This is really a nice scene--they showed Hugh as essentially a child. Yeah he's not a Borg child but he's a child as an individual. Geordi also treats him as such.
Geordi genuinely actually changed the course of history based on his incredibly diplomatic, open, and caring approach to every single organism, organic or otherwise, that he interacts with. By simply being caring, open, and thoughtful to everyone, even the cold uncaring enemy he's at war with, he made a friend of that enemy and caused said enemy to fracture the Borg collective for the betterment of the whole universe. He arguably even potentially offered the Borg collective as a whole a path to salvation. By introducing individuality to the collective he made it possible for them to question their own actions and some of the Borg to potentially redeem themselves and grow into something more than just a destructive all consuming force.
Anyone just wanted to hug Hugh? I love his constant "why", and later his sadness when Picard was grilling him, and his fear of Geordi being assimilated.
Jonathon Del Arco, the actor who plays Hugh, lost his boyfriend to AIDS related illness in 1992. He turned that pain in his heart, into a performance that is unforgettable.
The fact that Geordie was supposed to plant a virus inside Hugh and send him back to the Borg mothership, basically just using him as a weapon to destroy his own race, makes Geordie's guilty looking reaction at the end, when Hugh says that they are friends, that much more powerful. Great episode this.
The best part about it is, IIRC, the virus didn't really end up working. However, the Borg Collective still ended up falling apart because Hugh's newfound knowledge of individuality began taking hold and caused the entire Collective to split apart. This episode is filled with many small moments like this that eventually lead to the collapse of the entire Collective, and that's just really cool. Like, you wouldn't think talking to someone about friendship or names or whatever is really that important. But to someone, it might be.
In the face of an enemy, it’s best to know there are victims as there are innocents among them, and that we must establish lines which prevent us from become no different than the enemy. Generalizing kills. It’s the greatest source of power in the universe, the most dangerous weapon out there, and the ultimate nullifier of everything. Amongst a group of people, there is always one who thinks differently. If we damn them all to displeasure, nothing good could come out of it.
@@spartan456 Instead of sending a virus, they gave the Borg a gift. Hugh’s sense of individuality became a catalyst for awakening what the Collective aims to suppress. Unfortunately, Lore took advantage of the initial confusion and manipulated the Individual Borgs while teaching them to kill. An android of selfish passion under the guise of a Shepard.
Man, I wanna say that Star Trek TNG did a great job at making Borg Hugh(Designation Third of Five) as adorable as possible. From his much friendlier design to his squishable, puppy dog eyes and innocent face, they intentionally designed him and his character to arouse sympathy. I do also love how Captain Picard reacts to the news that they've named him Hugh. "You're not supposed to name it. If you name it, you start getting attached to it. Now put that thing back where it came from, or so help me--" LOL! Is it any wonder the Borg are so popular?
+PhoenixOfFireflies it is like he has just gotten released from a cult, and is still traumatized and infantilized from the whole experience.. i've noticed that is a common theme on random star trek videos of borg survivors reentering society..
Like Geordi and Hugh. That part just hit me really hard because I realized that even though I seen this show a million times I realized that Hugh is starting to like Geordi as a friend and Geordi is becoming attached to him but only to wipe out the Borg. Geordi must feel awful about this.
Geordi: For s human being, losing our sense of individuality is almost worse than dying. But you don't have to take my word for it. No disrespect intended. I just couldn't resist a good Reading Rainbow joke.
Hey, guess what? The latest Star Trek Online expansion (Delta Rising) features the Delta Quadrant and explains what Hugh has been up to as of late. I'm gonna put a spoiler a few lines under here, so you've been warned. Hugh has retreated to the Delta Quadrant and has created a "weapon" that frees Borg drones from the Collective. Those "Liberated Borg" have joined together under the name of "The Cooperative", with Hugh as its leader. Their mission? To free as many Borg as they can.
