Meticulous, aching, gorgeous, beautifully drawn. Dael, Farnham, Barnett, the care and detail of all of this.

But this is what has me on tenterhooks.

One virus might be enough to stop them.
... It might be possible to restore individuality of assimilated persons, which would destroy the system from within.

Hmm. A half-biological, half-computerized virus, designed to reboot a near-unbeatable, near-flawless system?

Where on Earth (or on Enterprise?) are you going to come up with someone(s) who can come up with a virus like that? Much less the ability to deliver the virus?