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They have similarities, but there's no inherent philosophy or definable sapience to even be told that your concerns are "irrelevant." It's more like fighting the Chtorr in David Gerrold's The War Against the Chtorr, where you're fighting an alien ecosystem that converts and devours an entire planet's biosphere.
In fact.... [SPOILERS FOR 40K]
Someone who is more up to date storywise may correct me, but the only way that's been found to slow the Tyranids down is to effectively starve them. Allow a Tyrnaid fleet to expend resources converting a planet for their fleet to eat, and just before their fleets can consume and reclaim the organic material, completely nuke the world destroying their "food."
The other strategy that's been tried is pushing the Tyranids into the space of the Orks (think crazy violent Klingons if they were capable of very rapid regeneration where their existence spreads spores to create new Orks). However, it's thought to have been a dangerous decision that will only buy humanity some time, since it's believed to be only a matter of time before the Tyrnaids are able to overcome and consume the Orks, absorbing Ork abilities into their genome.
Oh, one last thing, there's theories the Tyranids entered the Milky Way starving and "running" from something that's even worse than they are.
I always wanted to see more of Picard's life, away from the Enterprise or even Starfleet in general. I know they can't do it in live-action now, because of Patrick's age and some of the other guest stars have passed away. But they could still make a comic book out of such a concept, or do an animated show...something.
I haven't seen Seasons 2 or 3 of "Picard" yet, even though I bought the Blu-Rays. I've just been pre-occupied over the past couple of months, and most of my time has been spent online.
I haven't seen Seasons 2 or 3 of "Picard" yet, even though I bought the Blu-Rays. I've just been pre-occupied over the past couple of months, and most of my time has been spent online.
It’s not small at all, but I’d like to see more about the Jurati Borg — both during the centuries that they were developing but hiding in the shadows, AND what’s up with them now after the apparent end of the “Bad” Borg? What’s the thing they’re protecting the Federation from? How does it work with them being provisional Federation members now? Etc.
It’s not small at all, but I’d like to see more about the Jurati Borg — both during the centuries that they were developing but hiding in the shadows, AND what’s up with them now after the apparent end of the “Bad” Borg? What’s the thing they’re protecting the Federation from? How does it work with them being provisional Federation members now? Etc.
They must have had some idea on what to do with that, and leave it hanging on purpose. They filmed seasons 2 and 3 back to back, and they knew they would only do three seasons. So setting all of that up, and not working it out further....
They must have had some idea on what to do with that, and leave it hanging on purpose. They filmed seasons 2 and 3 back to back, and they knew they would only do three seasons. So setting all of that up, and not working it out further....
Sadly, I don't have that kind of faith in Trek. Picard ended. DISCO is ending. LD is ending. There is no Trek set in that future time period to pick up the story.
Legacy might have been the place to continue that story, since it felt like they wanted to spin that off of Picard. However, beyond just leaving open the story with a thought of coming back to it later, I doubt anything was planned. Trek doesn't seem to operate on such long term plans.
Sadly, I don't have that kind of faith in Trek. Picard ended. DISCO is ending. LD is ending. There is no Trek set in that future time period to pick up the story.
Legacy might have been the place to continue that story, since it felt like they wanted to spin that off of Picard. However, beyond just leaving open the story with a thought of coming back to it later, I doubt anything was planned. Trek doesn't seem to operate on such long term plans.
True, but it also means future productions can randomly come back to things nobody thought would continue (as DISCO has done with the Progenitors and Romulan/Vulcan Reunification, or heck, as The Wrath of Khan did with a one-episode villain).
I've tended to dislike any time the show has tried to provide an alternate version of Earth/human history. It's part of the reason I really dislike the Voth from Voyager and the idea that "oh yeah, a sapient dinosaur society existed millions of years ago."
The point of that episode wasn't sapient, spacefaring dinosaurs. The point was that it was Voyager's version of the Galileo story.
In the early 1600s, Galileo Galilei turned his telescope to the sky, instead of to the sea or snooping on his neighbors, and discovered all sorts of marvelous new facts that annoyed the Catholic church when Galileo publicized and taught them. He not only discovered that Jupiter has moons and the Moon has mountains, but he also discovered sunspots - which contradicted the church's view of the Sun as perfect - and that Venus has phases like the Moon does. That's something that's only possible if Earth is not the center of the solar system.
