The Borg, of Star Trek: the Next Generation. Who or what do you think they represent?

Question

The Borg, of Star Trek: the Next Generation. Who or what do you think they represent?

Answer 1

Blind followers. Those who never question authority, and ultimately lost the ability to do so. You see it every day in religion & politics - right & left. It seems to be a warning to think for oneself.

Answer 2

MIndless drones who have no free will. Possible allegory for life in a totalitarian state?

Star Trek is great because it has so many allegories. Some are obvious, like the Cardassians and Maquis as the Israelis and Palestinians.  But many others are very subtle. Just subtle enough that the existence of allegory is unsteady.

Answer 3

They represent teletubbies and how we need to gut everyone one of them before they take over this planet.

Answer 4

Bees.

They are a collective. A hive with a hive mind and a queen at the center of the hive.

You can pick that up by watching Star Trek First Contact.

Basically the hive mind supports the queen. Piccard or Lecutious learns this when he joins them and later in that movie he meet the queen herself and killing her he destroys the hive.

You may find a little bit of fractal theory in it but that is only in that the hive wants everything orderly allowing no room for free will. It is a god less society. But the bee thing is the key of the society.

Answer 5

The ultimate Communist society

Answer 6

They represent what they are, and now that im grown up i look back on those episodes and theyre almost coming true. Were all  linked by myspace, just wait until they come out with brain implants and we'll all be linked, hopefully not slaves though.