Never saw Hellraiser. It strikes me that the movie and ST-TNG were somewhat contemporary, although I'm willing to be corrected. Was this "Pinhead" a cyborg?
Here's another shot of a quintessential Borg, Hugh, who discovers an "I" side of himself thanks to the tender ministrations of the Enterprise crew.
The Born are cybors, more machinery than the Six Million Dollar Man, less human than the Terminator, and integrated into collective consciousness - think of an ant colony or beehive where the queen is telepathic and has fearsome technology.
A species without individuals that was bent on incorporating everyone's "biological and technological distinctiveness" to their own. Destroy one, destroy a ship, and the entire culture focuses on you. The collective either assimilates you or destroys you. It was a terrifying concept for an adversary.
Not just a meal - as I remember, he feasted on the warm and dripping heart. Not exactly kosher. It's been a while since I read the books, though.
Yeah. '60s science fiction brought to TV. The concept was great. The execution was a bit painful.
Why did they have to send a whole ship in and implode the engines? Why couldn't they just catapult in a jar of antimatter?