Excuse me captain, but why are the borg the enemy? surely if they seek to help all individuals towards perfection they would help in the form of technology, culture and medicament.
>>43633444
The Borg claim that they desire to help, but the fact is that they're rather insane.
>>43633444
soon enough the guy who looks like hulk goon will be a meme
>>43633444
The borg are the antithesis of every value that the Federation hold. They are the ultimate destruction of all free will and inviduality and assimilate everything that is different than them by force
>>43633660
I'd get assimilated by seven of nine anytime
>>43633444
Shut up, Wesley.
>>43633444
They're concept of perfection is mutually-exclusive to our concept of civilization.
>>43633444
Because they seek to advance themselves at the expense of others.
>>43633660
So they're basically after the same goal as Darkseid with his Anti-Life Equation?
>>43633566
So exactly like the federation.
>>43635171
>"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: For the Cause (#4.21)" (1996)
>[Eddington has joined the Maquis]
>Michael Eddington: [to Sisko] I know you. I was like you once. But then I opened my eyes. Open your eyes, Captain. Why is the Federation so obsessed with the Maquis? We've never harmed you. And yet we're constantly arrested and charged with terrorism. Starships chase us through the Badlands, and our supporters are harassed and ridiculed. Why? Because we've left the Federation, and that's the one thing you can't accept. Nobody leaves Paradise, everyone should want to be in the Federation! Hell, you even want the Cardassians to join. You're only sending them replicators because one day, they can take their rightful place on the Federation Council. You know, in some ways, you're even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious, you assimilate people - and they don't even know it.
Which is a harsh thing to drop on a guy whose wife was killed by the Borg.
>>43633444
People Of Earth: Economy got you down? Tired of the rat race? Are you a team player? We have great news!
We are the Borg and we're hiring! We offer free job placement, free healthcare, free dental, free housing, free daycare, free transportation, flexible work hours, profit sharing and an open-door management policy.
C'mon, Assimilate! You Know You Want To.™
Paid for by the Resistance Is Futile Political Action Committee (RIFPAC). We are the Borg and we approved this message.
>>43636200
But the federation already has all that stuff.
>>43636209
most other powers explicitly Don't though
>>43636214
>other powers
seriously what are you talking about?
You Opened the pitch with "People of Earth"
Earth is the Federation Capitol, who else would be receiving the pitch?
>>43636228
modern earth?
>>43636249
Because that was perfectly clear in your pitch huh?
>>43636260
well United Earth as part of the Federation doesnt really have an Economy... or a "Rat Race"
>>43636272
That was my original reply here
>>43636209
That the joke doesn't apply to its own cannon, and has no humorous application to a political add
Just because robot chicken did it doesn't make it funny here, not to mention they where insulting a specific group and the joke they executed had AN ASSLOAD OF SETUP which yours did not
holy crap does /tg/ have the downs today?
It wasn't clever or funny if the joke missteps this hard, stop trying to explain it, it wont get funnier, try again later
>>43636173
DS9 was so rad. Machiavellian political maneuvering coupled with a bunch of normal people just mingling and trying to get by.
>>43636173
Quark put it better.
https://youtu.be/4hdiuRMK3UQ?t=107
>>43633444
>help all individuals
>individuals
ha
What a shitty meme you're trying to force.
>>43638871
>>43638900
Still haven't heard back from Hiroshima about your janitor application, huh.
Don't worry, mod-anon! Someday you'll be able to do more than impotently spray butthurt over threads you dislike.
>>43638871
>literally Apple
>>43633444
So aside from Sisko did anybody else hold what Picard did as Locutus against him?
>>43633444
The Borg don't work like that.
What you are thinking of are the Elder Ones. They are seeking perfection, and offer technology and a Utopian alternative to normal human civilization. All they ask for is compliance. Allegedly some people go missing sometimes and Advent Administration checks can be, in some isolated cases, a little extreme and invasive... but that's only to protect you from Anti-Alien terrorists like XCOM.
>>43639066
Can't wait to kill me some xeno heretics
>>43639075
The waiting is killing me.
I've picked up the book on Amazon.
>>43639102
The book?
>>43639106
It's going to be a pulpy shit tier video game novel, but it's XCOM and I don't care.
>>43639175
In the canon XCOM couldn't keep their satellites up. They managed to shoot down 2 small UFOs and were only just starting to break down the Alien technology. Despite cripplingly high mortality rates they were JUST starting to fight back when the council of nations fell over and earth was handed over willingly to the Elder Ones. The abductions never stopped and the Advent Administration was set up as a human puppet government. The aliens solved world hunger and cured cancer and now everyone eats CORE, made from reclaimed protein.
>>43633444
Holy shit
All those guys actually have trigger discipline
>>43639219
Ill be interested to see what rough shit the alien government does in XCOM 2.
>>43639271
They'll get their asses wrecked by XCOM
>>43639175
I really want to know what the story is
>>43633444
Their idea of "help" and "perfection" is to make everyone a mindless drone, that's why. You're on bathroom duty for the next three weeks, and tomorrow is Taco Tuesday, chop-chop, Ensign RanknFile.
>>43639271
The alien government provides us with snek.
>>43639740
And we are eternally grateful.
>>43639748
Bastard, I was just about to post that.
>>43639764
Hey, don't fret.
>>43639790
>>43639861
>>43639748
Oh, Wow.
>>43633444
What the hell is "medicament"?
>>43639861
Irony: If the ayyyy lmaos simply reengineered their species to be heart-crushingly, loin-tuggingly attractive to humans, they'd have no shortage of volunteers. So just give the sneks more humany, less vore-y faces, ditch the mutons and sectoids for blue spess elves out of Outsider, and we'd be throwing ourselves headlong into their empire, groin-first.
And then we'd take the motherfucker over, HFY style, and leave the ancients going "how the fuck did THIS happen?" when they realize that they're no longer LEADING, they're FOLLWING, and XCOM are now in command of defending the new Human-led All-Races Alliance.
Because admit it, you want to deploy a snek sniper who can Thin Man Jump with a railgun sniper rifle and a blue psychotic redhead telekinetic monster.
>>43641380
Damn, forgot the pic.
>>43641380
> XCOM are now in command of defending the new Human-led All-Races Alliance.
Oh god I want this. I want this really bad. I wonder if possible alien defectors would be a thing. I doubt it but I can hope
And if it isn't, I doubt it would be something that can be modded in.
>>43641380
See that's why the Xenos always lose. They fail to grasp the reality of human nature. Push us and we'll push back with every ounce of our being, even if it's hopeless, well drag you into a war of attrition and force you to pay for every step with a gallon of blood. Force us to do something and we'll resist, out of spite, because fuck you. Give a horrifying monster a sinuously curved body, some wide hips and between 2 and 6, well proportioned, titties and we're on our backs and purring like kittens and complying like well trained doggies.
I mean.... fuck. The Elder Ones first plan, the first thing they tried, was to take vipers and make them looking like a fucking 35 year old HMRC agents.
>>43641548
Pretty much, my good sir, pretty much! Want humanity on your side/in your empire/as trading partners?
Be something we want to fuck, and we'll move heaven and earth to befriend YOU. That's it. You don't need psychic mind-control rays, you don't need pheremonal bullshit psuedomindcontrol, you just need to be attractive and pleasant to speak to. Hell, the Asari are probably the reason we didn't genocide the Turians (or do our level-best to try) after they attacked unprovoked and started war-crimey blowing up civilians. We didn't want to fight with the blue space babes, not even if it meant we had to begrudgingly let go of a perfectly legitimate reason to bomb some fuck-ugly aliums into the stone age.
