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1. Are the Borg played out? Or is there more story to tell?

2. There was this comedy star trek ripoff – where robot civilisation have had a hive-individual mind hybrid.

3. The Borg Queen should never have been added. It made them much less scary and less effective.

4. So you should definitely check out 40k

5. So they are just tyrnids from wathammer 40k.

6. 19:27

   It is possible to do everything right and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life!

7. The borg are intergalactic socialists.

8. Es mucho mas realista la primera aparición, luego el ego humano en los escritores hizo que los borg quisieran ser como los humanos, para que? si somo la especie que siempre esta en guerra consigo mismo y los borg ya venian avanzando bien. No tiene sentido y les quito todo lo aterrador que tenian

9. Voyager borg gave me nightmares as a kid

10. the fuck are you smoking, jeebus you can talk so much shit over nothing

11. Fire ants remind me of the Borg.

12. 70,000. not 7,000

13. The cube has me thinking of the cubes in Judaism and the black sun death cult

14. I just started watching Pluribus recently . Definitely some parallels

15. The first nude I ever downloaded on the internet was a pic of 7of9 in like 1999 😅

16. Was a huge fan as a kid…The borg scared the crap outa me….😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

17. fun fact, Qanon was originally named after Q from star trek, before it got warped and reframed as "Q-level security access"

18. The borg influence was immediately recognisable in Quake 2 and 4 as well. Great video.

19. Tupanar

20. Why does the thumbnail look like gunpla runners

21. Replicators scare me more…i'll take borg anyday

22. 15:50 and the pure oxygen they had to give the actress to be able to breath in her fetish outfit they forced her into as torture each day.

23. Hi, Im sorry but you need to read some 40k and get back to us on the Borg being the most scary. There's literally an immortal race in warhammer that has to indulge in the most extreme acts of debauchery and torture, or they themselves become playthings of a dark god that hungers for their souls eternally. They ransack entire planets and murder f**k the population untill they're all dead or are so broken they provide no more entertainment. We are talking living furniture in the WORST possible way. Bit more extreme that beep boop robot is you ngl, at least suffering ends when the collective claims you. No such luck with the Dark Eldari, eternal agony is their bread and butter.

24. Borg = Maga. (or any cult) The people who conceived the Borg were making an allegory about modern, corporate America; soulless drones in cube farms. Great video.

25. Maybe if the execution wasn't sometimes unintentionally comedic due to questionable production budgets and writers.
    Imo nothing beats the xenomorph from ALIEN; a creature that rapes its victim as part of its life cycle.

26. 2026 Borgs are gay now. Instead of assimilating, they wanna put a finger up your ahh.

27. Nah. It lasted about one episode, when they were introduced as a distant threat by a powerful being that was aware of them. They then instantly gunked it up by explaining the mystery.

28. I think something that would be nice is a star trek show with an episode, maybe 2, centered on the borg in season 1 to establish their presence and the gist of what they do. And then you don't see them again, but there are occasional subtle hints that they're watching and know what's happening. Tensions gradually rise between the various galactic powers over the next few seasons, and eventually, a few seasons in, a massive galaxy wide war breaks out, one of if not the biggest in Star Trek's timeline. After the war has been going on for a little while, maybe half a season in to the war (could be more if the war instead gradually escalates from a few smaller wars into a larger galactic war, it works either way), it's revealed that over the past few years the borg have been exerting partial control over various influential entities in each of the galactic powers, blending in and raising tensions. This is not a full replacement of someone with the will of the collective, more a subconscious infusion of the collective consciousness into the individual, leading them to naturally pursue actions that advance the goals of the borg, while consciously, the individual they're influencing hardly notices the difference. It calls into question their free will, as even when they thought they were acting entirely of their own volition, and their choices all made some sense in context, it can't be denied that everything they "chose" to do was ultimately to the benefit of the borg.

