Nicholas Setzer comments on the odds of Seven Of Nine being chosen by the Borg. Really, in the world of entertainment this has no meaning because
they designed the charactor to fit. (Every hear anyone complain about a movie following someone who 'just happens' to meet up with the hero? Duh,
that's the reason they showed them in the first place!).
I think another way to say what Nicholas wrote is some Borg was going to be chosen and that was the one we were going to see, so the odds were not
really 1 out of er-many-billions-of-Borg-there-are but 1 out of 1.
But the way I think of it, the Borg chose Seven Of Nine *on purpose*. Just like they wanted Locutus to be an interface, they deliberatly chose one of the previously human drones to be the interface. Problem solved.
On the other hand it all came down to Janeway's
choice of which Borg cube to contact originally.
Say she had contacted a different cube than the
one Seven was on,in that case we would have never
gotten the chance to see Seven at all.It just so
happened that the cube she contacted was the one
that Seven WAS on.
And in any case Janeway wouldn't have felt the
need to contact the Borg to ask for a truce and
arrange to help them fight Species 8472 if she
hadn't considered that Species 8472 was even more
of a danger to Voyager than the Borg.
Which brings it all down to Species 8472 being
the matchmakers(unwittingly of course)between
Voyager and Seven!
Has anyone else noticed that only humanoids are assimilated by the Borg? If they assimilate so many different races across the vast universe, then where are they? Why don't we see Borg with multiple legs/arms, in bloblike forms, lizardlike, fishlike (Mick Fleetwood would make a great Borg there!), Klingon Borg and so on? Oh, sure, you could use the old argument that it'd cost too much to create nonhumanoid Borg, but hey, let's at least see one, ok? Spend a little bit more. I'd love to see a big spider Borg or one with wings ("Wings are irrelevant"). How about a dragon Borg! Yeah, that'd be so cool. Any other suggestions? I also get bugged by all these aliens Federations ships encounter are all humanoid, too. I know, blame it on the Progenitors, but can't we see nonhumanoid aliens for once, even if the Borg don't get to them first? I'd love to see another Horta, and not just read about one in the novels. Likewise a Mugato or Gorn. Ah, but alas, I doubt we'll see anymore nonhumanoid aliens, or if we do, it'll be an awful long time.
A Borg Tribble!! I believe that one does exist - I'm sure I read somewhere that someone within the production crew of, perhaps, The Next Generation made a Borg Tribble. That's one picture I'd really like to see!
While Shatner's novels are not the world's greatest, he does have one scene along Rodnberry's lines. Picard is wandering through a Borg ship and finds a "Gray" borg.
If you like to (at least!) read aout Hortas. check out Diane Duane's TOS books. She
has a recurring character, a Horta, named Mr. Naraht. He's in Starfleet
They explained in "Dark Frontier" why it was that Seven was chosed:
The Queen sent her to learn about individuality
etc.
Actually Seven did not know that the Queen
sent her until the Queen Borg told her the
entire scheme,but at that juncture it was too
late from the Borg standpoint as Seven had already
recovered much of her humanity and was unwilling
to give the Borg what they wanted.
Also I have scanned through the novel THE RETURN
and I beleive there is a scene where they talk
about an assimilated animal.How does one go
about assimilating an animal?
On the other hand the novel Seven of Nine DOES
mention a felinoid that was assimilated by Seven.
Perhaps a humnanoid animal, but a quadrepedal animal? Imagine a borg Dog or squirrel , and I thought the borg were already nuts (get it?)
In "The Return", they talk about a borgified dog.
They also have a borgified "Gray". I thought that was great.