Came across this quote today:
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?We Are The Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”
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For those of you who are as clueless about Star Trek as I am, according to The Borg Collective ([URL]http://www.theborgcollective.com[/URL]), The Borg is/are the following:
[i]The Borg are perhaps the greatest villain characters ever introduced into the Star Trek realm. A group of humanoid beings of various races, the Borg are a blend of the biological and the technological. It was writer Maurice Hurley who derived the name “Borg” from the term “Cyborg” (or cybernetic organism).
The Borg made their first appearance in a Star Trek episode during the week of May 8th, 1989 in the Next Generation episode “Q, Who?”. Initially designed to be a one shot “unbeatable opponent” for the Enterprise crew, Star Trek producers had no idea the overwhelming response these new villains would have on the fans of Star Trek who wanted to see more of the single-willed Borg. As such, the Borg have appeared in several episodes of the modern Star Trek television programs, and in the feature film “Star Trek: First Contact.”[/i]
Well, anyways, it just struck me how much the quote above reminded me of a the business practices of a certain software development firm….I know the whole Borg/Microsoft thing has been done to death, but I hadn’t actually seen the quote in it’s entirety before…pretty freaky! It’s as if the writers had Big Daddy Bill in mind when they wrote the lines…