#we borg

[isagrimorie]

It's probably better that it was Hugh the Enterprise Crew met in I, Borg because Hugh is more amenable to becoming an individual. Meanwhile, Seven of Nine would have been angrier and haughtier, Seven was proud of being Borg. (I guess those with a strong personality and who grew up within the Collective can still have a flavor of their personality). But also, comes with my theory that despite the Borg claiming to not have a hierarchy they still do — the standard worker drones, those who organize the drones. How the Collective determines which becomes which is unknown, but there is the central Queen that organizes all principles and orders.

Anyway, Guinan would not have responded well to Seven of Nine. Guinan and Picard didn’t have a need for keeping a Borg alive, especially with someone like Seven of Nine who was all the way bought into being a Borg. For Seven, being part of the Collective makes Seven bigger. It’s only, after Seven’s been disconnected from the Collective from months that she’s grown to appreciate her own individuality.

It took Hugh only a day or two to have his own individuality.

In a way, Hugh is even more of a fresh slate, an easier and more open and innocent one to accept the concepts of personhood.

But returning Hugh to the Borg after learning all that, even when he volunteered to do it to protect the Enterprise also felt wrong.

Considering Guinan’s issues with the Borg, I wonder how she first took to Seven. Especially since, unlike Hugh, Seven insisted on her Borg name.

Hugh asking and using “Hugh” instead of Third of Five was a factor for Guinan softening towards him.

Seven has no instincts for that, Seven is the name/designation she grew up on. It will remain to be so.

Annika is used rarely and only as a Shibboleth to call Seven back to her individuality.

But Seven of Nine is her True Name, to use Fairy Tale languages.

Anyway, I feel, especially after Bjayzl’s betrayal Seven has distanced herself from using Annika in everyday life.

Seven is her chosen and true name.

Hugh’s experience is different.

Seven’s severing was more of a baptism of fire, in the middle of a war between Borg and Species 8472. While Hugh was taken for the sole reason to be used as a weapon his interactions with the Enterprise crew was not as embattled.

Hugh and Seven were the first Borg to be completely severed from the Collective without other Borgs unlike in Unity (Voyager).

Also, from what we saw in Unity the Collective there were adults who had a life before becoming Borg unlike Hugh and Seven who grew up Borg.

[lloyd-the-green-gremlin]

I just couldn't get this out of my head...

[l1-b1]

I wish to show you my Pixal design pretty pls

What do we think about purple Pixal samurai x

[kindaasrikal]

The ninja ninja too often they need lives man

I can imagine Cole using his free time to do arts and crafts and just go on huge drawing sprees after not being able to draw for so long. He uses charcoal and ink the most.

Kai steals as many random clothes that no one wears or are ripped and either fixes them up with or creates the most stunning designs on them with his amazing sewing skills.

Zane has a little area in his room where he practices and sometimes even records break dancing videos for others to help learn off of. He also sometimes runs and ice cream cart in the city park and holds up a sign whilst break dancing.

Nya enjoys gardening near ponds and rivers. She enjoys making the surrounding area beautiful because then the water also looks beautiful. Whenever there’s fish there too, she starts gossiping with them.

Jay likes go visit really random and small shops that have the most weirdest and coolest and nicest stuff. Sometimes he goes to this coffee shop that sells fake skulls and cute plush cats, and then he’s at this small book store that also gives away shiny rocks. If it’s a place he can sit at he sometimes brings his laptop to start programming for a bit, making websites or games.

Lloyd likes bungee jumping and exploring really supposedly paranormal areas to see if there’s actually something going on because he is so bored. He also likes to play football with kids in the park and sometimes he lets them win, other times he holds no mercy, and other other times those kids demolish him in the game.

Pixal goes and paints her nails, but also opens up a little stall to do others nails and talk to them so she can start socialising with people other than the ninja.

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what's the threshold theory

There was a post about how Tom is the only crew member who isn't really affected by the Borg, and there's a theory that he has so much luck because he saw the past and the future when he crossed the transwarp threshold. He saw the past and the future, all of time and space. There's some subconscious part of him that remembers that experience. In fact, Tom refused to play a part in Chakotay indulging Annorax's temporal incursions, probably because a part of him knew nothing good could come of it.

