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Since this is a two-part episode, it's simpler to review both in a single review. An OK (pair of) episode(s), all in all. Lore teleported to his fighter to travel to parts unknown when we last saw him, so it was good that he showed up again so we know what happened to him. Vice Admiral Alynna Nechayev's speech to Picard calling him out on his stupid decision in I, Borg was a crowning moment of awesome. But the plot was kind of fishy. Hugh's individuality spread? In a psudo-race that has existed for 1000 years, they've never had something like this happen, and couldn't just cointain his individuality or deactivate him before the Borg cube fell into disarray? And why just a single cube? Why not the entire collective, of for that matter, why not just one or two othe Borg? And then there's Lore. He suddenly gets it in his head that he wants to create a genocidal race of pure androids and eliminate all organic life? Not only is that kind of silly, but with the whole thing with him coming to the Borg, changing them, and forming a genocidal cult was laying the Nazi analogies on pretty thick. And another thing, Gordi can somehow remotely activate a single program in Data just by activating a small Borg tranciever? Not a bad episode by any means, but the writing's rather thin in places. |
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Considering how often I've heard that this is not brilliant, it's not really all that bad either. The Borg were behaving very strangely (I think it's the only time I've ever seen drones shooting at people). That takes some time to get used to, and removes one of the great menaces of the Borg, their silent advance towards their victims. Still, we get some good moments from Data right from the beginning, where the three greatest physicists of history were playing poker. I wonder what the holo-Einstein would have made of General Relativity being out by a long way... Anyway, the other good moments were when Data began to experience emotions, from breaking the Borg's neck and recreating it on the Holodeck, to realizing that he actually enjoyed killing. I do have to complain about Picard suddenly deciding to risk half his crew to rescue one officer, and Riker agreeing with him. Does that sound like a remotely sensible decision? And why not separate the ship and send the saucer back through the conduit to Federation space? Still, at least it's well paced and well set-out, even though a lot of it is plain silly. |
