What would it be like a borg drone in the collective? Please don't use the information from later canon, only Maurice Hurley's original concept for speculation!. No Queens, no biological assimilation and the Borg are a singular species!
What would it be like to be a "Q Who" Borgdrone - no later canon
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The Queen worked as an adversary for VOY and was played to perfection by Alice Krige, but was a bad idea, to me. It seemed to be an attempt to make the Borg easier and more enjoyable for the writers and more identifiable to the audience, but the Borg were far more alien and menacing before all that. This is what happens when cool concepts are over-explored, it lets the air out of the balloon and they turn out to be simply "misunderstood," in the end. Vulcans & Klingons also suffered from this, greatly. When they were "mysterious" they were cool as all hell. The more we got to know them, they started taking on lame qualities and lost their edge.
By following the OP's thread in the Trek Lit forum, he refers to the fact that in Q Who there was no Queen and the Borg didn't assimilate, they were only interested in technology.
Although, it should be noted, it's debateable if Q Who even followed that too closely. After all, the Borg did abduct four crewmembers from the Enterprise so clearly even then the Borg had some interest in people, despite what was stated in dialogue.
That could have been incidential, their sole purpose was to obtain a physical sample of the ship itself.
Exactly. The concept then was that be crewmembers died.
A difference of the borg concept then and later could be that the early borg weren't forced by the collective but were free in their decission to act with the benefit of all the knowledge of the collective mind informing their decission. A bit like the founders... I wonder what it would be like!
You'd probably just kind of walk around doing the same things over and over.
"Missing." That is the exact word used in Q Who. Though presumed dead later in the episode, no corpses were ever found, they were just missing.
I doubt they got spaced, presumably the Enterprise could have still locked onto their comm badges and beamed the bodies back. That only leaves being abducted by the Borg.
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