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Danaru posted:Ngl getting Borg'd up doesnt sound so bad considering how our timeline is going. All the free energy you can charge yourself with and the wifi never goes down I've long thought the borg and the federation both hosed up real bad. If the borg showed up and were all "we would like to open up cultural exchange and trade" the Federation is practically obligated to agree. At which point the borg say the want to voluntarily recruit new members to the collective, and again the Federation has no ground to forbid individual citizens from getting assimilated if they want to. And some would want to. Far more efficient way to capture the federation's technological and biological uniqueness without waste.
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Jul 2, 2021 01:42
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The Borg are generally stupid as gently caress
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Jul 2, 2021 01:48
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diplomacy is slow and the borg don't need to conquer or exterminate. mostly they can just do smash and grabs and that's one more biological and technological distinctiveness added to their own. then there's first contact, but that poo poo never made sense.
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Jul 2, 2021 01:51
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Facebook Aunt posted:I've long thought the borg and the federation both hosed up real bad. If the borg showed up and were all "we would like to open up cultural exchange and trade" the Federation is practically obligated to agree. At which point the borg say the want to voluntarily recruit new members to the collective, and again the Federation has no ground to forbid individual citizens from getting assimilated if they want to. And some would want to. Far more efficient way to capture the federation's technological and biological uniqueness without waste. Voyager had some really cool moments when it came to Seven glorifying the Borg and wanting to go back, and in Unimatrix Zero, when the Borg Queen is talking to the kid about how scary it was being assimilated at first, but then she talks about how wonderful being unified is, it was legit fascinating to imagine there being upsides to it. Unfortunately Voyager
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Jul 2, 2021 01:51
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:The Borg are generally stupid as gently caress it's because their queen is easily bamboozled. i guess they assimilated too much hubris.
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Jul 2, 2021 01:52
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:diplomacy is slow and the borg don't need to conquer or exterminate. mostly they can just do smash and grabs and that's one more biological and technological distinctiveness added to their own. It would be slow, but it would be efficient. A single cube, or less, could run voluntary trickle assimilation for 20 years and get everything they got during the run of TNG, but with no losses at all. They could even do catch and release tourism where they partially assimilate someone and then let them go after a couple weeks. The borg get to download their memories, and and the human has a great story to wow everyone at papa Sisko's diner. Win/win.
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Jul 2, 2021 02:02
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you'll never assimilate my gumbo recipe
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Jul 2, 2021 02:10
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:The Borg are generally stupid as gently caress gimme the GOD drat candy posted:being a borg is like having your brain connected to twitter 24/7
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Jul 2, 2021 02:11
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:being a borg is like having your brain connected to twitter 24/7 Change that to PornHub and I'd sign up. Our ultimate goal would not be to assimilate Picard, but Riker instead.
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Jul 2, 2021 02:18
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Facebook Aunt posted:It would be slow, but it would be efficient. A single cube, or less, could run voluntary trickle assimilation for 20 years and get everything they got during the run of TNG, but with no losses at all. In Best of Both Worlds Crusher compares the Borg letting someone go to being like cutting off a part of their body.
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Jul 2, 2021 02:18
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Dabir posted:In Best of Both Worlds Crusher compares the Borg letting someone go to being like cutting off a part of their body. Exactly. the borg cut off their own body parts all the time!
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Jul 2, 2021 02:26
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The borg queen self destructed a Borg cube full of drones because lol lmao
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Jul 2, 2021 02:27
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So disconnecting a Borg is more like getting a haircut?
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Jul 2, 2021 02:28
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I think the Borg Queen is the reason that they never bothered to assimilate the Kazon. Once they realized what a massive idiot their queen was the rest of the collective got much more selective over who they assimilated.
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Jul 2, 2021 02:33
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Oh hi, just a little behind on my watching schedule. Wimbledon has been taking my attention. I was able to watch three to make up for it. Today it was loud as a whisper, schizoid men, and unnatural selection. -loud as a whisper was really cool, but ive had some amazing experiences with sign and the hearing impaired. I liked the concept of the chorus. It was very greek. I also appreciated rivas understanding of his flaws with Trois help. The death graphics were lol. Reminded me of mars attacks. -schizoid man was great, since it gave spiner more to work with. As much as patrick stewart is amazing, spiner is really just so good at this and i cant help but admire it every time he breaks the mold. The scene with the beard had me belly laughing. Also, love the 2d ira graves in the casket was laughable. -unnatural selection was fantastic and made me turn around on pulaski as she is more frank and tenacious with her goals as a medical researcher. I will say i thought the ending was cheap and felt pulaski would have died honorably. But hey, transporter science saves the day. Overall, enjoying the ride so far. Everything is feeling more focused and conclusive.
