But you had to know what episode it was, otherwise how would you search the entire series for a key word?
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But you had to know what episode it was, otherwise how would you search the entire series for a key word?
I, Borg. The Enterprise crew rescues an injured Borg, then returns him to the Borg with the idea that his new sense of individuality might infect the other Borg.
Instead of the using the virus they came up with.
By Any Other Name. The scene where the Kelvans turns two crew members into those cubes and then crushes one, for a such a corny sci fi drvice, the scene really stays with you.
So at the end when Kirk offers to have them settle on a comfortable planet where they can explore sex, drink and hedonism, it seemed unfair.
Instead of the using the virus they came up with.
By Any Other Name. The scene where the Kelvans turns two crew members into those cubes and then crushes one, for a such a corny sci fi drvice, the scene really stays with you.
So at the end when Kirk offers to have them settle on a comfortable planet where they can explore sex, drink and hedonism, it seemed unfair.
I happen to think that's one of the best endings in Star Trek history, actually. Although in retrospect Descent can change the view of it, the explanation in the episode itself is just that it is wrong to use him as a weapon. To be given the chance to destroy your greatest enemy and turn it down because it is unethical is the essence of what Star Trek's promise for the future is all about in my book. Plus unusually for TNG they actually had debate and disagreement about it, too. Lovely.
Incidentally, the follow-on from that (a section of the Borg go crazy because of Hugh's individuality) is truly ridiculous. Every person they've ever assimilated was an individual, why is Hugh any different?
Actually it wasn't a virus it was some kind of visual paradox, which I found to be a ridiculous idea. I mean a collective of billions of drones, collecting info all over the delta and now alpha quadrants was bound sooner or later to stumble upon some kind of paradox, and without an ability to dismiss them as a waste of time, they would have self-destroyed a long time ago. I mean it's almost as bad as Kirk's crew collapsing the android community by telling them the old cliché: "I am lying". I would have preferred if it was a virus, actually.
In waking moments, chakotay's beaming down the planet was rather stupid, actually. His threat the the "sleeping people" would have been far more effective if the doctor was targeting the planet with chakotay out of harm's way on board the ship!
Imagine:
Chac (talking to the alien leader): "Hey dumbass, if you don't wake us all and let us leave with apologies and a few gifts to boot, our EMH who's immune to your sleeping field will drop a few torpidoes on that giant dormitory you call a planet, and once you guys have become a cloud of dust, we will be able to leave anyway. So what's your decision, Einstein?"
Imagine:
Chac (talking to the alien leader): "Hey dumbass, if you don't wake us all and let us leave with apologies and a few gifts to boot, our EMH who's immune to your sleeping field will drop a few torpidoes on that giant dormitory you call a planet, and once you guys have become a cloud of dust, we will be able to leave anyway. So what's your decision, Einstein?"
Looking back at the Borg only really highlights what an eighties bad guy they were with such a rudimentary concept of computers and networking. Even after they retconned nanotechnology into the Borg mythology, they still seemed outdated, representing a technology of pipes and servos and wires that now seems almost quaint in the smartphone era.
Oh, there are plenty of episodes where a good counselor would have been handy. TNG, for example, has a horrible track record in regards children who have lost a parent in the line of duty. Both "The Bonding" and "Hero Worship" feature children who have been orphaned suddenly due to some disaster. In both episodes, the children are left alone in a cabin. Not alone in their room with an adult nearby. No, they were left alone in their entire cabin.
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That reminds me of that awful TNG episode "Suddenly human" where some alien from a brutal misogynistic culture gets to keep a human boy that he "adopted" after having massacred his parents, and the genuine grandparents of the child are told to get lost.
Talk about an infuriating as well as stupid ending!
I'll second Fury. To quote from a Jim Wright review (he already put it better than I could):
I remember feeling very let down by "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II."
They hacked the Borg, the Borg blew themselves up, they unplugged Picard, the end. What a letdown. Not even a bloody epilogue showing more Cubes on the way.
And speaking of firewalls, the Borg really could have used one then.
They hacked the Borg, the Borg blew themselves up, they unplugged Picard, the end. What a letdown. Not even a bloody epilogue showing more Cubes on the way.
And speaking of firewalls, the Borg really could have used one then.
I'm thinking Spock would take issue with the conclusion of Space Seed.... sorta came back to haunt them later on. Maybe they should have stuck Khan further away, like on Delta Vega. Or put them all back into stasis....
In Corbomite Maneuver Bailey should've been in the brig, not assigned to a powerful alien ship in a first contact situation. Also, how did Bailey pass all those rigorous Starfleet entrance exams in the first place?
In the TNG Genesis, Dr. Crusher (her face perfectly restored after Worf's venom attack) jokes about the events that took place. "Duh, it was actually my fault, huh huh!" At the very least, her mistake caused uncounted deaths and some heavy damage to a Galaxy class starship. Picard should have been furious. Shouldn't she be fired or in jail? A simple precaution like putting Barclay in temporary isolation after administering the synthetic T-cell would avoided the whole mess.
I also wish Riker actually had murdered Dr. Apgar in Matter of Perspective. They could still have gotten him off on a holodeck technicality, but he could've winked at the camera in the end.
In Corbomite Maneuver Bailey should've been in the brig, not assigned to a powerful alien ship in a first contact situation. Also, how did Bailey pass all those rigorous Starfleet entrance exams in the first place?
In the TNG Genesis, Dr. Crusher (her face perfectly restored after Worf's venom attack) jokes about the events that took place. "Duh, it was actually my fault, huh huh!" At the very least, her mistake caused uncounted deaths and some heavy damage to a Galaxy class starship. Picard should have been furious. Shouldn't she be fired or in jail? A simple precaution like putting Barclay in temporary isolation after administering the synthetic T-cell would avoided the whole mess.
I also wish Riker actually had murdered Dr. Apgar in Matter of Perspective. They could still have gotten him off on a holodeck technicality, but he could've winked at the camera in the end.
They do say while Data's hacking Locutus that higher-priority functions (weapons control among others, IIRC) are protected. The regeneration function wasn't as protected, which was why that's the path they pursued.
Anything that they would blow themselves up over should be protected.
That one bothered me as well. We saw at least one dead body. And I think mutant Worf may have killed him.
I think it was Riker. A broken neck is more something that a man or an hominid would do rather than whatever that is that worf had become.
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