I Borg story
The Enterprise rescues a Borg survivor, and Picard plans to use him as a weapon against his nemesis by exposing him to a computer virus .
25 total · 5 choice · 14 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| forming one's own distinct personality | choice | Hugh grappled with the concept being an individual separate from the Borg collective mind from which he'd recently become disconnected. |
| male bonding | choice | Geordi/Hugh :: Geordi and Hugh |
| the calculus of human life | choice | Picard :: kill Hugh to eliminate the Borg threat to humanity or allow him to develop his individuality |
| the ethics of valuing human lives | choice | Picard :: Picard weighs merits and demerits of exterminating Borg |
| the right to exist of a genocidal people | choice | Picard weighed the merits and demerits of exterminating the Borg. |
| alien point of view | major | Hugh, Borg :: Hugh and his non-individuality |
| annihilation by WMDs | major | there is an opportunity to annihilate the Borg using a Trojan Horse attack |
| assimilating beings | major | Picard plotted to annihilate the Borg to prevent them from assimilating the people of the Federation into their collective consciousness. |
| biological weapons | major | the computer virus was to the Borg as a weaponized bio-virus would be to mankind |
| collectively intelligent beings | major | Borg :: Borg |