If you do not want a graphic description of the Borg Queen squeezing
someone's neck until they suffocate, don't read the 6th paragraph, which
starts with "The human gasped". Just a warning for you.
Veridian III
Borg . . . ah . . . "Complex"
The assimilation process includes "disabling" the emotional centers of the brain. Therefore, you never see a terrified drone. They are just mini machines. No more, no less. This procedure happened to all of the drones, including the queen, but not including their human "prisoner".
Therefore, the Borg Queen shouldn't have the ability to be looking absolutely, positively furious.
Kirk just looked at her. The Queen looked like she was ready to throttle the other man. "How dare you?!" she growled. Kirk just kept looking at her, not saying a word. "Answer me!" she hissed. "Or I'll kill you!"
Kirk raised an eyebrow, just like one of his absent friends had the habit of doing. "You wouldn't. I'm too valuable."
The Queen grinned evilly. "But the nanoprobes will just reassemble you. I can kill you all that I want --" she reached forward, grabbed Kirk by the neck, and hoisted him into the air. "--and you'll just come back to life. There's no stopping me now!"
The human gasped for air as the metallic hand squeezed shut his
air pipe. His face turned purple, then blue, as the flow of oxygen to his
brain was cut off. His desperate struggles grew less and less violent,
until, after about five minutes, his body fell limp, and his eyes closed
in death. The Queen's evil grin never faded as she dropped the dead human
body onto the floor.
USS Skedaddle
Veridian System
Everyone else's eyes were fixed on the horrendous site on the viewscreen when Spock suddenly stiffened. He could feel through his bond with his friend, Kirk, that the other had just died, but wasn't really dead. Kirk was...gone...but not gone. Something was holding him back from dying and leaving forever. He was somewhere in between life and death. Jim, thought Spock. Where are you?
When one thinks to one's self in one's mind, one does not expect an answer. Therefore, Spock was genuinely startled when Kirk's voice replied in his mind, Spock! I'm in the . . . well, my body's in the Borg Complex which is where Veridian III used to be. Spock, the Borg probed my brain. They're building a fleet of dreadnoughts, all based upon the Enterprise. OurEnterprise. Then the Queen is going to send them on a mission to Earth. You've got to do something, Spock!
I can not, Jim, thought back Spock, In order to get thus far, we had to hijack a Starship. The Skedaddle.
So the Skedaddle skedaddled? Kirk's voice had a ring of humor to it, but it was fading. Damn! They're bringing me back to life. Spock, just don't --
And as suddenly as he had arrived, Kirk's voice was gone. Spock
looked around, and noticed the rest of the senior Enterprise crew
looking at him strangely. Doctor McCoy was the first to speak:
"You OK, Spock?"
"Of course, Doctor," Spock replied. "Why shouldn't I be?"
"Ye got all funny-like," replied Scotty. "Ye were, ah, frownin'."
"Scowling is a better term," interjected Sulu. "So what's up in Spockville?"
"Doctor," said Spock, "You remember that conversation that we had about the telepathic bond that reached between myself and the Captain?"
"Yeah. You can 'sense' him, but you can't talk directly or anything. So?" answered McCoy. Then he snapped his fingers and added, "Lemme guess! You sensed him! No, then you'd be smiling. You sensed him and then lost the signal in a way that could only meant that he'd be dead."
"You are partially correct, Doctor," replied Spock. "I felt Jim's ... 'consciousness'. Then I felt it dissipate, as it does in death, but it didn't dissipate all of the way. He was dead, but not dead. He was dead by all scientific means: no breathing, no brain activity, no anything. But his consciousness wasn't dead. Then I thought to myself 'Jim, where are you?'. Then he replied."
Spock stopped talking. The silence seemed to expand and fill all of the corners of the bridge. Not a word was said until Scotty finally burst out, "Well, tell us what he said, man!"
"He told me that he, his body, was in the Borg Complex which is where Veridian III used to be. He also said that the Borg probed his mind and extracted some information. They are building dreadnoughts . . . super battleships . . . all based on designs of the Enterprise, our Enterprise, which were in Kirk's mind. He finished by saying 'They're bringing me back to life. Spock, just don't'. Then he was cut off abruptly, his voice disappeared, and I could sense his consciousness alive again."
Uhura's console began to beep. Pushing a few controls, she said, "Admiral! Enterprise-E is approaching. Phasers arming, shields raised. Receiving transmission: 'Stand down or be destroyed. Orders from On High!'"