It was just 1 stupid thing after another, with nostalgia-bait at the end.
The 1st 8 episodes were decent and the 1st few episode arc in particular was pretty good, on the same level as TNG.
Then it's like they let a retard write this episode. Every plot point was annoying and stupid and totally contrived absolute dumpster fire garbage. This is the twitter profile pic of one of the 2 credited writers. Some young chick who gets coffee for the writers room.
okay so just off the top of my head:
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jack crusher suddenly being treated like the enemy for no good reason
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jack crusher suddenly running to the borg for no good reason so the plot can happen
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borg reveal and within minutes, jack crusher is at the queen
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the whole concept of a "borg queen" is fucking stupid, anyway, they're not fucking ants, they're the ultimate space communists.
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changelings totally disappear from the plot the moment they served their purpose
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rogue changelings were 100x more interesting than this generic borg shit
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the whole concept of "frontier day" is fucking stupid & contrived just to make an excuse to put all Federation ships in 1 place for a ... parade? absolutely idiotic.
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fireworks in space are retarded
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transporter technology cannot be use to alter human DNA en masse, or at all. this has literally never happened in ST history, nothing like as depicted here
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the idea that a human can become a borg because of a few hidden genes is retarded. borg are cyborgs. they spread by injecting nanites. this has all been established over and over.
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borg "brown noise" that makes crew
shit their pantssuddenly have borg nanites in their blood somehow -
LET'S NETWORK ALL OUR SHIPS TOGETHER, IT'S NOT LIKE EVERY SINGLE TIME THIS HAS EVER BEEN DONE IN SCI-FI, THE RESULT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT 1 HACK WIPES OUT THE WHOLE FLEET. absolutely retarded, contrived. comes out of nowhere. every view immediately knows it means they're all fucked. It's like "scary movie" levels of retardation.
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literally no reason to network ships unless you're doing a drone light show
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the old ship was destroyed but Geordi put it back together in his free time like your dad working on an old car
I recall seeing clips from S2 and thinking the Borg queen sounded just like a Hybrid.
I really thought the plot of the season was going to be the Changlings bodysnatching people via transporter fuckery. Maybe Trek had gotten past its obsession with action movies and delved into horror. It was right there with the meaty Changlings and everything. But nope, it's the Borg again. We've literally flushed the Changling plot out an airlock. They just cannot let it go.
Dr Crusher: "The Changelings must have been working with the Borg this whole time!"
Ummm...why is she saying that like it's obvious? It makes no sense whatsoever, the Changelings have no logical reason to work with them (the Federation is clearly a better, more beatable enemy than the Borg- especially for a race whose best tactics are infiltration and creating division) and even less to trust them- they have access to all of Starfleet's data, including the Borg trying to screw Voyager after they helped save them from destruction by Species 8472.
I heard rumors this season would bring the bugs from Conspiracy back, at least that would have dealt with a loose thread from TNG.
Yeah the meaty changelings were actually a new villain that seemed threatening & like there had been serious effort put into developing them. There was a lot of potential there for some good & satisfying payoffs and a solid ending, but nope, they had to Shaymalayan that shit.