Do you think there are any species in Star Trek that WANT to be assimilated by the Borg?
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Yeah, once…just once, wouldn’t it be great television for a character to say during a crisis: “Hold up! I gotta drop a deuce!”
Lower Decks, I’m looking at you!
That's pretty hyperbolic. There's speculation within reason and then there's speculating on the basis of nothing, which is what's going on here. They're showing/telling us there's one Queen running the Collective because that's what they want the audience to know and understand about the Borg. When Future Janeway, someone with exhaustive knowledge and experience with the Borg and their Queen, makes a statement like, "...by the Queen herself," the show is telling us there's one Queen. If the Borg had multiple Queens, this significant detail would have been touched upon, and it never was.
This is basic media literacy.
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Hmmm….
HILL STREET's Renko has plenty of ''morning sitdowns'' in the prologues. For him, they were the crises.
Well, there was that one individual of the Kadi that wanted to be assimilated by one very specific Borg.
Granted, that Borg was Seven of Nine, and he was very drunk. But still.
Granted, that Borg was Seven of Nine, and he was very drunk. But still.
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The Borg seem less interested in actually, outright assimilating the Federation. They seem more inclined to farm them. We've been told on numerous occasions the Borg don't "create" anything, they assimilate. Just so happens, the Federation is creating stuff all the time.
So... every like, decade or so they toss a Cube at them, assimilate what they can, and improve their knowledge.
I really feel like the whole First Contact situation was something of a Plan C... they figured the Cube would probably get destroyed at some point, just not when it did, making the Queen throw a hail mary of a plan out.
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There are surely people who would invite assimilation. The irony being that those are the people the Borg almost surely wouldn't want.
I don't know about that. They might not bring any new valuable skills, or knowledge to the table, but they'd still be valuable, even if only for menial work.
Then again, I don't understand how (for example) the Kazon would 'detract' from perfection.
Because the Kazon were just that bad. It might be the greatest insult in all of science fiction... if even the Borg don't want anything to do with you, you suck. Big time.
Democrats...
Come on, man.
Sorry. I seriously couldn’t help myself.
And someone to exploit it.
Exactly! Like a reality show fake ex-president!
Understood.
For a thread tax, something an offshoot, I could definitely see people trying to harness assimilation for other means. They may not want to be assimilated by the Borg Collective proper, but I could see some trying to from collectives of their own for various reasons.
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