From: Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.startrek.fandom,rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv,can.arts.sf
Subject: Re: Ai /LLM reviews of STNG - Best of Both Worlds
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:16:46 -0700
Organization: n/a
Verily, in article <107i33f$5n4$1@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did
doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:
> A Truly Formidable Villain: The Borg are presented at their
> most terrifying and powerful. They are not simply
> a monster-of-the-week; they are an existential threat
> to the Federation, and their power feels genuinely overwhelming.
>
I disagree with the AI. The borg were already pretty well defanged by
this point. Of course Picard would be okay and the Federation would win.
Originally, the Borg were an *undefeatable* villain. The whole point of
them was that the Federation was nowhere near ready and there was just
nothing we could do.
Spin on a few years, and humanity is just so darn feisty that the Borg
are making a special case of humans and Earth. This is dumb, and it also
completely hollows and guts the whole point of the Borg.
The Borg should never have been defeated, on any Trek. They should have
been a threat Janeway occasionally *fled*, not fought, and other
captains really shouldn't have been meeting Borg at all. If the Borg had
stayed monstrous, a reappearance at the finale could have had some
actual impact -- it would show that humanity had developed over the
course of the show's era.
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