I have a lifetime subscription to STO and i hated all of the Delta Quadrant mission except those. You are literally just cleaning up Janeway’s god damn mess.
0:53 This monologue of Geordi is perhaps the much-overlooked yet most terrifying aspect of the Borg- not necessarily because they are machines(as Data is the counter-argument of that) but their lack of authentic individuality. Even as full humans ourselves this is still cautionary tale that ought to be heeded by far too many among us!
This is why Geordi can be friends with an Android, a Romulan, and now a Borg, with his question "Do you want one?" shows his philosophy. He's so open and willing to try to overcome any personal or species prejudice to help others
Who else is getting ready for the Picard series and rewatching TNG Hugh and 7 of 9 will be in it I’m so exited to see how they progressed in there story arc
If Levar Burton is on the new series, and they don't give Geordi and Hugh a scene together where he gives Hugh a hug, I'm going to be extremely displeased.
to a degree, still humans fall into hierarchy and command, so we are responsible for individual decisions but that does not mean we are free to do whatever we like. humans also needs order and cooperation, not to mention we against them mentality.
Jordie is part of the collective called the federation. In order to join the federation you must give up a small portion of your society individuality. In order for Jordie to be part of the federation he also must give up some parts of his individuality.
This was a fine episode, but I really don’t see how they expect to get much mileage out of Hugh in the new series. He really was a one-off character. Even in “Descent” he felt extraneous.
I'd explain the concept of FRIENDS to you Hugh, but I feel like this footage will explain it better than I ever could. Computer, run holoprogram laforge beta 8, 9, tango, alpha. "I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU!!!!!! WHEN THE RAIN STARTS TO FALL!!!!!!"
It's an interesting question. I think it is implied here that every Borg is potentially capable of free will, or at least thinking beyond the collective, it's just that for most of them, the collective is all they have ever known, and the idea of being an individual terrifies them.
Actually they did assimilate Klingons at Wolf 359 and in the Star Trek elite force comic they did assimilate the leader of the Voyager Elite force who was black...Also they assimilated Tuvok once...and Bel Enna.
I could never figure out this scene. They're having a conversation about how abhorrent assimilating other cultures to learn about them is, while Geordie is slowly converting Hugh from a Borg drone into an individual and using that burgeoning individuality to learn about the Borg. I get thematically what the scene is about, but for me, it muddies the issues more than anything else.
It's _supposed_ to be muddied. That's kind of the point: to make you ask questions and think stuff through. That said, no one ever coerced Hugh to do or think anything. All they did was expose him to their own way of thinking; Hugh embraced it by his own choice.
Actually I think you never wtached star trek carefully? ;) Drones dont need..well, even mustn´t know what individuality is. They dont have a mind of their own. If they had the knowledge, why should they stil "want" to be Borg? They dont have a chance to decide, individuality its taken from them when they are assimilated into the collective.
Some Drones actually have decided to return to the collective, like Hugh, and even some for the reason that they enjoy it. For people assimilated as children the desire is stronger. The Borg is all they've known, the voices are comforting, the life is methodical and safe, and all their needs are taken care of. They have never had choice, so choice can overwhelm them and scare them. They feel insecure with themselves, etc.
As I said in another comment - they view sexuality as irrelevant. This can be seen with Seven of Nine having to go through so much work to learn about sexuality, intercourse, gender communication, etc. Freshly liberated borg are likely asexual as the collective has stripped them of any desire like that for so long - possibly forever.
Hugh: “like Geordi and Hugh.”
Geordi internally:”FUCK!”
@John Doe lol, always liked that comment xd
@@hosentrager7743LOL coming back to a 3 year old comment on here myself 😂
Geordi sure has a track record of befriending cybernetic life forms
yeah next thing we know he'll be going out with seven of nine
Well I guess accepting an artifical lifeform as friend opened him up to do so with a being that is half of it and half human.
Yeah he's best friends with Data right.
Also didn't he fall in love with the holodeck program?
