• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It depends on who’s writing the episode. In First Contact she was implied to be an avatar of the Collective rather than an individual that controls it. Or possibly a gestalt consciousness formed as a byproduct of the Collective’s structure of interlinking minds. The VOY writers didn’t really get it, though, so she became a true individual on that show and in her future appearances.

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      2 months ago

      Blah blah it’s a special case done b/c of the time travel blah - maybe something along those lines? :-)