Making a Dramatic Entrance, Guilt tripping you for not visiting More Often, Sarcastic Remarks about your Clothes, and when you raise your Voice in reaction, being told to go to Sleep because you are Obviously Tired.. -Borg Queen- MOM
These were my favorite episodes.The Queen was a truly dangerous individual.yes,only she was of one mind,of a single direction and more than capable of making all decisions concerning her hive.A powerful enemy to Voyager and worthy of great fear.
I dont think she is inherantly an individual, she is the sum of the collective, the one and the many. She is neither an individual or a collective but an emergent property of both. I mean why would she insult 7 as an individual if she was one herself? Carl Jung would call her an avatar of the Borg's collective unconscious thus why she is referred to as a queen being a symbol of an archetype.
I find that part really cool too. It also underscores the idea of a "hive mind". She literally is the hive mind, and only bothers with a body for ceremonial occasions.
Now why does this woman never ever get dressed BEFORE her company arrives? That's just plain rude, and bad hostessing if you ask me. Whenever I answer my doorbell, I always make sure to have my body on already.
@@c3piano 🤣🤣🤣 That'd be brilliant! Open your front door to see the various parts wandering around randomly and autonomously: Sorry folks! I'm just all over the place these days! 🤭
A fine episode (for Voyager), but one of the best episodes in Star Trek history? Surely you jest? (unless your top best is like 100 episodes long... lol)
I prefer to think of the Queen as just a more advanced drone that the Collective uses as an admin program or control node to help coordinate things. She can steer the Collective's actions, but she is just as bound to it as 4 of 86 over there.
The Borg queen is just a humanoid version of the Borg Vinculum system, but more compact and mobile, along with something like a personality. As the Queen said herself, she was originally from species 125. So the Collective can arbitrarily pick specific drones as a template for an advanced drone Vinculum substitute. Useful for mobility and if advanced resources aren't readily available (like in Star Trek: First Contact).
I think the Borg ALLOWED her to stay on voyager after the fact. But I doubt it was planned from the start of Seven working with them. The queen “exaggerated”…
There was always a kind of sensuousness with the Borg queen, the early queens showed this side brilliantly the later ones always seemed a little cold. It added to there uniqueness I think that you rarely found in any other Sci Fi.
1:32: Borg Queen bending her spine to get into the suit because the timing is off getting lowered down while body is being assembled 🤨😅 Borg Imperfection or human error !?
It was must be so *Awesome* to be Borg Queen. You spend your time with your head & shoulders tucked in a case all snuggly. Only ever deigning to wear my "Borgbody" when I need to be... _menacing._
The whole point of the Borg is that they're a collective with no individuality or hierarchy. Every Borg is the queen and can speak for them, every Borg is also disposable. The idea of a Borg Queen is just bad, hacky writing, ripped off from Aliens.
And an Alien queen was terrible writing too. There was no reason the Alien, should it have continued eating and was not jettisoned, could not have laid eggs. The perfect cycle.
You have a point about hierarchy making little sense for the Borg, but I don’t think you can say the writer ripped off Aliens. The queen concept in Aliens is obviously derived from insect colonies, it’s likely the Star Trek writer was similarly inspired by nature.
@@darthkek1953 The didn’t use a queen when the perceived the species as little or no risk. They only used a queen when it was a necessary tactical maneuver with a species that could possibly offer significant resistance. First interactions with human when they thought they wouldn’t offer any significant resistance no queen later after humans offered significant resistance they used a queen.
When I saw this scene and it wasn't from the movie, I was disappointed. But I was more disappointed when she assembled and I didn't hear the Windows Login music.
the Borg sure took over Voyager after they found that dead drone in Blood Fever. they got their money's worth out of the First Contact sets & costumes. the Gigeresq Borg were never as creepy as the Q Who ones. once they introduced the Borg Queen it kinda spoilt things. u just can't compare First Contact to the incredible Best of Both Worlds
The Queen is literally Seven's mother. You can certainly see it in the way she is softly spoken to, touched and sternly instructed when met with disobedience.
