You do realize I just quoted the Bible, right?
First of all, tell me you're familiar with the Borg, or else this conversation is going to go nowhere quickly.
"Resistance is Futile." You join the Borg or they destroy you. Is God going to tolerate dissent -- in deeds, words, or even thoughts?
The 'assimilated' (the saved) never feel pain, sorrow, or death. They accept their condition because it is impossible for them to do or even think otherwise. Consider that, and read Revelation 21:4
There is one mind which unites the entire Borg Collective -- the Queen. (Revelation 12:1, anyone?)
The special detail that isn't misinformation - something to be subconscious absorbed - is that the "borg" represent exactly what Gene Roddenberry thinks the "heavenly entities" and perfected will be like.
You are agnostic, but I won't assume you aren't familiar with religious infighting. Part of that infighting comes from certain denominations that desperately try to attribute female qualities (or any anthropomorphism) to God, when His nature has been spelled out. The female principality spirit has asserted itself as queen of heaven when there is no queen position. So, it made itself a queen WITHOUT A KING. This is why the scripture about spiritual Babylon being a queen who doesn't sit as a widow is in the bible - to highlight WHO/WHAT we are talking about - that principality spirit. It is an allusion to what it tried to do in the spirit against God.
In the movie "Star Trek: First Contact" she introduces herself thus: "I am the beginning. The end. The one who is many. I am the Borg... I am the Collective. I bring order to chaos."
Compare to Revelation 21:6 -- "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely."
Then, of course, is the iconic Borg cube -- their preferred method of travel:
Wow, that thing's big. Make it even bigger and it's heaven:
Revelation 21:16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs.
The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
IOW, a cube: and at 12,000 furlongs, that equals a cube about 1500 miles across
Where do you think the
Star Trek writers get their ideas from?
You actually opened up a can of worms that contained several jars. Very good points, however...
The BORG idea is a bastardization of several myths, including myths of the bible that stay as myth because the church, neither people, have distinguished the mythos from the truth of Christianity itself. One of them is the Queen of heaven, which is actually from the Babylonian myth of Semaramis - the mother of Nimrod/Set/etc. Semaramis is Diana (inspiration for Wonder Woman,) queen of heaven, who has been applied to every other civilization goddess. In Greek mythology, Gaia is the consort of Uranus/Caelus. The Queen of Heaven is also known Isis, Inanna (Diana,) Anat, Ishtar (easter,) etc. The unofficial name of the Borg Queen is "Asil," which means "pure, clean, noble, authentic..." in Arabic.
In the canon, and apocrypha, the Queen of heaven is a spiritual influential principality that passes itself off as equal, and opposite to God the Father. There is no queen of heaven; the imagery of the woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet is The Church - specifically the Virgin, pure Church of God who has kept herself pure, clean, and authentic in that she did not consort with any other "gods." The Satan has been associated with female attributes of powerful opposition - most notably in canonical texts as the Jezebel Spirit. Shows like "V," and Star Trek reinforce this mythos.
Do you see how it is a twisted version of Hebrew scriptures? If there were ever going to be a "Queen of Heaven," it is going to be the Church itself - all remnant/faithful members of that body. The baby she gives birth to are the
firstfruits of her designation - namely the first set of people who are actually perfect(ed) sons of God from the people that He Himself created in His image.
The Dragon - that principality spirit - is trying to kill the child she is bearing, i.e. that entity is trying to destroy the chances of any of us being perfected, and thereby destroying "God's Pet Project." The Dragon fails, because the child was caught up before it could get to it (that is Christ's victory, literally Him as the first to beat sin and resurrect to perfection.) And, so the dragon tries to destroy the remnant of the Church (the woman) in order to retard the number that choose to be victorious over sin.
That image of the woman is at worse an astrological symbol for VIRGO - and an analysis of that goes even further into the sinister culture of real spiritual truth VS. what translates onto a page of a canonical text.
This ignorance in the Church has led to very simple things being turned into literary and psychological mostrosities - the most notable is the Paradise Lost, or Dantean Hell - of which the latter was, ironically, an allegory of the mythos of Catholic teaching used to dole out what Dante thought was the right justice for each type of spiritually derelict soul.
Gene Roddenberry was a "Philo-semite" possibly, allegedly only because of his mother's suspiciously Jewish sounding last name and life. But, Gene certainly used Hebrew "lore" to influence his show. As we saw, Asil AKA the Borg Queen is supposed to be perfection.
The Borg is actually a commentary on what Gene believes "heaven, resurrection and perfected bodies" in terms of the Bible would be - drab, boring, visually ugly, without flavor, and nothing but a race of zombies that are perfect only in "calculations" of the heart, rather than perfect in the heart itself.
Again, this is an example of what principality spirits have tried to argue about God since the Garden: that He is boring, without flavor, ambivalent, and only interested in loyal and obedient robots that won't question Him -
because He is scared of what wuld happened if one's eyes were open.
The show is actually a subconscious projection of what he envisions the world AFTER the resurrection, and during "Day of Peace/1000 years of Christ" to be. Notice we are at least 300 years in the "present" future; the wars AT Har Meggido (Armageddon is a PLACE, not an event) had happened in his opinion, and the entire world has transformed. "We" are at peace with comparatively marginal amounts of the crime ad problems of the past. Money doesn't exist. Intercontinental war doesn't exist. We are part of a galactic federation (a New age, "dream" of the alleged string pullers of the world.) We have drastically increased in knowledge to reach our technological and energy needs. It is more or less a utopia time. This mimics the conditions of the "Day of Peace/1000 year reign" even for those who weren't resurrected to a glorified body - but remained as they were.
We get geometrical shapes to represent Borg ships, because these shapes are examples of simplicity in perfection in calculation. They are part of a unimatrix (not universe,) because every detail of their collective is calculated through technology, rather than organically united in spirit. In fact, Gene is trying to argue imperfection is better than perfection - if it means being Borg (his idea of God, and heaven.) Another twist of spirituality, but accepted axiom of life: that sin is more attractive/profitable than perfection with God.
The reason why the Borg are nearly impossible to destroy is because they represent Gene's idea of what
the resurrected saints, judges and rulers will look and seem like compared to the rest of the lot. Remember, about 900+ years into "peace," the same principality spirit that has made a culture of ignorant in spirituality for us will once again try to tempt man. Then, there will be a final war with against that principality and his people (federation,) against Christ and His saints (borg.)
Star Trek was a commentary on the Abrahamic religions in general, and how they would be seen in a future where humans have attained "peace" on their own power. Perfection and unity (because of the voluntary heart, not calculations) is made to seem ugly and undesirable compared to the peace gained by humans alone. It is a story told over and over whose basic purpose is to defecate on the Most High God - and anything He values.
