So this thread invoked a Star Trek shower thought this morning. I decided that a Picard/Seven ship would have made for a much better Insurrection. (Ignoring the obvious fact that the film came out before Voy was 'home'.)
My fundamental problem with that film is that I just don't care about a bunch of new-age hippies living in a commune in Northern California. That makes the moral dilemma completely uncompelling.
So replace the Ba'Ku with a small group of liberated Borg with Seven as their leader person.
Basically, The Doc, Bev, or whoever figures out a way to create an anti-assimilation "vaccine" (for lack of a better word) from liberated blood. However, it cannot be synthetically replicated. And while only a microscopic amount is needed per person, harvesting enough to vaccinate everyone in Starfleet and other high-risk peoples of note would require more blood than the liberated could give and survive. And they can't be given regular blood transfusions for the same reason theirs can't be synthetically recreated. Basically, Seven and 300 of her closest friends all need to die in order to save millions. Picard is excused because he wasn't Borg long enough for the magic stuff to take effect. But he still relates to their plight on a personal level. (Which only helps to sell it to the audience.)
And let's pretend that, instead of destroying most of the Borg, Admiral Wrongway just really pissed them off. And isolated attacks have started to become more frequent. And, even without the transwarp network, it's expected that the Borg can mount a full incursion into the Alpha within five years. So there is some urgency.
And bPicards personal connection only helps connect the audience to the dilemma and the face of the victim is someone the audience already cares about. This in turn makes the film's fundamental argument that "Needs of the many..." is a flawed concept actually hold dramatic weight.
My fundamental problem with that film is that I just don't care about a bunch of new-age hippies living in a commune in Northern California. That makes the moral dilemma completely uncompelling.
So replace the Ba'Ku with a small group of liberated Borg with Seven as their leader person.
Basically, The Doc, Bev, or whoever figures out a way to create an anti-assimilation "vaccine" (for lack of a better word) from liberated blood. However, it cannot be synthetically replicated. And while only a microscopic amount is needed per person, harvesting enough to vaccinate everyone in Starfleet and other high-risk peoples of note would require more blood than the liberated could give and survive. And they can't be given regular blood transfusions for the same reason theirs can't be synthetically recreated. Basically, Seven and 300 of her closest friends all need to die in order to save millions. Picard is excused because he wasn't Borg long enough for the magic stuff to take effect. But he still relates to their plight on a personal level. (Which only helps to sell it to the audience.)
And let's pretend that, instead of destroying most of the Borg, Admiral Wrongway just really pissed them off. And isolated attacks have started to become more frequent. And, even without the transwarp network, it's expected that the Borg can mount a full incursion into the Alpha within five years. So there is some urgency.
And bPicards personal connection only helps connect the audience to the dilemma and the face of the victim is someone the audience already cares about. This in turn makes the film's fundamental argument that "Needs of the many..." is a flawed concept actually hold dramatic weight.
