The History of the Borg - Star Trek's Unstoppable Villains

From The Next Generation to Picard Season 3, the Borg are Star Trek's most insidious villains - born from equally epic behind-the-scenes battles.

Many of Star Trek 's most iconic species can be traced back to series creator Gene Roddenberry. However, the iconic and unstoppable Borg are the brainchild of one of his greatest on-set adversaries. Maurice Hurley was a new arrival on The Next Generation' s staff who didn’t see the future the same way Roddenberry did, but was bound to tell stories by his rules. Their conflict gave rise to characters who would help define the entire franchise.

When Roddenberry staffed The Next Generation , he brought many of the writers he worked with on The Original Series back. However, there was a new narrative edict. Starfleet in the 24th Century would've continued to evolve from Captain Kirk's era. He believed there would be no jealousy, tension or any interpersonal conflict within the crew. Roddenberry's lawyer Leonard Maizlish started acting as a de facto producer, allegedly responsible for hiring Hurley to enforce Roddenberry's strict rules. Yet the talented storyteller just didn't know what to do with no crime, conflict or any of the other storytelling staples he was used to from procedurals like Miami Vice and The Equalizer . In order to alleviate this problem in the second season, Hurley wanted to introduce a new kind of villain that couldn't be reasoned with or stopped.

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Star Trek's Borg Were Originally Going to Be Insects

The central problem between Roddenberry and Hurley was that the latter didn't believe in what he was supposed to sell the other writers. In the documentary Chaos on the Bridge , Hurley called Roddenberry's ideas of the future "wacky doodle." Since he thought they were bad rules, he could only guide them in constructing "bad" episodes. Sometimes writers would even pull an end run and take a story to Roddenberry that bent or broke his rules. Hurley claimed he would "go ballistic" arguing Roddenberry's ideas back at him. Still, he wasn't setting out to make bad Star Trek , so he thought of a solution: insects.

The Ferengi were introduced in Season 1 as the "new Klingons," but they failed to land in that way with the audience. Hurley thought of insects as an unrelenting natural force, and believed that would make a good basis for an alien species to menace the crew all season. Insects proved to be impossible to create on a regular basis, so he instead went with the idea of cybernetic and organic lifeforms -- cyborgs. He dropped the "cy" from the name, and The Next Generation had its most memorable villains. Hurley planned to seed Season 2 with hints to the Borg until revealing them during October sweeps for the first time. However, the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike necessitated a new plan.

Eventually, Hurley used the popular character of Q to bring the Borg into contact with the Enterprise -D in The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 16, "Q Who?". However, they became a looming threat out in the galaxy rather than a regular villain, as the costuming for the Borg proved to be as difficult as crafting believable insects. Hurley envisioned the aliens being mostly disinterested in organic life, only concerned with Starfleet technology. This changed when the villains returned to assimilate Captain Jean-Luc Picard at the end of Season 3. By that time, Hurley had happily moved on from Star Trek .

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The Borg Have Become Star Trek's Most Important Villain

Captain Picard and the Enterprise -D crew faced the Borg only nine times in 35 years, including in the film Star Trek: First Contac t and Picard Season 3. However, the Borg appeared in a whopping 23 episodes of Star Trek: Voyager -- in large part because of Seven of Nine, the former Borg turned Starfleet officer. The writers who succeeded Hurley worried that using the Borg too much would've curtailed their threat. Some fans did complain about the prevalence of the Borg in Voyager . Yet that allowed the Admiral Janeway from an alternate future to hobble the Borg Collective in Voyager 's series finale.

The Borg were mostly a thing of the past by the time Picard debuted, with a significant portion of the first season taking place on a "dead" Borg cube. By Season 2, the introduction of a new Borg Queen meant Picard had to again face a mini-collective. However, by then showrunner Terry Matalas and his crew of storytellers knew how to make Roddenberry's rules work. Hurley's unstoppable, unrelenting villains became provisional members of the Federation. Their collective was opt-in only, and their purpose was to stand by a tear in space-time that some future threat would emerge from. Picard could apparently negotiate peace with anyone.

