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isaacathom · 16 days ago

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my friends and i have been watching the star trek movies and i have soooo many thoughts about first contact but its been like 3 years since i watched the borg episodes in tng and im like. fuck do i need to rewatch those rq to figure out if my faint gripe with first contact is valid or not? shit, man

#star trek blogging #cause the movie deliberately reframes picard's locutus incident because it needs to retcon in the borg queen #and nothing it says about the incident as a physical event is. incorrect per se. theyve been pretty careful #but IIRC they've changed the motivations for the borg to have handled it like they did #they didnt pick picard because he was like. specialist boy in the world. its because hes a negotiator and available #hes a respected human face they can use to ease their conquest. he'll be assimilated once earth is finished #hes only augmented superficially because they need him to appear human #they want humanity to see locutus and see a face they trust. its all a lie. a facade. an image plastered atop the borg framework #and the movie makes it about picard being an intellectual equal to the borg queen and this whole dynamic and its like ? uhuh #sort of points towards the mythologising of picard that leads us to Star Trek Picard #which i havent seen but am conceptually against because star trek shouldnt be about Great Men. about singular figures #its about The Enterprise. its about the ideals the ship upholds. the crew who work in service to it #the different people who transport into its hold and the impact they make together on the world #its not about one man! humanity didnt defeat the borg because picards special. they beat the borg because the enterprise fought together #because the crew looked at the situation and said 'we will not leave a man behind' and bent all odds to make it so #its about teamwork! its not about one bald guy!#and because picard and kirk in particular are the ~stars~ of probably the more well regarded series' overall #they just. are elevated and its like my man #kirk couldnt have done shit without scotty in engineering 'giving her all shes got'#picard couldnt do shit without riker's support or data's knowledge or troi's empathy #like you know what i mean? its not about the one guy.#blargle blargle #i mean tng has a general problem with giving picard and data too much sotlight because theyre exceptionally good actors #and thats a whole other proble and im not getting into it. aaarugh

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