HUGH : The First Millennial Boy

Hugh interfaced with the others and transferred his sense of individuality to them. 

It nearly destroyed them. 

O Pirates, yes, they rob I

Sold I to the merchant ships

Minutes after they took I

From the bottomless pits

“We’ve actually been deluding ourselves in a lot of ways.

Beyond that, I found we’ve actually been deluding ourselves in the worst way of all by •believing• in The Individual.

• Stay with me on this. •

JANIS IAN :

How do you spell your name again, Caddie?

CADY (Prounounced ‘Kay-Dee’) HERON :

It's ‘Cady’. C-A-D-Y.

JANIS IAN :

— Yeah, I'm gonna call you ‘Caddie’.

[Ten Forward]

LAFORGE: 

You know, it's funny. 

When I first creating this invasive programme I didn't have a problem with it. The more I work with Hugh, the more I -

GUINAN: 

Hugh?

LAFORGE: 

That's what we call him.

GUINAN: 

You named the Borg? 

LAFORGE: 

Well, it was easier to have something to call him.

GUINAN: 

Oh, so now you have a Borg named Hugh.

LAFORGE: 

Right. And he's nothing like what I expected.

GUINAN: How so?

LAFORGE: I don't know. It's like he's just some kid who's far way from home.

GUINAN: Do you know that you're the second person today to refer to that Borg as though it were some sort of lost child.

LAFORGE: Anyway, I'm having second thoughts about what we're doing here. I mean, programming him like some sort of walking bomb. Sending him back to destroy the others.

GUINAN: Let me tell you something. When that kid's big brothers come looking for him, they're not going to stop until they find him. And then they're going to come looking for us, and they will destroy us. And they will not do any of the soul-searching that you are apparently doing right now.

LAFORGE: Then why don't you go and talk to him. It might not be so clear cut then.

GUINAN: Because I wouldn't have anything to say.

LAFORGE: Then why don't you just listen? That is what you do best, isn't it?

[Brig]

GUINAN: You don't look so tough.

BORG: We are Borg.

GUINAN: Aren't you going to tell me you have to assimilate me?

BORG: You wish to be assimilated?

GUINAN: No, but that's what you things do, isn't it?

(a nod) 

GUINAN: Resistance is futile. 

BORG: Resistance is futile.

GUINAN: It isn't. My people resisted when the Borg came to assimilate us. Some of us survived.

BORG: Resistance is not futile? 

GUINAN: No. But thanks to you, there are very few of us left. We're scattered throughout the galaxy. We don't even have a home any more. 

BORG: What you are saying is that you are lonely.

GUINAN: What?

BORG: You have no others. You have no home. We are also lonely.

[Science lab]

BORG: What is Geordi doing?

LAFORGE: I'm studying the components in your prosthesis.

BORG: Why?

LAFORGE: We're trying to learn more about you.

BORG: Why?

LAFORGE: Because you're different than we are. Part of what we do is to learn more about other species.

BORG: We assimilate species. Then we know everything about them.

LAFORGE: Yeah. I know.

BORG: Is that not easier?

LAFORGE: Maybe it is. It's just not what we do.

BORG: Why?

LAFORGE: All right, think of it this way. 

Every time you talk about yourself, you use the word we. 

We want this, we want that. 

You don't even know how to think of yourself as a single individual. 

[ He isn’t. ]

You don't say, 

“I want this”, 

or 

“I am Hugh.”

We are all separate individuals. 

“I am Geordi.”

“I choose what I want to do with my life.”

“I make decisions for myself. For somebody like me, losing that sense of individuality is almost worse than dying.”

BORG: 

When you sleep, there are no other voices in your mind?

LAFORGE: 

No.

[ YES. ]

BORG: 

Are you ever lonely?

LAFORGE: 

Sometimes. But that's why we have friends.

BORG: 

Friends?

LAFORGE: 

Sure. Someone you talk to, who will be with you when you're lonely. 

Someone who makes you feel better.

BORG: 

Like Geordi and Hugh.

You're Supposed to Be Wise

CRUSHER: 

So that's The Story. 

That's how I ended my career. 

GUINAN: 

Backhand volley. 

CRUSHER: 

What? 

GUINAN: 

That's how I did it. 

Geordi kept hitting to my backhand at the net. 

CRUSHER: 

Guinan, two people died on this ship. 

Two lives that ended horribly and you're worried about your tennis game? 

GUINAN: 

Are you upset? 

CRUSHER: 

I don't know. You tell me. 

You're supposed to be Wise. 

GUINAN: 

Well, if you are upset, why are you moping around here? 

Why don't you do something about it? 

CRUSHER: 

I've done everything I could think of. 

It got me fired. 

GUINAN: 

Do you think Doctor Reyga killed himself? 

CRUSHER: 

No. 

GUINAN: 

Do you think there's a murderer on board? 

CRUSHER: 

Yes. 

GUINAN: 

Then why are you still sitting here? 

CRUSHER: 

Don't you get it? 

If I start digging around again.... I 

GUINAN: 

You could be relieved of duty.

CRUSHER [on viewscreen]: 

I think Doctor Reyga was right about his shield.
The only reason it failed is because it was sabotaged, and I'm going to prove it. 

PICARD: 

But you can't be certain of that. 

You're betting your life on a hypothesis. 

CRUSHER [on viewscreen]: 

I'm NOT WRONG.

[Corridor]

RIKER: 

Beverly? 

