The idea of the Borg contracting some kind of damaging meme is truly horrific
That's a
Is that one of the ones from Doktor Sleepless?
I mean that kind of gets done when they deliberately spread the idea of individuals.
Wasn't that basically Geordi's original plan using Hugh?
Yes, and it was super effective.
:evil Dark Mechanicus noises:
Proof the Borg Queen was a mistake
What was even the point of coming up with a Borg Queen? That really retcons the core of what the Borg had been established to be: a collective consciousness with no sense of individuality or hierarchy.
I think it would have worked out (and they could even have justified it since more than one actress played her) if there were multiple 'queens' and they essentially acted like central nodes, maybe even have the job of mediating a lack of consensus when a situation arises with two possible solutions. But unfortunately, that did not happen.
Idea being, they're like and any colony or beehive. But that's not how queens work in either case, and swarm theory shows that they're not cooperating in any way.
The Borg Queen is a movie villain thing. A person is a better visual representation that you can show on screen, that can oppose you, and that you can converse with. All that stuff with Data being tempted and Picard's final faceoff wouldn't have worked nearly as well without a person.
Not a mistake, it's a memetic infection that goes from show to show every time they adapt that "decentralized consciousness" thing.
