What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Citiprime]

The Borg Collective is either a "Decentralized Voice in their heads" or a voice controlled by "The Borg Queen".

Take your pick as to which one is guiding the entirety of "The Borg Collective".

I think this is one of the reasons I disliked the introduction of the Borg Queen in First Contact.

I understand why they did it from a writing perspective. It gave the Borg a central character to function as the main antagonist. But I always thought they were far scarier as just a hive mind that subsumes individuals into it. And the ending of "Best of Both Worlds" is predicated on the idea they are a singular mind that can't act separately in thought and function.

But after the intro of the Queen, it's left ambiguous whether the Queen is an expression of the collective's will, or if she's whatever overriding directives in the Borg programming controlling the collective to her will.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I think this is one of the reasons I disliked the introduction of the Borg Queen in First Contact.

I understand why they did it from a writing perspective. It gave the Borg a central character to function as the main antagonist. But I always thought they were far scarier as just a hive mind that subsumes individuals into it. And the ending of "Best of Both Worlds" is predicated on the idea they are a singular mind that can't act separately in thought and function.

But after the intro of the Queen, it's left ambiguous whether the Queen is an expression of the collective's will, or if she's whatever overriding directives in the Borg programming controlling the collective to her will.

I think it's a bit of both; some how, the Borg Queen construct evolved out of the entire "Voice of the Borg Collective".

As to guiding that "Collective Voice", it seems to play the Administrator role while she sits pretty as the "Queen of the Borg Collective".

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Why do you need uniformity on two different parts of the ship that serve two different functions?

There's the Wise way, which you approve of, 13 years after the old way, which I prefer. If Wise had also costumed the actors in his take of WRATH OF KHAN, or INTO DARKNESS especially, you might have a hairier situation than desired. Scotty is unconscious in both at key points. What if one of the short-sleevers from the bridge decides to fix the engines himself while inadventently clogging them further with their follical junk? Or do we just ban Sulu, Chekov, Uhura and Kirk from the engine room since Spock has longer sleeves?

 

[XCV330]

But, but, if there are no keys, then how does music work? This is the key to the situation.

atonal /microtonal music.

you did ask.

 

[cooleddie74]

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The 2378-79 Starfleet R&D budget contained some wild-ass projects arrived at after lots of Aldebaran whiskey shots being shared.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

The 2378-79 Starfleet R&D budget contained some wild-ass projects arrived at after lots of Aldebaran whiskey shots being shared.

Those are some Over-Engineered Automatic Seat Belts

 

[cooleddie74]

Bad movie with a bad deleted scene involving a bad seatbelt system. But at least the chair didn't go to waste and became Archer's Season 4 Captain's chair after the ship was repaired following the Xindi mission.

No seatbelts this time, though the metal buckles were still visible near the headrest.

 

[XCV330]

Bad movie with a bad deleted scene involving a bad seatbelt system. But at least the chair didn't go to waste and became Archer's Season 4 Captain's chair after the ship was repaired following the Xindi mission.

No seatbelts this time, though the metal buckles were still visible near the headrest.

it was the previous one that needed Trip raising it by 1cm if I recall. That always bugged me. Why didn't his chair have a raise/lower option?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

it was the previous one that needed Trip raising it by 1cm if I recall. That always bugged me. Why didn't his chair have a raise/lower option?

Exactly, those are basic features on modern office chairs.

Yet StarFleet didn't think of implementing the Hydraulic Lift on their chairs?

 

[XCV330]

Exactly, those are basic features on modern office chairs.

Yet StarFleet didn't think of implementing the Hydraulic Lift on their chairs?

but they provide helpful rocks in the ceiling and exploding consoles.

 

[cooleddie74]

And unnecessary strip lighting in walls and even railings.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

And unnecessary strip lighting in walls and even railings.

I think there were a few strip lights along the console edge at the base, I could be wrong.

I know they went ham on slapping them every where.