I'm now reminded of a cute RPG.net post of several years back, where the idea was that what the Federation was best at was time travel. When they first saw the borg, the borg looked much like you described, and to prevent them from taking over, the Federation black ops time travelers went back and altered the borg to be far less attractive.
In any case, I'm right there with you. The borg should honestly look far more like Alastair Reynolds Conjoiners. In any case, I'm reminded of a similar idea I came up with after I saw The Matrix, a civilization of people in comfortable pods living in VR, with a small number of eccentrics being in charge of keeping track of their (largely automated) physical world by remote controlling robot drones, because even the most eccentric member of that society would never leave their pod. I'd someday love to play a character from such a society in an SF game - they'd keep their pod in their cabin on the ship and "go" everywhere in one of several robot bodies.
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In any case, I'm right there with you. The borg should honestly look far more like Alastair Reynolds Conjoiners. In any case, I'm reminded of a similar idea I came up with after I saw The Matrix, a civilization of people in comfortable pods living in VR, with a small number of eccentrics being in charge of keeping track of their (largely automated) physical world by remote controlling robot drones, because even the most eccentric member of that society would never leave their pod. I'd someday love to play a character from such a society in an SF game - they'd keep their pod in their cabin on the ship and "go" everywhere in one of several robot bodies.