Locutus of borg

[Crazyewok]

So why do the Borg has a hard on for Picard? Why did he warrant a name.....

Here is my theory. Picard was the first borg. It's a time paradox.

Somehow Picard ends up back in time in the delta quadrant as a Borg and founds the first collective.

Borg have already shown to be adapt at time travel.

It might explain why the Borg in first contact didn't just set the Entprises warp core to explode and beam down to earth and assimilate everything. They needed to assimilate picard so they could send him back in time to found the collective or the collective would not exist.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I thought it was cos the queen sought an equal (to the living embodiment of the entire collective), she fancied Picard but he refused to play along and was just a drone puppet ubtil he was rescued. Then in FC she chose Data and was betrayed, and in Voyager wanted Seven but failed miserably there too.

She'd be a crazy cat lady by now if she was human.

 

[Delta Vega]

I'm going to leave myself wide open here, I've never seen the episodes of TNG when Picard is "Locutus"
But even as a non TNG officionado, I've always wondered why he was given a "Named" designation
And, with all the millions of people that the Borg assimilated over time, how come it seems to be all too easy for Star Fleet personnel to be brought back from the brink of being a fully developed Borg, it seems all too convenient ?
There's Picard, Seven of Nine, Data and even Dr Phlox, who managed to cure himself before his implants became too dominant.
Please enlighten me, and be gentle.

 

[Kilana2]

And, with all the millions of people that the Borg assimilated over time, how come it seems to be all too easy for Star Fleet personnel to be brought back from the brink of being a fully developed Borg, it seems all too convenient ?
There's Picard, Seven of Nine, Data and even Dr Phlox, who managed to cure himself before his implants became too dominant.
Please enlighten me, and be gentle.

People are brought back from the Borg Collective when it suits the plot and when they are main characters. When they are petty ensigns or lieutenants they are used as cannon fodder for the Borg to assimillate for free - beyond help, being smashed or plunging to death or dying in an explotion.

 

[Unionized Elf]

The whole point of Locutus was that he was supposed to be the Borg's spokesman to the Federation. Clearly the Borg thought a spokesman would be more effective with an actual name as opposed to identifying himself as Four of Seven or something like that.

 

[Kilana2]

There was also a Vastator of Borg if I'm not mistaken (in the litverse, though).

 

[King Bob!]

I'm going to leave myself wide open here, I've never seen the episodes of TNG when Picard is "Locutus"

You should really check out "Q, Who" (season two), "The Best of Both Worlds I", and "The Best of Both Worlds II" (season four).

 

[Sareesataka]

They wanted to call Picard "Smorgas", but thankfully someone warned the Borg how painfully embarrassing that would have been so they went with Locutus.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'm going to leave myself wide open here, I've never seen the episodes of TNG when Picard is "Locutus"

Get off my property.

 

[Infern0]

In truth who and what the borg were kept changing from episode to episode.

On BOBW he was supposed to be a spokesperson of sort for the borgs dealing with earth.

Obviously now it doesn't make much sense but up until that point it could easily have been SOPHISTICATED for the borg for all we knew

 

[Finngle Bells]

No. Just no

 

[at Quark's]

Even though it seems the Borg never change (well, 'adapt') their tactics, sometimes they actually do. For example, in VOY we see them develop a more "stealthy" assimilation tactic.

It seems that for some reason, in The Best of Both Worlds the Borg (to use their words) "to facilitate our introduction in your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice."

In First Contact we learn that the Queen apparently wanted more from Locutus than that , she wanted "more than just another Borg drone. <...>a human being with a mind of his own, who could bridge the gulf between humanity and the Borg. <....>a counterpart ..." but this notion is nowhere to be found in BOBW, there it seems Locutus is just a mouthpiece for the Collective.

 

[Delta Vega]

And what kind of stupid name is Locutus ?
How can he not just be Picard of Borg ?

 

[at Quark's]

And what kind of stupid name is Locutus ?
How can he not just be Picard of Borg ?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/locutus <-- i.e. it is his function, rather than a name.

Now why the Borg would pick an extinct Earth language for naming that function, that's the real question

 

[Frostscape One]

Maybe they got this from the database of the Raven and from assimilating the Hansens.

Or maybe some of those 18 people in that section the Borg sliced off their hull were assimilated. A few could have had great linguistic knowledge.

 

[at Quark's]

If we need to have a rationalisation anyway, I'd venture that the Borg are ancient, and may have had had some naming protocols since their earliest days, conventions that never changed because they were efficient enough. A borg would recognise such a naming convention as an ancient and formal (yet still efficient) one. Perhaps the Universal Translator (either ours or the Borg's) picked up on that 'vibe', and decided that the closest approximate in our culture would be to translate it in Latin- also an ancient language often found in formal(istic) occasions.

 

[Refuge]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/locutus <-- i.e. it is his function, rather than a name.

Now why the Borg would pick an extinct Earth language for naming that function, that's the real question

"Having Spoken" "Talker" How fitting.

 

[Delta1]

They wanted Picard because he led the strongest ship in the fleet. Specifically, the ship that noped out of System J-25 at warp 30. They only realized it was a Q miracle after assimilating Picard, but by that point, they were stuck with him.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

So why do the Borg has a hard on for Picard? Why did he warrant a name.....

They saw him wearing the speedo in 'captain's holiday'

 

[F. King Daniel]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/locutus <-- i.e. it is his function, rather than a name.

Now why the Borg would pick an extinct Earth language for naming that function, that's the real question

Because Picard's pretentiousness is immune to Borg assimilation.