Described as a synthetic-human hybrid. Borg origin story, anyone? Or leave well enough alone? I'd like to find out more about this character, especially given she's on board the Discovery, where all kinds of weird, Frankensteinian things are going on. The actress is Sara Mitich, and as Patrick Starr might say, "She's purty, Spongebob..." Could be an interesting story angle, at any rate.
Airiam
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Too early for borg. She could be from a human colony that went full on transhuman or another cybernetic culture. We do not yet know.
I'm all for tapping into the vest nebula that is Star Trek lore, but I'd rather Airiam have nothing to do with the Borg. Honestly, um, I've always been a big fan of the Borg being from Far, Far Elsewhere, and...
I know Destiny's a great trilogy but I've never been too keen on the origin story presented therein.
That killed me on that whole thing and how they killed em off. I had no interest in those books after that.
Never go full on transhuman!
Maybe some kind of Borg progenitor... or distant cousin... but then a novel idea would be better.
Never full on transhuman!
Nothing to do with the borg. We know human colonies went all kinds of ways, including full on cloning. We know of at lest one canon cybernetic race and a few other non canon ones. There are so many coll ways to go with this other than placing a kinda borg in an era it does not belong.
Yes, you're right. Might make for an interesting origin story... Although frozen Borg did appear on Enterprise. Better to leave that alone.
And was handled very unborg like. FCT really altered the timeline lol
I liked her in The Expanse. But no, no Borg.
Coincidence? I think not.
I'm intrigued by the character, too. The design looks just cool and the phrasing “synthetic-human hybrid” has me immediately interested in her backstory. I hope we will learn more about her at some point.
I almost want them to make Airiam a borg just to watch the haters heads explode.
We've seen a few humans with cybernetic augmentations to replace damaged organs like Lt. Detmer. Maybe Airiam was severely injured and had to be robocop'd?
We've seen a few humans with cybernetic augmentations to replace damaged organs like Lt. Detmer. Maybe Airiam was severely injured and had to be robocop'd?
Airiam is what Decker/Ilia became in TMP. How she ended up serving aboard the USS Discovery in 2256 is classified. 
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As posted elsewhere, we now know she is an alien and not an AI
Where elsewhere?
Twitter, Ted Sullivan confirmed she is an Alien, not an AI or human.
I dearly hope not cause my knee jerk reaction is, that sounds stupid.... really stupid.... like really really stupid.
