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Help! Help! I'm being assimilated!
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cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/11787093
Is the Borg Queen an Orion now?
Reminds me of Shiala from Mass Effect, the asari that was possessed by the sentient plant Tholian.
It has always been
I hate the Borg queen concept
The version in First Contact was fine. She was basically just an avatar for the Collective, possibly a gestalt consciousness. As she said, "I am the Borg." The problem is later writers didn't get that.
Still removed part of what made the Borg interesting. They were faceless, emotionless, a biological machine just set to assimilating everyone.
Even with that, the scariest part of the Borg originally was that they were just this undifferentiated swarm.
If i were gonna write the Borg going forward, I'd have the queens be a failed experiment to elevate one drone to the role of tactician specifically to deal with the Federation. It didn't work, so they don't do it anymore.
That's a good punch-up. I'm in!
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2024
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