I live in South Australia and have the same problem, and also have a satellite connection, and also have been experiencing this exact same problem since season 8
Another, probably more valid idea would be that when and/or if you get stabbed with those assimilation nano-probes you start a mini mission where you assimilate others instead of getting killed 10-20 seconds into the 4:59 timer that shows up, and as a Borg "drone" your health bar gradually gains strength when you adapt to…
Simple solution, 1) As the Borg need an AI to actually be Borg, then you could play as the Borg queen/king, this would be strange with 100 or so Borg queen's/king's. 2) As the Borg can adapt, they finally found a way to prevent the federation from uploading viruses to the Borg, they put an additional semi-independent AI…