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** The final episode leaves the possibility of this trope rather alarmingly dangling overhead. Future Janeway comes back over a decade to bring the crew home, decking out the ship in all kinds of future tech and eventually infecting the Borg Queen with a super nasty future virus. Now, given the Borg's ability to adapt, one can speculate that if they manage to overcome that virus, they would then have adapted to technology and programming the Federation hasn't yet invented.... |
** The final episode leaves the possibility of this trope rather alarmingly dangling overhead. Future Janeway comes back over a decade to bring the crew home, decking out the ship in all kinds of future tech and eventually infecting the Borg Queen with a super nasty future virus. Now, given the Borg's ability to adapt, one can speculate that if they manage to overcome that virus, they would then have adapted to technology and programming the Federation hasn't yet invented.... |
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*** Not only that, but they had already assimilated her shuttle from the future by then, including the armor and the torpedoes. |
*** Not only that, but they had already assimilated her shuttle from the future by then, including the armor and the torpedoes. |
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** And in the [[Expanded Universe]] novels, specifically ''[[Star Trek Destiny]]'', this does come back to bite them. |
** And in the [[Expanded Universe]] novels, specifically ''[[Star Trek: Destiny]]'', this does come back to bite them. |
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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Long Game", Adam attempts to leave one of these for himself in the past by recording historical information from 197,988 years in the future on his mother's answering machine. The Doctor finds out. He's not happy. |
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Long Game", Adam attempts to leave one of these for himself in the past by recording historical information from 197,988 years in the future on his mother's answering machine. The Doctor finds out. He's not happy. |
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** Ironically, Adam himself is at risk of becoming one. He has his own brain upgraded in the future, to interface with the computers of the time. Now whenever someone snaps their fingers near him a little port on his forehead opens up. The Doctor mentions that Adam has to lead a quiet life and not draw attention to himself, or he risks [[Theyd Cut You Up|being dissected]] for the future technology in his skull. At the end of the episode, his mother snaps her fingers while talking to him. |
** Ironically, Adam himself is at risk of becoming one. He has his own brain upgraded in the future, to interface with the computers of the time. Now whenever someone snaps their fingers near him a little port on his forehead opens up. The Doctor mentions that Adam has to lead a quiet life and not draw attention to himself, or he risks [[Theyd Cut You Up|being dissected]] for the future technology in his skull. At the end of the episode, his mother snaps her fingers while talking to him. |
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