Is Seven a Borg "Princess"

[kes7]

Well, the Queen's nanovirus idea for assimilating humanity was kind of original (Dark Frontier). So that showed at least a small ability to think outside the box (cube? hehe, couldn't resist that one). Much better than the idiocy we saw coming from the Borg in Scorpion. That one drone that just kept on trying to assimilate the bioship kind of made me want to cry, he was so dumb. What's the use of having the most advanced tech in the galaxy and a hive mind with the collective intelligence of trillions if you all end up THAT stupid?

I had to think the nanovirus through, this is what I came up with.

In the mean time the Borg assimilated a people with advanced weather and agricultural technology. It included an interesting virus that could be released in the upper atmosphere of a planet. The inventers had used it to introduce nutrients back into their soil, but with the inclusion of Borg micro assimilation nanoprobes, they could assimilate worlds with it.

I rather like a quote from one of the later Dune books by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, "The weakness of thinking machines is that they actually believe all the information they receive, and react accordingly." It brought to mind Picard and Data telling the Drones to regenerate at the end of "Best of Both Worlds."

Brit

I like your idea as far as them having assimilated the technology ... I think they could have gotten something like that from the Brunali, given what we know of them, and actually, in Dark Frontier, Brunali people are the ones being assimilated, so that would make even more sense, as well as show how quickly the hive mind could adapt new technology to existing problems.

Regarding the Borg as "thinking machines," though, I'm not so sure about that. The Queen was inconsistent -- at times, she was gullible, at other times, distrustful. Individual drones were also a mixed bag, from the trusting naivete of Hugh, to the angry skepticism of Seven of Nine. I think the drones were more person than machine, but normally under heavy mind control. Away from that mind control, there's no telling how they would be ... each one was unique. But as a whole, I agree they did act like a single machine.