Jon wrote:Praxis wrote:
Are you telling me that the ENTIRE COLLECTIVE wanted to seduce Data?
*shiver*
If it was in their interests, then of course yes. They use the tool they have to do it with, they thought it would convince him to aide them.
Nah. Just look at the queen. If she WAS the collective, she would talk like the Borg, act like them, etc, be completely logical. But she has a personality- she has her own wants and needs (like wanting a counterpart, despite having the whole collective to choose from), etc. She obviously represented the Borg and acted in their best interests, but she had her own personality, meaning she was not just a terminal through which ALL the Borg spoke.
It strikes me that the Borg DO seem to have a heirarchy- I'll compare this to networked computers. I would call their design an "extended star" heirarchy, as that's the type of network heirarchy they resemble.
There is each individual Borg at the bottom- each of those are directly connected to a Borg that seems to control the ship, either that or the Vinculum (I say this judging from BOBW- they were able to send commands through Picard to put every drone on the one cube to sleep, but they obviously weren't able to do that through the entire collective, suggesting that Picard had authority over just that cube. Plus the fact that he appeared to be in command of the cube whenever on the viewscreen suggests to me that he was higher up, perhaps the Borg equivilant of a Router). The Vinculum, in return, connects to one of the Unimatrixes, which connect to the Queen, which is the root. At least, this is what it looks like to me.
This also explains why the Queen getting infected allowed the virus to nuke practically everything...
