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Vadic's hand?

The biggest hint for me is "Your kind is not as malleable as you like to think," which smacks of the Borg as seeing themselves as superior and bringing races in to the Collective is a benefit to them.
 
Regardless of how you piece it together, Picard season 3 had a ridiculous stretch of a plot. Matalas and co. could have made a genuinely fascinating season about Picard finally having a son and the aftereffects of the Dominion war. They could have not tossed out or reduced the main cast and their stories. And they still could have brought back the TNG crew, just not as salve for an underwhelming retread of tired plot threads. Again, another Star Trek that doesn't equal the sum of its parts. And the series had so much more potential. I enjoyed it though for the confection it was.
 
I mean, it's never said that it's the Queen.

The less exciting and more plausible answer is that Vadic was communicating with a head Changling above her that we never saw and that the renegade Changlings had found a way to extend the Great Linking even when not physically touching. It was then THAT head Changling that communicated with the Borg Queen.
 
In the end the Changeling thing barely mattered anyway, they probably should have done secretly nanoprobe-infected spies to spread the receiver DNA sequences to keep everything in the story Borg related.
 
I think it was made pretty clear that the Borg lacked the ability to assimilate period thanks to Future Janeway.
To think they could adapt to assimilate a lifeform that is able to change molecular structure on command is a bit out there.

I don’t mind the show using an unexplained method of communication that is totally alien.
It was an effective way of disguising the truth.

I would be more interested in knowing what the Borg Queen actually had over Vadic to make her so submissive?
They were clearly not equal partners in crime.
She feared punishment.

Yes, she feared the BQ - which doesn't make sense based on the state we saw her in...unless she threatened to use her remaining strength to destroy the great link, but surely Vadic would be confident that the Jem'Hadar could take on a damaged cube?
 
And know Picard would have a son out there for over 20 years unbeknownst to him, without getting injured or killed.

This one sort of has an explanation. She sensed him. She knew who and what he was at some point after he was born. He had a link to the queen. Vadic even knew about the door visions Jack was having (because the Queen told her)
 
In the end the Changeling thing barely mattered anyway, they probably should have done secretly nanoprobe-infected spies to spread the receiver DNA sequences to keep everything in the story Borg related.

The big changeling infiltration of Starfleet that was the focus of episode 5 and the reason Picard couldn't get help from anyone was just handwaved away. Changelings kept everyone alive and we found all the changelings - just a line of dialogue. Kind've cheap IMO.
 
It's just too much revisionist, convoluted nonsense for me to swallow. But I suppose thatt's one way to fill in the blanks.
 
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