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Goodbye, Kes! Have fun being ascended!
You know, Scorpion has some really great music. Just listen to these tracks.
Anyway, it continues to bug me that nobody considers talking to Species 8472. I mean, yeah, they don't seem real social with their "you'll contaminate us! the weak shall perish!" chatter, but if you can reason with the Borg you can reason with almost anybody. Nobody's saying befriend them, but they might be amenable to "Listen, beat up the Borg all you like, but when you've finished with that, if you're so afraid of contamination it's probably both safer and easier to just go home and lock the doors. Nobody will follow, first because you're scary and also because we just don't want to. Why even would we? You don't really want to be here, do you? Well, we feel the same way about your territory."
Next episode also bugs me. They talk and talk and talk about how the Borg stole young Annika Hansen's right to self-determination, and they're not wrong, but Seven's not wrong either - Janeway will see any desire to return to the Borg as proof that she's not capable of making her own decisions. It's a trap. Not that Seven did herself any favors with her impulsive recklessness, like, what was she thinking? (She wasn't, no more than she was thinking when she suggested they could just leave her on a planet in Borg territory to be picked up. If she had been she'd know perfectly well that the Collective wouldn't trouble itself to rescue one stranded drone, not if there was no real benefit to them.)
It would have been a lot better to be honest and say "Yeah, Seven, but look at it from our point of view. Every ex-drone is a win for the Federation, hell, for all non-Borg species. Sure, it's not as efficient as blowing up cubes left, right, and center, but we're still not going to return you to the collective just so they can use you to assimilate a few dozen more hapless children." (And when they bring her around to their point of view she can help them fight the Borg, which is better and better.)
Also, side question: All the Borg we've seen are humanoid, and about the same height, and all their infrastructure seems designed around this. Species 8472 is not. Does non-humanoid assimilation involve even more body horror than we already knew about? Or does the Borg have specialized vessels for different body shapes? (Did the Borg ever assimilate any tardigrades?)
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You know, Scorpion has some really great music. Just listen to these tracks.
Anyway, it continues to bug me that nobody considers talking to Species 8472. I mean, yeah, they don't seem real social with their "you'll contaminate us! the weak shall perish!" chatter, but if you can reason with the Borg you can reason with almost anybody. Nobody's saying befriend them, but they might be amenable to "Listen, beat up the Borg all you like, but when you've finished with that, if you're so afraid of contamination it's probably both safer and easier to just go home and lock the doors. Nobody will follow, first because you're scary and also because we just don't want to. Why even would we? You don't really want to be here, do you? Well, we feel the same way about your territory."
Next episode also bugs me. They talk and talk and talk about how the Borg stole young Annika Hansen's right to self-determination, and they're not wrong, but Seven's not wrong either - Janeway will see any desire to return to the Borg as proof that she's not capable of making her own decisions. It's a trap. Not that Seven did herself any favors with her impulsive recklessness, like, what was she thinking? (She wasn't, no more than she was thinking when she suggested they could just leave her on a planet in Borg territory to be picked up. If she had been she'd know perfectly well that the Collective wouldn't trouble itself to rescue one stranded drone, not if there was no real benefit to them.)
It would have been a lot better to be honest and say "Yeah, Seven, but look at it from our point of view. Every ex-drone is a win for the Federation, hell, for all non-Borg species. Sure, it's not as efficient as blowing up cubes left, right, and center, but we're still not going to return you to the collective just so they can use you to assimilate a few dozen more hapless children." (And when they bring her around to their point of view she can help them fight the Borg, which is better and better.)
Also, side question: All the Borg we've seen are humanoid, and about the same height, and all their infrastructure seems designed around this. Species 8472 is not. Does non-humanoid assimilation involve even more body horror than we already knew about? Or does the Borg have specialized vessels for different body shapes? (Did the Borg ever assimilate any tardigrades?)
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