Well, maybe not anyone . The Borg also made him and his son Jack Crusher time bomb for their last-ditch attack on Earth. When Picard faced the Borg Queen in the Picard series finale , he wasn't there to talk. The Borg were seemingly destroyed once and for all by the crew of the Enterprise -D. But Maurice Hurley's creations are too perfect to stay gone. He may not have known how to shape a season of Star Trek , but he inspired its most fascinating and enduring villain because of his frustration.

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30 years ago, Star Trek's Borg canon was rewritten for the scarier

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Exactly 30 years ago, everything about Star Trek 's Borg Collective changed on a dime with two very brief lines of dialogue. The hivemind cyborg species known as the Borg are, without a doubt, the most famous enemy of the Federation — and Captain Picard specifically. They arrive on the scene reciting their ominous catchphrase, "You will be assimilated," but the bizarre thing is, originally, the Borg weren't interested in assimilating organic lifeforms.

In the beloved and excellent Star Trek: The Next Generation cliffhanger "The Best of Both Worlds Part 1," the Borg underwent a soft reboot that changed everything about Trek canon and influenced the specific plots of First Contact , a ton of Star Trek: Voyager episodes, and, obviously, all of Star Trek: Picard .

"The Best of Both Worlds" — which first aired on June 18, 1990 — contains a moment that you likely forgot about, yet it has massive implications for the Borg and Star Trek as a whole. Here's how it got away with that and why it's still utterly fascinating.

The importance of "The Best of Both Worlds" in the larger scope of Star Trek cannot be overstated. It made multi-part stories in Star Trek viable. It made The Next Generation seem high stakes in a way it never had before. It permanently altered the character of Jean-Luc Picard . But, if you're reading this, you know all of that. Or, at the very least, you remember all of that. We can debate all day long whether it was more chilling when Picard says "We have engaged... the Borg," or when he emerges totally Borgified at the end of the episode and says, "Your life as it has been is over." These are the things you should be talking about because these are the wonderful things the episode is actually about.

However. "The Best of Both Worlds" also tricked you.

It's OK. It tricked all of us. But the truth is hiding in plain sight: That the Borg — as originally designed — were not actually interested in turning human beings into Borg drones. In fact, at the time it aired, it sort of feels like Jean-Luc Picard is the first person the Borg actually wanted to assimilate, specifically.

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The Borg abduct Picard. (Credit: CBS)

I know. Borg who don't want to assimilate? You're thinking I'm crazy, or that I should at least double-check Memory Alpha.

But just for a minute, let's make something pretty clear: "The Best of Both Worlds" is the second appearance of the Borg in The Next Generation , following the species' debut in "Q Who?" just one season earlier, and in that first episode, the Borg do not mention wanting to "assimilate" anybody. Compared to what viewers first learned about the Borg in "Q Who?" their sophomore appearance offers a super-fast and full-on retcon that redefines how the Borg operate. When, in "The Best of Both Worlds," the Borg ship specifically asks for Captain Picard to hand himself over, Commander Shelby (Elizabeth Dennehy) — the visiting expert on the Borg — is incredulous. Here's how the scene plays out.

Shelby: "I thought they weren't interested in human lifeforms, only our technology."

Picard: "Their priorities seem to have changed."

Cue record-scratch! Because we have seen so many subsequent episodes and movies in which the Borg's default setting is to assimilate people and turn them into other Borg, this is hard to hear, but it's true. As established in the first Borg episode, "Q Who?," the Borg were not a cyborg species that assimilated other organic life. They just tried to harvest our tech. Q himself called the Borg "the ultimate user," and also cited the fact that the Borg didn't care about human life. Guinan's explanation as to how the Borg "scattered" her people throughout the galaxy was also vague and did not mention anything about being turned into Borg drones.

