• lemmyviking@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    This is the end of Season 2 of Picard!! Borg Queen only assimilates those you want to be assimilated.

  • Spendrill@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Reminds me of that time the Hegemonising Swarm was converted to the Proselytising swarm

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    If they went the voluntary route, like most religions, people would have much fewer problems. It’s the kidnapping and forcible assimilation that gets people upset (understandably).

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.websiteEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    In my head cannon, that’s more or less how the borg started. I can see it starting off as a much more basic networked community that started off legitimately respecting people’s wishes to join/not to join. But over time it grew and changed, and become so invasive to the point they snowballed into the borg we know and love today.

    And if we REALLY want to speculate, their first act of violence/force may have been against some entity that sought to attack them for being new and different. And whatever war or conflict that turned into ended up shifting the values of the borg such that forced assimilation was then seen as morally acceptable. And once that’s condoned, why stop?

    • bi_tux@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      maybe they just assimilated hostile species, but I think they’ve always been kind of invasive.

      I imagine the borg started as a peacefull cybernetic species who radicalised them self or their ai made some mistakes maybe. Or they started as an ai that became evil and assimilated biological life on it’s quest to perfection

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I could see that too. Either way, it’s a fun thought experiment to question how such an entity comes into being. Because surely the starting point looked a lot different given that they’ve assimilated (and therefore been changed by) thousands of species.

  • Aa!@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Readable images are irrelevant. Your text will be assimilated into the background of the meme and add its distinctiveness to our own.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    “Let us tell you the advantages of adding your uniqueness to our own. Have you thought of what will happen if you don’t join the collective before you die?”