I’ve always read the Borg as a criticism of Star Trek fans who took the wrong message from the show. The Borg initially in the first few episodes didn’t assimilate people, they only cared about taking technology. Their ships are technological masterpieces but have no function other than to make more of itself. The first drone the Enterprise encounters disregards the characters and only cares about figuring out how the spaceship works.
I took this as a criticism of Star Trek fans who disregard the humanity of the show, who disregard the social messages and instead focus entirely on the cool spaceships and teleporters. The Borg are like if the Federation never cared about social causes or equality. That’s why they make such good parallels. The Federation hates how the Borg disregard humanity, the Bord don’t understand why humanity is important if you can be a machine.
The “transporters can do anything and can win every battle and make everything in the spaceship show, including the spaceships, obsolete” fans are the worst.
Yeah, scifi fans will get caught up in the trivia of how future technology functions, rather than any other features of the story. It’s frustrating. Endless debates about space battles or how warp drives work. They’ll treat the genre like it’s Dragonball Z. That stuff can be interesting, but the meat of scifi is always about humanity now and how humanity might progress (for better or worse)
The “who would win in a fight” Star Wars discussions that become tiresome midi-chlorian count estimates (with “fantasy football” style team match ups that stack up the counts and compare them) are about as exhausting, too.
I’ve always read the Borg as a criticism of Star Trek fans who took the wrong message from the show. The Borg initially in the first few episodes didn’t assimilate people, they only cared about taking technology. Their ships are technological masterpieces but have no function other than to make more of itself. The first drone the Enterprise encounters disregards the characters and only cares about figuring out how the spaceship works.
I took this as a criticism of Star Trek fans who disregard the humanity of the show, who disregard the social messages and instead focus entirely on the cool spaceships and teleporters. The Borg are like if the Federation never cared about social causes or equality. That’s why they make such good parallels. The Federation hates how the Borg disregard humanity, the Bord don’t understand why humanity is important if you can be a machine.
The “transporters can do anything and can win every battle and make everything in the spaceship show, including the spaceships, obsolete” fans are the worst.
Yeah, scifi fans will get caught up in the trivia of how future technology functions, rather than any other features of the story. It’s frustrating. Endless debates about space battles or how warp drives work. They’ll treat the genre like it’s Dragonball Z. That stuff can be interesting, but the meat of scifi is always about humanity now and how humanity might progress (for better or worse)
The “who would win in a fight” Star Wars discussions that become tiresome midi-chlorian count estimates (with “fantasy football” style team match ups that stack up the counts and compare them) are about as exhausting, too.