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I will never get over how the Borg were so amazingly well introduced just to be utterly torn down within a few years. The whole buildup of Q introducing the federation to something so strong it merely serves as a means to make Picard crawl before him (metaphorically, yes), Guinan giving a back story of how they "developed over a thousand centuries" and destroyed their homeworld while still not knowing much about them and the Borg themselves remaining mostly silent while still being so well written was just remarkable.
And then they introduce the queen and Voyager comes around, making assimilation reversible, introducing drones to have their individuality intact and being their old selves while they sleep and finally having that small exploration vessel just blast through the Borg like they're paper walls before labelling them nearly extinct in Picard and having them saved by a singing doctor.
It's a damn shame and whoever greenlit each of those steps of running down such an excellently introduced foe should be forced to write long essays on what went wrong when writing each single borg encounter in Trek. They were introduced to be the perfect storm the federation would just have to live with and bend to... Instead they turned out to be a side note that popped up each time the writers wanted something seemingly dangerous to overcome or conquer. I hate it.