So, when it came time for "The Best of Both Worlds," TNG hastily rewrote the concept of the Borg — and later iterations of Trek really just hoped you didn't notice. This retcon was utterly successful by the way, because if it wasn't, then the existence of Seven of Nine and literally dozens of other characters and storylines barely make sense.

But let's back up. If the Borg's original purpose wasn't to assimilate biological beings, then how did they make other Borg? In "Q Who?" the Enterprise encounters a Borg ship and Riker and the away team learn that the Borg actually have little Borg babies, and those babies are given cybernetic augmentation as soon as they are born. In 1988's "Q Who?" the concept of the Borg creating more Borg through the process of cybernetic conversation ("assimilation") simply hadn't been written yet. Attentive audiences in 1990 might have been understandably confused if the Borg had done away with those Borg babies in favor of assimilation without Picard's throwaway line explaining the change.

Respectively, the episodes "Q Who?" and "The Best of Both Worlds" take place in the years 2365 and 2366. If you were to take Picard and Shelby's exchange at face value, then the Borg started assimilating people in 2366. But we know that's not true. Or, more accurately, we learned that wasn't true later.

Star Trek: Voyager established that Annika Hansen — aka Seven of Nine — was assimilated into the Borg Collective 10 years prior in 2356. And even with this fact, there's a small wrinkle. By the Voyager era, we learn about something called a "maturation chamber," which is where Borg put non-adults in stasis until they can be fully assimilated. This detail could reconcile the Borg babies from "Q Who?" and the apparent lack of assimilation in 2365, versus the let's-assimilate-everyone fest from that point on.

In other words, Star Trek canon retroactively makes it seem like the Borg have always assimilated organic lifeforms, and that the Enterprise was just confused about the Borg babies in "Q Who?" and, apparently, the Borg just didn't feel like assimilating any humans that particular day.

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Picard zombified by the Borg. (Credit: CBS)

The looming threat of the Borg had been baked into the canon of TNG since the very beginning. In the Season 1 finale, "The Neutral Zone," the notion that a mysterious alien species was taking big scoops out of planets was mentioned, and in "Q Who?," Data affirms that the planet-scooping effect seems to have been the work of the Borg. At that time, writer and de facto showrunner Maurice Hurley intended for the Borg to be introduced much earlier, and possibly as an insect race. Hurley was also the writer of "Q Who?" and the person who, basically, created the Borg. Again, at this point, the scariest thing about the Borg was their hivemind and their planet-scooping abilities.

However, by the time TNG entered its third season, the writing staff had changed significantly. "The Best of Both Worlds Part 1" was written by Michael Piller, the TNG producer and writer who is largely credited with taking the series in a more character-driven direction. Essentially, Piller took the basic concept of the Borg and added a new layer: assimilation. His motivation seemed to be to create personal stakes for Picard and the crew. This single decision made the Borg much scarier, and also more versatile than they had been before.

In terms of what we saw on screen, the Borg were not cyborg zombies in "Q Who?," but after "The Best of Both Worlds," they were totally cyborg zombies. And the cleverness of this retcon is that it made it seem like that's how things had been all along. Resistance to retcon is futile.

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Star Trek 101: The Borg

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Star Trek 101, StarTrek.com 's newest regular column, serves two functions: succinctly introduce Star Trek newcomers to the basic foundations and elements of the franchise and refresh the memories of longtime Trek fans. We're pulling our entries from the book Star Trek 101: A Practical Guide to Who, What, Where, And Why , written by Terry J. Erdmann & Paula M. Block and published in 2008 by Pocket Books. An invaluable resource, it encompasses The Original Series , The Animated Series , The Next Generation , Deep Space Nine , Voyager and Enterprise , as well as the first 10 Trek feature films. Today, we learn about the Borg...

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The Borg collective is an amalgamated group of many subjugated races: human, Klingon, Vulcan – you name it. The Collective assimilates every sentient being it encounters, improving the individual by removing “imperfect” organic body parts and replacing them with technologically superior artificial ones – such as eyes that emit laser beams and hands that double as buzz saws.

