# Why Did They Nerf the Borg?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-they-nerf-the-borg/352852>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 16, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-they-nerf-the-borg/352852 "2006-04-16T04:10:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-they-nerf-the-borg/352852/41 "2006-04-18T14:46:23Z")

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> [@Bryan Ekers](#):
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> Makin’ em Jewish, huh? You’d have to change their name to Berg.  
> ;j 😃

“Resistance? Helphen vi a toiten, bankes.”

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-they-nerf-the-borg/352852/42 "2006-04-18T15:26:27Z")

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All this talk of cutesifying the Borg and no mention of [this](http://www.startrekexp.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=707&c=392&main=)? Ooh, that’s just the cutest little Borg!

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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-they-nerf-the-borg/352852/43 "2006-04-18T19:33:41Z")

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> [@Ponder Stibbons](#):
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> All this talk of cutesifying the Borg and no mention of [this](http://www.startrekexp.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=707&c=392&main=)? Ooh, that’s just the cutest little Borg!

Damnit! Don’t you know that Bears are Godless killing machines bent on assimilating us and destorying our way of life?

Yes, I’ve been listening to Colbert, why do you ask?

He is cute though.

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**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-they-nerf-the-borg/352852/44 "2006-04-19T04:29:49Z")

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> [@Ponder Stibbons](#):
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> All this talk of cutesifying the Borg and no mention of [this](http://www.startrekexp.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=707&c=392&main=)? Ooh, that’s just the cutest little Borg!

That is cute. What’s the deals with First Officer Tom Arnold and the Vulcan babe firing the laser?

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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-they-nerf-the-borg/352852/45 "2006-04-19T04:39:09Z")

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> [@Robot Arm](#):
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> Klingons (villains in the original series, a member of the crew in next generation)

The Klingons in TOS were an artifact of the Cold War, symbolizing the Russians. Making them allies to the Federation in TNG & beyond, merely showed how time had moved on. The Klingons were never all-powerful anyway, just the enemy.

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> If there were to be another Star Wars movie, it would come before episode 1 and we’d see that the Emperor wasn’t evil, he just had a bad childhood.

Oh man, now I’m totally seeing Young Palpatine hanging upside down, as his mom approaches with the coat hanger…

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