Sort of like telepathic, implant-enabled social media. We're already practically there anyway.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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I sincerely hope I'm dead before that happens. The idea of machines implanted to your brain... (shudders)
Given that deep level of sharing, I'm not sure it would be possible to share only parts. It's likely an all or nothing scenario.
Jurati has been a good example, agreed.
But there have been other hive mind/collectives in the franchise that were also not good and did not follow either of your points from before.
Examples like "THE RETURN OF THE ARCHONS", "THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR", and my aforementioned "UNITY" example. One can also argue the Great Link can fall under this category... at the very least, it's shown as being similar to a narcotic when linked.
You have one good example, Jurati, against numerous others examples... the odds are just not in favor of a hive mind and loss of individuality being a good thing.
OK, I can see that. Thanks for clarifying.
Something like this is bound to be the origin of the Borg in the first place. Implant-enabled social media overwhelmed by a dominant personality that, for lack of a better phrase, wants to rule the world. It then forces the collective to expand so it doesn't get bored.
And the first queen was an underappreciated tech developer who wrote the insidious code, but lost control over it...
Or Mark Zuckerberg.
You mean Lore's son?
II clicked on that persons avatar and found the ignore button before that poster picks picks and picks until we all tick off the Mod.
he's not worth it.
This would be a persuasive argument if these various collectives were real. However, as fictional characters at the mercy of their creators, they can only exhibit the qualities imbued in them by those creators. Consequently, if the storyteller is of the view that a “hive mind” is inherently a bad idea OR if that is the message intended for a particular story, then the odds are rigged in advance.
Fair point about the storytellers.
But an old saying comes to mind with these kind of things... power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power tends to corrupt
Doesn't clicking ignore eliminate being able to see all posts made the person? Because in this case, he makes good posts and points on some things and I value that. I simply don't like what that scenario degenerated into when it was unwarranted.
You can go back in a week or two and undoit.
I get a kick out some of the Newbie posters that have a lot to get off their chest. Writing can be some great therapy, even venting but attacking needlessly is only an odd form self aggrandizing oneself at the cost of others.
I would hope most of us have grown beyond that point.
I can't be a mod anymore on any platform because my fuse is too short.
So the ignore is not a once and done feature? Okay, thanks.
That's right.
I don't have anyone on my ignore list right now, but if someone gets a bit too much then I 'give them a rest' for a while. As with dmac above, it just helps with the blood pressure.
And as dmac indicated, it probably makes things a little easier on mods, as long as one of the people involved has enough self control to just walk away.
Sounds like a useful tool.
Sounds like a useful tool.
No. It gives future writers, if they want to bring back the Borg like they were in "Q, Who" or "Best of both Worlds", a way to do this. Without the Queen or the Zombie stuff.
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