This image of a cube conveys an emotion I do not know the word for.
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You will have no hopes, no personality, no point.
Wow it's just like working.
TIL I have been borged.
Just don't put any thought into where you poke the holes in your face. They don't do well with cable management.
Ow, my hose!
I get so much anxiety watching the Borg and the Jem'Hadar with all their tubes and wires just looping out to the side, waiting to get caught on whatever and ripped out of their necks/heads. Odd choice for people who are specially modded to be soldiers.
Maybe it is on purpose. Increased situational awareness because you have to be so much more careful about getting hoses pulled.
Aww... It's a baby Borg Cube.
"You will be... assimiwated!"
What else do you think this guy would be flying?
It's trying, ok?
Nonsense, we're getting you babies out of here.
I'm down for the cybernetic enhancements, I'm not down with the collective hive mind existence.
Hopefully they have better developers than here. The biggest reason I wouldn’t want any cybernetic implants is I know how buggy code can be and it tends to go to the lowest bidder. Imagine your eyes segfaulting because they see a certain object. Or someone finds a way to hack it and constantly turn every image into goatse.
goatception
Especially because at least half the stream of consciousness would be nonstop horny.
So you are a cancer.
No, I'm a Pisces.
Im also pisces! Yoooooo Happy BD somewhere in Feb or March.
Pisces gang unite !
I mean, the assimilation process is supposed to be maddeningly painful. Excruciating. Then if you ever get rescued, you have to deal with CPTSD for the rest of your life.
Yes but you will never wake up at 8 AM or write another TPS report again.
The Borg would definitely say "what are", not what're
Yeah, I'd be down for it.
What happens to the conscious experience of someone who is assimilated? Are they even aware of their actions during it? Is there some instance of someone doing that trope where they shake it off like mind control in an emotional scene? If not they might just black out completely for the duration.
Is the conscious mind of an assimilated person destroyed at some point or is it always able to be restored at some later time?
Personalities, or at least the strong parts of them are suppressed and essentially held in a zoo called a vinculum. The rest of the personality joins the hive mind and experiences harmonic bliss, while also being aware of the pain of extreme body modification. TBH it just sounds like dissociation.
Aren’t Hugh (TNG) and 7of 9 (VOY) examples of this? 7 often contemplates her time as Borg, so she has memories of it. Also when Picard was Borg, he was ever so distraught but couldn’t do anything but Borgy things.
I will wire a USB cable to a rusty 9 inch nail & apply it directly to my forehead - one way or another I'm uploading my ass to that ship, there must be a glorious hole somewhere in their firewall, I'm certain of it.
(And then also serve my new domy mommy, which isn't really a requirement on my part tbh but it certainly doesn't hurt)
... but seriously, think of the little things, like imagine just stepping into that charging pod & then fell rested afterwards?