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Here's my problem with I, Borg (I just realized)

Eggs Mayonnaise

Eggs Mayonnaise

All In With The Nuts
Once Hugh stood up to Locutus/Picard's command that he assist in assimilating the Enterprise, it occurred to me (only 18 years too late):

This episode deliberately ignored a crucial element in Borg-deprogramming stories: whoever Hugh was before he was assimilated never emerged. In fact in the next segment of the episode, the senior staff begin discussing wiping his memory and returning him as an alternative to their original plan of planting the Borg virus. WHAT THE FUCK?

Picard knows that it's possible for the original personality to re-emerge as the Borg elements are altered/removed. If they aren't going to use Hugh as a weapon, why wouldn't they begin the process of de-Borging him? Instead, they stand there like idiots asking this Borg what he wants, which of course he can't determine since he's still a Borg, and anything he has learned from the crew in the last few days is just more assimilated data that is altering his thought processes.

When they act on his "wishes" and return him to the crash site, he thanks them for "saving" his life. WHAT THE FUCK?
 
Also, if they are so technologically advanced, why can't they operate in wi-fi? They have to plug into each other and collect data banks and plug them in to retrieve the data. WHY AREN'T THEY WIRELESS?
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Also, if they are so technologically advanced, why can't they operate in wi-fi? They have to plug into each other and collect data banks and plug them in to retrieve the data. WHY AREN'T THEY WIRELESS?
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Perhaps wireless isn't considered safe to the hive? More prone to virus attack?
 
Maybe Hugh was born on a Cube (as seen in Q Who) or assimilated as a child, so he doesn't have an original personality.
 
Or maybe they don't realise that someone's original personality can be brought back after being so drastically altered by the Borg. Picard was only Locutus for a short while and he might've been less physically altered than a typical drone, so it wasn't so arduous to deBorg him.

It might not have been until 7 of 9 came along that Starfleet scientists realised how much of the original personality could be retrieved.

If they did realise, though, then sending Hugh back without trying first to deBorg him is kind of like murder, isn't it?
 
THAT'S WOT I'M TALKIN ABOOT! The senior staff never even considered Hugh as a potential person. They treated him (and argued over him) like a pet. The discussions between Picard and Guinan should have been much more deep and nuanced. But then, they only had 44 minutes to tell the story. But this ep could have been much more intelligent (and possibly had a different outcome that could have provided a better springboard for future Borg stories) if it were a 2-parter.
 
cWHATEVER HAPPENED TO HUGH AND HIS BORG ROGUES AFTER DESCENT ANYWAY?
 
They were miniaturized like the Defiant in One Little Ship in order to assimilate a flea, but since they didn't have Julian and Miles to help out, they just kept getting smaller.
 
Ah-h-h.
 
I GOTCHER CANON RIGHT HEREsdgfgkja
 
Why didn't the Borg fire special torpedos infected with nano probes that could assimilate an entire ship without needing to stick BORG TENTACLES in every individual crewmember?
 
They could have assimilated the entire human race with an iPhone app.
 
They seem to be in the process of doing that now.
 
I want tryalatter to come on here and give us the definitive answer. YOU LOT ARE AMATEURS!
 
I prefer to just assume that during TNG series they were still learning about the borg & not fully aware of the possibilities. By the time the Voyager series came around we had deprogrammed borgs all over the place.

What always bothered me was how TNG crew went out of their way to save Picard/Locutus & restore his humanity in TBOBW, but in the film "First Contact" they didn't hesitate to kill crew members who had just been assimilated. I guess the possibility of de-borging the crew members just slipped everyones mind? I guess the circumstances were a bit more intense since the Enterprise was infested with borg & they couldn't exactly stop fighting & concentrate on de-borging the crew. But still.
 
Lily Sloane: Or what? You'll kill me; like you killed Ensign Lynch? ... Where were your 'evolved sensibilities' then?
 
Answers to random questions posed in this thread:

1. Hugh's original identity DID reassert itself. It's just that his first persona was an autistic asocial nerd with socialization issues. So nobody noticed.

2. A newer version of the Borg with WiFi capabilities was tried at one point but all they wanted to do was fly to Barnes and Noble and assimilate hipsters and baristas. Scrapped as a failure.

3. Borg ensigns are not rescued if they were wearing red shirts at the time of assimilation. They knew the risks. Only borgs who bring teh sexay back are rescued. Like baldheaded starship captains and bigchested blondes.
 
BUT DID HIS BOOBS FIRM UP?
 
Could Lore be used as a floatation device too?
 
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