Let's neuter the remorseless unstoppable monstrosity that is the Borg so that we have some sympathy for them. Is this a terrible idea, or a stroke of genius...?
Another way to take the Borg would have been to go the other way around. Not to humanize the Borg but have the Borg conquer the Federation and see what the aftermath looks like. I feel like that would have been a much more interesting plot arc.
Aye, but that wasn't quite where they were at this point in the franchises. It took DS9 to persuade them to start colouring far outside the lines... TNG still had that sense of direct continuity with classic Trek, and with Roddenberry only recently passed they weren't quite ready to go off in wild new directions.
Oh, I am sure it would have been impossible. I mean, from a cost perspective alone. You'd have to have too many Borg makeup sets etc… but you're also right that it would have taken a mindset that wasn't possible until later. I'm anyway more disappointed that Alien 3 wasn't Aliens on Earth.
Ha ha - well, in the Dark Horse comics that followed after Aliens, that was *exactly* where they went. But of course, everything's cheaper in comics. 😋
Another way to take the Borg would have been to go the other way around. Not to humanize the Borg but have the Borg conquer the Federation and see what the aftermath looks like. I feel like that would have been a much more interesting plot arc.
Aye, but that wasn't quite where they were at this point in the franchises. It took DS9 to persuade them to start colouring far outside the lines... TNG still had that sense of direct continuity with classic Trek, and with Roddenberry only recently passed they weren't quite ready to go off in wild new directions.
Oh, I am sure it would have been impossible. I mean, from a cost perspective alone. You'd have to have too many Borg makeup sets etc… but you're also right that it would have taken a mindset that wasn't possible until later. I'm anyway more disappointed that Alien 3 wasn't Aliens on Earth.
Ha ha - well, in the Dark Horse comics that followed after Aliens, that was *exactly* where they went. But of course, everything's cheaper in comics. 😋
Yeah, that's what I was referring to.