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Every Borg drone I've seen looks like an assimilated human. Have they ever shown Borg drones that have alien features? They show a queen with alien features but I can't remember a rank-and-file drone looking non-human.
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Most of the background borg are just jumpsuits with some electrical tape and one of those flexible tubes you hook your dryer vent up to wrapped around it
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May 14, 2017 01:22
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Space Taxi posted:Every Borg drone I've seen looks like an assimilated human. Have they ever shown Borg drones that have alien features? We see one with distinctly Klingon features in First Contact: 
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May 14, 2017 01:37
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A Ferengi Borg would be adorable.
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May 14, 2017 01:46
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Space Taxi posted:A Ferengi Borg would be adorable. I think there's a throwaway line in Voyager that of all the Alpha Quadrant species they've encountered, the Ferengi are the least desirable for assimilation next to, like, the Pakleds.
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May 14, 2017 02:18
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you'd think the Pakleds would be like the best ones to assimilate "Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated" "Oh...okay!"
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May 14, 2017 02:21
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Will assimilation make us go?
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May 14, 2017 02:24
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CHICKEN SHOES posted:you'd think the Pakleds would be like the best ones to assimilate the pakled convince them that they'll agree to assimilation once the borg upgrade their engines
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May 14, 2017 02:28
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Borg-jorans would have cubes bombing eachother within a week of assimilation and mass starvation would inexplicably sweep through the entire 6of8 through 20of32 drone habitats for no discernible reason. The Darmok people would be a real mindfuck to the collective as well.
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May 14, 2017 02:36
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DrPlump posted:Why the gently caress would you fly a school into battle? Imagine sitting in class then all of a sudden you are floating in space because your rear end in a top hat captain got the ship blowed up. Because space is boring except for when it's killing you. Which brings us back to the eternal argument of: Is everybody in the future brave or naive? The appropriately titled episode "Disaster" is a good example of this. poo poo can happen at any time and with all their future technology they can't see see it coming. Is it too much of a hassle in day to day life to wear a uniform that doubles as a spacesuit? Is there such a high probability that most or all of the crew could be wiped out instantaneously that a space suit would simply make you die a little slower? The Federation seems to be made up of Audi drivers who drive like assholes because they know they have more airbags than other cars
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May 14, 2017 02:49
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Do you think the Borg can assimilate a Q if they snuck up on them they've shown Q to be capable of being surprised
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May 14, 2017 03:06
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Which really sorta doesn't make sense
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May 14, 2017 03:07
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criscodisco posted:Which really sorta doesn't make sense Its like how you have the power to find out how every single book and movie ends before you even touch it. But you don't. Same thing. And also sometimes a really good jambalaya chef punches you in the mouth. Its life! Full o' delightful surprises.
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May 14, 2017 03:08
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HAmbONE posted:Is it too much of a hassle in day to day life to wear a uniform that doubles as a spacesuit? Yeah, it is. Like this isn't even a hard question. A good comparison right here on Earth would be the relationship between soldiers and armor. At no point in human history have soldiers worn their armor at all times, even in an active war zone. This is true no matter the technological level of the time or the weight/extent/role of the armor in combat. Even though they, like members of a Trek space ship, could suddenly be facing peril at a moment's notice, it is just too much to be encased in something 24/7. You keep it handy, and any if there is any sign of trouble you may put it on and leave it on for hours, but you don't just wear it around all day every day. What would make sense is for there to be space suits in lockers near every work station and in every closet of personal quarters. But not for everyone to be walking around in full suits all day.
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May 14, 2017 03:17
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Space Taxi posted:Every Borg drone I've seen looks like an assimilated human. Have they ever shown Borg drones that have alien features? Actually yes, plenty of times in Voyager. Generally in the episodes with a plot consisting of "oh wait, I used to NOT be a Borg Drone", but they're there.
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May 14, 2017 03:32
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werent the borg kids non-human but they just had some things on their forehead like naomi or whatever her name was?
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May 14, 2017 03:33
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Their parents were sacrificing them to the Borg
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May 14, 2017 03:36
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CHICKEN SHOES posted:werent the borg kids non-human but they just had some things on their forehead like naomi or whatever her name was? Yup. There's also the Unimatrix Zero Borg who started a rebellion and promised to help Voyager... and were never, ever heard from again. And one episode with the small group who broke free because their ship crashed and Seven linked them all into a small three-man collective to stop them having emotions and individual thoughts (Which incidentally contradicts that stupid Cortical Node failsafe they cranked out to justify no character development for Seven). criscodisco posted:Their parents were sacrificing them to the Borg That was only Icheb's rear end in a top hat geneticist parents. The others were merely assimilated.
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May 14, 2017 03:36
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there was a bolian borg in first contact
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May 14, 2017 03:53
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but since they hadnt seen humans before tng there should be very few humans instead of the majority
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May 14, 2017 04:26
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Space Taxi posted:A Ferengi Borg would be adorable. There's one in the novel Vendetta. I remember it being a decent book, but it provides a great example of how the showrunners paid absolutely no attention to the novels and happily trampled all over everything they tried to establish. It was written in 1991, pre-Hugh and very pre-Seven-of-Nine, and established that a detached, liberated Borg drone would be totally unresponsive in most situations, arguably all but brain dead. Oh, and the planet destroying concrete windsock thing from The Doomsday Machine was originally created as a weapon against the Borg.
