Star Trek: The Next Generation/Recap/S5/E23 I, Borg: Difference between revisions

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Guinan does eventually go visit Hugh, and she maintains her harsh facade until she lets it slip that her people had been very nearly obliterated by the Borg. Hugh notes that she is lonely, being so far away from any of her kind, and that "we [sic, referring to himself; hold that thought] are lonely too". Guinan is, to say the least, speechless at this unexpected acknowledgment of emotion from the Borg. And so the [[Logic Bomb]] plot is working, only [[Inverted Trope|in reverse]]; one by one, the Enterprise crew are growing attached to Hugh and subsequently reluctant to initiate genocide through him. Guinan goes to Picard with her new misgivings, only to find him as fiercely defiant as she herself had been. And I really mean "fiercely"; at one point Picard roars "IT'S '''NOT''' A PERSON, DAMMIT; IT'S A '''[[Fantastic Racism|BORG]]!!'''" Guinan is having none of it, though, and insists that Picard too must at least look Hugh in the eye before turning him into a [[Tyke Bomb]].

 

 

{{quote| '''Picard:''' They will be assimilated. You will assist us.<br />