Borg in Disco?

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Discovery' started by caliginous, Aug 2, 2018.

  1. ralph

    ralph Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    This figure could be just an illusion of Michael. I imagined the Mirror Georgiu coming up in Michael's blurry vision.
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  2. Herbert

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    Soooo, if anyone subscribes to the idea that the Borg were shown (in, oooh scary, shadowy form) and will eventually show up with their platform shoes, bell bottoms, and leisure suits, then how do you account for the fact that they didn't assimilate earth way before the events of TNG when Q introduces the Enterprise crew to the Borg?
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  3. ITDUDE

    ITDUDE Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    This thread lasted way longer than I thought it would.
    There will not be Borg in STD. Period. Kurtzman is not that stupid.
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  4. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    Yep, that's it, dude.


    Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
     
  5. ITDUDE

    ITDUDE Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    You meant, "you got it, dude"
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  6. ISS Enterprise

    ISS Enterprise Commander Red Shirt

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    Meh, I wouldn't say that lol
     
  7. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    I was going more for the "it, dude" "ITDUDE" angle, but I think that would have been the better alternative.
     
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  8. Groppler Zorn

    Groppler Zorn Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    Is that how like John Harrison wasn’t Khan?
     
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  9. ITDUDE

    ITDUDE Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Well, a "shadowy figure is Borg" is a much larger leap than "is super human named John or Khan"
    I am giving benefit of the doubt to Kurtzman. If I am wrong about this (and it IS Borg), it wouldn't be the first time in Star Trek I was wrong to give the benefit of the doubt to Star Trek showrunners (I was defending TATV, before it aired. It couldn't be as bad as everyone was saying, I was thinking. Oh boy, was everyone right about it)
    If it IS the Borg I will be the first one here bashing Kurtzman and rest of the writers. :guffaw:
     
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  10. eschaton

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    TATV, viewed in isolation, isn't a horrible Trek episode, merely mediocre. The problem is Berman and Braga seemed to get it in their heads that what people really wanted wasn't a finale to Enterprise, but a finale to the entire "Berman era" of Trek. Which was a completely inexcusable decision to make, effectively cutting the legs out from under the show on its last outing. If they had really wanted to make the episode, they should have either put it mid season or given ENT a proper closing episode first.
     
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  11. Grendelsbayne

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    I used to have those, too. Well, mine were usually more about that moment when you're standing in front of window high up (usually while trying to get out of the building and run) and suddenly he's standing there staring at you with his giant eye...

    (Also, Borg again? Myeh.)
     
  12. XCV330

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    TATV as a season 4 opener instead of Space Nazis would have been pretty cool, actually. It just was a terrible way to end a series.
     
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  13. Tim Thomason

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    If they're going to be traipsing across the galaxy (via spore drive) in investigating these trailer anomalies, then I wouldn't be put off by a Borgish cameo during a sojourn to the Delta Quadrant (they hear about some dangerous cybernetic civilization, or run across a derelict Borg ship/planet they don't have time to investigate). If they are attacked randomly by Borg, then there are only three possibilities:
    - the Enterprise explanation - they never hear their name during the adventure, probably because they're running for their lives and whatnot.
    - the Discovery explanation - it's all classified for no reason. CLASSIFY EVERYTHING!
    - the non-explanation - they run across Borg, who introduce themselves as Borg, and they survive the Borg, and maybe even destroy the Borg they come across. Why this encounter was not a big deal is our problem to figure out, not the producers'. We end up writing long diatribes on how The Raven makes sense now.
     
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  14. Kor

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    The bad news is that the episode was a finale to "Berman era" Trek.
    The good news is that the episode was a finale to "Berman era" Trek.

    Kor
     
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  15. Tuvix5675

    Tuvix5675 Commander Red Shirt

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    Why Michael Burnham is the most important member of Starfleet that nobody knew about before Discovery.
     
  16. Tuvix5675

    Tuvix5675 Commander Red Shirt

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    Honesty, it looks like Slenderman to me.
     
  17. ITDUDE

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  18. Kor

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    Yeah, it's got such a stylized out-of-focus blurriness that it could be just about anything.

    To me it looks vaguely insectoid with some kind of wing structure.

    Kor
     
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  19. Groppler Zorn

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    And I wouldn’t blame you :lol:

    In reality I actually hope it’s not the Borg. Too many continuity issues.

    I didn’t mind the Enterprise episode cotinuity-wise - it was done well enough I thought - but if DSC is going to do the Borg they might as well do the Ferengi, the Bolians, and the Betazoids while they’re at it!
     
  20. Krog

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    I hope there will be another series addressing the Galaxy’s state post Romulus destruction. What happened to the Dominion? And the Borg? And the Romulan?

    Anyways, I was thinking those red spots are trans warp conduits. Perhaps the Borg picked up the Mycellian network and decided to come take a look? Or perhaps they come from another dimension? It could actually be intriguing!