In accordance with the Borg pursuit of perfection, a blending of the organic and synthetic, very little of her original humanoid form remained. The disembodied Borg Queen aboard the partially-assimilated Enterprise-E ( Star Trek: First Contact VOY: ' Unity', ' Dark Frontier') Borg drones were capable of functioning without a Queen for any length of time by forming a Hive mind of their own. The Queen was subsequently replicated after each death, although the exact mechanism of her reincarnations remains unclear. The death of the Borg Queen, while traumatic to drones in the immediate vicinity, did not seem to permanently affect the Collective or its hive mind as a whole. They hear echoes of themselves, of- of each other.' ( PIC: ' Penance') It bridges into adjacent times, realities. ( VOY: ' Endgame')Īccording to Seven of Nine, ' The Borg Queen has a kind of trans-temporal awareness. She effectively brought 'order to chaos' for all things. The Queen, while providing coordination for the drones she commanded, also provided other functions such as regulation of the Collective's transwarp hubs and interspatial manifolds. While the Collective felt that assimilation was warranted, the Borg Queen countermanded them and justified the decision due to the fact that Voyager didn't compromise their security. Evidence of this was later seen when the Queen countermanded the Collective's judgment about assimilating Voyager in 2378.

It was thought by Federation exobiologist Erin Hansen that the Borg Queen functioned like the queen of an insect hive, to coordinate the drones.

( Star Trek: First Contact VOY: ' Unimatrix Zero', ' Unimatrix Zero, Part II', ' Endgame' PIC: ' Watcher', ' Hide and Seek') I am the Borg.' As the queen of the Borg Collective and the lone individual within it, the Borg Queen provided direction and purpose for the hive mind.

The Queen defined herself as: ' I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many.

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