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Wow, I like this idea! The Queen as an emergent AI. That would explain a number of things. First and foremost, as Beta_1701 said, it explains how she manages to reincarnate again and again. And it would definitely explain her comments about literally being the Borg.What if she didn't occur on purpose, but as an unintended side-effect of hitting a critical mass of drones?
A computer functions much like a brain, with the HDD corresponding to long-term memory, the RAM to short-term memory, the input devices to sensory organs, etc. In small networks, it's like a conversation between a few people. In large networks, like the Internet, however, they begin to resemble neurons. Rather than the Queen being an explicitly coded feature of the Collective, perhaps she is an unintended side-effect of its design, with the drones forming the neurons of a kind of brain? In theory, this could happen in the real world, with an AI spontaneously appearing as a result of our networking protocols, with its body being the internet itself rather than any individual computer, all without anybody actually intending for that to happen.
That's a very good question. As an example, we could consider the First Contact scenario, where she's active in the Alpha Quadrant's past, in a time when (as far as we know) there was barely any Borg presence in the quadrant, except the drones that had travelled to the past with her. And I think it's unlikely that the subspace signals of the neural interlink can reach the Delta Quadrant. (Plus, Future!Queen and Past!Queen would probably clash in that case.) So, in this case she would clearly not have access to the vast amount of drones available to her in the Delta Quadrant. Yet, she's not very different from her later appearance at the Unicomplex, where she is at the center of Borg activity. So either she needs very few drones to manifest herself, or there's more to her than it appears. However - speaking non-canonically - I would totally approve of portraying her like you're described above.Does bring up an interesting idea, if you wiped large section of the collective does the borg queen cease to exsist? or even change personitliy? Like people who receive brain damage?
Oh, and one more thing that bugs me. Can they please stop giving the Borg all sorts of effed-up vision? Seriously, I just started up an episode of Voyager and the first thing I see is wonky Borg vision. I know it's probably supposed to signify some sort of artificial, non-organic sight, but it sure doesn't look like that. If I give up my sense of individuality for awesome cybernetic implants, I want something that's at least on par with a 2017 webcam.