Spoilers Please explain the baddie plan
- Thread starter F. King Daniel
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Yep. The signal was only sent from the Borg to the Starfleet after she assimilated Jack. Presumably, she could only do it with his inbuilt biological transmitter, and not the generic Borg tech.
It was explained in the episode.
It was but it's still pretty contrived. Apparently the Borg don't even understand their own evil DNA, otherwise they can recreate it on demand. Apparently Jack being born was just a lucky accident and if he tripped and impaled himself on a bat'leth one day the Borg would have no plan. It makes them seem less threatening, not more. Not unlike Jar-Jar Binks accidentally helping the Sith rule the galaxy, except I'm sure even Palpatine had some backup plan in case Jar-Jar fell off a railing on Coruscant.
I welcome a good contrived story as much as the next person but if you're basically changing Crusher's character to get that contrived story and ignoring a plot thread from literally last season (Jurati's Borg), said contrived story no longer feels organic to the characters or even the previous season.
They're not ignoring it.
Maybe we have a different definition of ignore but I don't believe a single person mentioned Jurati's Borg as an option to help Jack.
One more episode left.
Would it be a good idea to even do that? If he can control individuals with Borg altered DNA, you would potentially risk putting Jurati and her people in danger if you involved them.
He couldn't control Seven of Nine.
We know Jack's powers have limits. He obviously can't control the Borg Queen. He probably wouldn't be able to control Queen Jurati. I don't know about everyone else in her faction though...
True, but she was struggling to keep control when the Borg signal was being broadcast. And she's over 25 and many of her Borg implants have been removed, where Jurati's people would presumably have all of the hardware installed.
Or more simplistically - they planted something into Picard that eventually might have come handy. They clearly understood the threat the federation posed early on - and they were being proactive. They kept options open. I actually think it is a pretty cool way to make the borg smartThis post from Tumblr sums it up:
Everyone is blinded by callbacks to their childhood and not that many people seem to be noticing that this mystery box plot makes as much sense as Discovery season 2.
your points are moot and you clearly are in the minority given how successful this season has been. Get over it.
Not really. If they were smart they'd have installed that evil DNA into every person they assimilated, and this show would be about Miral Paris.
His points aren't moot and just because something is financially successful doesn't suddenly make it a storytelling masterpiece. People aren't going to Transformers movies despite their box office for masterful stories. The Marvel cinematic universe has brought more money than all of Shakespeare's plays combined in centuries have done. And so on.
If the Borg Queen is in Jack's head, and only in Jack's head, then she had to have tools to interact with the real world, while having minimal control over Jack.
To kill everyone over 25 and make everyone a slave under 25. Sort of like the American government.
So, it's to show that 25 and under are easily manipulated, and that the older generation has to "Save" them? Star Trek has always made commentary on modern day issues. And we have a severe modern day issue with younger people in the USA for many reasons. Perhaps it's my personal experences shaping my interpretation of what I saw.
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