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Tumblr post by arctic-hands:
When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly “Borg Cube”, but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.
So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said “Death Star”.
So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.
Reply from evilsoup:
An image depicting the story of the “Judgment of Solomon”, where Solomon is labelled “stargate fandom”, and the two women are labelled “star trek fandom” and “star wars fandom”. The Star Wars lady is standing grumpily with her hands on her hips, while the Star Trek woman gestures with open arms. Between the two of them, on the floor, is a baby in a wicker basket. Solomon sits over them in judgment.
Ironically, I think the Force and the Borg would be an interesting Voyager episode. Do the Borg have a connection? Are they alive by spiritual standards? Do Borg have individual souls, or perhaps a collective soul? In TNG I would argue that they have one single soul, up until Locutus and the queen showing up. Then in Voyager the Borg got their own little VR mind holiday site where individuals part of the collective could keep some of their individuality.
Going by the collective argument, I’d say that the Borg would try to join the Force collective as a means to assimilate all. They would attempt to corrupt and control the Force, and probably be met with fierce resistance from the Sith.
I’m not so sure about the necessity to clear one’s mind. Some very impressive moments involving the force were the result of overemotional characters wielding the dark side, intentionally or unintentionally. I think the light side may all be about calm and control, but that’s just one aspect of the force that the Borg would not necessarily be interested in.