Questions about Queen Borg
Posted by ActLonely9375@reddit | TNG | View on Reddit | 4 comments
Is the Borg Queen more of a physical representation of the collective minds combined, or is it an individual who controls the rest of the collective? When the queen is destroyed, is she replaced by another who takes her place or reactivated in another body? How many Borg Queens are there, just one or several to lead sections of the collective? Could there be a Borg King?
When they assimilate you, the Borg claim that "we will add your biological and technological characteristics to ours." Technologists do this by stealing your memories of planes and science, but what about biological ones? Do they mean that they will control their bodies or that if they have something special they will use it for a specific task?
Q himself told Q Junior not to mess with the Borg. He looked a little nervous about it, but it could be more because of the idea that the Qs are punishing him for it (as they did to him) than the Collective directly. Another theory would be that the Qs aren't actually all-powerful. Though they act like gods, they're actually a representation of the galaxy's most advanced civilization. The Fleet sees them as they would see a civilian from a less developed prewarp culture. But just as such a civilian could harm a member of the Fleet, the Qs could be threatened, as with Elaurians like Guinan to Q, who were assimilated by the Borg. Does that mean the Borg know the weaknesses of the Qs?
Finally, the Borg do not yet have an explained origin. We know they are in the delta quadrant, but they should not have originated there. The Borg could come from another galaxy, another timeline, or another universe. If so, couldn't the Borg of all realities form the same collective?
Lord_Exor@reddit
This isn't hard to understand. She's not a manifestation of the Collective; the Collective is a manifestation of her. This is painfully obvious if you watch all of this character's appearances from the beginning (First Contact) to end (Picard S3). The one who is many, not the many who are one.
The Borg Collective exists to serve her as an extension of her.
BILLCLINTONMASK@reddit
The Borg Queen is just a stupid idea.
It's not really worth thinking about too deeply, but yeah the general consensus is that she's a manifestation of the hive mind. They assimilated Picard to get a similar surrogate, and personally I think they developed the idea of a Borg Queen after this time. They realized they couldn't intimidate the Federation with their usual shtick, so they decided that manipulation on an individual level was a better course of action.
The Borg were created as a critique of consumerism. They will do anything to get their hands on the latest and greatest technology. Lackluster writing means they eventually became a cybernetic zombie/vampire insect colony in space.
There is no relationship between the Borg and Q. Q just wanted to show Picard that they weren't ready for what was "out there."
Not everything needs to or should have an extended origin. The mystery is better than knowing they used to be the Coblackians and then their leader Snard III integrated technology into everyone's head so they could share soup recipes.
houtex727@reddit
Just a little more bad writing to counter... Quinn was entrapped in a comet. This means that indeed Q can be entrapped, albeit by the Q themselves... but remember that it was Federation technology that broke him out.
This indicates that it's entirely possible, somehow, that the Federation could have the technology, or perhaps soon enough, if they so desired to actually ensnare a Q... and then all of them.
Think Section 31 wouldn't wanna know about that? Hm?
Just some thoughts on it. Carry on.
/I thought it was Snard IV though. I must have misread or something.
absolutebeginnerz@reddit
THIS is Snard Alpha V