My phone camera isn't great, but I still hope you enjoy this view. #Colombia
Thanks for putting up with the slings and arrows, the many frets and flights of fancy.
It's been a wild, weird ride.
Long may it go on.
@MLClark Either those are individual air conditioning units, or you've discovered a Borg Cube nursery.
😅
Well Hughie m'boy, it's like this: sometimes, when a Borg Queen and her collective love each other very much...
That was the question! Were they the fruits of procreation or assimilated babies? It never gets answered. There's a Lower Decks episode that references Q Who's discovery, but it is of course just played for a gag. 🤔 Now I'm wondering if any of the beta canon novels covered this...
@MLClark @WordsmithFL I always assumed they were assimilated. The Borg queen had only a spine when lowered into the rest of her body.
@MLClark @WordsmithFL Obviously Seven of Nine had more than that. 😁
@poemblaze @MLClark Personally, I never bought the idea of the Queen. It was established in the series they were a collective. The Queen was made up for "First Contact." Being lowered into an artificial body seemed a bit ridiculous to me, but that's just me.
Not to mention she's been killed several times only to re-emerge when the writers needed her as a villain.
@WordsmithFL Not vouching for how sensible it was for the Borg to have a queen. But she was a part of that universe. @MLClark
Victim of a cultural shift in storytelling into simplistic views of the enemy as an individual. SFF has been overrun by this nonsense wish-fulfilment idea that the enemy is embodied in a single person, such that taking them down saves society. It's insidious because it distracts us from our actual, more systemic cultural threats.
I thought assimilated too, but there's no reason a collective that routinely cuts up body parts wouldn't be able to gestate life with assimilated wombs. The tech was more than within sci-fi purview by the time... but definitely a little too squeamish a topic for Trek to take on back then.
Foundation Season 1 surprised me by including a nuanced look at future reproduction tech, but that's decades on.
@MLClark I assumed it was a mix of both, assimilated and perhaps grown ...
You mentioned a few days back you miss having someone to watch Trek with. I know CoSo has a feature for streaming video live in a virtual theater, but I don't know how it works. Maybe we should explore that and host a Trek movie night?!
@MLClark "Q Who" showed the away team discovering the Borg nursery (with cheesy props attached to infant actors). After that, Borg procreation never really was addressed.