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Not OC, but def my fave meme about the parasites
IIRC Conspiracy and Neutral Zone were supposed to be the same enemy. That enemy is what eventually became the Borg after some rewrites.
They were flying by the seat of their pants, throwing darts to see what sticks, yadda yadda.
I will say, that reintroduction of the Romulans was well played. Maintained the crafty "two steps ahead" notion of making their opponents place themselves in the wrong. Not until the Dominion had we seen a more worthy adversary.
On the one hand, yes, the Borg get all the attention. But on the other hand, that also resulted in them getting dumbed down, watered down, and utterly violated with the nerf bat until they were left cowering in a corner and sobbing.
I almost wish they'd stopped with the Borg stuff after Best of Both Worlds. At the very least they should have set some hard limits on how much they would ever be allowed to show up, maybe once or twice a series.
IIRC, something similar happened behind the scenes with Q; the plan had originally been for him to be a frequent visitor on TNG but it was realized that his constant presence would only diminish the character so they limited him to roughly once a season.
Establishing the Borg Queen in First Contact and later Queens with Voyager was the biggest misstep. I get that from a narrative perspective that it helps to put a face to your antagonist, but it severely de-clawed them as a whole.
I disliked this guy before he had a bug in his head. JL should've got The Janeway to deal with it. She's great at separating parasitic creatures from starfleet officers.
Is that why Kim never got promoted? D:
Oh, it reached their destination, and the mind-controlling bugs have been at it for most of TNG. Also, they disdain the changelings attempt to infiltrate the humans in DS-9
are we talking about species 257 or whatever the were called?
Or these gross things that infiltrated star fleet in TNG S1?
I rember being utterly shocked by how gory that scene was when I first watched TNG in order a few years ago. Still kinda am to this day.
Yeah tbh it was too damn much. Tonally way off
Also the good guys shouldn't really be trying to kill everything. Now, if the bad guys wanna make heads asplode, I'd be cool with that. The collector guy who stole Data had that fucked up illegal gun that slowly disintigrates you while letting you feel it the entire time. The one person it is used on wasn't as visually stunning, but it was still brutal af given they describe why the weapon is banned.
Thats the 80s for you. Someone watched Scanners and was like "yeah, lets do that."
I gotta wonder if the FX crew was like: eh, this might be the end of the show, who knows if it'll get picked up... let's out-do scanners!
Apparently someone (I forget who, probably the director) was unsure about whether they should go that far. So he showed the final cut of the scene to his five-year-old son. When the kid wasn't noticeably traumatized, the decision was made to keep the scene in as is.
Certainly an attempt at grabbing ratings. Worked, but also paved the way for other weird, gory moments like the Borg body statue by 8472.
I have to wonder, why didn't hand phasers always explode heads?
Settings and duration, maybe. Or a special case because these aliens were hella resilient to the phasers until set at maximum, hit with 2 at once, and the beam was sustained on him for quite a long time compared to any other time we see phaser hits.
There are loads of species that are also resistant to phasers.
Their heads don’t explodify.
Just saying, lol.
(I also love that moment when Data whips out a hand phaser and takes out a dam from miles away)
Troop 257 is the rival Thundergirls troop in Bob’s Burgers.
Wee! 2 out of 4!