If we extend that same theory to Janeway, some of her wild luck with time travel and other crack plans starts to make sense. She doesn't verbally hate time travel until after the events of Threshold, since it happens in Time and Again without complaint. Janeway has an uncanny knack for time travel, as evidenced every time she deals with it. She hates time travel, but it might be because part of her knows exactly how to manipulate the timeline. She manages to avoid the "inevitable" temporal explosion in Future's End, saving both Voyager and Braxton. She resets the entire timeline in Year of Hell, and no one else followed her reasoning. She pulled it off flawlessly. In Relativity, she senses the incidents are all related, despite it being just one reading that connects them. By the time she's involved, she has a temporal incursion factor of .0036 and a time travel protocol named after her, even if that may just be Braxton's personal grudge. Then there's Endgame, where she intentionally changes the timeline. Up until this point, she has been dragged into time travel, but for the first time, she jumps in on purpose. How does Admiral Janeway know how to get them home sooner in a way that completely avoids the Temporal Integrity Commission? It's because she has seen all of time, and part of her knows exactly what needs to happen so she can get Voyager home and do it in a way that becomes baked into the prime timeline. Maybe she doesn't consciously remember what happened during her transformation, but the experience lives in her mind somewhere, guiding her decisions.

[al-luviec]

big fan of these two

[waterghostype]

my vision for movie!pixal (shes basically just a lyla spiderverse reference)

shes both a robot and a hologram but she mostly uses the hologram bc it’s more convenient for communication. she’s more carefree and silly than series pixal but she gets the job done!

more stuff under the cut

pixal and her relations w/ the ninja!

so bc the movie is like glacierpocalypse i decided to be self indulgent and make hotwire a thing since i kinda shipped them when i first watched rebooted (though i like to call them firewall)

aside from that she’s best friends w/ nya, she usually repairs and builds her new motorcycles whenever she crashes into school property. the worst case was when nya accidentally rode out the window from the 4th floor.

she’s also best friends with zane and obviously have that robot bond even if zane would try to deny his robotisms. they gossip in morse code and binary in front of everyone else so noone understands them

i love movie cole hes too silly and him and pixal are good friends, they often hang out together and thinking of their dynamic makes me want more cole-pixal stuff in the actual show

she makes fun of jay like everyone else but in the end she believes he just needs a boost of morale and a touch of reality. he will nerd out over things with her and hack security systems together

shes more forgiving and nicer to lloyd than she is with the other ninja and really wishes the best for him. shes happy to help him with whatever and sends computer viruses to his anyone who looks at him funny

[noirbunnydeluxe]

Day 23: Arguing.

"And you call me reckless?! HYPOCRITE, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE-!!"

[trek-tracks]

The funniest part of this reply is not that it was on a completely innocuous post...

The funniest part is that it was on an innocuous post about Amok Time, an episode which canonically, as a major plot point, makes Star Trek characters roll around in the dirt.

Sir, take this up with Theodore Sturgeon, I was not involved in this decision

[iloveacronix]

WOOP WOOP Overborg art finally posted💪🔥🔥🔥

Made this for an art trade I did with @cyrusbug and im super proud of it! ^^

The piece they gave me is below the cut!

AHHHHHHAHGGS LOVEEEE!!!! IT WAS FUN DOING THIS ART TRADE WITH YOU NIGHT!! <333

[zerothesonic]

if anyone ever tells me “cyrus borg is pixal’s creator, he’s not her father” i vow to break into their homes and eat all their legos

[isagrimorie]

Seven of Nine (I haven’t actually seen Voyager but I have read some of the novelisations and your meta posts are so good!)

for this ask game

Headcanon A:  realistic

Seven of Nine still prefer standing to sitting, especially when she's alone. But she spends a lot of time with other people she's trained her body to be comfortable with it.

But sometimes, especially in the days when she still had La Sirena and more space than she had in her tiny Ranger ship -- Emmet would find her just standing, especially the days when she needs to regenerate.

Seven finds it... comforting.

