The Borg

January 1, 2008 at 12:55 pm · Filed under life, movies, music and tagged: Anne Heche, Borg, Jean-Luc Picard, Johnny Cash, Patty Hearst, Star Trek, Stendhal

If Johnny Cash was the man in black, Jean-Luc Picard is the man in red. And as Julien Sorel, he’ll also have an internal debate about military decissions and moral values. But unlike Cash and Sorel, he won’t miss so much. Or so we think, until he engages the Borg.

When Picard becomes Locutus, we see how human he is. We think of all the ones who have lost it or who have been stolen. We remember the time when the heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her neat enviroment in her apartment in Berkeley, California, to be found after under the name of Tania robbing a bank in San Francisco. Or the actress Anne Heche, who in her book “Call me crazy” claims that she was mentally ill for 31 years, and that she also had an alter ego, Celestia, who was related to Jesus and who had contact with extraterrestrial life forms.

The Borg represents a pack of narcotics inside a guitar case. The Symbionese Liberation Army. A pedophile in Ohio. Everything that takes it and is taken away from us.

So, when Jean-Luc Picard goes back to his native Labarre, to his brother and life rival, we understand that he has been a wanderer as well. That he has been in outer space, tasting and touching and feeling as much as a man can before he repents.

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