Well, not LITERALLY. Her biological family and real mother were assimilated at the same time, remember. The Borg Queen is more like a ... board of directors, vested in one person.
Introducing a queen was a bad idea. It detracted from the menace that was Borg. A queen would introduce a single-point-failure that contradicts Swarm Theory's principle of decentralized intelligence.
Finally, someone who gets it! The true menace of the Borg is they can't be reasoned with, they think you're inferior, and simply assimilate you without second thought. Even in this scene, why make so much drama about Seven? Simply assimilating her immediately would have been more consistent with what the Borg are. Also, you're telling me the Borg can't just assimilate Voyager? Why is that suddenly so hard to do? Why is the queen some sort of villain for Janeway? Her and Voyager are to the Borg what a chimp is to us.
I have no idea why I am still drawn to this type of stuff. Scares the crap out of me and makes me question God. Years ago I created a comic strip with a woolly mammoth named Ellie where the Borg were a recurring side element. Now I find myself questioning whether Ellie and I can even be friends anymore because of the connection. I also wrote a Star Trek novel, back in the bygone days when I was a trekkie, that explained the childhood story of Seven of Nine and how the Borg got nanoprobes which revolutionized their assimilation process. According to the novel, an alien species created nanoprobes, or nanites, as they were then called, to reconstruct and repair broken cells and DNA, and used them to recreate woolly mammoths after their extinction, reseeding them on another planet in the Delta Quadrant. Later, the Borg assimilated the species to get the nanites for their own use and left an empty planets with ruins of genetic laboratories and herds of woolly mammoths, and it was in this state that Voyager encountered the planet in 2375. Now here's the awful part: my friend Ellie is also a woolly mammoth. And now I am in the position of having to examine whether I need to let her go; a character I have created and nurtured for 12 years, because of this Borg connection. It's sad and I can't make a decision. 😭😭😭
This what Hillary Clinton would say if one came back to her next Presidential campaign. One more boo boo and it's curtains for you like so many others.
You'd think that, with a ship full of worker drones, the Borg queen could get someone to replace that blinking fluorescent light.
Ma'am.. that's a feature.
@@DavidMyrmidon Hey, they work for the department of defense. They'll get to it!
Blinking light is irrelevant.
@@victorhartman1904 If illumination is irrelevant, then why have it?
Union job, can’t touch it unless they want to be in a sea of legal fees.
Can we take a min to appreciate the amazing score, music in Star Trek was always brilliant
Hear hear! Voyagers music was brilliant!
The wiggling spine at @1:30 is just perfect.
Making a Dramatic Entrance, Guilt tripping you for not visiting More Often, Sarcastic Remarks about your Clothes, and when you raise your Voice in reaction, being told to go to Sleep because you are Obviously Tired.. -Borg Queen- MOM
IKR 😂
@@starmsjc
When you're Mom is Not the Borg Queen, but is still in your Head.....All the time 😅
Totally 😁💯
What's with the random capitals? Weird.😅😅
@@markfox1545
Because I Am Just Weird ,PERIOD 😁
These were my favorite episodes.The Queen was a truly dangerous individual.yes,only she was of one mind,of a single direction and more than capable of making all decisions concerning her hive.A powerful enemy to Voyager and worthy of great fear.
I dont think she is inherantly an individual, she is the sum of the collective, the one and the many. She is neither an individual or a collective but an emergent property of both. I mean why would she insult 7 as an individual if she was one herself? Carl Jung would call her an avatar of the Borg's collective unconscious thus why she is referred to as a queen being a symbol of an archetype.
I love that part when the head, shoulders and spine assembles to the bot body
More Hellraiser than Star Trek.
@@mikes5637 ha ha exactly what I thought when I watched it in First Contact! Whoa a Cenobite! Ooohh kinky lol
I find that part really cool too. It also underscores the idea of a "hive mind". She literally is the hive mind, and only bothers with a body for ceremonial occasions.
And the little spinal chord wiggling to be inserted...
