Just as an aside, here ... I did notice how cues from James Horner's STAR TREK movie score(s) found themselves in this episode and it was great to hear. It's not overly done, but it's a nice homage, I thought.
Was Janeway wrong in Scorpion?
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....and what was her other choice?
How would you react when someone aids your enemy to fight a genocidal war against you? sorry, but 8472's remonstrances were tepid in context.
I don't doubt that that's where they got the inspiration from ...
But it's not taking Germany's betrayal of their non aggression pact with Russia into effect. That wasn't a war of nations. That corner of WWII was two men with nations to throw at each other in a brawl.
Signing a Non-Agression Pact with Hitler spelled certain doom! The Ruskies should've been aware of that ... surely! Again, the parallels betwixt the "facts" of WWII and the episode SCORPION are apparent.
Nooooooooooooo... They didn't know betrayal was imminent, which is why the Operation Barbarossa Offensive despite the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was historically and factually a massive surprise.
You must be a World War II buff, Guy! Very interesting facts and photographs, as well. It's hard to believe, almost, that there are many alive today who still remember those days. Those whose lives were all in Black and White, before the miraculous advent of Colour ...
Well that's not strictly true British code breakers at Bletchy Park had decoded intelligence that the Germans were planning an invasion of Russia. Stalin refused to believe it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra
Germany was their common enemy, and Roosevelt and Churchill were yet unwilling to fight Germany directly (repeating a pattern already five years old). They made a weak decision to fight through a proxy that would cost them down the road. 8472 was not the Federation's enemy: Voyager was simply caught in the war zone. By aiding the Borg, Janeway made an enemy, something which she would rectify in In the Flesh.
In that horrible 2 part episode of Enterprise, Lenin was killed in 1916, which tabled Red October, and left the Tsar's in charge of Russia, which Hitler was perfectly happy with, which allowed the uniballer to concentrate his man power on England and then steam roll through into America.
^What happened to Lebensraum, which focused on eastward expansion?
You're asking me to explain, nay JUSTIFY Ent Shockwave?
If Russia didn't have to deal with a civil war for the last year of the first world war, maybe they wouldn't have lost so much territory, which is the agreement Stalin and Hitler came to reclaim lost land which their countries after the world map reset in 1918.
If Russia didn't have to deal with a civil war for the last year of the first world war, maybe they wouldn't have lost so much territory, which is the agreement Stalin and Hitler came to reclaim lost land which their countries after the world map reset in 1918.
^You mean Stormfront I & II? Not justify it. However, the notion that it is based on--that Hitler and Nazi Germany had only anti-Bolshivik intentions (Buchanan's thesis)--has been largely discredited. It ignores the imperialism and racialism that drove Nazism, which were at least as important as the fear of Communism, if not more important. Furthermore, the presence of fascist or authoritarian governments did not protect any country from being absorbed by Nazi Germany. What principally mattered was the image of Eastern Europe as a terrain of settlement and exploitation for Germans and the licence that Germans would have to enslave or eliminate its Slavic and Jewish populations based on German racial superiority.
