MM> ->> Janeway was not dealing with "one Borg."  She was dealing with the
MM> ->> collective, which was speaking through its mouthpiece, Seven of Nine.
MM> ->> Think of Seven of Nine as the Soundblaster card.  :-)
MM> AP> More like a terminal that gets disconnected in the end.
MM>In my mind, the term "terminal" implies that she was controlling the
MM>collective, since a terminal is used to input commands.  Seven was only
MM>a tool, exercising little or no judgement and control herself, except
MM>for those times when her connection to the collective was inhibited, at
MM>which time she followed her latest programmed parameters.
      I think a lot of people misapprehend the Borg process.
    Assimilation is not "being taken over by an alien intelligence",
    your judgement and decision making is added to the collective. You
    have input, it just is biased by the collective intelligence.
    Decisions are made with your input included, but you will likely be
    suborned by the decisions of those who have gone before and those
    who have been Borg for a greater amount of time. Kinda like assuming
    a position in a Corporate Megastructure. =}
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