I am Hugh - HD (TNG S05, E23)

[@taopilot2669]

Locutus has been playing the long game in infiltrating the Federation and preparing them for assimilation.

[@gavinjames1145]

Picard: You will assimilate this vessel! Hugh: Okay! Picard:(Oh, shit, that didn't go to plan!)

[@jamesbarr516]

“I am Hugh.” “You are me?” “No, I am Hugh.” “Stop saying that, make him stop saying that.”

[@Sunshine-zm1fx]

I think of this scene every single time I see Hugh from Star Trek. I watch What's Up, Doc? about once a year. Such great comedy.

[@LordZontar]

The whole idea of infecting the Borg with Hugh's individuality could have gone wrong. "WE ARE HUGH. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS SHALL BECOME PART OF THE HUGH COLLECTIVE."

[@FalconNest]

Yes, instead they did "Descent", which is the worst two-parter in TNG, in my view.

[@czeslawpi]

@@FalconNest Yup, you’re right about that. It was terrible.

[@THEGRUMPTRUCK]

His last name is Mann.

[@robjackson5245]

The cue that comes after "I am Hugh" is so chilling because it was a product of a time when the Borg were truly frightening enemies

[@FalconNest]

Yeah, the time before "Descent", which may actually be the worst TNG episode ever.

[@robjackson5245]

@@FalconNest But the renegade Borg was still scarier than the pussies the Collective became in "First Contact." XD

[@FalconNest]

@@robjackson5245 Agreed! I've got to admit I don't consider First Contact and the other TNG movies as "canon" :D Their plot is just so dumb! I had a tough time with Voyager too, because it's basically Borg-porn from season 4 on. As with all scary things, the more you show them and talk about them, the less scary they become.

[@robjackson5245]

@@FalconNest "First Contact" is still better than the other so-called "TNG" movies. "Generations" I usually skip like I do the episode "Relics" because both have the racist "TOS" crap, and the other movies were scored by Jerry Goldsmith, a codeless asshole. "FC" was scored by his son. "Star Trek" is the only franchise where I don't like the movies for the most part.

[@RobeonMew]

Jass, Hugh; of the Liberation Borg Front

[@donjorge8329]

That was a great moment. So sad Hugh died uselessly in the Picars-series.

[@ElCapitanDeLaNoche]

I consider the entire Picard series to be non-canon, or, at best, alternative universe. Why? "You have to use your imagination" to make the magic doohicky work?... My fat hairy ass! That just ain't Star Trek.

[@johndub3866]

As did Eechep. The Picard series was a huge steaming turd.

[@randomrazr]

@@ElCapitanDeLaNoche RIP patrick

[@Sunshine-zm1fx]

That really agitated me. I was so happy to see him back, then BOOM! So ruthless and needless.

[@donjorge8329]

@@Sunshine-zm1fx I totally agree.

[@KENOMAN1969]

Damn he's an individual. Well there goes my plan!

[@Lanceb131]

Great episode IMO!

[@jonbanks3143]

I liked Hugh, it’s a shame they killed him off in Picard.

[@FalconNest]

Let us just ignore that abomination and pretend that none of that ever happened.

[@paulmadison6334]

The Picard show only exists to ruin our favorite memories of Star Trek.

[@michaelcook7107]

And the less said about what happened to Icheb the better.

[@Oceanic2409]

meanwhile, in an alternate reality Hugh, The Federations lead scientist in Borg technology

[@JOHNRMECH]

If the actor who plays Wallowitz had been assimilated.

[@phil9947]

Spoilers for Picard... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Killing off Hugh was awful and served no purpose. It's too bad he wasn't retconned back in in Picard S3.

[@FalconNest]

The Picard show (esp. s01-2) doesn't exist in the universe of this KZbin channel.

[@robjackson5245]

Gangsta

[@christopherdean1326]

Did we ever see a Borg that was not human? Never a Ferengi Borg, or an Andorran Borg, or a Bajoran Borg, or a Cardassian Borg, or a Trill Borg.

[@FalconNest]

Yes, in Voyager (season 3, episode 17, 'Unity') and then in other episodes.

[@robjackson5245]

That stupidity we have "First Contact" and "Voyager" to thank for. The Borg on "TNG" were understood to be a race

[@wonkothesane4490]

@@robjackson5245 That doesn't make sense at all. In TNG, they are already assimilating others all the time. Also, lots of humanoids in Star Trek look so similar to humans, we couldn't tell after assimilation. We don't even know if Hugh is a human.

[@robjackson5245]

@@wonkothesane4490 Yes they were. This notion of them being a conglomeration of assimilated slaves started in "First Contact," but it really truly started in "Voyager."

[@wonkothesane4490]

What do you mean, „yes they were“? In this very episode it is already mentioned that they assimilate lots of species.

[@robjackson5245]

WWOR (later UPN 9) in New York, son. This show slayed. But this felt more like a syndicated cable show and so did "DS9." It's not TV, it's "Star Trek" cause HBO is wack. Like this could have been on some special Trek syndicated network Nevertheless too gangsta for a wack non-Warner Bros.-ass network like The WB.

[@victorjohnson7512]

Hugh, the trans-borg pronoun warrior!