Good point, TheeGrumpy.
How about this for a doozy? The Enterprise is hit by the Romulans in “Balance of Terror”, causing the now obligatory sparks from under Spock’s console. Spock opens the panel and slaps out the electrical fire with his bare hands.
Pezwookiee, here’s my opinion on how they fucked up the Borg:
The first impressions were scary- how could you resist something like this? When it took Q to “rescue” them in the first place? (Side rant: Whoopi did not seem very impressed by the Borg. They destroyed her world, but she seemed too cool about the whole thing. Even with Q mucking around. Oh well.) The Borg were painted as a force of nature.
Then they have Hugh. OK, Picard was rescued, maybe people can recover. Still scary.
Now Lore takes over after the Borg which recovered Hugh go nuts. A little stretch, but wouldn’t the Borg have a way to stop this? This seems too obvious- as something the Borg would have needed to take care of, or their collective would fall apart, like the Soviet Union.
Then they make the movie, and Voyager. A queen? The Borg showed disdain for a “hierarchical structure”, as being inefficient, but they HAVE ONE. A fatal weakness is introduced.
Nanoprobes, or whatever they call them. Picard didn’t have any, or they would have known about them before “Scorpion.”
So they keep changing the nature of the Borg in the guise of “discovery”. sounds like discontinuity.
I won’t even get into the last ep of Voyager, or all of Seven’s technology. Everything seemed to be invented on the fly, to fix a bad storyline.
So, the Borg are wussified, and taken away as a future threat (until someone else is backed into a corner on a script.)
Other nits:
Ezri Dax.
Vegas in the holosuites. (Go to the Hilton in Las Vegas for a good time at the Star Trek Experience, I highly recommend it.) An obvious plug that took up much too much screen time.
Picard and children.
Riker and women.
Troi and men.
Why do they write these scenes? What was the point?
ranting on…
