Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some mechanistic bint lobbed a phaser at me, they'd put me away.

This is one of my greatest disappointments on all of Star Trek. Why did they have to make a leader for the Borg? And turn them into a cult that hunts down non-believers?

I agree completely. A collective run by everyone’s brain being cybernetically networked was an interesting, unique idea. A culture run by an amoral dictator is boring and painfully unoriginal.
- This is what actually made the Borg terrifying.
  
  There was nobody to talk to or negotiate with. There was no mind to change. There wasn't even a leader to assassinate in hopes to alter policy.
  
  They were less of an enemy and more of an immutable force, like gravity or magnetism.
She wasn't too bad in First Contact. The movie implied that she was simply an avatar for the Collective, not too different from Locutus. Later writers didn't get that and VOY turned her into an individual within the Collective who controlled all of it, somehow. Then her depiction just kept getting further and further from her depiction in First Contact, mostly keeping superficial things.

Section 31 went through a very similar shift, where DS9 implies that Sloan and S31 are rogue agents and Sloan is talking out of his ass in regards to any real authority and taking an, at best, extremely liberal interpretation of the Starfleet Charter, then later works making them an official part of Starfleet.
- The movie implied that she was simply an avatar for the Collective
  
  She says that. And then she dies and the Borg are defeated.
  
  On the other hand, on VOY, she says the same, and then proceeds to create a Fascist organization clearly against the goals of the drones. But at least when she dies, the Collective creates a new queen.
  
  About Section 31, my understanding is that it was once official. And then it was disbanded with prejudice, but the high powers don't really want it gone, so S31 has authority even on DS9 and LWD times.
- Section 31. I’m one of those few people who actually wants more S31 stuff, but only if it’s done correctly.
  
  Way too many followups treat it like Starfleet’s CIA (Starfleet Intelligence already exists…) instead of a conspiracy that consists of individuals acting out of various degrees of ideological resolve, and to varying amounts. I imagine most people who are “in” S31 are more like Bashir. They are called upon to look the other way, or do something without being told much about it. Otherwise they have day jobs. I’m sure various Starfleet command level officers are in on some aspect of S31, but that doesn’t make their ships full time S31 ships. Only a very few people further the S31 cause full time, and they are totally off the books. S31 is supposed to be a shady group that parasitically uses Starfleet assets.
  
  I idea of Section 31 black badges is so preposterously mind blowing.
If they don't have a queen then how is the captain going to have a romantic interest?
- The beast with a billion backs!
- Polyamory?
- Hum... Are you talking about Janeway here? Because in TNG her crush is on Data.
Isn't it canon that reintegrating Hugh caused individuality to spread through the Collective, which could only be solved by creating one individual to control them?
- Nope, but that would have been a much better take.
  
  In First Contact, Picard has flashbacks and mentions that the Queen was there the entire time while he was Locutus. Gross retcon.
  
  Hugh and the individual Borg led by Lore were just a small subset, maybe a single cube. I can't remember if that was stated directly in Descent or not, but it was implied to be a relatively small group affected.
- I like this theory until Picard says he remembers the Queen in First Contact.

The borg queen was a weak spineless idea!

Ironically, the Borg Queen is mostly spine.
The idea wasn't spineless, it just was an idea that lacked any legs. Couldn't really gain any traction with viewers.
Not sure if great joke or legit criticism. Por que no los dos.

You’re fooling yourself! We’re living in a dictatorship! A self perpetuating autocracy in which the working class Borg-

There you go, bringing Galaxy class into it again...
- Oh, what a giveaway! Did'j'hear that, did'j'hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about! Did you see 'er repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?!

Apparently originally it was supposed to be a computer? I think the studio said that was just stupid and it needed to be a person?

Even that turns it into a beehive instead of an autonomous collective.
- Interestingly enough. Queen bees do not actually control most hive activity. Individual workers and gatherers communicate through dance and pheromone signals and the hive literally votes on what it will do. For example a scout will find a new flower patch and tell the rest of the hive and the hive will vote on how many more bees to send.
  
  It would have been far more interesting for the collective to have a queen but for part of the plot to be the humans misunderstanding her purpose to the collective, kill her, and then have the collective be just fine and produce a new queen.
  
  Then it would literally be bees
A Macintosh Quadra some designer brought from home.
- Wow… a Quadra. I remember wanting one of those!

I don't know which I hated more. Hugh or the Borg Queen. Probably the Borg Queen because they kept going with that stupid idea.

hugh is at least not offensive to the whole idea of the borg

I do like the fan theory, although the official canon disproves it but still, that the Borg Queen (or perhaps just her more individualistic nature) was actually a reaction to humanity being such a pain in the ass.