I often thought that with all the trouble the Borg go through fighting all the resistance and wars and stuff they could instead just go around asking for volunteers.
Throughout the galaxy they could probably build a decent population this way, and it’s much lower risk.
Get to explore and experience new cultures, lots of travel
Get to spend my days with my 10 million closest friends in the universe
Never worry about who the president is
Retirement isn’t an issue I have to concern myself with
Be part of a team, you know?
Also freaken robot arm
Never have to hear about a sports ball game or a celebrity saying something problematic again
Downsides with rebuttals
No individuality? I don’t really get that as it stands
Chaffing from implants? Well I am sure they have a cream for that.
Don’t get to live in a democracy? I don’t live in one now, I live in a Republic where my vote doesnt matter that has like one election left. What could be more democratic than a collective mind?
Live in a giant metal cube with no privacy? I work in a plastic carpeted cube and have to wear headphones to get any work done.
I think apart from the Q scenes at the beginning and end, this Easter egg scene (and the punk's post-Spock reaction to being asked to turn down the music again) might be the only salvageable thing from that train wreck of a season.
Although it poses the question of how bus punk could have remembered being nerve pinched - since the past was changed, Kirk and co. almost certainly wouldn’t have gone back in time to 1986. My theory is that it was so impactful that he felt it across timelines.
It gives me hope that maybe Picard took place in the alternate timeline. Although it kind of has something interesting to tell I don’t like how Picard made the Borg stupidly powerful. Basically no one should be able to survive them and yet somehow they basically are a non-threat like 95% of the time.
That’s been a problem for the entire series, not just Picard. The Borg have assimilated thousands of species, yet the (human-centric) Federation somehow manages to beat them every time because humans are special or something.
As the second season of SNW demonstrated, time travel in Trek is firmly rooted in the ‘big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff’ theory. Contradictory time travel shenanigans happen all the time. The random accidental time travel, sporadic deliberate time travel, perpetual temporal war, and ocassional bored god-like being have really done a number on the universe’s temporal cohesion. They probably have less of a timeline and more of a time-bowl-of-spaghetti.
I think a certain Old Man Willow would disagree—not to mention the local barrow-wights! Always hopping through the forest, singing his dumb songs, lording it over everybody!
They adopted that haircut because they thought it would help them better interact with humans. They intercepted a lot of television broadcasts and decided this was humanity’s greatest champion.
And I just learned paramount plus does not allow screen shots.
I would just like to point out how asinine and dystopian it is that Paramount has the power to dictate what they “allow” you to do with your property. What gives them the right to sabotage your computer against you?
Nah, that's what he did: Slept with Thomas while he was with Will. That's how Thomas knows what happened between them, and let's the scene work as written still
In a non enclosed space out in the middle of nowhere you’d never see a bear, because it would intentionally evade the very smell of a person. They can smell like 10 maybe even 25 miles, you’d never know a bear was with you.
Bears hate humans, all types of bears.
It’s just most bears really love trash, and trash is where humans are.
But even as a dude I wouldn’t want to be stuck with another random dude instead of a bear. Honestly anyone that would choose a human over a bear is either a little suspect or just has zero knowledge of nature right when that’s going to be very important.
Anybody who wouldn’t be a liability in the wilderness picks bear.
Depends on the bear for me. Black bear? I’ll take that over a man any day (am a man). Polar bear? Yeah, no. I don’t want to be within 1000 miles of a polar bear. Grizzley? Haven’t decided, probably leaning towards wanting the bear, unless it actively hates me for some reason
Its safer to be with a man in the woods, if that man is being spitefully hunted by a bear who only wants to harm that one particular human being and has no issue with anyone else at all.
Honestly anyone that would choose a human over a bear is either a little suspect or just has zero knowledge of nature right when that’s going to be very important.
I’d take the bear over a strange anyone. I hate being around people I don’t know. I’d rather be mauled by a bear than be the guy at the party no one knows.
The bear would provide a lot more valuable resources. What are you getting off a human? A few pounds of meat and maybe enough skin to make a vest out of?
I mean, Im sure at least one fan over the last 60 years have built a model and not gotten it to scale…
Like, it’s actually kind of of difficult to make a model to scale, especially for a small onenits not all going to be proportional. So even if you were drawing the line at “commercially sold” I’m sure some don’t meet the requirement to be within scale.
I get Shatner meant there’s no “life size” model, but if someone’s gonna be pedantic, it’s an excuse to be pedantic back.
@givesomefucks@cosmicrookie William Shatner always struck me as someone incredibly hostile to the fanbase which made him famous and the people who are the only reason anyone gives a damn about him anyway.
Every interview I have ever read or seen video of is just him belittling people and their fandom.
That’s because that’s what he is. He’s kind of a crappy person. Nimoy refused to speak to him the last few years he was alive because Shatner paid someone to ask Nimoy questions secretly record Nimoy at a convention after Nimoy turned Shatner down. This was confirmed in the book Shatner wrote about his friendship with Nimoy after he died where Shatner said “It was such a small thing Leonard”. Takei has talked endlessly about how Shatner was a prick to work with on stage too.
The vulcan science directorate has determined that there once were two hairstyles in the past (the second probably having something to do with Romulans). They also determined that time travel is impossible, hence just one hairstyle now.
We’ve got nine months left in the year so we could squeeze in the Eugenics War for July and get Irish unification by December … hopefully we won’t mix those up and end up with an Irish War and a Eugenics Unification instead
Do they ever give details on the eugenics wars? Like I assume it was a war between countries trying to do eugenics and countries who didn’t but who won? Does eugenics include gene editing? I have to assume that a civilization as advanced as Star Trek would be able to edit out cancer risks and the like from genes.
Worth considering if records from our time didn't make it through with high fidelity and "eugenics" was.how they interpreted the christo--fascist-race-purity axis.of current conflicts.
At some point they absolutely include gene editing. But I’m not sure if they get into how it started, and I think the gene editing part was an attempt to make a better weapon.
What we know is that humans created improved versions. Stronger, smarter, more ruthless and cunning, more charismatic and good looking. And of course, also more ambitious.
Due to their objective superiority they rise to leadership positions in many countries or regions, and start warring with each other for world domination.
I don’t think it is detailed how the normal humans overcome the warlords, but they are defeated and killed / exiled (khan etc) and gene editing becomes illegal for everything but severe birth defects.
Stamets is incredibly boring. It’s like the writers came up with “let’s have a guy who’s gay and crazy” in their initial outline and forgot to fill in the rest of his personality. Idk what Culber even saw in him. Representation needs substance or it’s just pandering.
The other Stamets is amazing and one of the most important people on lemmy.
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