He's an engineer who built a girlfriend in the holodeck
@@jasoncarswell7458 And possibly married in the alternate timeline of All Good Things.
Explaining the nature of individuality was one of LeVar's best moments as an actor.
I agree.
This is really a nice scene--they showed Hugh as essentially a child. Yeah he's not a Borg child but he's a child as an individual. Geordi also treats him as such.
He is a teenager by physical standards. And it is shown the borg have babies which are implanted as borg
"You can't just go around assimilating people!"
"Why?"
"What do mean why? Because you can't!"
"Why?"
😂😂😂😂😂
Him and the Terminator should get together and compare notes lol.
Because you just can't okay trust me on this!
@@tremedar how dare you take the words out of my mouth
Arse Destroying Thunder Fart “your foster parents have been assimilated..”
Geordi genuinely actually changed the course of history based on his incredibly diplomatic, open, and caring approach to every single organism, organic or otherwise, that he interacts with. By simply being caring, open, and thoughtful to everyone, even the cold uncaring enemy he's at war with, he made a friend of that enemy and caused said enemy to fracture the Borg collective for the betterment of the whole universe. He arguably even potentially offered the Borg collective as a whole a path to salvation. By introducing individuality to the collective he made it possible for them to question their own actions and some of the Borg to potentially redeem themselves and grow into something more than just a destructive all consuming force.
And then that's all overwritten with the least thoughtful time travel plot ever devised decades later. Sad.
@@patrickschulz2193what was that?
@@kbanghart Judging from the timing of my comment back then, I guess I was complaining about the ending of Star Trek: Picard Season 2.
@@patrickschulz2193 o ok. I know people didn't like that series, but I did.
@@kbanghart I liked Season 3 at least. And recently, Prodigy Season 2 also went and used elements from all 3 seasons of Picard to surprising effect.
Anyone just wanted to hug Hugh?
I love his constant "why", and later his sadness when Picard was grilling him, and his fear of Geordi being assimilated.
Not me. It's a friggin' Borg!
No. Not really. Kinda wished they did make him into a tyke bomb. Wolf 359 prolly would't have happened if they did sent the Borg back with the virus.
@Apsoy Pike Yes, anyone can be abducted and assimilated into a Borg, hence a cybernetic parable to a hivemind!
I find his voice annoying WHY WHY CHOICE CHOICE FRIEND FRIEND
Jonathon Del Arco, the actor who plays Hugh, lost his boyfriend to AIDS related illness in 1992.
He turned that pain in his heart, into a performance that is unforgettable.
The fact that Geordie was supposed to plant a virus inside Hugh and send him back to the Borg mothership, basically just using him as a weapon to destroy his own race, makes Geordie's guilty looking reaction at the end, when Hugh says that they are friends, that much more powerful. Great episode this.
The best part about it is, IIRC, the virus didn't really end up working. However, the Borg Collective still ended up falling apart because Hugh's newfound knowledge of individuality began taking hold and caused the entire Collective to split apart. This episode is filled with many small moments like this that eventually lead to the collapse of the entire Collective, and that's just really cool. Like, you wouldn't think talking to someone about friendship or names or whatever is really that important. But to someone, it might be.
@@spartan456 It wasn't a virus, and they didn't send it back. It was a picture.
In the face of an enemy, it’s best to know there are victims as there are innocents among them, and that we must establish lines which prevent us from become no different than the enemy. Generalizing kills. It’s the greatest source of power in the universe, the most dangerous weapon out there, and the ultimate nullifier of everything. Amongst a group of people, there is always one who thinks differently. If we damn them all to displeasure, nothing good could come out of it.
@@spartan456 Instead of sending a virus, they gave the Borg a gift. Hugh’s sense of individuality became a catalyst for awakening what the Collective aims to suppress. Unfortunately, Lore took advantage of the initial confusion and manipulated the Individual Borgs while teaching them to kill. An android of selfish passion under the guise of a Shepard.
