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The fact they couldn't remember U0 during their waking hours mitigated against that. Really, the queen made a paranoid error. She'd have done better to merely monitor the situation, rather than stir them up.
That's what you get for electing a psychopath as your queen...
First, the borg are not slaves, they are part of a collective consciousness, the same way each of your grey cell is part of your brain.
Second, How did she get to be a queen? Who chose her?
Coronation ceremony. The Borg go all out for their royalty.
That's nice but that doesn't tell us how she was chosen in the first place.
Obviously Species 125 contributed the idea of royalty when they were assimilated and so the Borg have a line of royal succession running through the women of Species 125 that have been assimilated.
Or maybe she drew the short straw... The point being that we don't really know. However, it's likely that the collective consciousness (which is the borg equivalent to an election) made that determination.
Well let's see.
Taken against their will, did we ever see someone volunteer to join the Borg? Can't leave through their own choice. No say in what they do, their activity.
Let's be honest, if there were a actual "collective consciousness" the majority would decide to dissolve the Borg and leave. Certainly the newly captured would.
They are slaves.
Oh, and the grey cells of your brain are not kidnapped individuals,
I believe they are. Don't forget that your cells are sacrificed for the greater good. I doubt if as individuals they would approve of that.
Sometimes you do thinks that are damaging for your organs, like drinking alcohols. I doubt your individual cells would approve being sacrificed so that the whole get's to... drink alcohol.
Our cells are actually a good metaphor for the borg drones.
There was going to be an ENT episode where Alice Krige plays a Starfleet medical technician who is assimilated and becomes the Borg Queen.
<Beverly and Troi strolling through the corridors, towards Beverly's quarters. The door won't open so she stretches out her hand to enter the access code>.
Troi: Wait Bev, perhaps we should walk another round or two. Or go to ten forward for a drink.
Beverly: <Looks puzzled> Why?
Troi: I sense intense and overwhelming .... feelings emanating from the other side of the door.
Beverly "Feelings"? You'll have to be more specific than that! <stretches hand out again>.
Troi: <sighs> Lust, Bev, lust. Your son is doing something quite natural for a boy his age, and while he is doing it, he is thinking of Ensign...
Beverly: Computer! This is dr. Crusher, medical emergency override, open the door to my quarters RIGHT NOW!
Hypocritical? Thinking of all those EMH mark 1's mining dilithium or whatever. I wonder whether (sentient) hologram status was re-evaluated after the return of Voyager ?
I'm glad they didn't. ENT tried to 'explain' enough as it is. Klingon foreheads, Soong's ancestor, ugh. Such attempts to tie everything in make the galaxy appear way too small IMHO. There's nothing wrong with a DQ species Borg queen with no further backstory.
Somehow, I don't think that would agree with the Borg philosophy of erasing every trace of individuality. I suppose they just get initialised in speaking "borg" (whatever that may be). Knowledge of the languages is probably retained (and accessed whenever needed), but not tied to specific drones.
Regarding the Homes of the Founding Fathers, I've been to Monticello and Mount Vernon. The lives of the slaves are part of the tour and the tour guides are quite open about it. The guide at Monticello even spent a decent amount of time talking about Sally Hemmings. I don't know if that is counted as 'hypocritical' or not but they are doing their best to give the complete history, at least at those two places.
But I don't think that a drone's individuality is actually ever erased, but rather submerged and buried in the subconscious, which why memories often resurface if the drone is ever cut off from the link.
It would probably depend on which of the founding father's sites the future tourists are visiting, they didn't all own slaves.
How would future tourist feel about visiting the pyramids in Egypt? Built (maybe) by slaves?
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Well they did take something of that for the Destiny books, so a human was still the first drone and bestowed them with their name.
True. But it also seems that if the Borg could erase it permanently, they would. (Again, see unimatrix zero). At the very least, I can't think of a reason that would be advantageous for the Borg to leave it intact.
On the other hand. it seems that you never completely lose identification with being Borg. 7 sometimes declared that "she was Borg", and not only at those instances in which she had a relapse or was digging her heels in. Sometimes it was almost like a seduction to fight against. It also seems that a small part of Picard remained Locutus- usually dormant, but still.
Perhaps newly assimilated drones were unviable with all their memories erased and merely submerging memories made more efficient drones, as it made adding their distinctiveness easier.
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