Would you rather be dead or assimilated?

Three of Seven · Posted Sat 19 Mar, 2016 9:52 PM

You have a choice, you can either face death with no chance of being revived by the medical team or you can be assimilated and become part of the collective, with the slim chance of being freed one day in the future. What fate would you choose?

Solace · Posted Sat 19 Mar, 2016 9:54 PM

Resistance is futile

Tain · Posted Sat 19 Mar, 2016 11:47 PM

You will become one with the Borg

Noram · Posted Sun 20 Mar, 2016 12:14 AM

Death is permanent, Assimilation...not necessarily

Christopher Halsey · Posted Sun 20 Mar, 2016 1:22 AM

Originally Posted by Three of Seven

You have a choice, you can either face death with no chance of being revived by the medical team

Clearly someone hasn't heard of super-blood, geez Three get with the times, JJ has cured death!

Originally Posted by Noram

Death is permanent, Assimilation...not necessarily

Kirk, Spock and Picard would disagree with you there.

thexpl0r3r · Posted Sun 20 Mar, 2016 1:48 AM

My choice would be to fight till the the end whatever that may be... No surrender!

Kerry Malone · Posted Sun 20 Mar, 2016 6:21 AM

This is a nice morbid topic!

I choose to resist, which likely means my death. Resistance is never futile!

Unless...

Isaac Angelos · Posted Sun 20 Mar, 2016 7:10 AM

I deny both these choices and go the route of. . .

Three of Seven · Posted Sun 20 Mar, 2016 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Christopher Halsey

Clearly someone hasn't heard of super-blood, geez Three get with the times, JJ has cured death!

I did state "no chance of being revived" in the choice, so no magic blood will save you, there is no cure. It wouldn't be much of a choice if there was a cure.

Also Kirk did die fully, a bridge fell on him and he was dead, like fully dead.

McClintock · Posted Sun 20 Mar, 2016 2:58 PM

I'm with Picard on this one, acting like that makes me want to mess the Borg UP!

Halfeclipse · Posted Mon 21 Mar, 2016 11:50 AM

Functionally the same thing so I really couldn't care either way.

Christopher Halsey · Posted Mon 21 Mar, 2016 6:38 PM

Originally Posted by Three of Seven

I did state "no chance of being revived" in the choice, so no magic blood will save you, there is no cure. It wouldn't be much of a choice if there was a cure.

But JJ and his terrible writers assured me that magic super blood cured everything. Next you are going to tell me one does not simply beam to Qo'noS. Oh Three you are silly.

Originally Posted by Three of Seven

Also Kirk did die fully, a bridge fell on him and he was dead, like fully dead.

True, until William Shatner started writing Star Trek books. Now he's more immortal than Q.

Stormy · Posted Mon 21 Mar, 2016 7:33 PM

I originally chose assimilated because I felt as long as you're alive there is always hope.... but Star Trek has had pretty good success at bringing the dead back to life....so now I'm not sure!

Leoferwic · Posted Tue 22 Mar, 2016 2:12 PM

I'm going to go with death. Preferably the kind that takes some borg with me and give the lore-singers a good tale to tell. Yes you may be able to be rescued from assimilated servitude but what will you do while you are assimilated?

I am crossing universes here, but this was my thought on being assimilated, with nanites as your ring:
I would use this ring from a desire to do good... But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.
-Gandalf

Dentari · Posted Tue 22 Mar, 2016 7:56 PM

Definitely dead. In the grand scheme of things, how likely is it that I'd be liberated really? Looking at TNG and VOY, it's clear that removing an individual from the Borg is a ridiculously rare occurrence. I'd rather not spend decades or centuries (how long do individual drones live anyway?) being a slave, destroying other species, and posing a risk to the Federation!

Would you rather be dead or assimilated?

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