Man, I wanna say that Star Trek TNG did a great job at making Borg Hugh(Designation Third of Five) as adorable as possible. From his much friendlier design to his squishable, puppy dog eyes and innocent face, they intentionally designed him and his character to arouse sympathy.
I do also love how Captain Picard reacts to the news that they've named him Hugh. "You're not supposed to name it. If you name it, you start getting attached to it. Now put that thing back where it came from, or so help me--"
LOL! Is it any wonder the Borg are so popular?
Hugh is my spirit animal.
I love him too.
So was Mike in Monsters Inc quoting Picard?
His puppy dog eye...singular. Hehe
True. If he was taller, angrier-looking, and carrying a bunch of nasty weapons attached to him, he wouldn't have been anywhere near as sympathetic.
I was flippin out over how adorable this was when I first watched it. Hugh's confused little head tilts are almost as cute as Data's.
Almost.
Kimberly they're both soo adorable!😍
I get that same feeling from Lal. It's because they're innocent; this is why we also find infants and pets adorable as well.
I like how Hugh's development was almost the inverse of Seven of Nine's. They both got to the same place but by a very different process.
why is this friggin borg who destroys friggin civilizations so friggin adorable??
Because once he gets away from the collective, he seems like a little kid.
+Fubar AlAkbar well he does look young, my guess late 20s
+PhoenixOfFireflies it is like he has just gotten released from a cult, and is still traumatized and infantilized from the whole experience.. i've noticed that is a common theme on random star trek videos of borg survivors reentering society..
evil is often deceptive.
Violin Dragoness Congrats Im your 20th like have a nice day
2:07- Geordie in that exact moment: “FUCK it said it’s my friend, with those cute little puppy eyes, now we can’t kill it.”
They nailed it when they hired this guy. His best scene is when he refused to assimilate Geordi for Locutus.
Awwwww, so sweet. Poor little lost Hugh thinks of Geordi as a friend. What a moral dilemma this episode struggles with.
Like Geordi and Hugh. That part just hit me really hard because I realized that even though I seen this show a million times I realized that Hugh is starting to like Geordi as a friend and Geordi is becoming attached to him but only to wipe out the Borg. Geordi must feel awful about this.
I so badly miss real Star Trek like this.
Hugh reacted to his severance from the collective very differently to 7 of 9.
He appears to be much younger than 7. He may not have been Borg for very long unlike 7 who has been for 2/3 of her life.
Geordi: For s human being, losing our sense of individuality is almost worse than dying. But you don't have to take my word for it.
No disrespect intended. I just couldn't resist a good Reading Rainbow joke.
kek
Take a look; It's in a book...
A Reading Rainbooooooooooooooow!!!
Ha Ha Ha!!!! 🍺😹
No disrespect received, it was a solid joke that made me smile.
“Like Geordi and Hugh” 😮
0:05 Never heard a borg drone with such a nice, calming voice before. ;*P
Two of my favorite guest characters are Hugh and Lal (Data's daughter). Both make me reflect on the importance of friendships with others.
Levar Burton doesn’t get enough credit to be able to convey emotion so well while hiding his eyes.
Hey, guess what? The latest Star Trek Online expansion (Delta Rising) features the Delta Quadrant and explains what Hugh has been up to as of late.
I'm gonna put a spoiler a few lines under here, so you've been warned.
Hugh has retreated to the Delta Quadrant and has created a "weapon" that frees Borg drones from the Collective. Those "Liberated Borg" have joined together under the name of "The Cooperative", with Hugh as its leader. Their mission? To free as many Borg as they can.
+RED Soldier Freedom Fighters, I like it
a borg rebellion, that could be the next idea for a star trek spin-off series, like if that interests you
??? Aa
I have a lifetime subscription to STO and i hated all of the Delta Quadrant mission except those.
You are literally just cleaning up Janeway’s god damn mess.
Who knew Borg could be the good guys. Good job Hue, good job!
