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yeah it’s fine we told starfleet command
Everyone after this: Why are all the admirals jerks and/or evil? So weird.
they very much kerploded the 'bug queen"
Remmik got phasered!
Yes, the problem was solved.
listens to the last scene
Oh no.
K…?
I can kill all the ants in my house today, but if they’ve laid down a scent for the colony outside to follow I’m just going to find new ants tomorrow.
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Did you suffer an aneurysm? You may want to call an ambulance.
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Be well, friend.
Wasn’t the queen destroyed at the end of the episode and all the others died because he queen died?
I hate the “destroy the central entity and the others will be disabled” trope, so overused in sci-fi
Well then, you might enjoy “The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals”…
I understand that, but my point was that the issue was resolved in the episode unlike the post make you believe
Sure, I wasn’t arguing your point
That episode was wild. Setting up the big bad monster for the federation to be fighting… then just forgetting all about them.
I vaguely recall reading years ago that they were intended to be the initial infiltrator wave of what eventually became the Borg forces. I could be mistaken, since it was around the pre-AOL days.
That info is out there for sure, but I’ve always found it pretty shaky. Here’s what Memory Alpha has to say on the subject:
The Star Trek Chronology, 2nd ed., p. 290 noted: “Although Picard and company were successful in eradicating them, the parasites did send a mysterious radio signal, presumably to others of their kind. At the time the episode was written, this was apparently intended to lead to the introduction of the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s second season. The Borg connection was dropped before “Q Who” (TNG) was written, and the truth about the parasites remains a mystery.”
The “apparently” always trips me up, but maybe there’s a more definitive statement or there that I haven’t seen.
It certainly could be true.
It sounds like a post hoc connection to explain it away, rather than that being that actual intention. I assume we’ll probably never know though.
The truth could be somewhere in the middle - no real intent, but instead just reworking an idea from the Discarded Ideas Drawer into something new.
I’ll pop in my blu-rays after I get home from some appointments, see if I can verify anything from the special features.
