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<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>As with most Star Trek villians, they represent a growning social issue of the times. The Borg are mindless at the level of individuality, but act under a concerted communal-hive mind. They are agressive and overbearing. They have no concern for other species culture or belief structure. The Borg only wish to steal, dominate, and subjugate every species within reach.<br><br>Basically, the Borg represent today's socialist Democrat.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Read this over at TW and got a good chuckle out of it. if you want a link to the thread <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthr ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Its a thread from somebody who is seeing first contact and knows nothing about the borg or why they are considered the bad guys. there was another post in the begining which said they reposented communism... but thats not nearly as funny (partially because I think thats whats they do represent)<br><br>still laughing a little <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

That's funny... I was thinking of mindless teenagers and pre-teens following the latest music/fashion/hottest-thing trends via MTV, VH1, and broadcast radio.<br> <p></p><i></i>

The best representations are the ones that can represent many things. That's why we love the Borg. It doesn't matter which group we think is the one that "consumes our individuality;" if that's what we see in a group, then we can see that group in the Borg. <br><br>Certain other of Trek's allegories are altogether too specific.<br> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i></i>