The Borg Queen

There are, of course, no individuals in the Borg Collective, except for the Borg Queen, who rules over all of the other drones. Her existence seems practically self- contradictory, as the Borg seem to hold their lack of individuality in high regard. Yet, for some reason they created a position of leadership for the entire collective, and then filled it with an individual, two actions which are seemingly in complete violation of the Borg ethos. Therefore, either the Borg Queen was a part of the design of the original collective, or was created by the collective for some reason at a later date. We know the Borg have been in existence for thousands of years, and because things rarely stay the same over such a long period of time, the Borg Queen could be a vestige of a time in which the Borg were not a collective at all, but instead were merely trying to perfect themselves. The Borg may have acquired their collective nature when they decided later that it would add to their perfection. However, if that is the case, then why wouldn’t the position of the Borg Queen have been abolished when the Borg actually became a collective? Also, there is no evidence to support that the Borg were ever individuals from the time when the Borg first decided to integrate their bodies with cybernetic devices. The second theory is much more plausible. The Borg is a collective conscience, concerned only with adding to its perfection in the most efficient way possible. The Borg also apparently do not understand why individuals resist assimilation. Locutus stated something to this effect to Worf in the Best of Both Worlds - Part II: the fact that Locutus was created by the Borg may also offer insight into why the Borg Queen was brought into existence, although it was revealed in First Contact that this may simply have been because the Borg Queen wanted to turn Picard into Locutus. At any rate, at least part of the reason why Picard was abducted for the sole purpose of being partially assimilated into Locutus of Borg, was to act as a liaison between the Borg and humanity, an assimilation facilitator, created in the hope of decreasing the amount of resistance humanity offered. It stands to reason that the Borg may have created the Queen for a similar purpose, making the Borg’s dealings with individual species proceed more efficiently. Since the Borg do not understand why alien species do not want to be assimilated, they may, in an attempt to decrease the amount of resistance that prospects of assimilation put up, have created an individual with the ability to override the will of the collective mind. The Borg Queen existed in order to insure that the Borg as a whole always took the most efficient course of action with regard to individuals. In light of the Borg’s obsession with efficiency, this would plausibly explain the existence of the Borg Queen, as a self-contradictory result of the collective’s need to be a efficient and thereby perfect as possible.