Life is hard enough as it is. I’m tired. I’m exhausted. Give me hope for a better tomorrow that I honestly can’t see. Gimme Star Trek.

That being said, what do you think is the funniest episode of TNG and the scariest episode? I can’t make up my damn mind on what to watch. I’m starting with Schisms because fuck that holodeck clicking scene.

Also after posting this and taking a look at the home screen, I feel like I’m dangerously close to spamming. If I haven’t already. If it becomes a problem please let me know. Gonna back off a bit today.

  • Elise@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The ones with data can be really funny. For example the one where he tries to understand humor.

    Scary - I would say the double episode the best of both worlds. Just how unprepared they are for dealing with the borg, and just how entirely invulnerable they are.

    Personally for me the borg are a metaphor for the corpos that have lost themselves entirely in the machine of civilization. Culture is irrelevant. It’s inefficient. Etc.

    • Stamets [Mirror]@startrek.websiteOP
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      1 year ago

      That’s a fair point. Spiner does get to go ham a lot and boy is he good at it.

      The Borg episodes almost feel like cheating sometimes. They’re genuinely one of the most terrifying species that I’ve seen in sci-fi, especially in TNG/First Contact.

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      1 year ago

      I am pretty sure the Borg (and before they were turned into the Borg, the bluegill) were originally conceived as a metaphor for totalitarian collectivism: the ultimate erasure of the individual and a sense of self, becoming a perfect cog in the machine that is the whole.

      Makes sense especially considering the real world time period the show was made in, with the red scare being widespread.

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        1 year ago

        We can all see something personal in it, whatever resonates.

        For example from my perspective, look at how globalism has this very efficient architectural style that we see in every city. Or how counter cultures were capitalized upon. Everything is assimilated and turned into something efficient, regardless of the true meaning and identity behind it.

        Yet there comes some kind of satisfaction from it for the people in the collective. For them it is unimaginable why you wouldn’t want the same thing. This can also be a metaphor for colonialism and civilizing peoples, which is part of the same thing I mentioned before.

        Do you see something personal too?