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submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I do agree that the construct of a command structure was formalized in voyager. I do think the very introduction you quoted still completely imploded the borg as a concept. Data even is directly pointing it out. The queen is just hand-waving it away without actually answering.

I think the ambiguity in explanation was designed to let the audience to just "fill in the blanks" however they wanted. I think the writers just said "who cares, it's a movie, TNG is over, we can fuck the TNG universe".

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Huh, I always took that scene as being a classic hard sci-fi sort of “no, your thinking is constrained by what you have previously encountered, this is a new class of thing”, though I could see how one would read it your way

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I totally agree that the lines are written to align with the trope of "my existence is beyond your comprehension". I just don't think they really followed through on that.

    I feel like Occams razor here is just that you need to put THE villain on the movie poster. Sacrifices were made in order to meet that goal.

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