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The Borg Collective
The enigmatic Borg Queen is the central locus of the Borg Collective
who brings order to the legions of voices within the hive mind and provides
a common direction--much like the queen of an insect colony. She resides
primarily at Unimatrix One in the Delta Quadrant, but will often leave
this home base to participate in assimilation efforts of a special nature.
The Borg Queen has a unique personality and a sense of individuality
that normal Borg drones are not allowed. She is usually the one who "speaks"
for the Collective in situations where contact with outsiders is best conducted
by an individual. But for the Borg Queen the concepts "I" and "we" are
interchangeable. In her own words, she is the "one who is many."
The Queen spends much of her time in her "lair" with her head and
spinal column residing in a special alcove. When she emerges to encounter
humanoid outsiders, she will "re-assemble" herself into a predominantly
artificial body--the arms, legs and torso appearing to be entirely synthetic,
while the head and shoulders seeming to be organic, but with substantial
cybernetic implants.
Information on this being is still very limited. Apparently the
Borg Queen has been destroyed on a number of occasions, but another queen
always seems to take her place. (It is not clear whether more than one
queen exists simultaneously, or if a new queen is created when the old
one dies.) The Borg's collective nature makes it likely that each Borg
Queen has all her predecessors' and/or counterparts' qualities and memories.
Therefore when she speaks as "I," she is presumably referring to all previous
manifestations of the Queen, going back probably thousands of years.
The earliest Federation data on the Borg Queen was collected by
Magnus and Erin Hansen, two exo-biologists who spent several years studying
the Borg in the 2350's aboard their science vessel, the U.S.S. Raven. This
information was never transmitted to Starfleet, however, because the Hansens
were assimilated before they could communicate their findings.
In 2373, the Borg Queen spearheaded the Collective's attempt to
alter Earth's history in order to make humanity easier to assimilate. However,
due to interdiction by the U.S.S. Enterprise-E, not only did the plan fail,
but the Queen and all other Borg involved--who were occupying the Enterprise
at the time--were killed when plasma coolant liquefied their organic components.
This Queen was soon replaced by another, almost identical one --
a drone assimilated from Species 125 -- who encountered the U.S.S. Voyager
in the Delta Quadrant when that Federation crew attempted to procure a
transwarp coil. The Borg Queen Vessel was destroyed during that incident;
however, it is not clear if the Queen herself was still aboard at the time.
If so, she was replaced by another virtually identical successor, whom
Voyager once again encountered in late 2376 at a time when the so-called
"Unimatrix Zero" phenomenon threatened the integrity of the Collective.
Several months later the Voyager battled the Borg and destroyed both Unimatrix
Zero, and a transwarp hub during their final transwarp back to the Alpha
Quadrant.
A Borg Sphere, and the Voyagers computer analysis of the Sphere
The Borg Queens Prism ship, and Unimatrix Zero, Delta Quadrant
The Inside of a Borg Cube
Borg organic origins require them to go through a regeneration
process
regularly to replenish their energy. This is done in an alcove,
where during
times of inactivity they return to individual alcoves which allow
them to
regenerate and process new orders from the Collective. Outside
of the
Collective, the alcove is used for sleep and to replenish energy.
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