I do agree that the construct of a command structure was formalized in voyager. I do think the very introduction you quoted still completely imploded the borg as a concept. Data even is directly pointing it out. The queen is just hand-waving it away without actually answering.
I think the ambiguity in explanation was designed to let the audience to just “fill in the blanks” however they wanted. I think the writers just said “who cares, it’s a movie, TNG is over, we can fuck the TNG universe”.
Huh, I always took that scene as being a classic hard sci-fi sort of “no, your thinking is constrained by what you have previously encountered, this is a new class of thing”, though I could see how one would read it your way
I totally agree that the lines are written to align with the trope of “my existence is beyond your comprehension”. I just don’t think they really followed through on that.
I feel like Occams razor here is just that you need to put THE villain on the movie poster. Sacrifices were made in order to meet that goal.
I do agree that the construct of a command structure was formalized in voyager. I do think the very introduction you quoted still completely imploded the borg as a concept. Data even is directly pointing it out. The queen is just hand-waving it away without actually answering.
I think the ambiguity in explanation was designed to let the audience to just “fill in the blanks” however they wanted. I think the writers just said “who cares, it’s a movie, TNG is over, we can fuck the TNG universe”.
Huh, I always took that scene as being a classic hard sci-fi sort of “no, your thinking is constrained by what you have previously encountered, this is a new class of thing”, though I could see how one would read it your way
I totally agree that the lines are written to align with the trope of “my existence is beyond your comprehension”. I just don’t think they really followed through on that.
I feel like Occams razor here is just that you need to put THE villain on the movie poster. Sacrifices were made in order to meet that goal.