And to think once upon a time Geordi taught me how to read.
For a Borg, Hugh is just adorable.
This episode is SO DAMN GOOD!!!
Yaaay! Friend ship is magic!!
I honestly can't wait for Picard, cos not only is Seven Of Nine there, but another liberated Borg is there...yep, Hugh.
HOW DO YOU LIKE IT NOWWWWWWW!!!!!!
Like Geordie and Hugh.. aawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhh ♥ ♥
0:53 This monologue of Geordi is perhaps the much-overlooked yet most terrifying aspect of the Borg- not necessarily because they are machines(as Data is the counter-argument of that) but their lack of authentic individuality. Even as full humans ourselves this is still cautionary tale that ought to be heeded by far too many among us!
Geordie: "AMG!! The person I'm turning into a walking bomb just told me I'm his best friend. I DONT NEED THAT KINDA GUILT!!!"
What is forgotten is that they are people who have been assimilated. They are not evil, it's the collective that is evil.
aww Hugh wants to be friends with Jeordi! :)
that episode was one of the best in trek history. in fact, this szene is one of the best in trek history.
This is why Geordi can be friends with an Android, a Romulan, and now a Borg, with his question "Do you want one?" shows his philosophy. He's so open and willing to try to overcome any personal or species prejudice to help others
Hugh needed to be a teddy bear borg. That would be cute.
Who else is getting ready for the Picard series and rewatching TNG Hugh and 7 of 9 will be in it I’m so exited to see how they progressed in there story arc
Hugh is cute!
Awww . . . poor kid. You do feel sorry for him.
If Levar Burton is on the new series, and they don't give Geordi and Hugh a scene together where he gives Hugh a hug, I'm going to be extremely displeased.
They done messed up by killing off Hugh
@@Tigershark_3082I’m still crying over it. 😭😭💔💔
Why why why, now he sounds like a kid! Lol
“Friends like geordi & hugh!”
Geordi......**$%/....
just imagine him and seven of nine in a room together
The best episode of Star Trek. Just awkward silence for half an hour.
Aaron Henderson Congrats Im your 5th like have a nice day
Aaron Henderson We may not have to, soon.
if hugh returned to the borg here
hugh : "we are hugh"
borg : "we are... the borg?"
hugh : "we are hugh now"
awww. too cute.
I'm not crying.
RIP Hugh
we are groot
I never forgave PIC S1 for:
- What they did to Icheb.
- That Hugh never got his reunion with Geordie for S3.
Yeah.. I just want Hugh back, and for him to be happy. It destroys me that he never saw Geordi again.
Ahh you cut off right before the sexy jazz solo!
to a degree, still humans fall into hierarchy and command, so we are responsible for individual decisions but that does not mean we are free to do whatever we like. humans also needs order and cooperation, not to mention we against them mentality.
"Like Geordie... and Hugh!"
Argh, I feel it every time I see this!
Jordie is part of the collective called the federation. In order to join the federation you must give up a small portion of your society individuality. In order for Jordie to be part of the federation he also must give up some parts of his individuality.
Shame that people can't learn to be friends with me :(
very powerful episode 4 Star Trek TNG
I wish he stayed on the ship. AAAAA my heart!! 😭😭💔💔💔💔
To some people small irrelevant things are what life is all about
so this is where Bioware got the idea for Legion from
Borg:"individuality is irrelevant. you must comply!"
He's like that annoying six-year-old nephew who systematically replies to everything you say with "Why?"
Hugh learns about friendship and its equivalent... magic.
This was a fine episode, but I really don’t see how they expect to get much mileage out of Hugh in the new series. He really was a one-off character. Even in “Descent” he felt extraneous.
They used him in STO
I also want a Borg as a pet :D
What are you trying to make me cry?
star trek looks like star wars that just woke up
Geordi is like
“Shit not another one🤦🏿♂️”
I'd explain the concept of FRIENDS to you Hugh, but I feel like this footage will explain it better than I ever could. Computer, run holoprogram laforge beta 8, 9, tango, alpha. "I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU!!!!!! WHEN THE RAIN STARTS TO FALL!!!!!!"
