Oh thank god. Skydance is utter, utter shit. They would just destroy Star Trek. Sony might actually help it, because they’re pretty good about pushing franchises, but if that’s dead, it’s dead.
The worst case scenario is pretty bad though, namely Paramount implodes and licensing nonsense means Trek has to be pulled from distribution platforms, with literally no legal way to watch.
EDIT: I’m less worried about this for Trek than Avatar though. I know it has a rough history with being put on ice, but it’s still a big, provably profitable IP.
Oh man, when I saw Frakes name I had high hopes for this. Not going to write too much about the episode but I have no clue how they are giving this series a satisfying finale in that very last episode after this!
One thing though, what the hell was going on with Discovery when they tried to find that clue within the two black holes. They go in, get out of the two black holes, see the container and are like, let’s talk this over how to get this thing. Then the Breen swoop in and tractor that bucket into their cargo hold within 5 seconds! What gives? That was just needless incompetence. The Discovery crew is seriously not that stupid.
Why not having the Breen swoop in as Disocvery is attempting to escape. Then while Discovery is heading out the Breen grab the clue. Could have made up some technobabble about how some radiation from the black holes obscures Discovery from the Breen or whatever.
Anything else but what was shown. Damn. How is this so hard?
The entirety of this season was riddled with examples of characters acting nothing like themselves. Burnham outright says she’ll let terrorists get away unless she’s added to a mission, Rhys/Owo mention that people can cloak but they have a way to track them then never use it and get surprised after visually clearing a room, S1 Burnham during that weird time skip episode acted nothing like her Season 1 counterpart, Book had access to information that was said in Season 3 he couldn’t possibly have… It’s like they just let random people guest write every episode of the season.
Kurn is a really fun character that Tony Todd did a perfect job with. But it was nice to see he has such great acting chops beyond the scope of Kurns rather one note personality. I cry at the drop of a hat when watching TV, this episode makes me ugly sob every time.
It isn't just about becoming more perfect themselves, the Borg are trying to help everyone they can achieve perfection by becoming Borg. Locutus and the queen both express surprise and confusion as to why humans aren't just letting assimilation happen. Locutus says "why do you resist us; we only wish to improve quality of life."
This wasn't always the case; in their first appearance the Borg only wanted technological material. Assimilating every person would have been very inefficient for that goal and in fact we see their methods were different in the pre-assimilate everyone days. The Borg are hinted at in The Neutral Zone (before the Borg were written, but clearly they were foreshadowing some big future adversary and the pattern fits even though the distance doesn't) when Worf says "The outpost was not just destroyed, it's as though some great force just scooped it off the face of the planet." Nearly directly echoed in Q Who, first appearance of the Borg, when again Worf says "It is as though some great force just scooped all the machine elements off the face of the planet." Q also makes some remarks about the Borg not being interested in the ship's life forms, only the technology and what they can use and consume. At that time the more efficient hoovering up everything they need method was used.
Clearly at some point Borg priorities changed for some reason. Maybe they consumed the technology for biological assimilation, decided to test it out, and the people they tested it on were radical altruists and that ethos got muddled in the Borg desire for unity. By Best of Both Worlds we see that the Borg have babies; it looked to me like they were implied to be born / grown from Borg but it's possible those were already what would become maturation chambers by Voyager's time. If they are Borg babies perhaps they have some kind of pro-natalist position too: if they can make life perfect then they have a duty to create life in order for life to experience perfection.
Probably, but capturing Picard to assimilate (and even give a name to!) is already a big departure from the Borg introduced in Q Who. Their attitude also changes after reintroducing Hugh into the collective. Presumably the Borg had a mechanism for isolating and purging individuality in newly assimilated people but not for Borg temporarily cut off from the collective which was likely corrected after the Hugh incident.
In Best of Both Worlds 1 it's kind of unclear what the Borg plans for Earth are, actually. The Borg collective says "Your archaic cultures are authority driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications" when they decide to capture Picard. Locutus says "Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service us." I don't know if the Borg goal was assimilating everyone at that point (or if the writers themselves had decided). From those bits it sounds like they want the resources of Earth and a slave caste of humans. When Guinan is briefing the crew she says the Borg destroyed her world and scattered her people, but there's no mention of assimilation.
By Best of Both Worlds 2 assimilation is the pretty clear goal. Locutus says that "you will become one with the Borg. You will all become one with the Borg." Maybe the process of assimilating Picard was so revolutionary that it took the collective a minute to figure out how great it could be and then it became their entire driving force.
It serves a double purpose of eliminating competition. They’d rather not share resources, negotiate treaties, or justify their actions. They have a singular focus, and anything getting in the way of that must be eliminated. Also, because they’re a great villain for the stories as they’ve been written.
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