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we've seen drones with two eye pieces before in TNG that particular drone also had a mouth piece that looked like a scube gear---aparently that drone was outfitted to assimilate useful fishies.
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Maybe that drone was intended to travel back in time and assimilate the humpback whales from ST IV The Voyage Home and by that bring about the end of the Federation
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quote: The more you show a major villian that's supposed to be a large threat, the more you learn about their weaknesses. Also more you see them the more there mistakes they can show.
Well, I can give you one example to the contrary... The Goa'uld from Stargate-SG1... still BIG and NASTY - after 4 years... we know quite a lot more about them... but well they are still a pretty Big threat...
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Sorry I don't watch that series, but its those flying pyramid people?
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The Shadows were handled quite well. But that was done quite carefully, and they were only around for (essentially), two and a bit years. But by gradually increasing the number of ships we saw at once, they were kept scary, and threatening. (The fact that before Shadow Dancing, only 3 had been destroyed - and two of them were by trickery - also helped).
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Being the "Locutus" is latin for "moutpiece" I think it's clear that's his function, not a name. So I guess the guy who assimilates all day is "Assimilus" of Borg. LOL.
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Proof! Proof I tell you that Riker should have realised that the Borg had assimilated Picard's knowledge the moment he said his name. Come on, Locutus; it's pompous, it's Latin, it's still cool, it's Picard all over!
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Boiled cauliflower would be my first choice.
The Borg evidently aren't averse to letting their victims do some name-choosing. It seems that they even allowed an Earthling assimilee familiar with the term "cyborg" to pick the name for the entire race...
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I dunno. Who was the first assimilated human. Prior to VOY, it was almost certainly Picard, and they were called the Borg way before that. They were called the Borg during the 23rd century, when they assimilated the El-Aurians, and that's way before even the Hansons stumbled on them.
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To be accurate, they were NOT referred to as the Borg in the 23rd century parts of "Generations". All the references to the species came from the 24th century part of the movie.
The first time we hear the name uttered, in Trek's internal chronology, is apparently "Dark Frontier", where the Hansens use this name in 2354 or so. Perhaps they invented it? Or chose it from among the dozens of names given to this mystery species by unreliable eyewitnesses?
The first time we hear the word in RL would be from Guinan, identifying the species who flies the cubeship in "Q Who?" before the species has a chance to introduce itself. So naturally the Universal Translator would translate the phrase "We are the X" into "We are the Borg" regardless of what word the species themselves used in place of X. And then the name would stick, when after Picard's safe return from J-25 the UT of the E-D would get networked to all the other UTs of the Federation and propagate its interpretation of this word X.
So if Guinan invented the name, then she would have been responsible for the Borg seemingly adopting it (when in fact only the UFP translator machines had adopted it). But then the chronology vis-a-vis the Hansens would not work. The name must have been invented before the 2350s, if not by the Hansens, then by somebody else - and preferably by somebody who could propagate it into the UFP translator network.
Guinan might have been keeping current with news related to the species that assimilated her homeworld, and digging up pieces of information that very few in Starfleet would understand for what they really were. Surely the Borg didn't go into hibernation between assimilating El-Aurus and encountering Picard at J-25 - they probably created a steady flow of refugees, and Guinan listened to the refugees talking when nobody else had the patience or understanding to. She might have picked up the name from these discussions, perhaps from the same source the Hansens got it from - say, a human drunkard off in his warp-speed pickup in a poorly charted part of space, coming home with a story about horrible cyborgs and another about pink targs dancing cakewalk around his head, and only Guinan knew one of those stories was true.
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