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By narrowing what they are, making it all about her, or by being petty?

The Crystalline Entity was a plot device that leaned on Lore to provide any meaningful impact on the characters. In its second appearance, it was used as an ethical conundrum, where the story was primarily about Marr and her need for revenge. By itself, it wasn't interesting, and certainly could...

Did it though? Seems pretty boring to me. If the villain has no personality, no intellect beyond a one-note instinct, and no potential for drama, then how interesting or menacing can it possibly be? A force that's characterized purely by how indomitable it is and little else is just really...

Well no, because we learned in First Contact that the real reason for Locutus was to create a counterpart for the Queen. He resisted, so she turned him into a normal drone. The Queen is lonely in that she craves validation and acknowledgement; but she's also a control-obsessed sociopath, so she...

"I am the Borg" means something different than being an embodiment of the hive mind. Rather, it means the hive mind is an extension of her. I never thought the Queen ruined the Borg. Fans complain that she fundamentally altered what made them threatening; but did she really? The Borg were...

The way Jurati psychoanalyzes the Queen in Picard S2 makes it sound like she created them. How that would work, I don't know. She said she was a little girl when she became Borg, but maybe she was used by a civilization that was proto-Borg in a sense (already experimenting with cybernetics...

That was assimilated from the Sikarians years after BOBW. She was definitely destroyed on that cube.

It was in some pre-recorded voice clip, if I remember right.

1. Protected from alterations made to the timeline by Q. 2. Same reason they exist in the mirror universe. 3. This is essentially the same question. The production crew wanted to preserve the "same but different" motif, complete with the "shock" the characters—and by extension, the audience—feel...

It was great to see (hear) Mary Chieffo again. Still hoping she gets to reprise L'Rell at some point too.

The Collective spoke without individual representation in one episode. One. Episode. It happened a few times after that, but by that point, the Queen had already been introduced and we already knew how the Borg actually worked. And yeah, I'll take a big dramatic confrontation over a...

Did she? The Borg were beaten by a silly backdoor vulnerability in BOBW, and were allegedly susceptible to total annihilation by geometric parodox, which is beyond ridiculous. The ethics of the episode are fantastic, but come on. Yeah, the Queen could talk to the protagonists, but the Borg were...

The trope of a hive mind having a queen or centralized controlling force has existed long before First Contact. It's not meant to be completely analogous to insect hierarchy, it's just convenient shorthand to describe how this concept would work.

Masterpiece 10/10, just ahead of Sub Rosa and Shades of Gray.

It is, just not the same physical body. It's the same person just as the Queen present "off-screen" in BOBW is the same person in First Contact.

There doesn't have to be. Nothing suggests more than one Queen (aside from timeline shenanigans) in any canon media, and all the characters treat her as the same person every time they encounter her/speak of her. First Contact itself nixes the concept of multiple Queens by directly addressing...

Maybe Pulaski. Data played at the idea of an arc without approaching a resolution, and barely Worf I guess.

So Unimatrix Zero except if they actually followed through on the premise?

Did anyone on TNG even have an arc?

The intention with the character was never an avatar, so they weren't really changing anything in Voyager.