#jokes on them though bc the borg are sick as hell & I'll never hate them anyway! borg me up baby!!!
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Boy o boy some of these star trek episodes are extremely American Enlightened Centrist TV Writer In The Late 1980s and it really shows ๐
#yeah yeah yeah authoritarianism gulags loss of individual liberties cartoon villain child murdering terrorism yeah yeah#it usually isnt so bad but ive noticed a more blatant string of them this season of tng#like back to back the hunted and the high ground episodes ๐๐๐#just SO curious what real world events/groups the 1989 american writer was clearly mulling over as he wrote particularly the latter ๐คจ#(data u r so correct about terrorism tho dont let ole captain frenchie liberal tell you differently)#i should make better note of the writers for each episode but i havent done so yet#ugh i bet there's gonna be gold mines of unsubtle anticommunism when we get to the post-ussr seasons ๐#well i know from Voyager its obvious the borg are meant to be analogous for soviet cUlTuRaL iMpErIaLiSm or whatever#jokes on them though bc the borg are sick as hell & I'll never hate them anyway! borg me up baby!!!#star trek tng#dani talks about tv
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