Are the Borg just a ripoff?!?

[Marsden]

I found this info a few months ago when I was researching the origin of the phrase "resistance is futile." It's such a common saying now that I was wondering if its first use was in Star Trek or something else... excellent post truncated

Don't forget the Vogons, they like that phrase resistance is useless.

The Borg are space zombies. They're mindless, drone-like, creatures with no real expression or emotion, they resemble dead bodies and coming into significant contact with one causes you to become one of them.

Well, it that were really true they'd be called the Bees (Bies), not the Borg.

 

[wulfio]

I always thought the Borg were an indictment of pop culture society. And maybe Ikea!

 

[K'Toska]

I definitely see the parallels with Ikea.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

An Ikea-based Borg collective. Now THAT I'd like to see.

Resistance is føøtile...

 

[Kevman7987]

An Ikea-based Borg collective. Now THAT I'd like to see.

Resistance is føøtile...

The Federation finds the Borg are easily defeated when a Starfleet engineer's phaser runs out of power and all he has to fight back with is an allen wrench.

 

[YJAGG]

in 86 Disney and Michael Jackson, made Captain EO the Supreme leader's troops look a lot like the Borg it gets really interesting Borg wise at about 103 min into the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=62&v=l2Zt-57Cg0U

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

An Ikea-based Borg collective. Now THAT I'd like to see.

Resistance is føøtile...

The Federation finds the Borg are easily defeated when a Starfleet engineer's phaser runs out of power and all he has to fight back with is an allen wrench.

And the new Borg Queen is, of course, the majestik møøse.

 

[Cyke101]

You'd have better luck saying the Borg were a ripoff of the Cybermen from Doctor Who. Maybe the Terminators from Terminator (1984) or the Sentinels from X-Men (1961).

Ah, but have any of those ever demonstrated the ability to assimilate others?

Spoiler: spoiler

Apart from Alex, the T-5000 from Terminator Genisys of course. But that came much later than the Borg, so if there's any ripoff there, it's Alex!

Johnnybear covered the Cybermen, but outside of them, one of the villains of 1993's Superman III was assimilated by the supercomputer (which scared the HELL out of me as a little kid).

Though I will state that after the Borg, the number of assimilating antagonists seemed to explode. The X-Men, for example, fought the Phalanx in the mid-90s, who were basically techno-organic hybrids of Borg and the T-1000.

Spoiler: spoiler

Alex, you're even less original!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

one of the villains of 1993's Superman III was assimilated by the supercomputer

Apparently that was just an outer shell, so to speak. After the computer is destroyed, you can just barely see her (now fully human again) climbing out of the wreckage.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

That would be kind of a hilarious ending. They realize the Borg's achilles heel is a pointy stick!

 

[Silvercrest]

An Ikea-based Borg collective. Now THAT I'd like to see.

Resistance is føøtile...

The Federation finds the Borg are easily defeated when a Starfleet engineer's phaser runs out of power and all he has to fight back with is an allen wrench.

And the new Borg Queen is, of course, the majestik møøse.

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti.

Are we about to get sacked?

 

[Davros]

The Borg are primitive Cybermen that saw Hellraiser 3 too many times.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Federation finds the Borg are easily defeated when a Starfleet engineer's phaser runs out of power and all he has to fight back with is an allen wrench.

And the new Borg Queen is, of course, the majestik møøse.

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti.

Are we about to get sacked?

A Børg once bit my sister...

 

[cheryl/carol]

And the new Borg Queen is, of course, the majestik møøse.

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti.

Are we about to get sacked?

A Børg once bit my sister...

Duuuh

 

[johnnybear]

The Borg are primitive Cybermen that saw Hellraiser 3 too many times.

HaHaHa Yes I forgot about The Cenobites and their resemblance to The Borg! Hellraiser came out in 1987 and The Borg in 88!
JB

 

[Marsden]

The Borg are primitive Cybermen that saw Hellraiser 3 too many times.

HaHaHa Yes I forgot about The Cenobites and their resemblance to The Borg! Hellraiser came out in 1987 and The Borg in 88!
JB

That was just a coincidence and never mention it again under pain of bad stuff.

 

[YJAGG]

so the Borg assimilated several franchises