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Doctor Who has been around for a long time. When we say “a long time” we don’t mean it in the same way as, say, The Simpsons, we mean it in the way that it’s probably responsible for the invention of the radio [citation needed]. In fact, Doctor Who has been doing sci-fi since before sci-fi was cool, back when it was still called science fiction. Ok, so sci-fi never really became cool, but you get the point. When a program has been exploring a genre for that long, they’re bound to come up with more than a few good ideas, and either because it’s British or because nobody seems to care, other writers that have followed often “borrow” ideas from this classic series.

Case in point:

“The Borg” from Star Trek: The Next Generation

The story: The Borg, aside from being one of the biggest boner-inducing badass villains ever to give Trekkies a squeal, are an assimilating race of cybernetic/organic beings (aka, cyborgs) with a hive mind that assimilate other species they come across by making them part of their Borg collective. Resisting this assimilation is, as they say, futile. Once converted you no longer have any human (or whatever type of alien species you were before the Borg) emotion, lose your individual identity, and live only to serve the hive. Serving the hive consists of collecting raw materials, being pale, and coming up with new and interesting ways to look badass by covering half your body with cybernetics. It also means trying to convert all beings you come across into Borg, in what we can only assume is an attempt to get the largest Groupon discount in the universe.

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