You know when someone wants to make love to code?
This time, the code makes love to you.
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Soldar Model 2000 was programmed to say:
Sexually transmitted nanoprogramming.You know when someone wants to make love to code?
This time, the code makes love to you.
I hate what they did with the Borg, though. Took a good villain and made them irritating in Voyager.
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There was much rejoicing when Soldar said this:
You know when someone wants to make love to code?
This time, the code makes love to you.
Borg are from Soviet Russia?
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Drysart had this to say about Tron:
Borg are from Soviet Russia?
I was thinking the same thing...lol
Process has gotten harder to reverse, though. Picard was lucky; he was taken later in life, so his body wasn't dependent on the implants (IE it had a default state it could go back to once all the hardware was removed), whereas 7 of 9 was taken as a prepubescent child, so she grew into maturity relying on implants (no ground state). If you got a Borg who avoided the killswitch back to a science/medical facility fast, you could probably clone the implant-damaged parts and install them on the person as you removed the implants, but then there's the question of extensive psychological damage.
Grow up in the hive, and like growing up in any society it's hard to shake that off. Even worse, given that the hive mind is always a presence in the back of your head, plus it's rigidly ordered.
I played in a Star Trek PBEM for a long while that had a rather clever Borg adventure. Voyager ruined the Borg.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael painfully thought these words up:
I played in a Star Trek PBEM for a long while that had a rather clever Borg adventure.
With which sim group and when?
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnaj attempted to be funny by writing:
With which sim group and when?
Oh this was about...hmm...two years ago, maybe? I was just getting back together with Lyinar. RL friend of mine was playing it. I'll see if I can dig up the emails, get the name of the list and such for you if you want.
And it may well be that Rick Berman is the plague on TNG. I dunno. The series started off really good; the tech in the series was based off of real world Tech. Sizes of ships and stations, crew compliments, etc were all tied into real world ideas. Roddenberry was VERY specific about that. He wanted to tell fantastic stories, but it was very important to him that it all be rooted down. His stories were almost like metaphors or allegories, just like the original series had been (a multi-racial crew all working together, the Klingons representing the then-threat of the Soviets, etc).
When the Borg were introduced, it was poking fun at the fact so many people were increasingly slaves to Television or technology in general...that what was supposed to make life easier was possibly getting out of hand. Romulans were a threat not because they had cloaking devices (they had that in the original series), but because they were brilliant people who could, in theory, match the Federation move for move.
Instead, after Roddenberry's death, the Romulans manipulate the Klingons once, fail, disappear, show up for the failed Reunification season cliffhanger story, fail in that, and disappear only to show up in DS9 briefly to represent their presence before disappearing again. Then they show up in the most recent movie being manipulated themselves, by a HUMAN leading a bunch of Reman prisoners. Romulans were the most under-utilized "villains" in the Star Trek series.
And the Borg were almost the exact opposite. They were OVER-utilized. OVER-played in most cases. They were these great villains whose presence could've been more ominously built up to, but as usual they showed up for a cliffhanger, a movie, then like half the frickin' episodes of Voyager. And I don't care what anyone says; the idea of a Borg "Queen" goes against the whole bloody concept. Locutus was unique. There does not need to be a Queen Borg.
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Karnaj had this to say about the Spice Girls:
The minute Voyager lost all its entertainment value for me was when they used the nanoprobes in open space to kill Species 8472. You can only overlook horrible butchering of science for so long, and that just sealed the deal for me.
What killed the Star-Trek series was the new Enterprise show. Too much "lets show em some vulcan skin".
I couldn't even keep watching Enterprise :/
or so I think
And what was with Voyager? It seemed like all of the Tom Paris and Harry Kim holodeck episodes were groan-inspiring, but for some reason, they were all funny and amusing. [ 01-15-2003: Message edited by: Fazum'Zen Fastfist ]
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