It’s said that a lie can travel half way around the world before the truth has a chance to even tie its shoes. How fast can an idea travel? Why do terrible ideas travel so quickly? Data seemed prepared to kill his best friend. Lore engaged the emotion chip and suppressed the ethics program. The Borg captured Picard and turned him into a drone, the programmed him to service The Collective, to the extent that he would have destroyed his own crew in combat. What if we could see human indoctrination like this. What if we could see indoctrination like suppressing the ethics program whilst you amplify the anger and grievance circuitry, or like suppressing the individuality and replacing it with a collective voice? What does the STTNG Borg Canon tell us about how human minds are changed by coercive force? What does STTNG Borg Canon tell us about how control over others can become a life force for some human beings? Sending the concept of I into The Collective weakened it and forced a destructive transformation that The Collective could not easily adapt to — an idea was destructive to The Borg Collective, caused it to splinter, a faction to form. What does the STTNG Borg Canon tell us how an idea can become a weapon of mass destruction?