It’s done even better here than in First Contact.
That is 1 heck of a way to be greeted when you go home.
It's the same way for many of us
at family reunions and
Holiday Dinners.
Check out my comment below in the comments section!
you should see me visit my parents on sundays
I told my girl friend we could continue are conversation after her cycle, I am still in the hospital.
Now why does this woman never ever get dressed BEFORE her company arrives? That's just plain rude, and bad hostessing if you ask me. Whenever I answer my doorbell, I always make sure to have my body on already.
🤣 I'd love to see your guests faces if you answered the door as a decapitated head
Great for Halloween.
@@umpus You at the door:
You know, I'd forget my head if it wasn't attac... Oooopps!
🤭🤭🤭
@@c3piano 🤣🤣🤣
That'd be brilliant!
Open your front door to see the various parts wandering around randomly and autonomously:
Sorry folks!
I'm just all over the place these days!
🤭
If I remember correctly she’s probably the closest borg to be the borg version of perfection so she might just like showing it off
Anika Hansen truly had the most incredible adventure.
She sure did! Janeway was instrumental in her path to humanity!
With all of the flashing/strobing, I was expecting to see a "Studio 51" sign and maybe a disco ball that had been assimilated.
When the Borg Queen tells Seven "Welcome home.", it mirrors how in DS9, the Female Changeling told Odo when he found his people 'welcome home'.
One of the best episodes in Star Trek history. Period.
Exclamation point on the period! The Borg Queen is the creepiest thing I have EVER seen
A fine episode (for Voyager), but one of the best episodes in Star Trek history? Surely you jest? (unless your top best is like 100 episodes long... lol)
It’s the most watched episode of ALL Star Trek series on Netflix. If you want to watch again, Voyager is being removed from Netflix Oct 1.
@@l0v3_pixie89 Next to Hillary Clinton as the President!
@@luislaplume8261 weve already experienced the destruction that the orange plauge did to US society, never again
I could never be a borg. My octo-laser would be busting me every time Seven walked into the room.
I would be a Borg in a heartbeat lol
Thank you, I was in the mood for watching this again. Now to find the episodes and watch the whole thing.
Seven of nine...is just so awsome. 👍😀❤❤
Please, Let me comply with your demands on exercise in bed!
Honestly I never liked the idea of the Borg having a queen. I always thought the Borg as a pure collective consciousness were far more terrifying.
Yeah . . it's rather contradictory.
I prefer to think of the Queen as just a more advanced drone that the Collective uses as an admin program or control node to help coordinate things. She can steer the Collective's actions, but she is just as bound to it as 4 of 86 over there.
@@Desiremademanifest exactly. And mimicking a bee hive a queen is rather logical
The Borg queen is just a humanoid version of the Borg Vinculum system, but more compact and mobile, along with something like a personality. As the Queen said herself, she was originally from species 125. So the Collective can arbitrarily pick specific drones as a template for an advanced drone Vinculum substitute. Useful for mobility and if advanced resources aren't readily available (like in Star Trek: First Contact).
So you didn't like First Contact?
The Borg are notorious for faulty wiring, too
WOW, the Borg Queen said: we put you on voyager in the first place ... did you really think we would surrender you so easily???
I think she was trying to mess with Seven's mind. Notice when Seven asks her to explain, she changes the topic.
@@michael719 Her answer will be WE ARE BORG.
I think the Borg ALLOWED her to stay on voyager after the fact. But I doubt it was planned from the start of Seven working with them. The queen “exaggerated”…
Excellent moment!
No other actress could play the Borg Queen as well as Alice Krieg!!
Yeah but when you compare this one to the one from ST Picard....she's way better
There was always a kind of sensuousness with the Borg queen, the early queens showed this side brilliantly the later ones always seemed a little cold. It added to there uniqueness I think that you rarely found in any other Sci Fi.
