Portrayal of the Borg

posted on June 13th, 2008, 10:14 pm

I voted First Contact cause I think it's the only time the Borg (and I have to confess that the ENT-episode with the Borg was not that bad at all) had some really menacing touch except the ENT-episode where they found a Probe with two drones.

The TNG-Borg were nice but too pale. The VOY-Borg.. yep, they had boobs  but no brain at all.

posted on June 13th, 2008, 11:21 pm

VOY Massacred the idea of the borg in my eyes it makes them look like just a norther threat not the hirable distractive force they are.

[calvary]

posted on June 13th, 2008, 11:41 pm

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I like The Next Generation and First Contact. in Season 2 Episode "Q Who" it was about the curiosity, in Season 3 Episode "Best of Both Worlds" it was about domination. in the movies they did a good job recreating the domination. I did like the Borg storylines (my favorite "Drone") and there origin the Delta Quadrant in Voyager but if anything they came off as a pest, in my opinion Species 8472 ruined the Borg and Species 8472 I did not like

Vidians were my favorite race in Voyager I wish they had gotten more air time.

- Christine

posted on June 29th, 2008, 9:23 pm

Nice Jan  . Personally I like TNG because the Borg seemed impressive, scary, and inevitable (at least as far as I remember)

I agree the borg are big nasty killing super beings in TNG that take entire fleets of ships to destroy, in voyager a small science ship with standard crew can happily escape them many times, voyager did to the borg what the new Doctor Who has done to the Dalek's they where once feared massively but where then ALL wiped out, and then again, then again, then again, and are back this week with someone who was erased from time but apparently not erased from time lol

posted on June 30th, 2008, 12:28 pm

i think the way the Borg have been portrayed is downright horrible and racist and the result of Starfleet propaganda! Starfleet ASSUMES they want to kill everyone and never stop to think that the Borg might actually just want a cuddle and a cup of tea. But nooooo every captain automatically thinks "Borg! KILL!" that is not very kind is it? Give them a chance and stop showing footage of the assimilated and look at the Borg playing skip with the Jem Hedar, this is the TRUE portrayal of the Borg.

posted on June 30th, 2008, 12:49 pm

i think i'll leave you to do that if i see a borg i'm running

posted on June 30th, 2008, 9:48 pm

*Resistence is Futi...* What? I didn't say nothin... 

posted on June 30th, 2008, 11:11 pm

Frodo is right! All the Borg *really* want is to give the galaxy perfection! Is that so wrong?

PS Hi, new person here

posted on June 30th, 2008, 11:43 pm

The Borg idea of 'perfection' is little more than Slavery. Being a drone is no different than being a Goa'uld host, you can see, hear & feel everything but do nothing (literaly a slave in your own body).

posted on June 30th, 2008, 11:48 pm

Welcome Blazing 

posted on July 1st, 2008, 9:18 am

welcome Blazing!

question on the borg - how would they assimilate a Goa'uld snake? 

posted on July 1st, 2008, 10:00 am

The same way they assimilate everything, I presume The REAL question is, how would the Borg assimilate an ascended being? 

The Borg idea of 'perfection' is little more than Slavery. Being a drone is no different than being a Goa'uld host, you can see, hear & feel everything but do nothing (literaly a slave in your own body).

Yeah, I probably should have put an emoticon or something at the end of my post to show that I was kidding 

And thanks everyone for the welcomes 

posted on July 1st, 2008, 11:44 am

would the goa'uld defensives protect its host from borg nanites or would its possession override the borg collective(since they both controll the mind)

also the borg perfection is flawed you cant be perfect if you can not operate on your own were as borg can not sufficiently opperate on there own (and there arragant)

posted on July 1st, 2008, 12:34 pm

Hmm, not sure if the symbiote would protect the host from assimilation...I would assume that if the symbiote itself has a bloodstream then it would be equally as vulnerable to assimilation as the host itself would be (unless it's immune system was as incredibly advanced as, for example, species 8472's I guess...). I expect the Borg could find a way to neutralise the symbiote's control over the host with some sort of technology though, even if they couldn't assimilate it.

posted on July 1st, 2008, 4:07 pm

I don't think a goa'uld snake would be able to defend against assimilation. The nanites that are injected into the human/humanoid/alien whatever thingie start adding technology and stuff like that into the bloodstream. I don't think the body's immune system could normally just...destroy a nanite. I also don't think that just by having a super-immune system would be able to take one out, either.