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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Yeah, you're right- it's been a while since I last saw BOBW 1. Personally, I think the Borg were a million times more interesting in [i]Q Who?[/i] Q says "It's not a not, not a girl...it's like nothing you've seen before" or somesuch. By Voyager they were parasites at best- unable to exist without finding some sap to assimilate. As with most things cool, the less you know, the more mistique something has. Had the Borg remained a collective with that great booming creepy voice of a million drones instead of an idiotic Queen, it would have remained awesome. And hell, I'd have had the Bynars sell out the Federation- by way of story, I'd have had the Enterprise the target of a mystery energy pulse, followed by Riker being called over the comms down to the Holodeck. When he arrives, the scene is the same jazz club as shown in the episode with the Bynars and the same hottie is waiting for him- only looking distressed. The Bynars' sentient main computer has sent a partial copy of itself to the Enterprise (hence the pulse) with a dire warning for the Federation and a plea for help- "she" does not want to be assimilated but the populace does and has begun to systematicly lobotomize her, preventing her from warning the Federation via direct communication. It could be all about what the Federation would do if a member world decided it [i]wanted[/i] assimilation, and what, if any, rights their sentient computer has, if any, as it cant exactly go anywhere...which would bring back elements explored when Data ahd his little trial about what is property and all that... I'd end the episode (2-parter?) with the Federation council deciding in favor of letting the Bynars do whatever the hell they want, as they are hardly prisoners, and let the amassing starfleet hopefully repel any Borg aggression afterwards. No sooner is the verdict reached (back on Earth) than the computer, interacting with Riker via the Holodeck construct babe, looks tearful, says "goodbye" and disappears- before anyone can react, the Enterprise's computer remotely ejecting the Enterprise's warpcore and detonating it in the planet's atmosphere, killing the populace and the computer as well as a sorta "I'd rather be destroyed and kill the entire population of my world than be assimilated and have the Federation destroyed". Picard and Riker and everyone have a giant "Oh shit, it looks like the flagship just aced the Bynars to prevent their leaving the Federation" look- knowing this clusterfuck will surely come back to haunt them. The approaching Borg cube, sensing what had happened via the subspace link it had established with the Bynars, halts at the edge of Federation space...but does not withdraw, adding extra tension to an utterly dark and bleak two parter which would never have been greenlighted by Paramount. ;) I'm tired as hell and rambling, so please forgive this crazyland idea...too late now anyway. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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