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Is there anything we can do to help?Got my laptop back today. Motherboard was fried - literally! Some of the internal plastics had also melted. Not sure why as it sits on a corrugated metal cooling tray with integral fans.
Anyway, it was also reformatted so a lot of data lost, more than expected as some of my backups haven't backed up properly...
Fortunately My Pictures has been saved, which includes my Photoshop working files. Unfortunately my Installers folder was not, so any software I've gained in the last 4 years has gone kaput. Currently doing the windows updates before getting started on the antivirus etc. Wibble.
Thanks, but not just yet. At some point I'll probably be pestering jetfreak and majestic for any files i may have sent them, but for now my focus is the basics, windows, browser, av, firewall, office. Then i can start crying about ms3d, Photoshop, and any games etc. Fortunately some of my more important documents should be in my email sent box (like an up to date CV!!!)Is there anything we can do to help?
Bluetooth keyboardsHow do people cope with tablets?!? It takes sooooo long to type anything!!!
Yeah, I feel the same! For me, I think it's because I associate somewhat different emotions with them. I've never felt disgust towards the Borg like I do toward any sort of zombie. Fear, yes - especially toward the First Contact version. But there's more of a sense of awe and wonder toward these clearly very advanced and sophisticated beings. The Borg's technological character (and, by extension, their philosophy) is far more interesting than any zombie epidemic could ever be.I find it ironic that as much as I hate zombie shows, I love the Borg episodes in Star Trek.
I've got a fanfic in the works where part of it tells a little of the story of the Premonition before it went back in time.Now, here's something I'd like to see: a post-apocalyptic Borg story. A ragtag group of survivors on a largely assimilated planet, fighting for their metaphorical survival - all while knowing that their people aren't technically dead, you know?
That's an interesting idea. Characters that have been turned into zombies are gone, but characters that have been assimilated could potentially be freed, which brings a very different approach to writing how the cast feels about killing them, even in self defense.Now, here's something I'd like to see: a post-apocalyptic Borg story. A ragtag group of survivors on a largely assimilated planet, fighting for their metaphorical survival - all while knowing that their people aren't technically dead, you know?
Also I always wonder about the premonition? Where did it sit in the time line, because it's implied pretty far into the future. Yet how where they able to make such an advanced ship if they'd lost so bad agasint the borg?
I've seen at least one more fan fic that used the idea of trying to halt an epidemic using nanoprobes then losing control of them. I much preferred the idea of the Borg being the culmination of the society from which they came, with a lot of the unique characteristics about the Borg being from a transition to a utilitarian society within their progenitor race.I think one of the best attributes of the Borg are their mysterious origin. There have been a few unofficial origin stories, primarily the Destiny series. While not bad, it just didn't quite sit right with me. I have had my own thoughts.
I think one of the best attributes of the Borg are their mysterious origin. There have been a few unofficial origin stories, primarily the Destiny series. While not bad, it just didn't quite sit right with me. I have had my own thoughts.
Yeah, I also like that idea better. I don't know if it's just me, but none of the origin stories we've heard so far have satisfied me. Whether it's the Star Trek Destiny story of magical aliens or the Legacy version involving V'ger of all things, or this notion of the Borg as the result of medical technology gone out of control, it really just fails to portray the Borg - like you've mentioned above - as the result of an organic species intentionally evolving toward this state, rather than being forced into it. Also, Canon states repeatedly that the Borg are really, really ancient (hundreds of thousands of years, according to Guinan!), which I think people forget sometimes.I've seen at least one more fan fic that used the idea of trying to halt an epidemic using nanoprobes then losing control of them. I much preferred the idea of the Borg being the culmination of the society from which they came, with a lot of the unique characteristics about the Borg being from a transition to a utilitarian society within their progenitor race.
Just had a thought: what if we're not taking the Queen's words literally enough? Could she be a gestalt consciousness of the Collective itself rather than an individual within the Collective? The Queen is always interpreted by fans as an individual, but she's lost at least one body and moved to another one. Unless the Borg's capability to create replacement brains is much greater than Bashir's, it seems unlikely that the Queen is actually the particular drone used as an avatar. Imagine the Queen being a person, and the drones being the cells that make up that person. That's more or less my idea.the Queen's "I am the Borg" blather.
The wife? Or the DomiMatrix?The Borg Queen is the wife of Skynet......
I didn't even think of that! The will of the Collective, made manifest as a single being. That could work. It still raises the question why the Borg, being a very utilitarian society, would be in need of such a being. The standard justification for her existence seems to be that she coordinates the Collective, which she herself apparently denies in First Contact. Of course, the whole insect analogy (originally given by Seven's mother, I believe) falls apart anyway considering that insect queens don't coordinate the hive at all and serve only reproductive purposes.Just had a thought: what if we're not taking the Queen's words literally enough? Could she be a gestalt consciousness of the Collective itself rather than an individual within the Collective? The Queen is always interpreted by fans as an individual, but she's lost at least one body and moved to another one. Unless the Borg's capability to create replacement brains is much greater than Bashir's, it seems unlikely that the Queen is actually the particular drone used as an avatar. Imagine the Queen being a person, and the drones being the cells that make up that person. That's more or less my idea.
What if she didn't occur on purpose, but as an unintended side-effect of hitting a critical mass of drones?I didn't even think of that! The will of the Collective, made manifest as a single being. That could work. It still raises the question why the Borg, being a very utilitarian society, would be in need of such a being. The standard justification for her existence seems to be that she coordinates the Collective, which she herself apparently denies in First Contact. Of course, the whole insect analogy (originally given by Seven's mother, I believe) falls apart anyway considering that insect queens don't coordinate the hive at all and serve only reproductive purposes.
But of course, the only reason she exists is to provide an appropriately evil and weirdly hot villain for First Contact.
What if she didn't occur on purpose, but as an unintended side-effect of hitting a critical mass of drones?