Another thing about the Borg is that it wasn’t until several years after they first showed up that it was revealed they did have a powerful leader of sorts after all (i.e. the Borg Queen), which in many Star Trek fans’ minds ruined their entire image of the Borg. Instead of a true collective, leaderless society that acted on its members’ combined will, they turned out to be just another eeevil empire with a power-hungry ruler – and as it turned out in the final episode of Star Trek: Voyager, remarkably vulnerable to a decapitation strike to boot.

Come to think of it, there’s an analogy in there somewhere between those disillusioned Star Trek fans and similarly disillusioned Obama voters, finding out too late that “hope and change” wasn’t all it was cracked up to be…