Queen, Again.

[Guy Gardener]

There was this blonde in charge running around in the new show "Kings" which started something itching in my hind brain, I looked her up on IMDB but I got a little crosseyed and read up on the wrong broad, so it wasn't till 5 episodes later that... Frakk me, it's Susannah Thompson.

This woman has always been 10 times the Borg Queen Alice Krieg ever was, how pleasant to see her in work.

 

[Deckerd]

Oh no. If there had to be a Borg Queen (and I think it ruined the whole mystery of the Borg) Alice Krige was as creepy as you could get. She was great.

 

[apenpaap]

I like the Borg better queenless, but I think Suzanna Thompson was a much better queen then Alice Krige.

 

[One of None]

She was great in NCIS. I always wonder why they did not continue with her character.

 

[Praetor]

Suzanna Thompson and Alice Krige are both great actresses. I think the difference in their portrayals of the Borg Queen was largely based in the way they were told to play it in their initial outings, which somewhat cemented the 'image' of how their Queen was perceived. Alice's FC Queen was creepysexy and enigmatic. Suzanna's Queen is much more personal and motherly, almost as a rival to Janeway. Again in 'Endgame' Alice returned to make it a more creepysexy part.

 

[Anwar]

The Queen finally found a King worthy of her, huh? Ian McShane is great.

 

[Red Ranger]

Sorry, Alice Krige is the best Borg Queen, although Susanna Thompson was sufficiently creepy, too. I always wondered what would have happened if, intead of Seven, VOY managed to separate a Borq Queen from the Collective. Off topic, I wish we had discoverd there were also more Borg Kings like Locutus. -- RR

 

[Guy Gardener]

king would imply that they "ruled" equally... Locutus was more of a courtesan? Which makes me wonder why Hugh looked on Locutus with such awe? Was picard a king, or was Hugh just impressed by anyone who'd been tapped by his queen?

 

[Akiraprise]

Locutus was the Queen's court jester. Assimilation must get awful repetitive after awhile. She needed someone to brighten her day. Enter Locutus. He tells jokes, satisfies her "needs," lubricates her exoskeleton, whatever needs doing.

 

[Gary7]

What was quite unbelievable for me was how "human" the Borg Queen was. This is the BORG. They're robotic, emotionless creatures. I'd have expected her to be like an evil Data. Cold. Calculating. Without opinion--only facts, bent to Borg perspective.

And just like with a termite colony, there is one queen that will be replaced when she dies. I'd have expected there to be multiple Borg queens, each overseeing a particular sub collective of the Borg. Only one queen is far too fragile... One could argue that the Borg became omnipotent for so long, they didn't feel at all threatened... and could reallocate resources in a way that might weaken certain aspects but leave them well within perceived tolerance.

But as Praetor pointed out, these actresses who portrayed the Borg Queen are very talented. It is the direction they were subjected to that molded their performances.

 

[Anwar]

I don't think the Queen is someone chosen to be in that position, I think the Queen is really a program borne from the Collective that simply inhabits a form. Whenever she "dies" it just causes a local server crash (which is why all the other borg on the Ent-E died at the end of FC) until the Queen program is restored within the Collective and a new body chosen for it to inhabit.

 

[Praetor]

That's how I tend to thing of the Queen, too. However, I could see there being multiple queens and still fitting into that scheme.

Server crash is a great comparison, btw.

 

[apenpaap]

7/9 once mentioned each Borg's memories where stored in the collective. If this goes for the queen as well, then the Borg probably have a few cloned spare queens in storage, and if the queen dies, one of them is activated and given her memories.

 

[Guy Gardener]

or they could have thousand of the same woman lording it over the borg from one far reaching side of the galaxy to the other... Y'know where and wen they need a Queen.

I was thinking that if the Borg really wanted to undermine Seven, y'know, just for chuckles, that they'd program a few thousand drones with her memories and life experiences (She reconnected to the hive mind in Dark frontier), free them, and then send them Earthward, as all the thousands of Anika Hansens wax on about thier unique individuality.

But the Borg are not petty bitches are they?

 

[Praetor]

One of them seems to be.

 

[gwud]

It wasn't until a couple of years ago that two people played the Queen. Worryingly

 

[neogothboy74]

Frakk me, it's Susannah Thompson.

This woman has always been 10 times the Borg Queen Alice Krieg ever was, how pleasant to see her in work.

I thought Alice Krige was better as the Queen. But I loved Susannah Thompson as Lenara Khan on DS9.