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"So, you're all a collective, yes?"
"Yes."
"But you have a queen, yes?"
"Um... yes."
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.
In Star Trek: Picard they opened the door to it, and then they promptly forgot.
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'
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.
yup, somethings we stole from the fan novels the rogue changeling, and the supercube(was also in fan novels)
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.
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.
This could've been a Reg plot on Voyager as his obsession deepened.
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.
"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."
Wild times when The Borg and Leto II dont seem so bad

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
How much Zoloft should one take before one becomes Borg?
Oh wait would it make you Vulcan?
...ever have to deal with your boss again.
Even better, if they assimilate your boss to them you (kind of) are the boss
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.
fuck... Every dipshit thing he ever did is now something I've done and it all seems totally justified.
... 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.
You will never have fun again. You will never experience love. Or sex.
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).
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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