I quickly bypassed the Disco remarks, since I've only still seen s1. Rewatching it currently, though, and planning to start s2 & s3 after. I'm enjoying the 2nd viewing even more that the first; it has its flaws (but so does all Trek) but still is quite nice. I like it.
Boffo97 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:04 pm
Ensign Q wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 6:30 am
series picard wouldve never went full combat mode either. that was just not him. it was worf dressed as picard.
The episode Starship Mine says hello.
Yes.
And
even more so, IMO, it is (paradoxally) hinted at in
Family. That reminds me I still had a draft on this, written this afternoon on my phone:
i do feel that
Family's last few minutes -- which are an
awesome reveal and character moment for JLP; and
absolutely a foreshadowing of his eventual going Yipee Kay Yay on the Borg.
In Family, we learn that he has this festering trauma inside. (and we might think he has worked through it,m in the mud with his bro -- but obvs, that's a mistake.) He lets it out (again) in FC; not at the first opportunity (he had ample unrelated targets to open his chest for and shoot his heart upon, between BOBW and that film), but either A) when he can't hold it in any longer, and/or B) when the actual, deserving, related target presents itself again -- the Borg themselves. Pick one. For me, I like either explanation.
And I love how a total bystander (
Lily Sloane), not having any particular allegiance or reverance for JLP, tells him he should get with the program, not be stupid, and evacuate. She is right, he is wrong. Nobody else would probably have dared; or, even, thought themselves he was wrong; but he
was obsessed and it took an outsider to realise it and/or be able to penetrate his defenses.
So his going McLane
was 'out of (his) character'... it was a diseased part of him, a trauma.
the queen... yes controversial, but i fall on the side that actually liked seeing more intricate mythology on the Borg. It has it's drawbacks in VOY (because they must get weaker to remain in view, lest they'd best V'ger straight away), but still they get more interesting in various ways (for me), because their mythos is added to (their obsession with
010,
Unimatrix zero,
marika+p'
chan+
lansor, the Borg kids,
Icheb's parents,
Arturis...).
I can certainly understand that isn't for everybody, though. By necessity, they had to get weaker in relation to "our heroes", to be able to be interacted with more. And that took away another part of their appeal -- their terrible power and mystery. But I loved it, personally -- and I loved the first steps that FC took in that direction.
Boffo97 wrote:NOW I HAVE
A PHASER RIFLE
HO-HO-HO
Yes.
Also: I'm a
die harder fan than all of youse together.