Voyager: Was I the only one who enjoyed the Borg appearances?

[Anwar]

V'Ger and the Machine World may have been where the TNG writers got the idea for the Borg, but they have nothing to with them in-universe.

 

[Tiberius]

According to some interpretations of the Borg Collective (including my own), killing off the body of the Queen won't destroy her mind, as the mind exists spread throughout the entire collective. The body is just a puppet.

er, then why did the Borg on Enterprise-E all collapse after the Borg Queen was killed in FC? Watch the scene, Borgs in alcoves start dropping like flies after she goes down.


Which is why it's the height of silliness to have a physical body for the collective because it makes it hugely vulnerable.

Well, it wasn't just the Queen, was it? There would have been quite a few drones down there also getting melted.

Now, if the Queen is made up of all the drones working together, then the Queen would have been made only by the drones in Engineering. The drones over in the delta quadrant of the Borg that were native to that time period wouldn't have been involved (because the movie extablished that the Borg on the Enterprise had no communication with them). So, destroy the Queen's body, as well as the drones on the lower levels of engineering, and all of a sudden you;ve got the Queen's mind trying to fit into a tiny number of drones. Of course it would overload them. it would be like if you tried to fit everything in your mind into only a dozen brain cells. It would overload you too.

 

[brian577]

I think making the Borg more like the Goa'Uld from Stargate is the best way to handle them: It keeps them powerful, but it factionalizes them SO MUCH that you can't expect there to be a major attack on the Federation by them because they all hate one another too much to work together on anything.

Forget about the System Lords who on more than one occasion threatened an all out attack on Earth?

 

[Anwar]

And those happened far and few between. Which fits perfectly with BOBW: One of the Collectives that only possesses one ship as powerful as the Assimilation Cube decides to assimilate Earth to create a foothold in the Alpha Quadrant, attacks and then loses. The other Collectives don't even know about the lifeforms of the Alpha Quadrant, and continue on their business until VOY or some other deep space mission encounters them.