Really? I haven't heard about that.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:16 pm I think the economic oil crisis of the 70's was the basis for Wolf 359
I just figured it was a story progression once Picard became Locutus.
Really? I haven't heard about that.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:16 pm I think the economic oil crisis of the 70's was the basis for Wolf 359
I think you'd have to explain that for us.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:16 pm I think the economic oil crisis of the 70's was the basis for Wolf 359
That's an interesting dynamic overlaying the Federation during the ordeal, but I'm not seeing anything too specific when you finish your surmise on various American Indian contingents.MaxWylde wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:22 pmI think you'd have to explain that for us.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:16 pm I think the economic oil crisis of the 70's was the basis for Wolf 359
I saw the arrival of the Borg more or less to be something akin to the arrival mainly of the British to the New World, and then the subsequent formation of the United States. Prior, the British were, more or less, content with allowing the Native Americans to remain where they were and keep their lands. The Spanish were more than willing to do that, even offering Natives complete autonomy under the aegis of the Spanish Empire (the King/Holy Roman Emperor even granted fiefdoms to several tribes, which is why Monctezuma's head-dress is residing in a museum in Vienna.
wikipedia wrote: Independently, the OPEC members agreed to use their leverage over the world price-setting mechanism for oil to stabilize their real incomes by raising world oil prices. This action followed several years of steep income declines after the recent failure of negotiations with the major Western oil companies earlier in the month.
For the most part, industrialized economies relied on crude oil,[citation needed] and OPEC was their major supplier.[citation needed] Because of the dramatic inflation experienced during this period, a popular economic theory has been that these price increases were to blame, as being suppressive of economic activity. However, the causality stated by this theory is often questioned.[15] The targeted countries responded with a wide variety of new, and mostly permanent, initiatives to contain their further dependency. The 1973 "oil price shock", along with the 1973–1974 stock market crash, have been regarded as the first event since the Great Depression to have a persistent economic effect.[16]
You raise a good point though as to why the Federation decided the Borg threat was over given how the Borg would send a second cube soon after.McAvoy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 10, 2021 5:25 am I think 9/11 works the best as far as waking up a complacent power and taking measures to prevent it from happening again. There isn't much to go on when it comes to on screen evidence that Starfleet did this. The Defiant is the only one and she was shelved due to her having problems and politics (the threat of the Borg waning always sounded like a political thing than Starfleet actually thinking thd Borg threat was gone).
The whole waking up of Starfleet was the fans talking about it using background information like certain starship classes like the Akira or the Sovereign were designed to fight the Borg.
Combined with how TNG presented itself for most of its run too.
Well, it seems as if you didn't get it the first time around. I thought maybe I had to explain a little better. I could just as well talk about the Africans vs. Europeans or the Indians vs. British, or the Americans vs. Japanese.BridgeConsoleMasher wrote: ↑Sat Jul 10, 2021 4:16 am That seems pretty long winded description for what amounts to technological development differences between pretty much any colonizing force and an indigenous one. I read through the last long winded one and this one seems to follow suit to basically describe what everybody already knows from 1950's stereotypes of Cowboys and Indians.