Living witness-Borg assault squads-possible?

[Voth commando1]

So in the mistaken history of the Kyyrians in one of Voyagers's most outstanding episodes Evil Voyager apparently has a fighting squad of at least three Borg drones, also evil Janeway tells Seven to assimilate the two(or three) surviving Kyrians

My question is-is it really possible somehow to disconnect Borg drones from the collective and somehow keep them functioning as effective drones and see them used like they were in the episode?

 

[The Lonely Man]

There was some sort of precedent set in Unity when Chakotay was connected to the mini collective but separated from the actual Borg collective.

With Seven acting as the hive mind I guess it would have been possible.

 

[Sophie74656]

I think it could be. They would establish their own mini collective.

I think in that false history it was more of Seven wanting to work with Janeway, she was disconnected from the collective but functioning as part of the crew as a borg drone...if that makes sense

 

[jmidnight_99]

I think it could be. They would establish their own mini collective.

I think in that false history it was more of Seven wanting to work with Janeway, she was disconnected from the collective but functioning as part of the crew as a borg drone...if that makes sense

it does, and this has always been my take on it.

"Mini collectives" have been hinted at in "Unity" as stated above, "Survival Instinct", "The Omega Directive" and "Shattered" off the top of my head. But I think false history was the culprit in "Living Witness"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I wonder how these drones would be able to keep from breaking out and assimilating the whole ship, like Borg tend to do.

 

[Sophie74656]

I wonder how these drones would be able to keep from breaking out and assimilating the whole ship, like Borg tend to do.

I think it's because Seven is a willing member of the crew so when she adds to her collective they follow her rules..something like that

 

[The_Baroness]

Or more likely, the Kyrians just made a huge leap when studying the history and didn't actually have a clue how it was meant to work.

I do love this episode.

 

[Sophie74656]

Or more likely, the Kyrians just made a huge leap when studying the history and didn't actually have a clue how it was meant to work.

I do love this episode.

Yes. They found out she was Borg, they knew what a Borg was, they made an assumption...

 

[The Lonely Man]

I think it's because Seven is a willing member of the crew so when she adds to her collective they follow her rules..something like that

Yeah pretty much. In this case Seven is the Hive mind and the Drones are following whatever orders she gives them.

Pretty much identical to Chakotay in Unity.

 

[KelisThePoet]

Remember that what we're seeing is the re-creation of the re-creation.

Quarren probably had a fine understanding of who and what Seven was. Probably, his only error was concluding that she and Janeway enjoyed games of three-dimensional checkers together, rather than games of Velocity. Hundreds of years later, the Kyrians and Vaskans assume their forebearers were all backwards ignoramuses, as most modern folk tend to do, and you get their exaggerated claims about what those forebearers didn't know and got wrong.

It's like the common misconception among humans that our forebearers thought the world was flat. I've never seen any convincing evidence that anyone ever actually held this silly belief (Sybok's dumb statement notwithstanding), and it seems as far back in history as you want to go, in as many parts of the world as you want to look, you can find correct accounts of a spherical earth. Someday, our descendants, more enlightened than us, will say, "There was a time when people thought that people thought the earth was flat."