Beverly PLAGIARIZED the Borg!!!

[DonIago]

I've always wondered why Borg queens can not look alike then resemble an older version whom had been destroyed and then later on be totally different from both of the previous ones, again!
JB

I've always figured that the Borg avatar takes whatever form the Collective feels will best accomplish its desires, with the queen perhaps as a default.

 

[MarkusTay]

Considering that Beverly came up with the concept a year before the Borg were even known to the Federation, plagiarism seems pretty much off the table.

The whole Neelix thing could have been fixed with a small snippet of dialogue. Just make it so Talaxians have a physiological peculiarity that allows them to be revived after a longer period than would work for other races.

I always just assumed that being 'brain dead' (lack of oxygen to the brain) caused 'certain problems' in humans and likely most other species, if it went on for more than a minute.

So, ummmm... in Neelix's case.... would anyone really have noticed? :P

 

[Summer Solstice]

I've always wondered why Borg queens can not look alike then resemble an older version whom had been destroyed and then later on be totally different from both of the previous ones, again!
JB

It takes time for the new clone to grow in the maturation chamber so in the mean time they use a different drone perhaps.

 

[johnnybear]

Yes that's a good theory but then why and how did the original one show up for the Voyager finale?
JB

 

[LunaMaiden]

• How could Beverly plagiarize the Borg in Season One when the Alpha Quadrant and the Enterprise didn't encounter the Borg till Season Two while she was exiled to Medical. So whatever concept she came up in Season One was her.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

• How could Beverly plagiarize the Borg in Season One when the Alpha Quadrant and the Enterprise didn't encounter the Borg till Season Two while she was exiled to Medical. So whatever concept she came up in Season One was her.

Fair question, but… it is considered bad form to reply to a thread that is more than a year old. Please read the board rules and learn to note the date of the last post. No punishment but we will nag you about it.

 

[Phoenix219]

The transcription from CHAKOTEYA, a board member here, describes the visiting unethical Doctor as a dead ringer for Hillary Clinton.

pretty accurate lol.

 

[Phoenix219]

Inventing new tech is evidence of genius.

Appropriating new tech is evidence of nothing really, maybe sound businessness. Did Marco Polo invent spaghetti, or did he just bring back a few pounds of pasta from China, and then threw a really great dinner party?

Appropriating new tech, and pretending that you invented it, is evidence of malicious deviousness. Fuck you Thomas Edison, you had a factory of science slaves inventing things for you to patent.

But as the thread already proved.

Bev wrote a paper of cybernetic regeneration, in season one, then met the borg, and then published her paper, and then was congratulated for being brilliant by a colleague.

It's possible fooling around inside Jean-Luc removing Borg Tech with an ice cream scoop, might have connected a few dots and finalized her own theories on cybernetic regeneration, or it just confirmed what she already knew, but I got another timey whimey idea...

Beverly is the Borg Queen.

Her tech creates a collective, they're sent back in time, then she waits a thousand years to bang and marry Jean-Luc at the Battle of Wolf 359.

New body, same consciousness, duh.

man, the implications this has for Picard Season 3.... ahahahah.

Awesome.