Expected a Pony related comment here... thanks for not disappointing me :)
only this show can get away with having a main character wear a spray painted hair accessory on his face.
This is my favorite TNG episode.
curious, is hugh, as he is here, part of the collective? is he relaying "friendship" to the collective as he learns here?
It's an interesting question. I think it is implied here that every Borg is potentially capable of free will, or at least thinking beyond the collective, it's just that for most of them, the collective is all they have ever known, and the idea of being an individual terrifies them.
The “sad” part for Hugh is them giving him a sense of individuality was probably worst than just killing them all.
Bringing back Hugh without Jordie is going to be weird.
I, Borg. Season 5 episode 23.
Actually they did assimilate Klingons at Wolf 359 and in the Star Trek elite force comic they did assimilate the leader of the Voyager Elite force who was black...Also they assimilated Tuvok once...and Bel Enna.
What is Geordie doing?
Did we ever find out what race of alien Hugh was?
He's just a human. It's easier to see in the latest series where most of his Borg gear and implants have been removed.
@@mercurydude He is humanoid, but not necessarily human. Many Star Trek races looks human, but they are not.
Wow!! 😮
I AM LEARNING TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL I WAS SEVERVED FROM THE FEMALE COLLECTIVE 2 MONTHS AGO
At the start you can see a RAM card on his arm lol for a computer.
I worked at a PC store when I was younger and we had guys come in and buy broken parts for FX stuff at fox studios
@Wintermute01001 You forgot Tuvok in the Voyager episode "Unimatrix Zero"...
I want 7% borg blut.
He's a hot little Borg.
43nostromo I am the cutest of Borg.
And the rest DataRiker Mix.
I think Geordi was thinking of Data Hugh
Awwwwww
Goes on for hours
Why
I want to learn more
Why
Because its what we do
Why
We just do
Why
I want to join the Borg.
Skeletor 7%.
They will betray
Too bad he didn't learn it from Twilight Sparkle. But Geordi is as good right?
Geordi for Princess of Friendship.
Boommmm
Why? Why? Why? Borg are like 5-year olds =P
im sorry but, I have to laugh at this visor every time now. it iddnt age well. and im a big tng fan.
Biene Maya 7%.
I could never figure out this scene. They're having a conversation about how abhorrent assimilating other cultures to learn about them is, while Geordie is slowly converting Hugh from a Borg drone into an individual and using that burgeoning individuality to learn about the Borg. I get thematically what the scene is about, but for me, it muddies the issues more than anything else.
It's _supposed_ to be muddied. That's kind of the point: to make you ask questions and think stuff through.
That said, no one ever coerced Hugh to do or think anything. All they did was expose him to their own way of thinking; Hugh embraced it by his own choice.
Levar was a stunning actor
Actually I think you never wtached star trek carefully? ;) Drones dont need..well, even mustn´t know what individuality is. They dont have a mind of their own. If they had the knowledge, why should they stil "want" to be Borg? They dont have a chance to decide, individuality its taken from them when they are assimilated into the collective.
Some Drones actually have decided to return to the collective, like Hugh, and even some for the reason that they enjoy it. For people assimilated as children the desire is stronger. The Borg is all they've known, the voices are comforting, the life is methodical and safe, and all their needs are taken care of. They have never had choice, so choice can overwhelm them and scare them. They feel insecure with themselves, etc.
let the borg know what having sexual thoughts is like I bet you they would want some privacy now.
As I said in another comment - they view sexuality as irrelevant. This can be seen with Seven of Nine having to go through so much work to learn about sexuality, intercourse, gender communication, etc. Freshly liberated borg are likely asexual as the collective has stripped them of any desire like that for so long - possibly forever.
Donald 51%.