Resistance is NOT Futile
“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.” The COVID-BLM Borg has spoken!
Confession: I was never a big fan of the Star Trek mega-franchise; however, the entry of the Borg into a few episodes of the ever-evolving space opera did indeed catch my attention. The Borg, for those uninitiated into the trekkie subculture, is a terrifying predatory entity of cyborg marauders — part organic, part mechanical — that spread a reign of terror throughout the universe. They travel in their “Cube,” a gigantic, planet-sized vessel, operated by their collective hive mind, conquering all in their path: planets, civilizations, solar systems, starships, and federations. Not merely conquering, but transforming — “absorbing” and “assimilating” — their victims into mindless, compliant, cybernetic drones. “Resistance is futile,” they tell their targeted victims. “You will be assimilated.”
The Borg does appear to be omnipotent, unstoppable, irresistible. Rather than face annihilation, whole planets take a knee, bow before the Borg, and are assimilated. However, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise prove that it is possible to resist the Borg and to avoid being absorbed into the Collective.
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