Spoilers Please explain the baddie plan

[Racefuel]

Its hard to argue that the Borg survived this one though.

I just want to see the Star Trek Writers Bible with the words-

Borg: NO

 

[Charles Phipps]

But that basically makes them just an anthropomorphized version of a natural disaster -- an existential threat you cannot negotiate with, only cope with. And the thing about natural disaster stories is, they're limited in creative scope. At a certain point, there are only so many story beats you can hit, and then stories about surviving natural disasters all start to resemble one-another.

Same thing with the traditional Borg. At a certain point, you will have exhausted all the variations on "Borg invade" you can do and they'll start to resemble one-another. At a certain point, it all just becomes another variation on "The Best of Both Worlds."

Speaking as a guy who writes zombie stories, I disagree. The possibilities of natural disaster stories is endless.

Because the focus is not on the development of the natural disaster but people's reaction TO it.

 

[cooleddie74]

This needs to be the end of any Borg that aren't connected to Jurati. I've had my fill of them after all these years.

 

[Charles Phipps]

This needs to be the end of any Borg that aren't connected to Jurati. I've had my fill of them after all these years.

Jurati's Borg just aren't interesting.

They're defanged and unterrifying.

 

[cooleddie74]

 

[Tosk]

I kind of wish the final JuratiQueen got to keep her hair. Poor Alison Pill looked so goofy with her basketball head.

 

[fireproof78]

This needs to be the end of any Borg that aren't connected to Jurati. I've had my fill of them after all these years.

Indeed. Jurati and her cooperative are the only Borg I want to see.

 

[Sci]

Speaking as a guy who writes zombie stories, I disagree. The possibilities of natural disaster stories is endless.

Because the focus is not on the development of the natural disaster but people's reaction TO it.

Well, sure, but then you're not really writing a Borg story anymore, you're writing a "people reacting to crisis" story that could just as easily be about, say, a planet-destroying anomaly or a subspace shockwave or whatever.

And I'm sorry, but zombie stories really do all start to blur together at a certain point. There are only so many interesting variations on the same goddamn premise over and over and over again.

Jurati's Borg just aren't interesting.

They're defanged and unterrifying.

They're not meant to be fanged or terrifying. They're not a threat, they're another culture -- and to me, that's what makes them interesting. Not as monsters to be survived or villains to be fought, but as neighbors we must learn to live with and relate to.

 

[cooleddie74]

In my head canon the Borg school student seen in LD in the distant future is the result of Jurati's collective.

 

[XCV330]

Only the Jurati Borg should still be around. The Borg’s goose is cooked.

and the XBs of Unimatrix Zero maybe

 

[Charles Phipps]

They're not meant to be fanged or terrifying. They're not a threat, they're another culture -- and to me, that's what makes them interesting. Not as monsters to be survived or villains to be fought, but as neighbors we must learn to live with and relate to.

Then they're not really the BORG are they? Which is what I'm getting at.

 

[Sci]

Then they're not really the BORG are they? Which is what I'm getting at.

Well, I'm not sure what you call them other than a type of Borg. I think they represent an evolution of the Borg concept.

 

[TheMadCloner]

In retrospect, Vadic was on the verge of being totally incompetent. She almost got Jack killed by putting the Titan into a deep abyss. Any other crew and Jack probably dies there. Frontier Day plans ruined forever. The fact that she didn’t have a tractor beam ready to “save” the Titan after firing on them is villain gross incompetence.

 

[fireproof78]

In retrospect, Vadic was on the verge of being totally incompetent. She almost got Jack killed by putting the Titan into a deep abyss. Any other crew and Jack probably dies there. Frontier Day plans ruined forever. The fact that she didn’t have a tractor beam ready to “save” the Titan after firing on them is villain gross incompetence.

She was a bit messed up in the head.

 

[1001001]

She was a bit messed up in the head.

You could almost say she was…two-faced?

 

[JoseNoodles]

Jurati's Borg just aren't interesting.

They're defanged and unterrifying.

They're not supposed to be villains.

 

[The Wormhole]

You could almost say she was…two-faced?

I read that in Horatio Caine's voice.

 

[1001001]

I read that in Horatio Caine's voice.

I was going for Austin Powers.