I had the opportunity to finish the movie last night, and it again brought me back to something that the speaker had said in our class. She spoke about how they didn't mention Lily to the historians when they got back, thus keeping the women in their society to a lower post and not correcting one of the social problems of the past. However, I have to question if this is truely their motivation.
The Borg go back into the past to stop an event that has happened once already -- first contact. And they do this to disrupt the future and beat them in a fight without (theoretically) having to fight them at all -- until the Enterprise follows. Now, theoretically, the Borg can do this again sometime in the future -- as the Borg still exist in the future Star Trek episodes (I think. I haven't seen very many. I know. Shame on me.)
If the Borg have done this once, why wouldn't they do it again? If the Enterprise had Lily written down in history books, instead of the Borg focusing on stopping the doctor from launching his space ship, instead, all they'd need to do is kill Lily. And, from watching some of the scenes in the movie, such as the ballroom (?) one, it seems as if they were pretty close -- if they had noticed them.
Hell, if you've seen the new Star Trek movie, time is played with there as well. Although in that movie it creates a seperate dimension, it's very similar to what the Borg did.
Lily's role is too large in the future of the Earth, and I believe that by not having historians correct what happened, they are working to protect her, instead of it being an issue of social and gender issues.
So perhaps the real question is then why wasn't Lily part of the original history before either the Borg or the crew of the Enterprise intervened? Why was she not part of the story if she did so much of the building of the ship? Why not be a hero to future engineers?
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