TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Yeah, that was an unfortunate retcon. Makes Q's "they are neither male, nor female" nonsensical, too, given how she acted toward Data.

I always figured the queen was the first one to assimilate herself so she's the only one of her kind and all the Borg are her but she's herself in physical presence

I totally agree, they're terrifying in TNG and not so much in Voyager. But I think they needed an excuse to create drama between 7 and the Borg and it doesn't make sense for the entire collective to be obsessed with her.

For AI?

There are (normal, smart) people that are incapable of understanding it.

And I don't mean not having enough context to understand it, I mean the simplest things.

I have a college like that. She learned to recognise the blank expression on my face when she immediately starts explaining to me how it was physically impossible for me to do what I just said & just goes "ohh, that was sarcasm probably, right?" ... I however still get surprised by her (eg her questioning my morning city commuting abilities of arriving at the office 5 minutes before I left home if I drive fast enough through the traffic ... ok, not the best example, but the fucking normal/everyday/intuitive physics of it, how could you even start questioning that?).

On the other hand, I find witty fast sarcasm kinda hot.

Amish biological DDOS. Suddenly the Borg become obsessed with perfecting butter churns + arts and crafts.

(Not suggesting Amish don't care about their kids. In fact, from an outsider's perspective they appear to care a LOT about having kids.)

I wonder about the binars. If they could do something unique to mess with the borg…

Drones and even entire cubes can be cut off from the collective. Doubt it'd reach that far. There were the "concious when sleeping" borg that were kind of a virus / resistance, so probably that'd happen

That actually was in my opinion realistic

It's like whistling to fake a dial tone on old phone systems.

That's my headcanon as well, even if it doesn't/might not quite fit the lore exactly 100%.

Like, the queen can instantly inhabit any (or all?) advance drone and at the same time a queen can restore the collective if something were to happen to it.

However Im super happy how the Borg queen arc in Picard ended (RIP actress :|), so for that alone I'm ok with a queen.

As far as the basic concept goes, they are very similar though there are significant differences in the details that are mostly a blur in my memories except that the actress for Seven of Nine is significantly more attractive than Douglock.