Well, that was a big improvement! Hopefully those last 2 1/2 episodes were just a rough patch.
Though, I continue to find Disco's attitude towards continuity so bizarre! This portrayal of Boreth doesn't connect to what's going on there in TNG at all -- and you can't just conclude "it changed over 100 years" when we're explicitly dealing with something outside of time!
But, why even use Boreth for this? The only reason to include that is to play to the hardcore fans, it could just as easily have been New Klingon Planet. It's just weird how packed this show is with continuity shout-outs that simultaneously disregard continuity. For gods sake, pick a lane! At least they told a great story with the time crystals, so it was ultimately justifiable and satisfying, if pointlessly distracting.
(Also, I can already start to imagine the ridiculous ret-con. Turns out, those monks in "Rightful Heir" didn't genetically engineer that Kahless after all -- that's just the cover story so no one realizes they pulled him out of the past with time crystals!)
By contrast, if this is the origin of the Borg, that's potentially a brilliant continuity-enhancing move. That would explain the Borg's weird fixation on humans, and persistent inability to seal the deal on assimilating them. And that time travel move in First Contact was always so out-of-nowhere, but not so much if the Borg are themselves humans thrown back in time.
Though I was yelling at Pike's telling L'Rell & Tyler "I don't think I could explain it if I tried." It wasn't THAT complicated, Pike! And it's their kid they'll never meet probably! You could answer one or two follow-up questions!
Though, I continue to find Disco's attitude towards continuity so bizarre! This portrayal of Boreth doesn't connect to what's going on there in TNG at all -- and you can't just conclude "it changed over 100 years" when we're explicitly dealing with something outside of time!
But, why even use Boreth for this? The only reason to include that is to play to the hardcore fans, it could just as easily have been New Klingon Planet. It's just weird how packed this show is with continuity shout-outs that simultaneously disregard continuity. For gods sake, pick a lane! At least they told a great story with the time crystals, so it was ultimately justifiable and satisfying, if pointlessly distracting.
(Also, I can already start to imagine the ridiculous ret-con. Turns out, those monks in "Rightful Heir" didn't genetically engineer that Kahless after all -- that's just the cover story so no one realizes they pulled him out of the past with time crystals!)
By contrast, if this is the origin of the Borg, that's potentially a brilliant continuity-enhancing move. That would explain the Borg's weird fixation on humans, and persistent inability to seal the deal on assimilating them. And that time travel move in First Contact was always so out-of-nowhere, but not so much if the Borg are themselves humans thrown back in time.
Though I was yelling at Pike's telling L'Rell & Tyler "I don't think I could explain it if I tried." It wasn't THAT complicated, Pike! And it's their kid they'll never meet probably! You could answer one or two follow-up questions!
