Member-only story
There has been once constant in my life: Star Trek. It has influenced me in more ways than I can say. I have been rather vocal about not liking the new Trek. Sometimes it’s the script. Sometimes it’s the plot contrivances. Sometimes it’s the tech. Sometimes it’s the characters.
Take ST: Picard. Picard is on the Borg ship and to escape, they use a portal that has a travel range of about 40 light years. I am okay with portals. Portals were in Star Trek before there was SG1. The Guardian of Time is a portal (City on the Edge of Forever.) Atoz, a-to-z, processed people to go through a portal and live in the past (All our Yesterdays.) Gary Seven’s time machine was a portal (Assignment: Earth.) The problem I had with the Borg having that tech was that if the Borg had that, there wouldn’t have been a big Star Fleet space battle with the Borg. They would have quietly sent drones through to Earth from afar, built up a critical threshold- the number of Borg necessary to take a planet- and just conquered planets. Also, I was super mad about the theme being- androids are sentient and should be treated well- only for them to get to the end and pull the plug on Data. What the heck? If it’s just his time to go, why wasn’t it just Picard’s time to go when he died? Why did human get a new android body, but Data couldn’t get a new android body? That irritated me, because it expressly went against the entire theme of the show. Also, if you could put Picard in an android body, why would you give him an old body?
