I agree completely. A collective run by everyone’s brain being cybernetically networked was an interesting, unique idea. A culture run by an amoral dictator is boring and painfully unoriginal.
Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some mechanistic bint lobbed a phaser at me, they'd put me away.
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Windex007 62 points 3 years ago
This is what actually made the Borg terrifying.
There was nobody to talk to or negotiate with. There was no mind to change. There wasn't even a leader to assassinate in hopes to alter policy.
They were less of an enemy and more of an immutable force, like gravity or magnetism.
Infynis 11 points 3 years ago
I think that's why they got changed though. As cool as they were without a leader, having a major enemy that can't be negotiated with at all, doesn't really work for a show where humanity's diplomacy is supposed to be their most important trait
VindictiveJudge 26 points 3 years ago
I don't think that's too big of a concern, to be honest. You can't negotiate with a spacial rift and the show handles that kind of thing fine. I think they were having problems with First Contact's script and decided to solve it with a named antagonist rather than just hordes of Borg.
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This is one of my greatest disappointments on all of Star Trek. Why did they have to make a leader for the Borg? And turn them into a cult that hunts down non-believers?
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