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May 14, 2017 04:27
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Powered Descent posted:There's one in the novel Vendetta. I remember it being a decent book, but it provides a great example of how the showrunners paid absolutely no attention to the novels and happily trampled all over everything they tried to establish. It was written in 1991, pre-Hugh and very pre-Seven-of-Nine, and established that a detached, liberated Borg drone would be totally unresponsive in most situations, arguably all but brain dead. Oh, and the planet destroying concrete windsock thing from The Doomsday Machine was originally created as a weapon against the Borg. why would they care about the novels? who cares
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May 14, 2017 04:28
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So I've got a long bus ride coming up and apparently the mobile version of Netflix let's you download episodes for offline viewing now. I need ~18 hours of things to fill time, gimme you best of/favorite episodes of TNG and DS9 for me to binge while trying not to look at the passengers surrounding me.
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May 14, 2017 09:54
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Download Red Dwarf instead.
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May 14, 2017 10:16
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In the pale moonlight Whatever that bond episode is Measure of a man The drumhead
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May 14, 2017 13:51
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Powered Descent posted:There's one in the novel Vendetta. I remember it being a decent book, but it provides a great example of how the showrunners paid absolutely no attention to the novels and happily trampled all over everything they tried to establish. It was written in 1991, pre-Hugh and very pre-Seven-of-Nine, and established that a detached, liberated Borg drone would be totally unresponsive in most situations, arguably all but brain dead. Oh, and the planet destroying concrete windsock thing from The Doomsday Machine was originally created as a weapon against the Borg. Wait, by the time Enterprise started they had several hundred episodes' worth of continuity from TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY to worry about -- and producers should have worried about several hundred more novels, which amount to little more than licensed fan-fiction? 
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May 14, 2017 14:16
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:I need ~18 hours of things to fill time, gimme you best of/favorite episodes of TNG and DS9 for me to binge while trying not to look at the passengers surrounding me. There is a good stretch of episodes starting where Troi decides to gently caress the Perfect DNA Colony Leader and Riker has to beam up alone like Nog at the Academy's Sadie Hawkins Day Dance and then in like the next ep Riker fucks Ro Laren while Troi practically watches them do it and that "m'zadi" bullshit between Riker and Troi obviously cracks and then right away Riker goes for that androgynous shuttle pilot except its really obvious he doesn't like her and the whole crew knows it because how can you get over Ensign Ro Laren within the space of just two episodes? I think the first one is called "The Masterpiece Society"
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May 14, 2017 14:58
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corn in the bible posted:why would they care about the novels? who cares
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May 14, 2017 17:38
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bunnyofdoom posted:In the pale moonlight "Our Man Bashir"
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May 14, 2017 18:44
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Hey get the nineties one where they hang out with Sarah Silverman
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May 14, 2017 18:45
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Timby posted:Wait, by the time Enterprise started they had several hundred episodes' worth of continuity from TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY to worry about -- and producers should have worried about several hundred more novels, which amount to little more than licensed fan-fiction? Q Squared was the worst loving thing I've ever read, and I used to collect Dragonlance and Star Wars books. Expanded canon should never be used for any franchise in a serious manner for any reason.
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May 14, 2017 18:50
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Mister Facetious posted:Q Squared was the worst loving thing I've ever read, and I used to collect Dragonlance and Star Wars books. As a kid, I thought Peter David's stuff was awesome. Today, Peter David is a guy who thought if he didn't pay his income taxes, the government wouldn't care -- then he attempted to crowdfund his back taxes.
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May 14, 2017 20:06
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Just to be clear, I'm agreeing with you. Expanded canon can be a fun diversion, but it's a continuity nightmare.
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May 14, 2017 20:20
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Compare and contrast Picard's bald boner about the stasis-being rights of psychic-sexual love goddess Kamala vs his outright anger at the existence of stasis-being and homely housewife Clare Raymond from the thawed earthling episode in Season 1.
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May 14, 2017 20:29
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Hahahaha, Ds9 Chimera ends with Odo giving Kira a golden shower.
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May 14, 2017 23:14
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i wonder if odo ever hid inside kira's bajina
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May 14, 2017 23:16
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VectorSigma posted:i wonder if odo ever hid inside kira's bajina Odo's hobby was shapeshifting in ladies' underwear and waiting in their dressers until we got worn around. This is a fact.
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May 14, 2017 23:30
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Oberleutnant posted:Odo's hobby was shapeshifting in ladies' underwear and waiting in their dressers until we got worn around. This is a fact. That was more of Dr. Mora's ambition that he imprinted on to Odo through his early experiments. An unidentified sample, a petri dish, an electric current and a pair of french cut panties. Bajoran science at its best.
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May 14, 2017 23:35
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The Odo and Kira thing always felt forced to me. Yet I thought I heard both actors were all on board for it. It is also a bit of a mind bender to think if not for Odo's lusting for Kira's celestial temple he would have been doomed the entire quadrant as a collaborator and traitor.
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a founder could be disguised as anything- a shiny surface on a console, a light fixture, or even a wedgie in that bum.
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