Just remember
Time's Arrow gave birth to this clip, which is probably DJO's best parody.

"I would hope some of these DS9 nay-sayers would, heaven forbid, actually give DS9 a fucking chance…"

I'd stick it out with TNG
Do DS9 later. I actually don't think you're going to like DS9 much. The show is a bore for 4 years and then for the last 3 its trying to make up for its bad premise and weak writing with a machine gun cloaking ship and lots of asplosions. Think about how "edgy" TNG is not. Now think about TNG…

spicoli - But why not just remove that part of the brain from the assimilated? The funny thing about Locutus is that they need his memories to combat the feds and to act as an ambassador. Picard says he recalls everything he did but couldn't stop it. There was an individual in him that was suppressed by the…

Anyone wonder why
if the chroniton particles kind of stay in one place why Geordi didn't write his name with his finger on a surface? That would have been a pretty big clue.

You know, actually, if the Borg were all just assimilated races with little or no trace of a common genetic background, the whole moral quandary is moot. By destroying the Borg they are basically putting millions of lobotomized people out of their misery. Only if the Borg chose to be that way, but could be enticed…

Beverly is a bleeding heart doctor. I don't think she say him as an individual in the sense of what he becomes. She saw him as a hurt life form that needed her attention to survive. Bev doesn't care about politics or grudges. She cares about breath and pulse. That's all she saw in him.

I Borg is a great episode
But its the turning point where the borg basically get ruined. They go from "the ultimate user" - birthed in incubators and technologized from infancy, to people assimilators. Watch Q Who and BoBW again. The borg don't want people. They destroy worlds and integrate the tech they find. Locutus…

You know, if you think about it, Kamala accepting her duty and denying the notoriously asexual Picard sex could even be playing right into his kinks. Marrying the chancelor may have been a turn on for him. Because everything she's done to this point has been for the man she's influenced by there's no way to know if…

Buckaroo, its not a strawman at all. For Sambo to change race would be to alter the stereotype between changes. Kamala never does this. Just like the sambo is always just a southern slave with different jobs, Kamala is always sexually submissive to the whims of the men. She just changes her technique, but never the…

I don't understand what you mean by "she changes" therefore this is all ok. She may change tactics, but she never changes who she and her goal is - a sex bot. She's changing to be better suited as a sexual partner for a man. She's changing to make someone else happy. It would be like if Sambo slave man had the "power"…

I do understand you're point, Rich. Completely. But I completely disagree. You example of the Jew and the Nazi may be gross or humiliating, but it's not a stereotype. A Jew wanting to be bossed around is not something you would read in anti-Semitic propaganda. It's not part of the ugly stereotype of Jews. It would be,…

I keep adding addendums. I want to point out that this show doesn't really have a good track record with women. My friend once pointed out to me that strong woman on the show - like Tasha and Kaylar - are killed and Troi gets molested by someone or something in every other episode.

Well the whole genetic determinism thing has always been a problem in TNG and beyond. "It's just in their nature to behave that way". They touch on it in this episode too with the "All Klingons have to be violent, all Vulcans have to be logical" line Kamala mentions. And the audience is supposed to nod and agree…

And just to add to the both of you, I'm assuming that you ARE intelligent well meaning people when I speak to you. Please don't use BS ad hominems on me like that I "have an axe to grind" in order to refute what I'm saying. You don't know anything about me and I'm just letting you know that's fallacious route to go…

Donaiphi and Buckaroo, if you want to enjoy your fiction in a vacuum that's fine. But you can't make a show about a person who is a walking love doll with no personality who can't live without someone else to please who is a *woman* in this world with its history and tradition of exploiting women in exactly this way…

Dude, you're completely lost if that's really what you feel. That's the classic view of female "sexuality". That women should and do have less needs and should be focused more on male pleasure. So, by that classic definition, we should not feel sorry for Kamala that the only pleasure she gets is through the pleasure…

Richelieu Jr, you seem be exploding large amounts of text for nothing. No one is complaining that she is sexual. I am complaining that that sexuality is one way.

Zack, I actually put "only" in brackets in that sentence because I felt that what she said implied that. But the comment system stripped it out, probably thinking it was code, so we're on the same page.

But, as I said in my OP, the only escape for Kamala from one man is another man. There's never a suggestion that she just not imprint. Even in this farcical BS of biology the screen writers have created, the woman could lock herself in a room until time runs out and just be a regular girl. And yet nobody ever figures…