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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <107i33f$5n4$1@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did   
   doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:   
   > A Truly Formidable Villain: The Borg are presented at their   
   > most terrifying and powerful. They are not simply   
   > a monster-of-the-week; they are an existential threat   
   > to the Federation, and their power feels genuinely overwhelming.   
   >   
      
   I disagree with the AI. The borg were already pretty well defanged by   
   this point. Of course Picard would be okay and the Federation would win.   
      
   Originally, the Borg were an *undefeatable* villain. The whole point of   
   them was that the Federation was nowhere near ready and there was just   
   nothing we could do.   
      
   Spin on a few years, and humanity is just so darn feisty that the Borg   
   are making a special case of humans and Earth. This is dumb, and it also   
   completely hollows and guts the whole point of the Borg.   
      
   The Borg should never have been defeated, on any Trek. They should have   
   been a threat Janeway occasionally *fled*, not fought, and other   
   captains really shouldn't have been meeting Borg at all. If the Borg had   
   stayed monstrous, a reappearance at the finale could have had some   
   actual impact -- it would show that humanity had developed over the   
   course of the show's era.   
      
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