Secondly, as David Finn points out in his pretty comprehensive review, the Borg in Armada are rather weak compared to their counterparts in the Star Trek: First Contact movie and the ST:NG. Having the bad guys win is apparently not on the cards - the Federation always manage to save the day. You can't assimilate the Enterprise for example, or assimilate the Earth and rule the galaxy (on a permanent basis, at least). This is an interesting approach in itself but does have the downside that you can't do anything that would alter the storyline. The first of the reasons is that the Borg campaigns, like those of the other races, slot neatly into the storyline. Unfortunately, those looking forward to assimilating the universe in one fell swoop may be a little disappointed upon picking up Star Trek: Armada, for a couple of reasons.
After all, everyone knows that the when it comes to lethal weaponry and bottom-kicking ships, bad is best. They're so nasty, in fact, that I suspect at least half of all the people who bought Star Trek: Armada bought it just for the chance to play as the Borg. Still, she's more a blip than an emerging trend amongst the Borg, and the rest of the Borg remain thoroughly nasty, their nastiness rating boosted by the fact that they spend most of their free time mercilessly assimilating all species they come across, turning them into Borg drones and stripping them of their individuality.Īnd if that wasn't worrying enough, they're virtually unstoppable. Except that is, for Voyager's Seven of Nine who has been shorn of most of her robotic appendages and appears to be the only member of the Voyager crew with a with access to unlimited supplies of lycra and special Borg 'implants' which probably contravene every Starfleet clothing regulation. The Borg are half human, half mechanical and uglier than the Daleks ever were. And the entertainingly off-kilter Lexx 's central antagonist was a strange shadowy lifeform who initially ruled a rather macabre universe dominating empire (which Star Wars' Imperial Empire had nothing on) and later became a sort of half machine creature who succeeded in destroying the entire universe piece by piece.īut the creators of Star Trek: The Next Generation must claim the prize for creating the best evil baddies ever - the Borg. Bablyon 5 pulled this off well, featuring the evil Shadows, with their jet black ships and sneaky plots. When it comes to space operas like Star Trek or Babylon 5 you can have all the square-jawed heroes, but what you really need to give a show that extra edge is some really nasty baddies.
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