Would it be cool if the Borg appear on Star Trek Academy?

[Lynx]

Pretty much.

They had some moments in VOY (especially pre-Queen as VOY went there without going there) and PIC season 3 but once the baddies' returns stop feeling natural and increasingly contrived... meh.

I was surprised they came back for PIC 3, though they do fix the issues that occurred in the previous two seasons. Maybe they knew there wouldn't be a fourth season so they had to be crammed in. Fairly worth it.

One problem with having a superior, almost invincible enemy in a series like Star Trek is that sooner or later it reaches the point when the good guys will get the upper hand in the conflict.

Mostly with some new technology, super weapon or weakness in the invincible enemy itself.

When that happens, the superior invincible enemy will lose everything which made them interesting.

That happened at the end of Best Of Both Worlds and later on when the Borg became humanized and "velourized" by characters like Hugh and The Borg Queen (or Wimp Queen as I call her after First Contact when she was wimping around Picard like a lovesick schoolgirl).

From that on The Borg was just another weird species.

Not to mention that they were rather one-dimensional as a species too, heavily relying on theit technology.

Personally I find the Cardassians and the Founders much more interesting as villains than The Borg. They were not superior when it came to technology and such but they were cunning, treacherous, dangerous and much more interesting.

I expect the Borg to show up on Star Trek: Prodigy because it's going to be screen in the Delta Quadrant the Borg's home space.

Let's hope that The Voth have wiped out The Borg so they don't have to show up in Prodigy.

 

[Qonundrum]

One problem with having a superior, almost invincible enemy in a series like Star Trek is that sooner or later it reaches the point when the good guys will get the upper hand in the conflict.

And too easily. It's the downside of making an adversary/fritter that's too likeable. People want them back and now they have to be stopped. Again.

Mostly with some new technology, super weapon or weakness in the invincible enemy itself.

Or deliberate plot holes; there's no way that WTFC wouldn't have sent two cubes. True, one was beaten by accessing sleep mode and they updated the system since, but they already trounced the whole blinkin' fleet long before then. At least VOY found a way to make them scary and hard to defeat again... for a while... but if the Queen was a new central point of focus, VOY also later had Borg ships given centralized areas instead of distributed ones - another weakness, which is also contrary to the design of the craft.

When that happens, the superior invincible enemy will lose everything which made them interesting.

Apart from how cool they look, but eventually it made more sense just to point at the screen, crack jokes like "I bet the stuntman took home that Borg hose and lets his kids use it as a jump rope."

That happened at the end of Best Of Both Worlds and later on when the Borg became humanized and "velourized" by characters like Hugh and The Borg Queen (or Wimp Queen as I call her after First Contact when she was wimping around Picard like a lovesick schoolgirl).

Hugh was interesting, especially as the attempt to cause psychosis failed... but the Queen never once made sense, no matter how well-acted she was.

From that on The Borg was just another weird species.

Not to mention that they were rather one-dimensional as a species too, heavily relying on theit technology.

Yup. Even from day one, they were glorified Pakleds. Arguably more interesting. At least LD made the Pakleds genuinely compelling as a wide-scale threat when needed.

Personally I find the Cardassians and the Founders much more interesting as villains than The Borg. They were not superior when it came to technology and such but they were cunning, treacherous, dangerous and much more interesting.

^^this

Let's hope that The Voth have wiped out The Borg so they don't have to show up in Prodigy.

 

[Lynx]

And too easily. It's the downside of making an adversary/fritter that's too likeable. People want them back and now they have to be stopped. Again.

I never found The Borg likeable. Exciting to start with but that was over after Best of Both Worlds.

And when the invincible enemy once is defeated, all attempts to bring them back and write exciting stories about them are gone.

Or deliberate plot holes; there's no way that WTFC wouldn't have sent two cubes. True, one was beaten by accessing sleep mode and they updated the system since, but they already trounced the whole blinkin' fleet long before then. At least VOY found a way to make them scary and hard to defeat again... for a while... but if the Queen was a new central point of focus, VOY also later had Borg ships given centralized areas instead of distributed ones - another weakness, which is also contrary to the design of the craft.

I never found The Borg interesting in VOY, it was just a sort of making VOY the new TNG.
VOY should have been about finding new interesting species in the Delta Quadrant, not figthing an enemy which the Federation already had defeated.

Hugh was interesting, especially as the attempt to cause psychosis failed... but the Queen never once made sense, no matter how well-acted she was.

In a way yes, but humanizing him the way they did also took most of the excitement away from the Borg. it just made them "velour enemies".

Yup. Even from day one, they were glorified Pakleds. Arguably more interesting. At least LD made the Pakleds genuinely compelling as a wide-scale threat when needed.

The Pakleds were at least interesting, something the Borg weren't after Best Of Both Worlds.

 

[somebuddyX]

I would love it if the future Borg had steampunk technology or something, like they realise that the Federation technology has evolved so far that everything being online and nanobots and all that shit is actually a hinderance. So they go back to big honking tubes and wires sticking out of drones and adopted Worf and Picard's mode's of attack, so now they just shoot you with bullets or slice you up with swords.