I wonder what a 1960's TOS Borg would have looked like?
if the Borg came in the 23rd century and made a Locutus out of Kirk, what Spock+the gang 'd've done?
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Like Cybermen.
They'd have Borgified Spock, not Kirk. It happened in one of the Kelvinverse comics. I read it, but can't remember what happened.
McCoy: This might be a good thing, Jim! At least that damned pointed eared green blooded Vulcan has shut up about logic!
But he would be working night and day to find a way to reverse the assimilation.
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Or an MC Escher print.
Spock+The Gang sounds like a 70s funk band.
Cherish redshirts we had...
^You'd have to ask the creators of Best of Both Worlds. They started the idea the Borg would want to do that, after all.
In the Borg's own words in that episode 'To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.'
Whether that makes any sense or not is up for everyone to decide, I guess. (I didn't see any particularly good reason myself, they are going to assimilate you no matter what. But of course it was good for dramatic purposes, pitting Picard against Riker).
In the Borg's own words in that episode 'To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice.'
Whether that makes any sense or not is up for everyone to decide, I guess. (I didn't see any particularly good reason myself, they are going to assimilate you no matter what. But of course it was good for dramatic purposes, pitting Picard against Riker).
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Like when the Cybermen first appeared on DW (The Tenth Planet).
Out of universe, the only reason they did that was so the Borg would seem more threatening, for dramatic purposes. And to put Picard through the wringer.
It's like the Borg Queen. There's no logical reason for her to exist either, it's just to ramp up dramatic tension. If it was just the monolithic Borg voice, it wouldn't seem quite as scary.
Some of Trek's best episodes did that. I wish the writers of "Peak Performance" had had the balls to actually have them finish their "battle" as well.
I'm no science fiction writer, but I guess that's always the trouble.
Think up a species that is utterly alien, and you can tell a few good stories about them, but you're probably going to have a hard time with them if they pop up too often (not that it's impossible, just hard to do).
If you want to tell many stories about a species, they'll have to be human at least in some respects. It's no coincidence Klingons and Romulans are very much like us. And that the more alien species such as Q or the Borg appear, the more 'human' they seem to get.
Think up a species that is utterly alien, and you can tell a few good stories about them, but you're probably going to have a hard time with them if they pop up too often (not that it's impossible, just hard to do).
If you want to tell many stories about a species, they'll have to be human at least in some respects. It's no coincidence Klingons and Romulans are very much like us. And that the more alien species such as Q or the Borg appear, the more 'human' they seem to get.
"Peak Performance" is one of my favorites of the entire TNG run because it utilized everyone well.
I don't think the mock battle needed to be completed because they got out of a real battle scenario, and Kolrami admitted that Riker acquitted himself admirably. Like DS9's "NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG" proved in dialogue by that officer who shot himself in the foot to get off the front lines, you can be excellent in endless amounts of battle simulations but when you are in the real thing, it's a completely different matter. I think Kolrami understands this, which is why the simulated battle didn't need to conclude.
So the same as the 8os.
Well, there's this rendition of part the episode reimagined in TAS style. (Not quite TOS, but still....)
The Borg are this thing where if you look closely a lot about them doesn't make sense.
They made them way too powerful from the get-go so they had to find excuses to make the Borg beatable in each of their appearances. So they came up with stuff like Locutus and kept going until the later seasons of Voyager where they had unintentionally turned them into an ineffective laughing stock.
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