Why Haven't Borg Been Featured In Any New Novels?
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Oh, he was THAT guy? The guy who once posted a manifesto on why we needed at least one STAR TREK series that featured an all-male, all-white, all-American crew with strong Christian values -- to balance all that annoying "PC" diversity in the other shows? As I recall, that was . . . something.
And in the process contradicting the strongest Christian value of all: universal love and acceptance. It never ceases to amaze and horrify me that so many of the people who are the most vocal about declaring themselves to be Christian are going against the most central of Christ's teachings.
(Some of the best Christians I know -- as defined solely by their actions, not by what they profess -- are actually Muslims, Jews, Agnostics, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists.)
That’s what I thought I remembered: that it wasn’t “kewl” enough for him. I had my own issues with Destiny, but they definitely weren’t along those lines.
Not really sure how many details it's appropriate to reveal in this thread, but as to "what happened after that" well, that itself caused some controversy around here a few years back.
Yes, as indicated by the line that's now through his name.
Ah, yes...I had forgotten that particular rant of his.
I think that was before my tenure as a moderator of this forum because I think I would remember the headache I would've had dealing with that doozy.
Heh, it's not just you, though. Lightly amused at the number of authors explaining why we don't need a Big Borg Invasion Story, either!
So a nice guy I gather
Though couldn't a line through a name mean someone who voluntarily left TrekBBS as well--or does it always mean someone who's been banned.
Is that effective. I mean, couldn't you just sign up under a different e-mail address and user name? Though if you did do that I imagine you'd have to be careful and behave yourself or you'd just give yourself away (hard for those who misbehave to do I would imagine).
I guess if one really wanted to they could do a search on Dayton3 to see what he posted toward the end of his tenure here--but I'm not that curious
Ha-ha, true. One reason I like reading old threads from time to time--it's like a portal to the past to see what people thought back then.
It's also interesting to see some comments back in the day that if they did do a Borg story that it'd probably have to be epic---and boy was it.
It was also interesting to see Margaret Clark used to post here on TrekBBS. I was not aware of that. I have seen some very old posts by Marco Palmieri, but I think that's the first time I came across Clark's name. I wonder why she stopped posting here.
Margaret was never much of a presence here compared to Marco (314 posts vs 4,599). Based on her “last active” date, it seems like she stopped posting here when she was laid off as a salaried employee and never came back after she returned on a freelance basis.
In a way this might actually be an applicable thread again, since "Destiny" has been nullified by Picard.
But I suspect the tie-ins will wait for now to see what the current shows do with the Borg, if anything. If they do come back in some form in the shows then maybe books will use the Borg again.
Assimilation Boogaloo.
<Jose Jimenez>Oh, I hope not</Jose Jimenez>
Well, if it helps, I left the board for a couple years after a few too many occasions of realizing I was having the same discussions with the same people over and over again with none of us having any new observations or changing our minds about anything. Though I'm pretty sure that was deep in the fallow period, IIRC, between ST09 and STID.
That's actually exactly what Dayton3 ended up doing.
And it never works. Pretty much everyone who does this gets caught eventually.
Thank you.
