Susanna Thompson credited as playing...
Borg Queen
- Borg Queen: We've come to make you an offer: rejoin the Collective and we'll spare Voyager.
- Seven of Nine: Why me?
- Borg Queen: Because... you are unique.
- Borg Queen: Congratulations.
- Seven of Nine: Regarding?
- Borg Queen: Assimilation is complete.
- Seven of Nine: 300,000 individuals have been transformed into drones. Should they be congratulated as well?
- Borg Queen: They should be. They've left behind their trivial, selfish lives, and they've been reborn with a greater purpose. We've delivered them from chaos into order.
- Seven of Nine: Comforting words. Use them next time instead of "Resistance is futile." You may elicit a few volunteers.
- Borg Queen: We are Borg.
- Seven of Nine: [angrily] I am an individual.
- Borg Queen: You're only repeating their words. You sound like a mindless automaton.
- Borg Queen: You've changed. Your exo-plating, your ocular implant. They've taken you apart... and they've recreated you in their own image - hair, garments - but at the core, you are still mine.
- Seven of Nine: The Borg have changed as well. I expected re-assimilation, not conversation.
- Borg Queen: I see they've also given you a sense of humor.
- Seven of Nine: My humor is my own.
- Borg Queen: Spoken like a true individual.
- Borg Queen: We don't want another drone. We want you.
- Seven of Nine: I will resist.
- Borg Queen: I know.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Let her go, or I'll give the order to fire.
- Borg Queen: You would be destroyed as well, along with your crewman.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Better than being one of you.
- Borg Queen: All of your emotions - grief, guilt, remorse, compsiion - will be irrelevant once humanity is assimilated.
- Seven of Nine: I am Annika Hansen, Human.
- Borg Queen: I remember Annika. Does she remember us? She wasn't afraid. Why are you?
- Borg Queen: We won't turn you into a drone. You're much too valuable to us with your individuality intact, but you've left humanity behind. Try to abandon their petty emotions as well. Fear... anger... vanity. They've corrupted you, but the damage can be repaired.
- Borg Queen: Stop resisting. Take pleasure in this.
- Seven of Nine: I will not take pleasure in the destruction of a race!
- Borg Queen: Human sentiment. Compassion, guilt, empathy - they're irrelevant.
- Seven of Nine: Not to me.
- Borg Queen: "Me?" There is no 'me.' There is only 'us.' One mind.
- Seven of Nine: My thoughts are my own.
- Seven of Nine: You attacked us. You murdered my family!
- Borg Queen: We did no such thing. We gave them perfection.
- [one Borg steps forward into the light]
- Seven of Nine: [aghast] Papa?
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: Seven, shut down that field.
- Borg Queen: Don't listen to her. She's poisoned your thoughts long enough.
- Captain Kathryn Janeway: [to Seven] I'm giving you an order.
- Borg Queen: One order, one voice! Insignificant!