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[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You will have no hopes, no personality, no point.

Wow it's just like working.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 18 points 10 months ago

TIL I have been borged.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 58 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This image of a cube conveys an emotion I do not know the word for.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

... I may or may not print this pic out, frame it, place it in my office right next to the keyboard, and (ofc with appropriate comedic timing) look at it meaningfully.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Defeated disbelief?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Nonsense, we're getting you babies out of here.

[–] jawa21@startrek.website 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just don't put any thought into where you poke the holes in your face. They don't do well with cable management.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ow, my hose!

I get so much anxiety watching the Borg and the Jem'Hadar with all their tubes and wires just looping out to the side, waiting to get caught on whatever and ripped out of their necks/heads. Odd choice for people who are specially modded to be soldiers.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe it is on purpose. Increased situational awareness because you have to be so much more careful about getting hoses pulled.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Aww... It's a baby Borg Cube.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

"You will be... assimiwated!"

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What else do you think this guy would be flying?

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It's either Peter Quill junior or the cutest Borg ever.

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

It's trying, ok?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I'm down for the cybernetic enhancements, I'm not down with the collective hive mind existence.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hopefully they have better developers than here. The biggest reason I wouldn’t want any cybernetic implants is I know how buggy code can be and it tends to go to the lowest bidder. Imagine your eyes segfaulting because they see a certain object. Or someone finds a way to hack it and constantly turn every image into goatse.

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Meh, voyager one has software and been running forever. It's about priorities during development.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Uh-huh, and when have you seen prioritization like that recently with a company using their own money? Because you know implants wouldn’t be from the government or a central institution. It’d be multiple groups fighting to get their stuff out first and capture the market.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

goatception

[–] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It's a bit like being in Reddit or Lemmy for that matter

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Especially because at least half the stream of consciousness would be nonstop horny.

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Im also pisces! Yoooooo Happy BD somewhere in Feb or March.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Pisces gang unite !

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the assimilation process is supposed to be maddeningly painful. Excruciating. Then if you ever get rescued, you have to deal with CPTSD for the rest of your life.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Yes but you will never wake up at 8 AM or write another TPS report again.

[–] wick@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

What happens to the conscious experience of someone who is assimilated? Are they even aware of their actions during it? Is there some instance of someone doing that trope where they shake it off like mind control in an emotional scene? If not they might just black out completely for the duration.

Is the conscious mind of an assimilated person destroyed at some point or is it always able to be restored at some later time?

[–] MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Aren’t Hugh (TNG) and 7of 9 (VOY) examples of this? 7 often contemplates her time as Borg, so she has memories of it. Also when Picard was Borg, he was ever so distraught but couldn’t do anything but Borgy things.

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago

Personalities, or at least the strong parts of them are suppressed and essentially held in a zoo called a vinculum. The rest of the personality joins the hive mind and experiences harmonic bliss, while also being aware of the pain of extreme body modification. TBH it just sounds like dissociation.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The Borg would definitely say "what are", not what're

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I will wire a USB cable to a rusty 9 inch nail & apply it directly to my forehead - one way or another I'm uploading my ass to that ship, there must be a glorious hole somewhere in their firewall, I'm certain of it.

(And then also serve my new domy mommy, which isn't really a requirement on my part tbh but it certainly doesn't hurt)

... but seriously, think of the little things, like imagine just stepping into that charging pod & then fell rested afterwards?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'd be down for it.