• Sundray
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    242 days ago

    The Borg Queen makes total sense when you realize that a collective consciousness with no sense of individuality or hierarchy is difficult to write, and principal filming for First Contact had to start on schedule or else the studio would lose money. /s

    • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      72 days ago

      Except other works, both in sci-fi and fantasy, managed to solve the problem by either having the collective form an agent to act as a spokesperson or just have a random member of the collective speak - with the mandatory scene where someone shoots one of them and another finishes the sentence.

      • Or jam them all into a single unit like with Legion in Mass Effect. Though the Geth are individuals in their own system, hell the ones who joined sovereign were rogue.