News Jonathan Frakes will direct an episode of Discovery

[cultcross]

Oh great! I can already see the crew of the Shenzhou/Discovery walking in the corridors holding their iCorders and iPadds, taking HoloSelfies for their Facegram and Instachat and updating their status to RedAlerted when the ship's attacked. That's what representing the future as imagined in 2017 means.

Snark aside, the idea that digital communication isn't just about getting information from a sanitised central source definitely is a change from the worldview of the 60s and 80s. That computers aren't just about accessing a database like a library, and that interacting with others won't be a telephone call... I'm spaaaaace like the 80s. The fear of technology that was personified in the Borg just seems quaint now that we have a version of our own hive mind.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

The fear of technology that was personified in the Borg just seems quaint now that we have a version of our own hive mind.

That's true. We've become the Borg with our own free will. And resistance is futile indeed.