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The stupidest episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and perhaps shows everything wrong with the Jean Luc's idealism. He refused to sacrifice the individuality of one being to destroy a pseudo-race that's modus operandi is destroying individuality. For the life of one person, they decide not to take the opportunity to destroy a vicious collective that has killed and assimilated trillions. In Descent, Vice Admiral Alynna Nechayev calls Picard out on this, as well she should. But, it was after the fact. In truth, this was one big episode where the writers wanted to dangle the Borg's destruction in front of the audience, then pull it away because the Borg are way too popular. |
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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. |