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What the Collective lacks in free will, it makes up for in wholehearted dedication. All members dress the same (basic black, with complementary circuitry and tubing)., act the same (zombie-like), and spout the same party line: “You will be assimilated” and “Resistance is futile.”

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Their most common form of transportation is the gigantic and deadly Borg cube, armed with powerful energy weapons and capable of self-repairing damage almost immediately.

Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann are coauthors of numerous books about the entertainment industry, including Star Trek 101; Star Trek Costumes: Fifty Years of Fashion from the Final Frontier; Star Trek: The Original Series 365; and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion . They currently are writing the latest in their series of Ferengi novellas, which (so far) includes Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found); and Rules of Accusation . Their most recent non- Star Trek book is Labyrinth: The Ultimate Visual History.

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Welcome to 'Star Trek: Borg - Remastered', cadet. Pay attention to this training - it might ensure your survival.

What is 'Star Trek: Borg'?

'Star Trek: Borg' was a single-player 1996 FMV game developed and published by Simon & Schuster (published by Virgin Interactive in some regions) for PC and Macintosh.

'Star Trek: Borg - Remastered' is a fan project attempting to recreate the game in-browser, using AI to remaster the original game footage to HD quality using a rare Japanese DVD release of the game.

How to play

You can control the game from this LCARS interface. On desktop and tablet, you'll see the 'Holonovel commands' on a panel to the left. On mobile, you'll see the control buttons above.

  • START/RESTART PROGRAM: Launches a new game.
  • HELP/CONTINUE: Hides current game and shows this help screen (and vice-versa).
  • FREEZE/RESUME PROGRAM: Pauses and unpauses gameplay.
  • SCAN: Pauses gameplay and allows you to use Q's tricorder to scan in-game items.
  • CHAPTERS: Allows you to jump between chapters.
  • SETTINGS: Brings up the settings screen, allowing you to select options such as video quality.
  • TRICORDER: When using the tricorder, sometimes there will be related entries to read which will give you more information that may be vital to your mission. You can access these by clicking or tapping the buttons to the left of the currently-displayed entry.

PLEASE NOTE: The game will run with the highest video quality by default. If you're playing on mobile data, this will use roughly a megabyte of your data allowance per second. It will also cause choppy playback on slower connections. If you face either of these issues, it is highly recommended you visit SETTINGS first and lower the video quality. UPDATE: This project has gained far more attention than I was expecting! As such, the load on my server is higher than expected. My apologies if you encounter frequent pauses to video playback or lag when switching scenes, even if you've lowered the video quality. This is usually caused by many users playing the game simultaneously. I've patched in a "buffering" message which triggers when this occurs.

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The original box art for 'Star Trek: Borg'

  • IS THIS OFFICIAL? No, not it any way. This is a fan project. Please see the legal disclaimer below for more details.
  • HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU? Please feel free to comment on the trailer video on YouTube .
  • IS THIS LEGAL? That's a grey area. It isn't possible to play the original Borg game on any modern PC or Mac, and it isn't possible to purchase it anywhere any more. Technically, the game is "abandonware". That said, the legal rights holders of Star Trek would be well within their rights to issue me with a C&D order - and should that happen I will, of course, comply and take this site offline. My advice would be to enjoy this while you can, because it might go away.
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1080p - Good quality. Recommended for desktops, laptops and high-end tablet devices. Uses ~0.5MB of data per second. Not recommended for mobile.

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Turn on cheat mode to display clickable hotspots on screen. Hotspots appear as semi-transparent red rectangles. Be warned, this is ugly as hell and was originally used during development - but some users may find it helpful when stuck.

Bonus hint - if you find yourself constantly running out of time with puzzles like the turbolift panel, Borg panel and hypospray, note that you can still click buttons if you freeze the program...

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What happened to star trek: picard's other borg queen explained by showrunner.

Terry Matalas considered having Agnes Jurati's Borg Queen make a surprise return in Star Trek: Picard season 3. Here's why it didn't happen.

