Should the Borg ever appear in another Star Trek series again?
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Overdone and best left behind.
It needs to be done right, I'm sorry to say I was convinced by their use in Picard. The reclaimation cube was a neat idea, but tainted by slaughtering the recovered XBs. I liked the Borg becoming federation allies, could be more stories to explore there. But ultimately the purity of their concept has eroded.
Only if they're Swedish.
The Jurati Borg, yes, definitely. The “old” Borg, definitely not — their story is done (or should be). Though you could maybe do more with their follow-on effects (say, the XBs) if anything more is done in the PIC era.
Now, for machine threats I would like to see more of, you’ve got the extragalactic cyber-Cthulhu things out there — that could work just as well in any later era, such as SFA’s.
Now, for machine threats I would like to see more of, you’ve got the extragalactic cyber-Cthulhu things out there — that could work just as well in any later era, such as SFA’s.
Whether or not the Borg should return is a moot point. They are going to return at some point, their status as one of the Trek franchise's most popular alien races pretty much guarantees it.
I hadn't thought about it until now, but Starfleet Academy is in the perfect position to update us on the status of the Jurati Collective.
No.
Enough.
Enough.
Basically, no, but... which Borg would you bring back?
The Q Who Borg, who don't assimilate people and reproduce by having babies?
The Best of Both Worlds Borg, who do assimilate people but are a hive mind that needs someone to speak for them?
The First Contact Borg, who are all about assimilating people and do such a good job of it that a man who was previously assimilated and rescued from assimilation now goes all out to kill his own crew members who have been assimilated? The Borg who now have a queen to speak for them?
The Jurati Borg?
I'm sure others can think of some other distinctive Borg types from different episodes.
The Q Who Borg, who don't assimilate people and reproduce by having babies?
The Best of Both Worlds Borg, who do assimilate people but are a hive mind that needs someone to speak for them?
The First Contact Borg, who are all about assimilating people and do such a good job of it that a man who was previously assimilated and rescued from assimilation now goes all out to kill his own crew members who have been assimilated? The Borg who now have a queen to speak for them?
The Jurati Borg?
I'm sure others can think of some other distinctive Borg types from different episodes.
And I want to clarify on this, that I neither need nor want an entire episode based on this, nor do I desire to see the Borg as villains or portrayed similarly to how they have been in the past as that story has been told already. But the academic setting of the show makes it easy for some canonical strings to be tied into nice little bows by way of lectures and other means. We did see young Borg studying with other Federation races in a "far future" section in an episode of Lower Decks. Would there even still be a "Collective" as such in the 32nd century so much as people who have voluntarily embraced Borg tech for one reason or another? Whether personal, medical or societal. We saw the colony of former Borg drones who created their own Hive mind for their own reasons in the episode "Collective". We've seen there can be medical benefits to Borg tech.
Again, I wouldn't need a a lot of story space devoted to this, just have it simply being how things are in this time period. Throw away lines of dialogue from lectures, lesson plans or even medical scans can bring in a lot of new information to catch the viewer up on things without having to dedicate entire episodes to the subject like we got with Trelane and holodecks.
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