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.
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Well Hughie m'boy, it's like this: sometimes, when a Borg Queen and her collective love each other very much...
@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.
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.
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.