You're fully awake and aware of the nanoprobes too, slowly turning your body against you. That's not kinder. Just happens to involve less surgery. Which, sure, surgery is bad, and all that. But feeling completely powerless to stop this is awful.
Why is First Contact actually so beloved by the fandom?
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Yes, but nanoprobes work really fast. So there is a shorter amount of time to feel the pain and the trauma before being one with the Borg.
Both ways are really really bad, but if i were in danger of getting assimilated, i'd hope the Borg would use the nanoprobes
At least all would be over in a few short moments.
This. It's like being on the Titanic and having to choose between drowning or freezing to death. Or being that poor sap in the movie who did a swan dive into the propeller.
Exactly.
Another thing which makes assimilation by nanoprobes preferable is that you still have a (although extremely) short amount of time to either kill yourself or get killed by your colleagues (the second even after the assimilation), while this is very unlikely to happen if you are captured by them and already in an assimilation chamber...
The BQ is quite dysfunctional note how she's constantly chatting, commenting on everything she does when there's no one around to listen. She seems a bit unbalanced.
I noticed recently while watching TNG-R bonus stuff that they replaced the matte painting in Q Who that showed the massive Borg cube interior with a digital recreation that used FC/VOY designs for the alcoves. It's kinda odd now, cause only that small live set piece has the TNG design, and the rest of the cube is updated. But it retcons the newer design into the 2360s
I was never able to make it work, because that kind of body horror has never played to my strengths as a writer, but in the era when Pocket Books was publishing the Strange New Worlds anthologies I took a couple of whacks at a story about a character who gets injected with Borg nanoprobes and, while the assimilation of the body works and the Borg are able to hijack the nervous system, the assimilation of the brain fails, resulting in a character who is fully aware of what's happened to their body and completely unable to do anything about it. It would be a lot like sleep paralysis -- which I've experienced a handful of times in my life and it was absolutely terrifying -- but far, far worse, because at least with sleep paralysis a person will escape from it, while Borg assimilation is something that will never be escaped from.
For all the issues with introducing the Borg Queen, First Contact is still head and shoulders and torso and waist above Insurrection and Nemesis, so it likely benefits from comparison.
About that. It's funny but the head, shoulders, and a little bit of the torso are all that's left of the Queen's original body, yet after the dissolution, we see that even that part is mostly metal!! That's some drastic assimilation!
and you expect assimilation to be less drastic...?
That's how Jean Luc described his experiences as Locutus in "Family", but from what we've seen and heard since then, especially in Voyager, this aspect was also retconned into something easier to accept and for some people like the xbs in "Unity" and Seven (at the beginning of her arc) even to prefer, compared to existence as an individual.
I expected that there'd be a little more flesh left.
I noticed recently while watching TNG-R bonus stuff that they replaced the matte painting in Q Who that showed the massive Borg cube interior with a digital recreation that used FC/VOY designs for the alcoves. It's kinda odd now, cause only that small live set piece has the TNG design, and the rest of the cube is updated. But it retcons the newer design into the 2360s
I'm looking at screencaps, and wow, yeah. Though they seem to still be the same colour scheme as the TNG ones.
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It looks great
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