Sir, the decanonizer is armed and ready” The crew man in front of you tells you as his colleague is working on the control panel that operates the mighty machine that fills most of the room and that can cut through time and space, removing, objects, people, and even ideas completely from existence and out of everyone's mind but yours.
“Excellent” You respond as you pat the crew member on the shoulder, “Now it is time to come to go back in Star Trek's lore and correct history to make it work the way it should have.
You take place in front of the machine and start operating the joysticks that control the emitter of the device and target it at Star Trek.
“Take this!” You yell as you press the fire buttons on the joystick, making the machine fire.
Heh, silly little introduction but I do so love an entertaining opening. But anyway image if you as a Star Trek fan get the chance to go back and change parts of any of the shows or movies which you felt had a detrimental effect on that story or even the Star Trek universe in general.
This doesn't just have to be single idea within a story, it can even be a story (episode or movie) itself if you feel it is a complete waste. I'll go first.
I would really like to eliminate the Borg Queen from First Contact and subsequent Voyager as I feel that the introduction of the Queen helped dismantle the concept behind the Borg Collective.
Despite what the cyborgs have gone through since TNG I still love the Borg as one of Star Trek's biggest antagonist as they were so much the 'other' compared to humans and most of the ST species.Their ideology, their culture, their mentality, here was something really menacing that did not stick to most antagonist trademarks. They weren't out to do evil for the sake of evil (though I can not help but not completely eliminate ego or power hunger), heck they even think what they are doing is improving the quality of life for all the beings it assimilates, taking away the chaos in their lives and replacing it with order and structure.
But then we got the Borg Queen in First Contact. I actually liked the character at first I admit and really did see it as a sort of shell the mind of the entire Collective was running through, creating a visage of individuality. But even in First Contact it sadly quickly went to the deep end like trying to seduce Data (the Borg considered him obsolete in the new order, didn't they?), being annoyed at Picard for forgetting her and so on.
And this crap continued in Voyager in which the Borg Queen became less of a spokesperson and more their unofficial leader who developed an idiotic interest in Seven of Nine and a grudge against Janeway and the Voyager crew.
By eliminating the Borg Queen I feel a lot of idiotic-ness can be removed. Yeah some episodes would have to be seriously revised as it sometimes partly revolved around the character but I think it would be for the better. For one, no special interest in Seven (why would the Collective care about re assimilating one individual). And would we really miss such 'gems' as Unimatrix Zero and of course Endgame?
As for how conversation with the Borg in First Contact would have to be handled, well someone else on the internet came up with a pretty good idea; basically any verbal conversation switching from one drone to another as the main characters would move past them.
That is actually a lot more creepy too.
“Excellent” You respond as you pat the crew member on the shoulder, “Now it is time to come to go back in Star Trek's lore and correct history to make it work the way it should have.
You take place in front of the machine and start operating the joysticks that control the emitter of the device and target it at Star Trek.
“Take this!” You yell as you press the fire buttons on the joystick, making the machine fire.
Heh, silly little introduction but I do so love an entertaining opening. But anyway image if you as a Star Trek fan get the chance to go back and change parts of any of the shows or movies which you felt had a detrimental effect on that story or even the Star Trek universe in general.
This doesn't just have to be single idea within a story, it can even be a story (episode or movie) itself if you feel it is a complete waste. I'll go first.
I would really like to eliminate the Borg Queen from First Contact and subsequent Voyager as I feel that the introduction of the Queen helped dismantle the concept behind the Borg Collective.
Despite what the cyborgs have gone through since TNG I still love the Borg as one of Star Trek's biggest antagonist as they were so much the 'other' compared to humans and most of the ST species.Their ideology, their culture, their mentality, here was something really menacing that did not stick to most antagonist trademarks. They weren't out to do evil for the sake of evil (though I can not help but not completely eliminate ego or power hunger), heck they even think what they are doing is improving the quality of life for all the beings it assimilates, taking away the chaos in their lives and replacing it with order and structure.
But then we got the Borg Queen in First Contact. I actually liked the character at first I admit and really did see it as a sort of shell the mind of the entire Collective was running through, creating a visage of individuality. But even in First Contact it sadly quickly went to the deep end like trying to seduce Data (the Borg considered him obsolete in the new order, didn't they?), being annoyed at Picard for forgetting her and so on.
And this crap continued in Voyager in which the Borg Queen became less of a spokesperson and more their unofficial leader who developed an idiotic interest in Seven of Nine and a grudge against Janeway and the Voyager crew.
By eliminating the Borg Queen I feel a lot of idiotic-ness can be removed. Yeah some episodes would have to be seriously revised as it sometimes partly revolved around the character but I think it would be for the better. For one, no special interest in Seven (why would the Collective care about re assimilating one individual). And would we really miss such 'gems' as Unimatrix Zero and of course Endgame?
As for how conversation with the Borg in First Contact would have to be handled, well someone else on the internet came up with a pretty good idea; basically any verbal conversation switching from one drone to another as the main characters would move past them.
That is actually a lot more creepy too.
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