- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: MCs Brother
Posted by: amazedsatsuma
Posted by: gamertag xeros5
I don't know much about the borg. Actually I don't know anything about them. What are they?
you just three responses on the subject, now all you is some pointed ears and your a trekkie.
resistance is futile you well be assimlated
Ha. He can be a Red-shirt. <all trekkies laugh at inside joke>
Hell, I laughed and I don't even consider myself a trekkie. :P
I think I don't because I sometimes feel let down by the show. Though the plots of a lot of individual episodes are good, it seems as though the "Star Trek" setting is merely a superfluous context. The stories are good because they're good stories, not because it's Star Trek. There are two things that come to mind from thinking of the Borg:
1) Why didn't StarFleet begin issuing missile-based weapons like guns instead of phasers? The borg aren't immune to bullets. Hell, they aren't immune to atomic weaponry either. Why couldn't have StarFleet just equit their ships with these things? (I know why they decided not to do it from a producer perspective, but in the show context they should have)
2) I didn't get enough political... troubles. StarFleet always seems to sit behind whatever's going on as a basic set of humanistic principles, yet you never actually see direct political interaction with StarFleet - there could have been problems with it (such as a very slow process for updating new weaponry to combat things such as the Borg). Like I said, Star Fleet represents humanism (I think Gene even said it did), so it never really was placed with a bad name - but I would have liked it to be. There were always troubles with the captains disobeying orders, but that never really seems like a problem with Star Fleet - and if it did, they never went into depth as to why the problem took place.
Also, each episode was a whole new story. Rarely did I feel any continuing story over the course of the show (except Voyager). I would have liked to see new seasons tell one long, highly detailed story. Again, this deals with the problem of the Star Trek universe being a superfluous context for the plot of an individual episode.