Galileo ended up having to recant his position if he wanted to survive, though he wasn't sincere about it. A heliocentric solar system wasn't part of the church's accepted doctrine 400 years ago.
It's the same with the scientist in the Voyager episode. He was forced to recant the "distant origin" theory that he had discovered was true, because it violated "doctrine" and he wanted to survive.
The show could have done this story any number of ways. It's interesting that they chose hadrosaurs, since it's entirely plausible in the context of that episode that all evidence of their civilization was unreachably buried many miles under the ocean floor due to plate tectonics, or it was obliterated when the asteroid hit.
the overall idea of ancient astronauts being responsible for humanity's origin is something that tends to take me out of the story because I find it an aspect that distances the Star Trek universe from "our" world.
Same here. I was into the pseudoscientific crap in Chariots of the Gods and other von Daniken nonsense in my early teens.
Then I took an anthropology course in high school and Cosmos came along (the original Sagan series). Those two things cured me of believing in such drivel.
I have no objection to the idea that ancient civilizations could have existed on some planets, somewhere else in the galaxy. But there's no evidence for them on Earth, or even that we were visited. And there is certainly no evidence that aliens had anything to do with our species' evolution.
It's Picard's fantasy that money doesn't exist in the Federation. Money existed in TOS as there were frequent references to the currency used, and people being paid. In TNG, Beverly Crusher has a charge account on the Enterprise. The major worlds of the Federation might not use cash, but they do have an economy. No complex civilization can exist without some kind of economy, even if it's not based on some tangible thing that we're used to thinking of.
We COULD do a Borg origin story but I feel like it's kind of mundane. I really don't think there would be a huge, dramatic, dynamic story around the formation of the Borg. Rather, I think it's closer to a long, drawn out, Cyperpunk-eque story where a planet dabbles into cybernetics and it slowly consumes them. Interesting enough on it's own, but I don't see a single climax moment. It's more of a progression. Even the Collective I think starts small, on the planet and the first people they assimilate are themselves. I have toyed with that idea and have some half-finished writings about it, inspired by Cyberpunk stories. My idea was that there's a very like, Cyberpunk 2077ish world and cybernetics are running amok as well as unchecked consumerism and consumption. The Collective is actually a backfired tactic enacted by a corporation trying to exploit brain-mods to gently mind control the masses. It works... sort of... but rather than giving them the power to influence the masses, it actually just networks them together. The new collective starts to spread with basically a single focus... "consume".
That's an interesting idea, but I prefer the origin story published in one of those anthologies published years ago, that non-professional writers could submit to. In the story I'm thinking of, the Borg were created by accident when attempts to treat a fatal disease went horribly wrong and the test subject basically mutated into the first Borg Queen, who then assimilated the people who tried to kill her when they realized that she had mutated into a part-biological/part-cybernetic lifeform that scared the hell out of them.
Who (or what) created the galactic barriers on the edge of the Milky Way and around the core of the Milky Way? And what purpose do they serve, or are they naturally occurring phenomena with no purpose whatsoever?
The barrier at the center of the galaxy seems to act to keep the "God" entity trapped inside of a prison. Does that imply the barrier around the edge of the galaxy acts to keep something out of the Milky Way?
One of the tie-in authors - Greg Cox, I think, wrote a trilogy about the Q, and in one of the books there was a storyline in which Q and Trelane got into a violent conflict. Q was weakened for quite a long while, and he managed to hide himself long enough to recuperate by essentially becoming the barrier at the edge of the galaxy. It was just bad luck that the two starships happened along and some of the humans accidentally absorbed just enough of Q's powers to become dangerous.
Per Picard, there’s sentient microbes on Europa. So how does that interspecies relationship go, over the rest of Star Trek history? Is it equivalent to what we have with dolphins and whales? Do starships have Microbial Ops sections?
Uniimatrix Zero itself was destroyed but those who had access to it were freed from the collective, e.g. General Korok. My guess is they didn't last long, alas.
“Better to die free than live as slaves" as Frederick Douglass said.
