Copy to Clipboard. Send Email. First Name. Last Name. Email Address. Year Helena St. Lucia St. Martin St. Outlying Islands U. Already have an account? She resides primarily at Unimatrix One in the Delta Quadrant , but will often leave this home base to participate in assimilation efforts of a special nature.
The Borg Queen has a unique personality and a sense of individuality that normal Borg drones are not allowed. She is usually the one who "speaks" for the Collective in situations where contact with outsiders is best conducted by an individual.
But for the Borg Queen the concepts "I" and "we" are interchangeable. In her own words, she is the "one who is many. The Queen spends much of her time in her "lair" with her head and spinal column residing in a special alcove. When she emerges, she will "re-assemble" herself into a predominantly artificial body — the arms, legs and torso appearing to be entirely synthetic, while the head and shoulders seeming to be organic, but with substantial cybernetic implants.
Information on this being is still very limited. Apparently the Borg Queen has been destroyed on a number of occasions, but another queen always seems to take her place.
It is not clear whether more than one queen exists simultaneously, or if a new queen is created when the old one dies. Therefore when she speaks as "I," she is presumably referring to all previous manifestations of the Queen, going back probably thousands of years. The earliest Federation data on the Borg Queen was collected by Magnus and Erin Hansen , two exo-biologists who spent several years studying the Borg in the 's aboard their science vessel, the U.
The Hansens were assimilated before they could transmit their findings to Starfleet, but the information was later recovered by the U. Voyager about 20 years later. In , the Borg Queen spearheaded the Collective's attempt to alter Earth's history in order to make humanity easier to assimilate. However, due to interdiction by the U. Enterprise-E , not only did the plan fail, but the Queen and all other Borg involved — who were occupying the Enterprise at the time — were killed when plasma coolant liquefied their organic components.
This Queen was soon replaced by another, almost identical one — a drone assimilated from Species — who encountered the U. Voyager in the Delta Quadrant when that Federation crew attempted to procure a transwarp coil.
The Borg Queen Vessel was destroyed during that incident; however, it is not clear if the Queen herself was still aboard at the time. If so, she was replaced by another virtually-identical successor, whom Voyager once again encountered, in , at a time when the so-called "Unimatrix Zero" phenomenon threatened the integrity of the Collective. That Queen apparently died in , when a neurolytic pathogen was introduced into the Hive and wreaked havoc on a massive scale. What if they reflect a different kind of human mentality, one that was actually Borg-like?
The internal voices that commanded bicameral humans eventually fell silent, and humanity was forever changed. An intriguing, albeit highly controversial, idea very much like this was actually proposed by Julian Jaynes, an American psychologist who taught at Princeton University. In his book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind , Jaynes theorizes that human consciousness—by which he means the ability and tendency to think about ourselves as individuals—emerged suddenly, and relatively recently in history, around 3, years ago.
That would mean that anatomically modern humans were alive for hundreds of thousands of years before becoming conscious. Jaynes argues that before this recent emergence of consciousness, humanity experienced the world in a manner similar to the Borg. In this era, humans did not have an internal self that allowed for introspection or reflection. The primary difference is that bicameral humans, unlike the Borg, were not technologically linked together in a single collective mind.
Without collective thought, bicameral humans would have had trouble solving and managing complex problems. After the advent of writing, the internal voices that commanded bicameral humans eventually fell silent, and humanity was forever changed.
But what about the Borg?
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