Em bate-papo da AOL com Ronald D. Moore de 1997 ele está falando sobre isso
Ron, I was looking through some of the sketches from "Best of Both Worlds." They mentioned something about Picard having to have a bionic arm because the Borg cut off his (like in FC). It showed that Data was orginally supposed to break the whole arm off of Locutus. But from what I saw in "BOBW II" it didn't seem like he had one and it was never mentioned. So my question is, does Picard have a bionic arm or did they save his?
"I lobbied for giving Picard a permanent bionic arm, but Rick and Michael wouldn't go for it. Picard's arm is his own.
Então, eu diria que a prótese estava em cima de seu braço real