argue with the catsuit.
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Damn straight.
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Agreed on both counts.
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I'm sorta surprised we never saw flashback scenes with the Borg in DS9. Early on, at least, it could have been effective.
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Meh, they weren't really needed all that much.
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Re: The Borg.....Better or Worse
Yeah, DS9's only connection with the Borg was Sisko really and doing anything more would have gotten tiresome quickly.
In Voyager they needed a stock bad guy that they didn't have to tell the viewer all about every time they met them. Aliens of the Week work but you generally have to spend time setting the scene as it were for the viewer and that can take time away from the story. The Borg are the only thing we know of from that area of Space that can do it so they got abused into what we seen in the end which is really only the same through the name and the general appearance. Plus the Borg were and still are popular so Borg Stories get you ratings, which in turn gets you sponsorship which gives you more episodes.
In Voyager they needed a stock bad guy that they didn't have to tell the viewer all about every time they met them. Aliens of the Week work but you generally have to spend time setting the scene as it were for the viewer and that can take time away from the story. The Borg are the only thing we know of from that area of Space that can do it so they got abused into what we seen in the end which is really only the same through the name and the general appearance. Plus the Borg were and still are popular so Borg Stories get you ratings, which in turn gets you sponsorship which gives you more episodes.
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The problem was that by overusing them because "the Borg are awesome", they destroyed the very characteristic that made the Borg awesome - their aura of invincibility.
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Yep, I agree completely.
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Re: The Borg.....Better or Worse
TNG by a light-year. Unstoppable, truly scary... You didn't defeat the Borg. You survived until the next encounter with them. Which might be your last...
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I think VOY should of just created a new species like the Borg. Or and off shoot of the Borg that was more human.
I really dont mind the VOY Borg most of the time. But they are totally different to TNG ones.
I really dont mind the VOY Borg most of the time. But they are totally different to TNG ones.
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The problem is that the VOY Borg aren't the same as the TNG Borg. They're too different. The writers would have been better by just making them a completely different race.
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They did - they just failed to rename them. 
I can't stand nothing dull
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
I got the high gloss luster
I'll massacre your ass as fast
as Bull offed Custer
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Re: The Borg.....Better or Worse
And thus one of the coolest things to come out of ST got wussified.Mikey wrote:They did - they just failed to rename them.
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Indeed.
"You've all been selected for this mission because you each have a special skill. Professor Hawking, John Leslie, Phil Neville, the Wu-Tang Clan, Usher, the Sugar Puffs Monster and Daniel Day-Lewis! Welcome to Operation MindFuck!"