“Listen. Strange women, hanging from the ceiling, distributing skin, is no basis for a system of government.”
I didn’t know we had a queen - I thought we were an anarcho-syndicalist collective?
You’re fooling yourself. We’re living in a dictatorship: a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working drones…
When they added the Borg “queen”, I was really bummed - because I had definitely thought of them as an autonomous collective.
I kind of hope they retcon that at some point.
In my head the justification for all of that is that the queen arose as a necessity to have a single individual for the crew of the Enterprise to interact with. This required her to have a certain amount of autonomy from the collective consciousness, the end result was that she turned into a bit of a dictator and because she had control over the collective she essentially took over without much fight. This would have been obvious to anyone else that this was a possibility, but the Borg had no experience of individuality in the collective before that, so the concern never occurred to them.
Eventually she died and the collective were released from her, and now they are back to being a hive mind. A hive mind that has learned not to do that again.
The reason seven of nine did not become like that was because the queen knew that that was a possibility, and so kept her largely connected so she could to a large extent control her.
What is the point of the Queen then?
Personification that changed the original concept for the sake of the story.
Yes, but it works best with the original BORG concept, before they introduced the queen.
The BORG was originally described as a collective, and a collective doesn’t have rulers like a queen.
So I must admit I was a bit disappointed in the introduction of a BORG queen.
Still the BORG remain a very cool part of Star Trek.
You may have noticed there is more than one Borg queen. They take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major decisions.
'We’re the Borg of the Round Table"
I’m 37.
