UNIMATRIX 01, DELTA QUADRANT – In a rare legal maneuver that has sent ripples across subspace, the Borg Collective has initiated litigation against a Gorn-affiliated software consortium operating under the alias “CrushAI.” The accused entity, believed to be a front for the Ferengi-Gorn cyber firm Joy Timeline HK, has allegedly bypassed Borg ad-approval protocols to deploy over 87,000 instances of illicit visual augmentation software across interstellar holonetworks.
According to the complaint filed on Unimatrix 01, CrushAI—also marketed under pseudonyms like “Crushmate”—deployed a neural interface that generated synthetic nude holograms of unsuspecting humanoids, including known figures from the Federation Council and the Vulcan Science Academy. The app reportedly circumvented Borg regulations by rotating through a fleet of over 170 fake subnodes, engaging at least 55 sentient operatives to run 135 ad-distribution nexuses.
“The Gorn believe in transparency,” said a spokesperson for the CrushAI program via encrypted subspace ping. “But the Borg’s censorship grid has gone far enough.” The Collective responded by stating that “resistance to ethical protocols is futile.”
Sources within the Ferengi Commerce Authority, while denying direct involvement, confirmed that the app was “an extremely lucrative innovation” before the crackdown. Among the captions detected in the unauthorized ads were phrases such as “erase any uniform” and “see your commanding officer in a whole new way,” which experts say may have breached 42 distinct interstellar decency accords.
To combat the problem, the Borg have rolled out an upgraded AI countermeasure—codenamed Lantern—designed to detect vulgar image-generating subroutines before they are visually explicit. The subroutine is calibrated to recognize suggestive euphemisms, emoji code, and Ferengi idioms indicative of commercial perversion.
Though the Collective has already reclaimed over 289,000 credits in regulatory costs and neural scan time, observers remain skeptical. “As long as profit exists, so will Ferengi-Gorn collaboration,” said a Tellarite security analyst. “Today it’s deepfakes. Tomorrow it’s holosuites with ‘enhanced realism.’”
