[jimbob]

[sigh]

Yes, the Borg were cool in the ST:NG universe. Dangerous, rabid, intelligent and ultra-adaptive in their own way.

But instead of remaining an (occassional) Uber-evil race, the creators/writers made them into a run of the mill sort of race... and unfortunately familiarity breeds contempt (rather than fear).

But the unforgivable literary sin was that the writers made them stupid... In the beginning the borg can modulate their shields to become impervious to photon torpedoes after only two hits = smart. By the time we get to Janeway and the Fur Trading good-ship lollypop, the borg just can't seem to jam those transporters! By my calculations, three out of every four borg cubes we see ends up destroyed by boarding parties.

Either the borg e-mail system isn't routing Messages, or the ST writers' guild needs a health round of kick-butt firings