I never thought I'd see the day when people would get assimilated voluntarily. That's how much voyager diminished the borg as a Villain.
Excessive Criticism of "STAR TREK VOYAGER"
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Based upon what? Technological evolution is not a continuous stream. It occurs episodically, with some nations taking longer to get to a certain place than others.
The common cold is also a virus that mutates constantly, to the point that no vaccine can be produced against it, despite decades of medical research. Whereas, medical research had eliminated several other diseases and viral infections in a similar amount of time.
The Borg can only assimilate inferior technology.
And never on an empty stomach.
Or it could cause a lot more problems
Also possible.
TNG was already planning on doing the same thing in "I, Borg" by using Hugh as a carrier for their weapon.
A common cold is just a fact of life you learn to live with, just like the more advanced species in Trek would've adapted to the Borg and learned to live with swatting them away whenever they encounter them.
If the Borg were done "properly" like you all say the Vidiians should've been.
I have no comment one way or the other on the Vidiians. I though they were fine as presented.
Secondly, the Borg had the ability to adapt through mass computation. Other, more "advanced" species, may have had technological setbacks (natural disasters, data loss, etc) where information was lost, versus the Borg who have an ability to preserve data and, well, adapt.
How is that related to Janeway, B'elanna and Tuvok letting themselves be assimilated and be drilled metallic objects into their cranium?
The Trojan Horse.
It was a delivery method for a virus that would disable the Borg in both cases
That was their purpose but that doesn't make the perspective any less gruesome. THEY GOT ASSIMILATED. Most people see that as the ultimate nightmare. In a horror movie it would be like people turning voluntarily into undead in order to do something and then the doctor bringing them back to a living state. Don't you think that would somewhat weaken the threat posed by the undead?
I'm not disagreeing that it was a nightmare scneario. But to me that doesn't weaken the Borg. It was still dangerous and there was no guarantee that they were coming back from it.
Going with your example...Do you watch Walking Dead? There were a few times when people covered themselves with blood and guts from walkers in order to walk among them. Does that somehow weaken the threat posed by the walkers?
But they weren't.
They were not assimilated.
Or at least that it slowed down.
You ever heard of a measles party?
Children ignore measles.
Adults die from measles.
Parents therefore find a kid with measles and under the guise of a sleepover/playdate, they artfully trick their own child into unavoidably accepting infection.
I don't know about measles, but this was definately a thing when I was a kid with chicken pox.
To be honest I don't watch that sort of movie. I watched a couple and decided that it wasn't my cup of tea, however, people covering themselves with guts and blood (however gutsy that may be, pun intended) is different from people BECOMING undead and hoping that a doctor will bring them back after they've done whatever they wish to accomplish.
Yeah, it's not exactly the same but it is a comparable situation. It's the biggest threat around and you're doing something horrible to walk among them, hoping that it works and you don't end up permanently one of them. You're taking the risk that it won't work, but hoping that it will in order to do something that will be for the greater good if it is successful.
You're making me curious. Were they successful?
Do you think you might ever watch the show? it could be a spoiler
Oh, no, this isn't a clever plan locutus. Blooding up is just a flaw in the basic zombie design. If you smell dead and look dead and sound dead, they leave you alone because they think that you are one of them, and thereafter they do not attack until you wash off the blood and get fresh fluff and folded clothes.
It's just an elementary move almost everyone knows about, when there's too many of them to kill one at a time.
It's just an elementary move almost everyone knows about, when there's too many of them to kill one at a time.