Seven can stand as still as a statute for long periods and even regulate her breathing to a standstill. On occasion, this has helped Seven in many occasions and caught various quarry this way.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Seven of Nine is still the bane of Chief Engineers everywhere and it's worse now that she's the Captain of her very own shiny Federation Starship.

Because if she's not at the conn, ready room, or mysteriously at the First Officer's quarters.

She is climbing into Jeffries tubes scaring the hell out of the Engineering staff. Or in Engineering, she's not not micro-managing, Commodore B'Elenna Torres stops by and the Chief Engineer subtly asks how to handle Captain Seven when she's Always Around.

B'Elenna only smirks at this information and says she'll talk to Seven.

B'Elenna does talk to Seven and threatens she'll stop helping with the tanswarp/slipstream drives if Seven doesn't stop trying to out-engineer the engineers. And it works, for a while. Before they leave Space Dock, the Chief Engineer receives 2 casks of Blood Wine. The real stuff.

It's gonna be a long shakedown.

B'Elenna is just smirking. Someone else will now know how it was like working with Seven— equal measure infuriating and rewarding.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

There are things and people Seven misses after she leaves Earth and joins the Fenris Rangers fully --

Her Voyager family, the smell of coffee constantly permeating the Bridge and Janeway's Ready Room. (This is why Seven starts drinking coffee— not because she enjoyed it at first, it’s because she missed the sense memory of Coffee and by its presence, Janeway).

Her ability to call Neelix whenever it was needed. The Doctor and his many long-winded lessons, that she found out, he only just learned.

Naomi Wildman. Tuvok. Janeway.

She kept in regular contact helped by Icheb.

But the moment Icheb died all those connections she kept up slipped away.

She missed all of them but Seven committed to her life as a Fenris Ranger, even more, she committed to finding Icheb's killer and everyone responsible for Icheb being stripped for parts.

Seven knew Janeway and Tuvok would not approve and they would be obligated to stop her. So, Seven took herself out of the equation.

But, in the grand scheme of things, the thing she missed most and took for granted was the regular maintenance checks with the Doctor.

Seven doesn't let it show but she's had residual pain in her shoulder and joints and low-grade headache. Sometimes Regeneration helps but it doesn't solve all the things that ail. Seven tries to do regular maintenance on her cybernetic parts but the internal ones she can't reach are harder to do.

This was resolved when she was finally allowed access to Starfleet resources -- and among them, the EMH. I'm sure the Doctor tried to, over the years, contact Seven but via the virtue of Seven's revenge crusade and guilt, I don't think Seven allowed herself to be contacted.

So for over 20 years, before she was in regular contact with Starfleet she's felt residual, chronic pain.

And even with the Doctor's help some things are hard to reverse, so Seven still has some phantom pain, especially when she hasn't regenerated in days.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

Her eyes can glow. Just like a predatory animal could, in the dark. Seven just chooses not to, even her natural eye, which also had enhancements -- since we see from Voyager that Seven's view of the world is very much like a heads-up display with a green filter.

It's also why she has trouble identifying when something is glowing green because Seven's default view of the world is filtered in Borg green.

Seven calibrated her eyes when, the one time Neelix entered her Cargo Bay, in the early days, she opened her eyes and observed him puttering about but didn't say anything.

Until Neelix turned around and screamed so loud it brought on the security team.

But she could. If she wanted to, make her eyes glow, she could see much better in the dark too.

Seven learned a long time ago that people need her to act as flawed and as Human.

Many in the Alpha Quadrant forget that ex-Borg can be terrifying, and Seven helps them try to forget the Borg can be terrifying.

But sometimes... it can be useful.

/edited

[xynczachrome]

@raishifts dtiys go brrr

[parachutingkitten]

well... it's different...

and what in the actual world is going on with her mouth here???

what is this?

why does she now have wings on her face?

[bumblingbabooshka]

When the only person who might understand what happened- understand. Not sympathize or empathize or comfort you but understand what happened, isn't there anymore. Or: 'A Man Made Me Do Something I Didn't Want To', for when you can't talk about it or look it in the eye [Patreon | Commissions]

[thresholdbb]

Mezoti's such a little weirdo I love her

Janeway: What's your science project?

Mezoti: Radioactive ants 👍