Same dialog, just using Picard’s prosody. Stewart playing Locutus as Picard rather than Locutus.
This is gonna sound patronising however I write it...
The Trek audience attracts a clever crowd, but it's also appealing to the casual watchers. And I think it would just be considered confusing by the writers. When you plug all the shit into him and make him white, it makes it clear he's a different person.
It. All this clipping and first-word omissions seem to be multiplying in a vexing new trend. Want to revert.
Shoot, it's contagious.
Linguistic ellipsis has been practiced for over 2,000 years. There's nothing new about it at all.
Jumping straight into a thread and not contributing other than a post to try and shut the conversation down with a one word response is a more troubling trend.
I believe we agree on that. (So I won't reply with a ''This.'') But if not, it's not my attention to shut anyone or anything down. My ''it'' was meant to come before the ''wouldn't.'' My apologies for any misunderstanding.
We are... you're all good.
I have noticed this before. The way I see it, there are a combination of contributing factors at play ->
* Diminishing attention spans.
* Decreasing literacy rates.
* Character limits becoming increasingly commonplace on the internet (thus, enforcing both brevity in the extreme, as well as a gradually reinforced dismissal/disapproval of responses regarded as "essays"...responses which are perhaps one to two paragraphs in length).
* Sarcasm/insincerity being regarded as normal - even default - forms of communication.
* Slight amounts of dehumanization/disregard for the "other" in the mix.
* "Likes"/Thumbs up" and other wordless forms of response; these forum mechanics do not exactly encourage actual speech.
I think in the context of a discussion form it's just rude bordering on bullying. They're largely saying "I don't think this topic is important".
They could steer clear, but taking part yet not contributing is a sort of protest.
“Wall of Text” or variations, seems to have won out as a descrption.
On topic. No, Locutus spoke “for the Collective,” and even if Stewart wasn’t snacking on the scenery and playing it straight, there’d be enough in the performance to tell that it was still Picard in there.
*Plus a possible attempt to seem ''cool'' to some while being cool to assorted concepts?
What particularly glazes my eyes are the countless disimissive sarcastic memes in places of thoughtful retorts. Perhaps a few may be arriving in response to this.
Whatever will be, will be.Going back to the OP, I'm not sure what captrek was getting at with his question. If memory serves, wasn't Locutus' voice 50 percent Picard's at least?
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I think the idea is, what if Locutus spoke in Picard's normal conversational manner, as if his personality was exactly the same as it was before his assimilation, but now he was the Borg's mouthpiece.
Kor
What if Locutus spoke like Picard professing his love to Lwaxana?''You will NOT be assimilated, because...we surrendah!!!''
Your assimilation is a fever, longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease!
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