Borg Queen - yay or nay?

[Prax]

Is 64,000 one Borg cube? If it is, I'm sure the queen would rather destroy a cube then allow it to be taken over by "awakened" drones and used against her.

 

[Tundra Saint]

She also blew herself up, even though she had one of the most heavily armored Cubes the borg possessed and it hadn't been that badly damaged.

 

[Herbert]

I didn't like it. Giving the borg a "humanoid" face is symptomatic of overusing the borg, drawing them closer to the average humanoid villain type that we see in Trek. I enjoyed the impersonal character of the borg, it gave that species a hidieous uniqueness. Of course that only really works if you use the borg sparingly, the more you use them, the more tempting it is to give them on an intelligible face for our heroes to exchange dialogue with.

And that's what happened with Hugh. They might not have been overused at that point but I would have preferred that they never been seen in any kind of a sympathetic light

 

[DonIago]

Personally I find "I, Borg" to be one of TNG's better episodes for the moral dilemma it raises.

While the Borg Collective as a whole is doubtless hostile, it should never be forgotten that the individuals who comprise it generally are victims.

 

[Refuge]

Yes they were individuals once. I found it uncomfortable when Seven saw her father as a drone.

She wasn't exactly sentimental.