    By the time anyone finds out what's going on, the war's already started and it's not politically viable to back down anymore. This is a great setting for a mix of Star Trek's combat and diplomacy aspects, fighting a horrible war against several powers simultaneously, some of which used to be close allies, while trying (and often failing) to de-escalate the conflict, especially with the borg influence working to undo any progress made. The borg themselves hardly have to do anything, they remain largely uninvolved while everyone is distracted with each other, and thus the borg have time to prepare their own military might, and research any of the scraps and debris left behind after armed conflicts between the warring powers. Finally, the larger war begins to calm down, but most of these galactic powers have used many of their weapons, have lost many people, and need time to recover. They won't get that time though. The borg is here, the most powerful they've ever been, to kick them while they're down and begin the most brutal and widespread assimilation campaign they've ever run. It's a bit like how a komodo dragon hunts, you inflict a little bit of damage to get things started, and then you wait, and watch, and let your target cripple itself, then consume them alive once they're too broken to fight back.

    And crucially, in this hypothetical series, the borg haven't had enough appearances to have the fear removed from them, and much of their presence is indirect and impersonal leading up to and during the war against them, so it keeps some of that mystery and intrigue around them. Even with the people they influenced to start the war, it wasn't proper assimilation, so it's still not a face to face interaction with the collective.

29. It reminds me of the Eyes of Triton from Space: 1999. It's a similar idea, and similarly unnerving.

30. The thing,movie is the worst by far !

31. The borg are scary, but I don’t think they’re anywhere near as scary as the Qu, or even as scary as tyranids.

32. And Tyranids ?

33. They're not scary. They're lazily written and overpowered.

34. The Thing is 100 times worse

35. The most fascinating and fleshed out version of this to me is the Combine from half-life 2. Not a species, but a conglomerate of species that have been integrated and weaponized, to the point that nobody even knows what the original race was, or if it's still around. And unlike the borg, they only get scarier as you learn more about them.

36. The Borge are a character like Jaws the shark. They still strike TERROR in my gut.

37. I’m not sure that Borg was a scary race. They were predictable, and for the most part pragmatic. To me the 8472, Lore, Vdians, Changelings, Hirogen, etc. present greater threats.

38. Star Trek Borg = Hellraiser Cenobites

39. The Borg queen was a bad idea.

40. As a long-time fan of Voyager (warts and all), I think they almost should have dropped the Borg, after Seven was added. In my mind, I’ve never had strong opinions on the Borg Queen. I know, metaphorically, it’s to callback to the idea of insects, but at the same time, I prefer to imagine the Borg as some sort of disease, spread like a virus (something akin to The Flood, from Halo), and somehow the collective plants a Queen, to instill its own reign on an area of space (like Graveminds in Halo).

    Hell, I never minded the idea of splinter groups of Borg, either, it makes them more dimensional, because it makes sense: Queen ants will wander off and try to make colonies of their own, and there’s even species of ants that mimic other ants’ queens, and attempt to set up their own dominance.

    I think the Borg is like a good seasoning: too much, and you get sick of it, but just enough makes them both interesting and unique. There’s been dozens of things in sci-fi that look, sound, and act like the Borg, (Flood, Reapers, Strogg, Combine, etc), but you can’t resist the original Borg: it’s futile.

41. The Borg, The Mongols, They Be Like That…..
    The Mongols burst from the Far East, pulling up to cities with an offer: Resist and we will kill everyone, Submit, and you will be our Vassal. More on point, is that they shipped off engineers and creatives and scholars to Samarkand, their capital….adding their uniqueness to their own.
    This happened whether the city was destroyed or perserved.

    The Mongol soldiers were cavalry, each rider with three mounts. They rode without stopping very long and traveled far faster than other armies….
    I'm pretty sure Rodenberry consciously, or unconsciously was influenced by the Mongols History of Conquest.

42. The qu

43. The first sight of cubic spaceship was the scariest and the most alien.

44. When I saw the cube, I knew Star Trek would change forever

45. You have just awoken a superpower I have, I watched every TNG episode ONCE when it was first run.
    Now that you have reminded me, it is time for an almost completely fresh binge watch.
    I knew back then this was going to be worth saving for later. I may have waited too long.

46. I would counter that the Borg are not new, they are like the Cybermen from Dr. Who.