You always want your characters
to face their biggest fear,
and for anybody who's been assimilated by the Borg
and who's returned to their humanity,
going back to that state
is the scariest thing you can imagine.
Seven and Elnor are trapped on the cube,
and the Romulans have decided
to start executing all the ex-Borg,
and there's only one way to stop that from happening,
which is to activate all the ex-Borg as one
and return them to the Collective,
'cause the Collective is the only thing
that can stand up to the Romulans.
Through Seven's journey with our team, she realizes,
"I've been on my own for so long,
and now I actually feel like I'm part of this family,
and if my whole existence
since you've last seen my character
was to help those who can't help themselves,
to fight the fight no one's fighting,
what better way to do that
than to be able to kind of take over the Borg
and help everyone rise against
those who are going against her new family?"
So Seven does the thing that scares her the most
and makes the ultimate sacrifice,
which is, she goes into the queencell
and allows herself to become the queen,
to basically form an army.
The temptation is there, and the threat is there
that maybe she won't want to stop
and won't want to separate herself and the rest of them
when they've done what they needed to do.
As the characters describe it,
there's one very brief moment of euphoria
in the instant that you're assimilated,
and then, from then on, you lose your humanity
and you're kind of in a state of disconnect.
There's fear, there's maybe temptation,
but it's interesting. It's fun to play.
We are Borg.
And by forming an army,
they're able to defeat the Romulans that are there,
and Seven and Elnor escape.
They are gone. It is over. The cube is ours again.