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[–] 38 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

"So, you're all a collective, yes?"

"Yes."

"But you have a queen, yes?"

"Um... yes."

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  • [–] 62 points 22 hours ago* (1 child)

    Enter later conversation.
    "I am queen of the borg".
    "Queen of the who?".
    "The borg".
    "Who are the Borg?".
    "We are Borg".
    "I didn't know we had a queen, I thought we were an autonomous collective...".

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    [–] 51 points 23 hours ago (13 children)

    I think the biggest missed chance of a Trek story would be about people who do want to be assimilated. You can't tell me no one does. But writing pew pew boom sequels is easier.

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  • [–] 28 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

    In Star Trek: Picard they opened the door to it, and then they promptly forgot.

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  • [–] 23 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    Picard was such a mess

    the first season was a lot of build up to a meh ending, the second was filled with headscratchers (and sudden musical numbers and juice that makes you burp across time and space)

    Then the third season felt like they just gave up and said 'Forget the rest of the show, here's that 40 year TNG reunion you damn nerds want'

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    First season was okay. Tried to do something original. Was just alright. Second season. I have no fucking clue what they were doing. They should have stuck with Q or Borg, not both. Third season was actually somewhat decent only because it was a nostalgia trip.

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  • [–] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    Oh, that’s an idea. I don’t know about in a moneyless future society, but closer to home I can imagine a story full of pathos where someone trapped in hard times sets themselves up for assimilation. It could go so many ways from there.

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  • [–] 7 points 18 hours ago

    They kinda set up the other side of it in I, Borg, with how lonely it is away from the collective.

    It's the ultimate comfort, at the cost of ultimate conformism. You are never alone. You face all your thoughts, feelings, fears, problems together with countless others with no shame or social anxiety.

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  • [–] 1 point 20 hours ago (2 children)

    How about they deliberately fuck someone's brain up, but just leave them barely functional. Some sort of organic virus. Borg absorbs them and they become a nervous wreck, hallucinating and depressed.

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  • [–] 23 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    "So... It's like a union?"

    "We are Borg, we are the ultimate union."

    "And the dues are how much?"

    "There are no dues, you will be assimilated."

    "Free? Nice. How many vacation days a year, then?"

    "No vacation. We are Borg."

    "No vacation? You're a shit union, bub."

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  • [–] 22 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Wild times when The Borg and Leto II dont seem so bad

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago* (1 child)

    Millennials

    Don't make me quote Fleet Foxes at you

    I was raised up believing

    I was somehow unique

    Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes

    Unique in each way you can see

    But now I do some thinking

    I'd say I'd rather be

    A functioning cog in some great machinery

    Serving something beyond me

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  • [–] 13 points 17 hours ago

    Or you're hard wired into your boss 24/7.

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  • [–] 9 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    How much Zoloft should one take before one becomes Borg?

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  • [–] 8 points 12 hours ago

    Borg assisted backup ?

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  • [–] 7 points 20 hours ago

    Don't threaten me with a good time.

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  • [–] 7 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    ...ever have to deal with your boss again.

    Even better, if they assimilate your boss to them you (kind of) are the boss

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Doesn't it also imply that your thoughts are shared with your boss ... and you also have access to your boss's thoughts?

    I might not have to see or deal with my boss anymore but we could be planetary systems apart and I still have to listen to them whine and feel their emotions about me being ten minutes late for work.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 hours ago

    Assimilating me will get the whole collective high

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  • [–] 12 points 18 hours ago

    ... we should build a giant signal array of some sort, as big as we can make and broadcast to the universe that we are willing to be assimilated, enslaved, poked, prodded, harvested, tested, experimented on and abused ... because we would prefer it done by an alien species rather than our own down here.

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  • [–] 6 points 13 hours ago*

    Free health care
    (may involve some nasty face modifications)

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

    You will never have fun again. You will never experience love. Or sex.

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  • [–] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Ok ok. I'm going to shoot them "captain"... ...oh ...no.. they've ..adapted... I can't... shoot them... o.h n..o..o..o..o (finally).

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago

    Where do I sign up?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago

    You can be your own boss, but, like, you will be your boss.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago

    youre just swapping bosses

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago

    You will hear everyone's voice in your head at all times. Everyone must be the same. Individually is strictly banned.

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