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Hunter, there were borg klingons in FC and "Unimatrix Zero". I think they use them to their advantage.
S/M is a pretty recurring theme amongst the borg, also. Cutting that off and putting on this, inserting a bolt here and a tube right up there...
About the sexuality of the borg, it's expected of the producers to portray their biggest foe in the series as sexually deviant. Of course the queen should be slimey, suggestive and dominating, if they'd had a reasonable spokesman for the borg, why people might grow to respect them!
It goes with the whole "we are bad, we are sick and we like it, put all sympathy in the good guys, they are the ideal which we want to destroy but will never succeed".
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Would be even scarier if the Borg would try things politely, with an adequate spokesman.
"Hello, I am the Borg, could we make an appointment for assimilation? Oh, and BTW, resistance is futile."
It seems like the Borg could need a media training. Or some well-thought marketing. "If you get assimilated TODAY, we will give you this FREE cyborg arm as a gift!"
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Harry: I read a story once where the female changling was assimilated and forced to take on the form of Kirk in an effort to make the Federation join the Borg...
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Nimrod: Where the Klingons in FC in the Engine room/Queen's lair? I thought I saw some there when Data makes a break for it.
Raisinfonnel: What was the name of the story?
Harry: Maybe the Borg should hire a PR firm? Imangine an ad campaign featruing a bikinied 7 of 9, surronded by male drones, exthorting the joys of the borg? How many assimilies do you think they�d get after 7 of 9 utters "So let me assimilate you" in a low voice?
Of course I've also had visions of the Borg as evangilists. Basiclly sprouting of stuff like "We are the Borg, Is your flesh weak, are you consumed by guilt, do you feel all alone? Then join us in the glory of the collective. Let the revealed Voice of the collective into your life and we will show you the path to perfection. Amen and glory to the Borg" After that they ask you to send a donation to unimatrix 01 to help spread the word of the Borg
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In FC, there was a Klingon Drone on the deflector dish, IIRC. There was also a Cardassian Drone in the movie somewhere. Thought there was a Bolian too...
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You know wanna know what I really want to see? An assimilated Gorn. An Assimilated Tholian, and an Assimilated Sheliak. That would be cool.....
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Might be somewhat necessary to actually come up with designs for those species first, don't you think? Well, aside from the Sheliak, though I'm not at all clear on how amorphous blobby things build ships. And an updated (read: non-silly) version of the Gorn.
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Americans have funny definitions of sexual orientation.
And, unrelated, while I would love to see the Tholians, an assimilated Tholian is, well, silly. Not as silly as an assimilated Sheliak (which is very sill), but still pretty silly.
And, again, I would love to see them pull off a cool, modern version of the Gorn, but I woulnd't put money on them managing it.
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Well damn. I forgot about her. It's been a few years since i've seen DS9. I don't remember her actually habving a girlfriend or something to that effect. I'm not sure though...
quote:Americans have funny definitions of sexual orientation.
Not definitions, its our god damn beliefs surrounding it. Someone wears a gay pride shirt and everything is fine. Students get expelled from schools for wearing straight pride shirts. Ugh... thats something for the flameboard tho.
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Her and Ezri were just good, Christian friends.
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Imangine an ad campaign featruing a bikinied 7 of 9, surronded by male drones, exthorting the joys of the borg? How many assimilies do you think they�d get after 7 of 9 utters "So let me assimilate you" in a low voice?
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