[Jester]

Cool thread. I love the trivia on all the variants; really takes you back to the glory days of collecting...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lance Quazar

I'd even put "Q-Less" on this list, which is good for TNG fans and has some solid jokes (though it's boring in spots to be sure.)

It might have been a worthwhile episode if it had revolved around Q putting Sisko through some suitably ironic and humorously sadistic ordeal to make a point, as was the character’s wont on TNG, but that was not the case, sadly...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morgan

The Borg figures were always a little off in terms of screen accuracy, but the details always made up for that, and that's true of this figure as well. This one has some cool accessories that are, for once, in a plausible color -- this almost never happens, but it happened with this figure.

I unironically love the neon accessories from this line.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morgan

For being a cool villain associated with TNG, the Borg were actually seen in a remarkably small number of episodes. I was recently reading about the plans that writer Maurice Hurley had for the Borg in the first season, early on, and they were quite impressive. Of course, the writers strike happened and Hurley moved on from the series, but the plans for the Borg would have been pretty epic if they had materialized: Romulus was supposed to be destroyed and the Romulan civilization wiped out, but before the Borg would have been able to accomplish this they could have destroyed one of the Borg cubes. And Picard was supposed to figure out how they did that, it was supposed to be a mystery.

Needless to say, those were pretty breathtaking plans for the series which did not, at the time, have multi-episode plot arcs, or really any kind of accumulation of consequences (aside from Tasha's death). And from the beginning Q was envisioned as playing a role in the Borg's introduction -- the episode "Q Who" was sketched out early on, and it ended up being scripted as planned, with Q playing an "unreliable god" and Picard being forced to seek his help when he couldn't deal with encountering the Borg.

That is indeed a shame that those ideas never really came to fruition; some of the best stories of TNG revolve around Q testing Picard’s mettle.