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Jul 2, 2021 02:36
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I laugh all the time during ‘Unnatural Selection’ because Pulaski was a dumbass who took the most minor precautions with a deadly virus, so of course she almost died and they had to deus ex machina in a solution at the last minute
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Jul 2, 2021 02:46
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That one's not quite as funny to me these days.
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Jul 2, 2021 02:54
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Ghostlight posted:That one's not quite as funny to me these days. The language virus episode of DS9 really works a lot better these days
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Jul 2, 2021 02:57
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Danaru posted:The borg queen self destructed a Borg cube full of drones because lol lmao Maybe the Borg queen is a masochist and that's, like, cutting for her
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Jul 2, 2021 02:59
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Ghostlight posted:That one's not quite as funny to me these days. I felt the one in season 1 was much more closer to recent events. The makeup in this was just too atrocious to take seriously.
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Jul 2, 2021 03:00
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If Borg assimilation was voluntary and they offered like, a Rumspringa of some kind, they'd probably get a lot of sign ups tbph.
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Jul 2, 2021 03:26
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pulaski being actively contemptuous about the concept of transmissible disease despite being a doctor is far too real, yeah.
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Jul 2, 2021 03:36
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Bones shoved his hands into a living rock and did surgery on it without any PPE, future medicine isnt for cowards 
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Jul 2, 2021 03:38
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I like him reaching inside a Klingon's chest in Star Trek VI and then beating on his corpse, then admitting later he had no knowledge of Klingon anatomy lol
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Jul 2, 2021 03:43
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Hellblazer187 posted:If Borg assimilation was voluntary and they offered like, a Rumspringa of some kind, they'd probably get a lot of sign ups tbph. 
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Jul 2, 2021 03:44
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ChubbyChecker posted:ah of course If they did that then what would O'Brien have to keep himself busy with when nobody needs the transporter
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Jul 2, 2021 05:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7TnQBSV00
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Jul 2, 2021 06:52
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Lord of Pie posted:If they did that then what would O'Brien have to keep himself busy with when nobody needs the transporter He could sort the bloody ds9 replicators out finally. (Or deal with all the psychological trauma he gets subjected to.)
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Jul 2, 2021 07:06
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so i've just started my nth rewatch of ds9 just so netflix will stop telling me to watch it, and there's an establishing shot matte painting of bajor and a light that i assume represents some form of land vehicle zips across the distant landscape and it sorta made me wonder what a bajoran car looks like.
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Jul 2, 2021 08:09
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all they ever show of bajor implies it's all monasteries and farmers living in early renaissance countryside hamlets, but for all we know they could be bigtime hot rodders and the reason the federation doesn't supply them with more soil reclamators is because they just end up nitromethane burning supercharged monsters doing tractor pulls at the rakantha province supernationals
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Jul 2, 2021 08:16
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who holofucked the most crewmembers? my guess is that it's not barclay, he was just one of the few people they caught
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Jul 2, 2021 09:21
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ChubbyChecker posted:who holofucked the most crewmembers? my guess is that it's not barclay, he was just one of the few people they caught Canonically Seven, at a grand total of one off the top of my head (It was Chakotay, for those wondering). You can probably infer some random crewmember's got a program where they can rail, or be railed by, the senior staff in absolutely disgusting ways though. Nevermind whatever Riker's done there. On the same topic, I've just realized the true act of depravity that would come from a holodeck and all those holoprojectors Starfleet crew have in their quarters; Holographic Memes.
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Jul 2, 2021 09:27
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ChubbyChecker posted:who holofucked the most crewmembers? my guess is that it's not barclay, he was just one of the few people they caught Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answer (is Riker)
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Jul 2, 2021 10:15
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why not worf? he already has programs where he goes on killing sprees.
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Jul 2, 2021 13:01
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VectorSigma posted:so i've just started my nth rewatch of ds9 just so netflix will stop telling me to watch it, and there's an establishing shot matte painting of bajor and a light that i assume represents some form of land vehicle zips across the distant landscape and it sorta made me wonder what a bajoran car looks like.
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Jul 2, 2021 13:37
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Mulaney Power Move posted:why not worf? he already has programs where he goes on killing sprees. that's his explanation if someone else uses them
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Jul 2, 2021 13:43
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riker does basically admit to going to the holodeck to jack off in the ep with the perfect mate. in front of his coworkers.
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Jul 2, 2021 14:05
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Quark needs to do constant "quality control" of his programs. Just in case.
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quarks is basically what used to be called a "knocking shop" when you think about it
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