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samus12345, in If the borg were a religion
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Damn Borggalos.

ElBarto, in Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out
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But I’m already midway through watching ds9

USSBurritoTruck,
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Well, clearly you’re going to have to start again.

Nacktmull,
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After the DS9 rewatch is before the DS9 rewatch!

BoastfulDaedra, in The origin of starfleet combat training.

“Fencing.” 😀

Infynis, in Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out
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You’re right, I probably should go rewatch that episode where the crew triggers a Cardasians trap, and the station captures them, and Dukat comes to gloat.

JulesTheModest,

Attention Bajoran workers!

CaptPretentious, in Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out

As of New Year’s Pluto.TV moved this steam to DS9.

pluto.tv/live-tv/more-star-trek?utm_source=plutot…

Blue_Morpho,

?? Pluto has been streaming DS9 for years. The “More Trek” channel isn’t new either.

CaptPretentious, (edited )

Last part of last year, that “channel” was Voyager. At midnight Pacific on new years it rolled to DS9 instead.

Blue_Morpho,

I watch that channel all the time. It’s always been DS9 and Voyager. Is it just DS9 now 24/7?

CaptPretentious,

For now. My guess is it’ll be DS9 for all of this quarter. It’s already gone through all of DS9 once so far. It just restarted this morning. Then I assume next quarter and I’ll switch back to Voyager. I think that’s what they’re doing with the other Star Trek channel as well bouncing between the original series and next generation.

Because when it cut over from Voyager to DS9 it wasn’t at the end of Voyager. It was up to the episode where they find the ship with the neural interface that sort of takes over Tom. And then immediately following that was the first episode of DS9, and that was January 1st. It was 2:00 a.m. my time but midnight Pacific Coast.

Lydia_K, in Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out
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Actual picture of my heart.

match, in Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out
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Having grown up on DS9 and Voyager, and just finished all the good new trek, I went back and stared TNG for the first time.

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hactar42,

I’m the opposite right now. Grew up on TNG, just finished SNW and Lower Decks and now I’m watching DS9 for the first time.

nilaus,

I grew up on tng. Thought nothing could top picard and his crew… You are in for a treat!

psud,

I and my wife have both watched all of Star Trek individually before we met. When new trek appeared we rewatched everything before watching all of new trek, good and less good, together

match,
@match@pawb.social avatar

You treasure that girl and never let her go, you hear me?

verity_kindle,
@verity_kindle@lemmy.world avatar

Indeed.

logicbomb,

TNG’s first season can just be skipped IMO. The first time I watched TNG on streaming, I was… surprised… at the quality of season 1.

Rom, in Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out
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You gotta have faith of the heart, after all.

CM400, in If the borg were a religion

You boys can fuck right off.

snail_hatan, in Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out

The best Trek ever!

M500,

It is really great! I just finished a watch of it a few weeks ago and I just want to watch it again.

The characters are really great.

Anticorp,

Sisko is such a badass! Jake and Nod are way more interesting children than Wesley and Alexander ever were.

forksandspoons,

And it even has baseball

Teal,

Death to the opposition!

Anticorp, (edited )

I was impressed they managed to get baseball caps to fit on those fat alien heads.

Olgratin_Magmatoe, (edited ) in If the borg were a religion

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,
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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,

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.

frezik,

I’ve had a fan fic on the back of my head where the Borg start out as a small group exploring networked community like that, but some of the members are more radical than others. One believes that people need to be brought under collective influence in order to solve their social problems and sees individuality as a problem. However, when the more virulent form of the collective gets going, she becomes a hypocrite who refuses to subsume her own individuality to the collective while inflicting the same on everyone else.

That’s why the Borg Queen seems so contradictory. She actually is.

Olgratin_Magmatoe,

I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who’s had thoughts about the borg origins.

limelight79, in For real though, I think about this at least once a day

But season 7 was the last season of TNG. DS9 was busy with other things and Voyager was elsewhere.

USSBurritoTruck,
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The Ferengi from “The Price” showed up in VOY, as did the Borg Queen, and Tom Riker was pivotal to an episode of DS9.

limelight79,

It’s a huge universe, why would this particular entity have to show up in another episode? It could be off exploring the Gamma quadrant.

USSBurritoTruck,
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Why would Starfleet be so fundamentally uninterested in learning about an enitity literally birthed by one of their Starships?

limelight79,

Because they can’t find it? It’s tiny, it flew off into the distance…for all we know, there are a dozen science ships looking for it during the entire DS9 run.

lolcatnip, in If the borg were a religion

They kind of are a religion, just supplemented by a lot of technology that allows them to convert people against their will.

homesweethomeMrL, in Duderon

Who the fuck is this guy, man?

hactar42, in Public domain and self-sealing

I’m watching DS9 for the first time, just watched this one last night. I thought for sure they would end up getting taken. I love how it turned out.

TedZanzibar,

Remind me? I have a vague recollection of it being a series of ever more bizarre trades but nothing beyond that.

hactar42,

Pretty much. It started out with yamok sauce (whatever that is), then to stem bolts, a few other things until they traded up for some land. Nog was mad about the land and kept calling it dirt, until it turns out the Bajor government wanted to buy it.

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