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Humanity’s love for authority figures is annoying. “Alien” (1979)<\/a> gave us a perfect, self-sufficient, self-propagating alien species. “The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.” So naturally a sequel introduced a superfluous “queen”. “Star Trek The Next Generation” gave us the Borg, a hive mind with no leaders, no individual thought: a society of perfect, remorseless unity. So naturally “Star Trek: First Contact” (1996)<\/a> introduced another superfluous “queen”.<\/p>\n

It’s like we can’t even conceive of a society without authority figures, even an alien one.<\/p>\n

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