My phone camera isn't great, but I still hope you enjoy this view. #Colombia
Thanks for putting up with the slings and arrows, the many frets and flights of fancy.
It's been a wild, weird ride.
Long may it go on.
@MLClark Either those are individual air conditioning units, or you've discovered a Borg Cube nursery.
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Well Hughie m'boy, it's like this: sometimes, when a Borg Queen and her collective love each other very much...
@MLClark "Q Who" showed the away team discovering the Borg nursery (with cheesy props attached to infant actors). After that, Borg procreation never really was addressed.
That was the question! Were they the fruits of procreation or assimilated babies? It never gets answered. There's a Lower Decks episode that references Q Who's discovery, but it is of course just played for a gag. 🤔 Now I'm wondering if any of the beta canon novels covered this...
@MLClark @WordsmithFL I always assumed they were assimilated. The Borg queen had only a spine when lowered into the rest of her body.
@poemblaze @MLClark Personally, I never bought the idea of the Queen. It was established in the series they were a collective. The Queen was made up for "First Contact." Being lowered into an artificial body seemed a bit ridiculous to me, but that's just me.
Not to mention she's been killed several times only to re-emerge when the writers needed her as a villain.
Victim of a cultural shift in storytelling into simplistic views of the enemy as an individual. SFF has been overrun by this nonsense wish-fulfilment idea that the enemy is embodied in a single person, such that taking them down saves society. It's insidious because it distracts us from our actual, more systemic cultural threats.
@WordsmithFL Not vouching for how sensible it was for the Borg to have a queen. But she was a part of that universe. @MLClark