"Are you listening?"

"Resistance is futile."

"Is it now."

The Borg says nothing.

Well, this was a disappointing and disturbing exercise. She lets herself out.

The Borg is transported back to Borg Holding.

"There's also an ex-Borg here if you want to learn more before making any decisions."

"Oh - yes, please."

"Hello." 

The ex-Borg is an amalien, albeit the only Amalien she's seen before with scars - they cover her face and arms. She's quite buff and has some cybernetic implants designed to look distinct from the Borg variety.

"Hello. I'm Isabella."

"Hi."

This girl sounds tired and monotone but definitely not a borg.

"What can you tell me about having been a Borg?"

"It was bad."

"That part I had surmised."

"What do you want to know?"

"Did you - communicate with the hive mind, qua yourself, at all?"

"The borg in me was conn-ect-ed to the hivemind and I talked to it."

"Did it talk to you?"

"Sometimes."

"Anything more than 'resistance is futile'...?"

"Yeah, I think? It felt hungry. Confused about how I couldn't be assimilated correctly. No real understanding of other people mattering except for how they could become part of it?"

"What does it want? Or does it just want to - keep assimilating forever, with no particular plan beyond that -"

"I didn't get an impression of it wanting anything other than the assimilatiom as all life. I tried to ask it if we could help it and not hurt us too much somehow and it didn't even seem to think of this as .... a ques-tion coming from someone who has free will? I don't think they realize that other beings make de-cisions in a meaningful sense and having in-sight into our minds and mem-ories doesn't seem to change that."

"Does it make decisions differently somehow?"

"I don't think so? Not that I could tell."

"You trying to help the Borg?"