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Originally Posted by Flint
Yeah, I thought it was a good episode when I saw it 10/15 years ago, but in a post-9/11 world I couldn't believe I was hearing some of these lines:
"They've declared war on our way of life." etc.
The Borg are literally de-humanized, whereas in the real world we have to ideologically dehumanize our enemies.
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The fact that the episode was made back then is what makes it interesting. If that show was made now it would be called neo-con drivel with a barely hidden racist slant and a group of imams would gather to have it taken off the air.