I do have a nitpick as to why they weren't even mentioned? They are an ally borg group who were just seen less than a year ago in-universe. Why not reach out to them for help?
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I do have a nitpick as to why they weren't even mentioned? They are an ally borg group who were just seen less than a year ago in-universe. Why not reach out to them for help?
I mean ok, but it’s clearly shown that the Borg are a shadow of their former selves, literally cannibalizing drones to survive. Also the only way the E-D got in there was with Data’s processing superpower and had to dodge a lot of incoming fire.
They were busy guarding the transwarp conduit.
I think it was from "Eye of the Beholder".
I chuckled at this comment upthread.
Q stories have never really interested me. Just one more god-like alien, IMO. There was no need to bring him back, undoing what little character/plot development he got all last season.
They didn't avail themselves of one of the two ways I saw to bring Shaw back, which disappointed me.
After getting some sleep and taking the time to think it over, I give it 8.5 to 9 out of 10. TM and his creative crew hit nearly all the right emotional beats, enough so that they could have spent a little bit of that goodwill to make some stronger narrative choices. They played it a little too safe, I think. It was just a bit "and they all lived happily ever after". (Except for Shaw, d*mn it! Oh, and poor Varis, sitting at the bar, waiting for someone who will never come...)
Things I really liked:
- Deanna redeems herself as a Conn officer. (Not that the stupid "girls can't drive" BS should ever have been allowed to get started.)
- "Names mean everything!"
- "Out." "But it's so damn, comfy!"
- The easy comeradery between Seven's bridge crew. A little unprofessional, maybe, but refreshingly unstodgy, setting up a theme/running gag for the potential spin off.
- We don't hear Seven's "catch phrase". (Always leave them wanting more.)
Things I never want to see in ST again:
- Borg.
- Federation IT support that doesn't understand that letting computers do all the work never ever ends well.
We saw what appeared to be a Borg student in the distant future in Lower Decks.
According to TrekCore
"Majel Barret’s computer voice returns, with audio segments clipped from two Next Generation episodes: “Electropathic pattern located” is from “Violations,” while “Shutdown sequence initiated” is from “Eye of the Beholder.”"
That could be a Jurati faction borg.
Did we watch the same scene? The route was far from clear, easy and they were firing and trying to stop the Enterprise the entire way. Geordi said it was virtually impossible, Data said it was statistically near impossible but he had a "gut feeling" he could do it.
Could just be part of the Jurati cooperative.
yep there could still be chill jurati borg in the distant future and thats fine, no contradiction with Lower Decks. It has no bearing on what we're talking about, which is the end of the borg as series antagonists.
(until a different writer decides they arent but that's another story we need not concern ourselves with until it happens)
This is all cool and I would have loved to have seen it but it just wasn't part of *this* story and I'm ok with that too. We can assume they meet at some point.
There are some potentially interesting stories they could tell about the role of a non-malevolent Borg collective and its place in a wider pluralistic Federation.
I really didn't like the idea of renaming the Titan to Enterprise. Seemed cheap and a waste of the history of the ship that they hyped up before the season. If they had to introduce a new Enterprise, do the same thing they did with the Titan and futurerize the E-D and use that. Maybe not a 3rd nacelle and giant phaser cannon, but something that blends the old design and something new.
There's still 2 other shows set before Picard season 3, that have already used them (though one was a holo simulation)
I believe other planetary defenses were mentioned in dialogue. Planetary shields were also mentioned.
Mostly, this episode has led me to an important epiphany: With 1,000 hours of Star Trek to analyze, every discussion will inevitably become focused on the comparative, speculative sizes of the hero ships --- the true definition of "the human adventure."
There were some nice callbacks and references to the Queen in First Contact also.
Insisting that before the Borg would assimilate, now they evolve. The Queen in FC insisted they were evolving, Data corrected her saying they conquer.
"Watch your futures end"
The H.R. Giger inspired Borg degrading had some really good horror elements, it was nice seeing how horrible the Borg can get when they have to essentially consume themselves to survive, but in the end, it was the Queen sacrificing the Borg for her own ambitions. The Collective was dead in Endgame, this is just the Queen trying to stave off the inevitable
Insisting that before the Borg would assimilate, now they evolve. The Queen in FC insisted they were evolving, Data corrected her saying they conquer.
"Watch your futures end"
The H.R. Giger inspired Borg degrading had some really good horror elements, it was nice seeing how horrible the Borg can get when they have to essentially consume themselves to survive, but in the end, it was the Queen sacrificing the Borg for her own ambitions. The Collective was dead in Endgame, this is just the Queen trying to stave off the inevitable
And if the warp nacelles are blue
Planetary shields, orbital weapons platform and the spacedock complex.
The Federation clearly learned from the Breen attack
It's just beginning!
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