Hive mind (before the queen)

somuj · 12-07-2022 10:19pm #1

Awesome problem solving. Streaming maintenance. No one going to waste.

Discuss..

AMKC · 14-07-2022 9:36am

But what do you mean? I thought there was always a Queen she just did not not make her presence known unless she needed to so she would send a Cube out to a sector of space where there was potential races worth assimilating and just let them do that as she knows they would be scarier to most races and that very few would he able to stop them.

I think the reason Earth was not fully assimilated was because it was still just to far from Borg space even with the Transwarp conduits.

The Borg were just went to scare humans not assimilate them.

Rawr · 14-07-2022 11:03am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335301#Comment_119335301

I had assumed the Queen was the first Borg, and that the Collective had expanded from her. But then Voyager goes and wreaks that by establishing that the Queen was herself assimilated as a child. I had liked the early TNG Borg which has cropped up as this unstoppable force of nature and that the creepy Collective voice of them *was the Borg*. There was no negotiation, no peace, no personality among them to trick or anger or otherwise twist into action. They were beyond anything human, the Enterprise simply could not beat them, and if you failed to beat them they could consume you in an unending nightmare. This made them one of the best Sci-Fi monsters ever created.

Of course then we all know what happened later alas....

Kurn · 14-07-2022 2:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335708#Comment_119335708

Well, that Queen could have been referring to the body she was in at that time.

I like to think the Queen is the essence of various individuals over time that started with one person.

The borg could also be breakaway collections - I use that to justify some of the sketchy writing...

Evade · 14-07-2022 10:58pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119335708#Comment_119335708

The original Queen may have been the first but the Borg aren't immortal, as far as I know, so eventually a new Queen would have to be selected or the Borg would have disbanded.