#borg collective

[rikercard]

A few Star Trek blinkies I found :)

[isagrimorie]

I'm so curious about the Borg Queen's (or Borg Queens, plural) relationship to Seven of Nine.

The Borg is a Collective but there is a Queen.

There's no Hierarchy, supposedly, and yet.

There are no specials and favorites and yet.

There is the Borg Queen's special interest in Picard and Seven of Nine.

Since Dark Frontier the Borg Queen has made a special effort to single out Seven.

Was it always the case? Or did it only start when the Borg chose Seven to be the singular representative of the Borg at Janeway's request in Scorpion II?

This is a similar reason the Borg Queen told Picard.

But also it's not stated enough that the Hansen family, Seven's family, are the first Humans ever Assimilated by the Borg.

Her parents wanted to be pioneers so much they disregarded every safety warning, and trailed after the Borg as if the Borg were some non-sentient new life. They're no better than the scientists in the season 4 episode, Scientific Method.

Also, a curious thing is that the Borg Queen wanted Seven to retain her individuality.

BTW it's really horrifying that in Dark Frontier, Seven lays eyes on her father for the first time since she became an individual and Seven didn't even know it.

It's interesting that Seven doesn't make an effort to rescue her father after this.

And she remains angry at her parents, also Seven says in Picard that the Borg killed her parents when they, or at least as far as Seven last saw, her father was still alive. Assimilated but alive.

It's also interesting how the Borg Queen tried to sell the lie that she let Seven regain her individuality as if there was some grand plan.

No wonder it stuck in Seven's head in The Voyager Conspiracy but at this point, Seven knew the Borg Queen was selling a bag of goods. There was no 'let' in Seven becoming an individual, Janeway took Seven from the Collective and gifted Seven with her individuality.

But if there is one thing I am sure of is that Seven is or was the Borg Queen's favorite.

In Endgame the Borg Queen outright makes it text:

And then to outright say that the reason why Voyager was still around was because of her benevolence. Someone is trying to sell a bridge in Brooklyn.

My working theory is Seven of Nine has shown some personality and dedication and the Borg Collective probably noticed, filtered to the Borg Queen, and then has slated Seven of Nine to become the new Borg Queen body and her personality, whatever was left of it, be joined with the file that says: Borg Queen.

(I've always been puzzled why the writers never used the 'We/Us/Our' pronouns for the Borg Queen. The Royal We is a thing).

I know that Hugh said any Borg/Former Borg can fly the Artifact.

But there's something fitting and Right that it was Seven who does fly the Cube.

(Also, bullshit Hugh died from a carotid artery wound, he is as filled with millions of nanoprobes as Seven is, a wound like this shouldn't have been life-threatening. It should have healed Hugh. If Seven's nanoprobe could revive Neelix from the dead, Hugh's nanoprobes should have done a lot more for Hugh).

If there's someone I want to return to in Star Trek Legacy, it's Hugh.

The Collective has always planned for Seven to assume being Queen in the event the Borg Queen dies.

And she briefly fulfills that plan.

But also as horrific as it was, it's probably a good thing majority of the Borg were spaced because it seemed to have countered the euphoric, brain chemistry-altering functions of rejoining a Collective again.

And with Elnor there to remind Seven why she shouldn't give in.

As much as Seven prefers 'Seven of Nine' as her name it seems that 'Annika' is her shibboleth to bring her individuality back to the forefront.

Being part of the Collective and leaving it seemed to really cost Seven, and that might be why piloting the Artifact was erratic.

WAIT.

Hugh just said to activate the Queencell, he didn't say anything about forming a mini-collective and controlling it!

This seems to be a specialized skill Seven has. See Survival Instinct when she re-assimilated her rogue Unimatrix.

[generalstarkiller]

If you feel alone.

[ambassadortotrilliusprime]

Who would win in a fight, the entire Borg collective (before Janeway destroys them) OR Darth Vader by himself?

Borg Collective

Darth Vader

Voting ended onApr 16, 2023

Please settle this debate, my partner and i are fighting about this hard. I will refrain from saying some of his comments about Star Trek, but he's CONVINCED that Vader would win, on his own, against the entire Borg Collective.

[lesbian-of-nine]

the inherent transgenderism of xBs

[frecklenog]

if i sold any of these as shirts/stickers/buttons/magnets would anyone buy them /gen

yes

maybehaps

nah

Voting ended onApr 1, 2023

if yes, pls note which one(s) in what form(s) in the tags! 💖

[googlekins]

Personal head canon: Annika Hansen and Jean Luc Picard share a common ancestor. This fact leads to the discovery that a special gene mutation has the ability to set distinction when introduced to electromagnetic energy known to be used by the Borg collective, therefore explaining the collectives importance towards one individual drone when 99.99999999999999% of the time, they’d have cared less about the uniqueness available to them.

Which would also explain Jack a little more!!!!!!!

[uss-exile-ncc-440548]

This has probably been done at some point but...