SFDebris: Unimatrix Zero
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SFDebris: Unimatrix Zero
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It get the impression that, by the end, Chuck had simply given up getting angry with the episode in favour of sheer exasperation.
It get the impression that, by the end, Chuck had simply given up getting angry with the episode in favour of sheer exasperation.
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God the first minutes of ranting alone tell me I'm in for quite a ride.
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He has perfected the art of ranting while still getting a point across
What does defeat mean to you?
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Ayup. By the end I was feeling sorry for him.
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Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe: Albert Einstein.
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You know. With Voyager being able to ass-kick a Tactical Cube and the Voyager crew having found a way to effectively withstand assimilation (at least for a time), how are the Borg supposed to be a dangerous foe?
The single most terrifying thing about the Borg was their autowin trump card when they got to you hand to hand was assimilation. A bit of Zombie-style virus spread, but still a treathening piece of worldbuilding.
AND NOW YOU CAN CASUALY IGNORE IT?!?
How bad would have been Romero's zombies or 28 Days Later if everybody could simply inject themselves with the cure?!? This is worst than a mere in-universe stupidity. It's practically castrating the single greatest Trek Villain.
Someone find Berman and Braga and shoot them, please...
The single most terrifying thing about the Borg was their autowin trump card when they got to you hand to hand was assimilation. A bit of Zombie-style virus spread, but still a treathening piece of worldbuilding.
AND NOW YOU CAN CASUALY IGNORE IT?!?
How bad would have been Romero's zombies or 28 Days Later if everybody could simply inject themselves with the cure?!? This is worst than a mere in-universe stupidity. It's practically castrating the single greatest Trek Villain.
Someone find Berman and Braga and shoot them, please...
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And now, you have been introduced to Star Trek: Voyager. The issue with the way VOY treated the Borg goes even deeper than a stranded, supposed-to-be damaged, supposed-to-be out of supplies picket ship being able to pwn them; the issue is that VOY took Roddenberry's idea of an antagonist that was an amoral, inexorable force of nature - rather than one that was opposite on an understandable moral compass - and wholly alien to our ideas of individuality and humanity... and pissed it away for an excuse to put Jeri Ryan in a catsuit.*SolkaTruesilver wrote:You know. With Voyager being able to ass-kick a Tactical Cube and the Voyager crew having found a way to effectively withstand assimilation (at least for a time), how are the Borg supposed to be a dangerous foe?
The single most terrifying thing about the Borg was their autowin trump card when they got to you hand to hand was assimilation. A bit of Zombie-style virus spread, but still a treathening piece of worldbuilding.
AND NOW YOU CAN CASUALY IGNORE IT?!?
How bad would have been Romero's zombies or 28 Days Later if everybody could simply inject themselves with the cure?!? This is worst than a mere in-universe stupidity. It's practically castrating the single greatest Trek Villain.
Someone find Berman and Braga and shoot them, please...
* - A noble goal, to be sure, but one that could have been achieved without raping the previous incarnation of the Borg.
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It would have made the episode abit better instead of Tactical Cube, replacing it with a ship more powerful than Voyager of let's say a Borg sphere. Maybe even make that 'tactical'. Instead they made this Tactical Cube which is supposed to be "OMG VOAYEGER IZ SOOO SCREWED. BORG UBERSHIP." Instead it's the other way around.
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Part 3. Chuck gets up and leaves.
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It was almost worth it for the sight of Janeway screaming in agony... but no. Good lord these were just... yeah.
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Hmmm, I guess I had forgotten most of the episode... damn.
There were so many ways this could have been better, but the writers just threw everything out the airlock.
There were so many ways this could have been better, but the writers just threw everything out the airlock.
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Same here. It's probably some form of survival mechanism - that much concentrated stupidity can't be good for you.stitch626 wrote:Hmmm, I guess I had forgotten most of the episode... damn.
On the plus side, Jim's back next week.
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Yeah. There's plenty more stupid out there. We don't need this piece of drek to remind us of it.