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i assume you mean "the good borg queen" i dint like picard that much, ironically that story was lifted from the fan novels, where it had a "borg" cooperative alliance, after the QUEEN in endgame died. kurtzman lifted from those NOVELS so much, it was so cringe and obvious. i was curious of the Lore one time so i visited thier non-canon wiki pages of star trek.
No I mean Philippa Georgiou. She's literally Space Hitler.
https://breeze.falconsyndicate.net/memory-alpha/wiki/Philippa_Georgiou_(mirror)
In an real world where fascism is on the march, I'm sorry, I just don't have any patience for offering fictional fascists a redemption arc. We're talking about a character that is canonically responsible for acts of mass genocide. She's so comically evil that she literally ate sentient intelligent beings. She's Space Hitler, the Empress of the cartoonishly evil Terran Empire, an empire conceptually modeled directly off of Nazi Germany. She's literally Space Hitler.
Every time I see her on screen, my first thought is always, "wait a minute. The Federation is supposed to stand for rights and justice. Why the hell isn't this character being hauled off to whatever the Federation's equivalent of the Hague is? Why isn't she being escorted to the airlock to be vented into space? Does no one care what this monster did? Do they think that just because it happened in the Mirror Universe, it's morally acceptable? One universe or another, she still committed genocide!"
They just let her join the team, and no one seems to be bothered that they're just hanging out with literal Space Hitler. It's just totally immersion breaking. It's like if the Enterprise crew traveled back in time to WW2 Earth, picked up the literal historical Hitler, and just brought him back and gave him a post on the bridge. And for the rest of the series, Hitler's just over there manning the comms or something. It's completely anathema to what the Federation is supposed to stand for. It's madness. I'm sorry, but I just can't forgive genocide. You don't get a redemption arc after doing something like that.