The Borg queen so needs here own tv show.!!!!!
una mente colmena interdimensional ; un factor avanzado de una civilizacion tipo 3
Borg Queen Assembles: I heard of pulling yourself together but this is RIDICUOLOUS
1:32: Borg Queen bending her spine to get into the suit because the timing is off getting lowered down while body is being assembled 🤨😅 Borg Imperfection or human error !?
It's cgi so I assume they wanted it that way
@@umpus
Touché!?
2:16, there we are! Hey us!😁
We all know she becomes the new Borg queen, to recreate the collective. The irony.
- Q
It was must be so *Awesome* to be Borg Queen.
You spend your time with your head & shoulders
tucked in a case all snuggly. Only ever deigning
to wear my "Borgbody" when I need to be... _menacing._
Spectacular 😳😳😳🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍
Say what you will, the Unicomplex is such an awesome design.
great episode!
She's the Borg Queen, yet there is no Borg Jester,Borg Jack,Borg Ace,not even a Borg King? Must be a boring gig being Borg Queen😂
And the Borg don't come in four different suits either😕
*When the federation shows up with a full house and there Borg has a flush in their hands....*
It is not.
Buffy theme, cf Cara D's rad pad.
She has the entire internet in her brain. I doubt she's bored.
They should have made the Borg UniMatrix just a ton of cubes interconnected in a big blocky pile of cubes in space coming and going
Should be interesting to see the new Borg Queen in “Picard”.
Thompson is my favourite queen.
Turns out all borg needed to do to find perfection is to go to the queen's chamber.
The Borg Queen is the ultimate psychopath.
Naw. Just calculating.
Sybil Danning would have made
The Perfect Borg Queen.
ANYONE remember HER?
7, 5, 7
Too old
Yes if it was 50 years ago in 1971!
Seven needs to and will become the new Queen !!!
I can see why the queen us grumpy
She don't have a cookie
That grinding sound. What the heck?
The whole point of the Borg is that they're a collective with no individuality or hierarchy. Every Borg is the queen and can speak for them, every Borg is also disposable. The idea of a Borg Queen is just bad, hacky writing, ripped off from Aliens.
And an Alien queen was terrible writing too. There was no reason the Alien, should it have continued eating and was not jettisoned, could not have laid eggs. The perfect cycle.
You have a point about hierarchy making little sense for the Borg, but I don’t think you can say the writer ripped off Aliens. The queen concept in Aliens is obviously derived from insect colonies, it’s likely the Star Trek writer was similarly inspired by nature.
It is apparent they only have queens for interfacing with hierarchical species.
@@matthewhuszarik4173 they didn't utilise a queen for interfacing with humans. They said "we are the Borg".
@@darthkek1953 The didn’t use a queen when the perceived the species as little or no risk. They only used a queen when it was a necessary tactical maneuver with a species that could possibly offer significant resistance. First interactions with human when they thought they wouldn’t offer any significant resistance no queen later after humans offered significant resistance they used a queen.
Well she could have been offended by the garments and strip 7 of 9 of them.
THAT would have been the best episode of Trek/TV ever.
Yes! But only at 1.00 am after midnight on pay per view on cable TV.
*you are unique*
Would you choose to experience being a Borg, if you knew that you’d be saved eventually?
The Borg Queen reminds me of Queen Elizabeth I
I love Alice but Moira Borg Queen scared me ... cold and deadly. :p
When I saw this scene and it wasn't from the movie, I was disappointed.
But I was more disappointed when she assembled and I didn't hear the Windows Login music.
To me only real Borg Queen is Alice Krige.
Alice in Borgland
Always the "random flashing disco lights" in these Borg scenes. Do the Borg have a lot of short circuits in their cube wiring?
Wow
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From this.....
the Borg sure took over Voyager after they found that dead drone in Blood Fever. they got their money's worth out of the First Contact sets & costumes. the Gigeresq Borg were never as creepy as the Q Who ones. once they introduced the Borg Queen it kinda spoilt things. u just can't compare First Contact to the incredible
Best of Both Worlds
*I am in love with this woman or cyborg!?!* ❤️
Do Borg even sonic shower? How do they clean their organics?
