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I really hope we did, Number One... (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 84 points 3 months ago (16 children)

That episode was wild. Setting up the big bad monster for the federation to be fighting... then just forgetting all about them.

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  • [–] 51 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    I vaguely recall reading years ago that they were intended to be the initial infiltrator wave of what eventually became the Borg forces. I could be mistaken, since it was around the pre-AOL days.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    That info is out there for sure, but I've always found it pretty shaky. Here's what Memory Alpha has to say on the subject:

    The Star Trek Chronology, 2nd ed., p. 290 noted: "Although Picard and company were successful in eradicating them, the parasites did send a mysterious radio signal, presumably to others of their kind. At the time the episode was written, this was apparently intended to lead to the introduction of the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation's second season. The Borg connection was dropped before "Q Who" (TNG) was written, and the truth about the parasites remains a mystery."

    The "apparently" always trips me up, but maybe there's a more definitive statement or there that I haven't seen.

    It certainly could be true.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    It sounds like a post hoc connection to explain it away, rather than that being that actual intention. I assume we'll probably never know though.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    The truth could be somewhere in the middle - no real intent, but instead just reworking an idea from the Discarded Ideas Drawer into something new.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I'll pop in my blu-rays after I get home from some appointments, see if I can verify anything from the special features.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I'll pop in my blu-rays too. See if they have any Star Trek on them that I can watch.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    you know what they just might.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I'm pretty sure I saw something on the blu-ray special features about this? It was gonna be too expensive to have the creepy worm alien things as a recurring enemy so they made the Borg as a cheaper alternative.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Too expensive to put one little mark on someone's neck but building Borg suites wasn't eh

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