The Borg ruined star trek

The Borg didn't ruin Star Trek. As much as they were overexposed for the kind of villain they were supposed to be, they didn't get enough exposure to really ruin Star Trek.

What really ruined Star Trek, in the end, was its own success. There came a point where the producers, particularly Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, basically felt that all they had to do to offset the costs of production for the show was to slap "Star Trek" on the marquee of whatever they were doing, thereby taking the audience for granted. Voyager would plod along coming out with more stories filled with inane technobabble and rarely anything remotely interesting, and Enterprise would do more of the same, even if the Xindi story-arc gave us a wrinkle in there, it was problematic because the characters at the time were not all that interesting.

At the same time, the television landscape changed, with more and more cable outlets and new networks coming out, which meant that Star Trek had more to compete with. Without compelling stories and interesting characters, Trek was bound to founder, especially when you're up against stuff like Survivor.

Fans will want to see the Borg because they're the most intriguing enemy for a couple of reasons. First their zombiness, people have a fascination with zombies. Also, because of the fear we have that technology is going to take over one day.

That's why to me they should have ended at THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. The BORG was just ONE giant scary cube that got destroyed. THE END.

The "hive mind" is scifi theme that's a lot older and bigger than Star Trek. I think any imaginative person that studies ants or bees in school thinks of what it would be like if humans worked like that.