The Queen is literally Seven's mother. You can certainly see it in the way she is softly spoken to, touched and sternly instructed when met with disobedience.
Well, not LITERALLY. Her biological family and real mother were assimilated at the same time, remember. The Borg Queen is more like a ... board of directors, vested in one person.
*Body by Borg
Introducing a queen was a bad idea.
It detracted from the menace that was Borg. A queen would introduce a single-point-failure that contradicts Swarm Theory's principle of decentralized intelligence.
Finally, someone who gets it! The true menace of the Borg is they can't be reasoned with, they think you're inferior, and simply assimilate you without second thought. Even in this scene, why make so much drama about Seven? Simply assimilating her immediately would have been more consistent with what the Borg are.
Also, you're telling me the Borg can't just assimilate Voyager? Why is that suddenly so hard to do? Why is the queen some sort of villain for Janeway? Her and Voyager are to the Borg what a chimp is to us.
" Èsta! sempre sera minha!!! passado de Grêgo! Prêsente de Tróia!",
Also, My Nana is all tuckered out, trekker. Call some other mommy, wood ya?
fuuny man
I have no idea why I am still drawn to this type of stuff. Scares the crap out of me and makes me question God. Years ago I created a comic strip with a woolly mammoth named Ellie where the Borg were a recurring side element. Now I find myself questioning whether Ellie and I can even be friends anymore because of the connection. I also wrote a Star Trek novel, back in the bygone days when I was a trekkie, that explained the childhood story of Seven of Nine and how the Borg got nanoprobes which revolutionized their assimilation process. According to the novel, an alien species created nanoprobes, or nanites, as they were then called, to reconstruct and repair broken cells and DNA, and used them to recreate woolly mammoths after their extinction, reseeding them on another planet in the Delta Quadrant. Later, the Borg assimilated the species to get the nanites for their own use and left an empty planets with ruins of genetic laboratories and herds of woolly mammoths, and it was in this state that Voyager encountered the planet in 2375.
Now here's the awful part: my friend Ellie is also a woolly mammoth. And now I am in the position of having to examine whether I need to let her go; a character I have created and nurtured for 12 years, because of this Borg connection. It's sad and I can't make a decision. 😭😭😭
It’ll hit your readers in the heart.
"no idea" ? ...... consider subconsciousness, unconsciousness, "who knows" if your worldview is right... ...
@@thegamingrepublic7014 why cut off anything if it's your fantasy?
I wish they would ALWAYS use Alice Krige as the Borg Queen...
Still don't understand why they didn't get Alice Krige to reprise her role as the Borg Queen for episodes 15 and 16 Dark Frontier.
Maybe she was busy for those roles. Still I like this one a bit more. And she plays her well.
@@harvestercommander3250 or she wanted better payment ((: , u know, da "reality", da world... xD
They tried but she was busy on another project
@@Valicore isn’t that what I said?
She read the script and was like “ this sucks “
She was pretty hot in Ghost Story.
Who told the Borg queen her hair looks good like that?
Adding a queen to the borg was the worst idea ever.
Isn’t it rude not to be dressed before guess come?
this is next level fucked up multiparts queen
but very useful surgery nano technology.
,yes,hernammme.isanikahansen?
Wonder why they spoke verbally. So primitive...
the daleks will exterminate the borg
The Borg Queen before she became Oliver Queens mother lol
Josie dye vs Amada patucci the victor goe's the castrated male Borg feminist drones
Shitty electrical system blinking all the time
Borg Queen completely screwed up the Borg story. Come at me.
I kinda agree. The Borg were more menacing before her
How? She is like the queen of a bee hive. They probably had to adapt to have a Queen to be more organized In their pursuit of perfection.
The borg were shown to have a hivemind of course there had to be a controller
Funny how you don't explain why
I'll come at you...
... to declare that you're correct.
Well, that CG didn't age well.
Pretty sure it did.
This what Hillary Clinton would say if one came back to her next Presidential campaign. One more boo boo and it's curtains for you like so many others.