CRUSHER: 

Yes? 

RIKER: 

We've arranged for a shuttle to take you to Starbase twenty three. 

You can leave the ship at oh seven hundred hours tomorrow. 

CRUSHER: 

Thank you. 

RIKER: 

About everything that's going on. I'm sorry. I'm sure it will all work out. 

CRUSHER: 

Yes, of course. 

RIKER: 

You know the inquiry's just a formality, and 

Captain Picard will do everything he can for you. 

CRUSHER: 

I'm sure that'll help. 

RIKER: 

But if you do anything foolish before that inquiry. 

It's not going to look good for you. 

CRUSHER: 

I don't know what you mean. 

RIKER: 

I think you do know what I mean. 

The best thing for you to do right now is go to your quarters and read a good book. 

If you do anything to make the situation any worse it's going to be that much harder on you. 

[ Because He Believe That She is WRONG. And Guilty. ]

CRUSHER: 

Thank you, Commander. 

Your concern is noted. 

RIKER: 

Beverly. I'm saying this to you as a friend. 

CRUSHER: 

Yes, Will, I know. 

But, as a friend, please try to understand —

I can't quit now and I don't want you to become involved in this.

[Crusher's office]

CRUSHER: 

Computer, access ship's medical logs and download current autopsy files. 

COMPUTER: 

Autopsy files are restricted to active medical personnel only. 

Access denied. 

CRUSHER: 

Damn. 

OGAWA: 

Doctor Crusher? What do you need the autopsy files for? 

CRUSHER: 

Don't worry. I know I'm not supposed to be here. I'll go. 

OGAWA: 

Computer, access autopsy files. 

OGAWA: 

I assume you'll need the files on Doctor Reyga and Jo'Bril? 

CRUSHER: 

Alyssa. 

OGAWA: 

I can see how important this is to you. 

[ She Doesn’t CARE if She’s Wrong— She wants to help her friend. ]

CRUSHER: 

I don't want you to get involved in this. 

OGAWA: 

Is that an order, Doctor? 

CRUSHER: 

Yes. 

OGAWA: 

Too bad you're not my boss now. 

Jasmine

MALE REPORTER
Uh, excuse me, Jasmine. 
What can we do to show our love for you?

JASMINE

You don't have to do anything except love one another. 
(smiles broadly) 
Although a temple would be nice. Something massive and awe-inspiring, yet warm and nurturing, celebrating the gentle pleasures of a peaceful, precious coexistence where violent behav—

" Any name of God which is found in the Bible can not be applied to the Deity prior to His self-manifestation in the Creation, because the letters of those names were produced only after the emanation. . . . 

Moreover, a name implies a limitation in its bearer; and this is impossible in connection with the “Ein Sof”. "

WOMAN

Now, what're we going to call me?

FRED

You don't have a name!

WOMAN

No.

FRED

You should have a name. 

WOMAN

Yes.

FRED

I don't know. 

I can't imagine one word, you know, summing you up. 

I mean, you're a superior being. 

Shouldn't you— Don't you want to choose it yourself?

WOMAN

No one born to this earth can choose their own name. 

They are named by those who love them. 

There are some rules even I must follow.

BORG: 

What is your designation?

LAFORGE: 

Designation?

BORG: 

Third of Five. 

CRUSHER: 

You mean our names. 

We don't have designations. 

We have names. I'm Beverly. This is Geordi.

BORG: 

Do I have a name?

LAFORGE: 

Do you want one?

[ Notice how they do not let  him answer - they just decide for him. ]

BORG: 

A name.

CRUSHER: 

I'm Beverly, he's Geordi, and you.

BORG: 

You 

CRUSHER: 

You 

LAFORGE: 

No, no, wait a minute. 

That's it. Hugh. 

What do you think?

BORG: 

You.

LAFORGE: 

No, not you. 

Hugh.

BORG: 

Hugh.

CRUSHER: 

Okay. Now, I'm Beverly.

LAFORGE: 

I'm Geordi.

BORG: 

We are Hugh.

[ Because 7 of 9 is most assuredly not Anika Hansen - all later claims to the contrary notwithstanding. ]

7 : 

When I was separated from the Collective I, too, was damaged. 
I was no longer connected to the hive mind. 
I lost many abilities that I had acquired as a drone, but I adapted. 

NEELIX: 

Because Captain Janeway didn't give up on you. 
She kept trying to help you. 

7 : 

But not by restoring me to what I'd been. 
By helping me discover what I could become.

"And God separated the light from the darkness. God call the light day, and the darkness he called night." 

And, again, the fact that things are named is also very important. 

You see this later with Adam, because God gives Adam the job of naming all the animals. It’s sort of like the animals don't actually exist until they’re named. 

That's another indication of the authors of the Bible attempting to come to terms with the fact that our cognitive faculties and our ability to speak have something to do with the way that we cast chaotic potential into actuality.

 We can't really get a grip on something before we have a name for it, which is why, for example, you all have names. 

Everything that you encounter has to have a name, because before it has a name, it's just part of the blurry background. 

You could say it exists before it has a name, and that's True, but it's also true that it doesn't exist before it has a name. 

As soon as you give something a name, its nature changes. 

You’ve transformed it into something that's not so much mere potential anymore. 

It’s, at least, on its way to being actuality, and to being a tool. And so the act of naming is repeated continually in the first chapters of the Bible. 

The reason for that is this continued emphasis on the importance of consciousness, conscious articulation, and speech. "