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Yeah, they were super capitalists on episode 1. Honestly, I think the main reason they were hard to sell as the series villains wasn't the capitalist part, it was the fact that…
by cogman10 · Oct 31, 2026
I think they were planned to be capitalists from the first. They came out of the writers wanting a scary alien race to replace the Klingons. It shows how extremist the writers r…
by mike_hearn · Oct 31, 2026
That hasn't changed. Rare is the writer who can just write a good story and not try to socially engineer the audience. The problem with TNG wasn't so much the preachiness, which…
by mike_hearn · Oct 31, 2026
I think the scene is largely irrelevant to the question of whether or not an LLM is conscious. The episode talks about whether or not a machine is capable of becoming conscious.…
by hparadiz · Oct 31, 2026
Often Picard is compared to Kirk, but I find comparing Picard to sisko to be the much more interesting one. Picard and Sisko are both excellent, thoughtful, nearly everything yo…
by Der_Einzige · Oct 30, 2026
>And yet... Earth would have been destroyed had they done that. I don't like the premise that Picard, alone, out of the entirety of the Federation, is the only thing standing be…
by krapp · Oct 30, 2026
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The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek fictional universe. They are cyborgs linked in a hive mind called "The Collective". The Borg co-opted the technology and knowledge of other alien species to the Collective through the process of "assimilation": forcibly transforming individual beings into "drones" by injecting nanoprobes into their bodies and surgically augmenting them with cybernetic components. The Borg's ultimate goal is "achieving perfection". Read more on Wikipedia