  • Agnes Jurati's Borg Queen created confusion in Star Trek: Picard season 2, but they weren't the evil Borg Collective, just a small and separate group.
  • Initially intended as a payoff for Picard season 2, Jurati's Borg wasn't meant to be a long-term storyline.
  • Ideas of Jurati's Borg Queen appearing in Picard season 3's finale were considered but ultimately scrapped.

Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas delved into the confusion about Picard season 2's benevolent Borg Queen, formerly known as Dr. Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill), and how she was considered for a Picard season 3 appearance. Picard season 2 saw Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his friends travel back in time to the 21st century to repair the past that had been altered by Q (John de Lancie). After the original Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) helped Picard and his motley crew travel back in time, she assimilated Jurati. The Borg Queen and Agnes merged into a hybrid Queen and formed a new kind of Borg Collective to protect the United Federation of Planets.

As reported by TrekMovie , Star Trek: Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas joined the Master Replicas Collectors Club for a Zoom chat where he discussed, in-depth, the confusion surrounding Agnes Jurati's Borg Queen and her Borg Collective in Star Trek: Picard season 2's finale . Read his quotes below:

Jurati’s Borg, there is a misconception that they are the Borg in general, that the Borg were good [after season 2], which would have undone Wolf 359, which would have undone Picard, and none of the future they came back to would have looked the same. I was off working on season 3 as those final [season 2] episodes were written. And so we were reading scenes that didn’t end up getting shot. There was a brief scene with Jurati in which she explained that she stayed out of history’s way, and they were a small collective of Borg, but they’re not the Borg of tens of billions of drones or anything like that.
So while Jurati Borg was always going to be the payoff to [season 2], it was never really intended to be a longer-running thing. At the last minute, we added the thing where there was the hole that was going to open up and destroy—they added that to give a burst of action to the [season 2] finale, to give her a reason to do all of this. So that started to become retrofit into, 'Hey, could this be something for season 3?' But we were already way down the line on what we were doing with [season 3]. So you could say that she was guarding this thing. We did have a line on the Enterprise-D from Riker—when he talks about the Borg transwarp conduit at Jupiter and that the one that Jurati was guarding was a distraction, the Queen’s way of saying, 'Go over here.'… We had a whole thing about it. But when we got to the cut, it was just like this big exposition dump that was like, nobody cares. His son is on board, Starfleet is assimilated. There’s this giant thing, and now we are retrofitting and explaining the Jurati Borg.

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Jurati's borg queen almost returned in star trek: picard season 3 finale, picard's season 3 finale could have had a battle of the borg collectives..

One plan for the Star Trek: Picard season 3 finale involved Agnes Jurati's Borg Collective arriving to save the day.

Terry Matalas also revealed that one plan for the Star Trek: Picard season 3 finale involved Agnes Jurati's Borg Collective arriving to save the day. In another quote from the interview mentioned above, Matalas said:

Let’s say you want to do it in the final sequence—and we talked about it, having Jurati and her Borg show up. Well, you have to get Alison [Pill]. Alison is not free. You’ve got to now build those Borg assets. And it sort of took away from what we were doing with Seven of Nine and what we were doing with the Enterprise-D and how they’re the last resort, and to then have the Borg cavalry show up and fight other Borg just seemed bad to us.

Ultimately, Star Trek: Picard was a story not just about Jean-Luc Picard, but also about the journey of Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) from former Borg drone to Starfleet Captain. While it would have been cool to see two opposing Borg Collectives fight one another, the arrival of the "Borg calvary" would have undermined the importance of the USS Enterprise-D, and taken away from Seven's journey. Regardless, Agnes Jurati and her Borg Collective are out there somewhere and the possibility remains open for them to appear in a future Star Trek project.

Source: TrekMovie.com

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Take On the Mirror Borg in Star Trek Online: Both Worlds, Out On Xbox Today

“We are the Borg. Resistance is Futile.” These seven words, first uttered in 1989, forever cause chills to run down our spines as Star Trek fans. The Borg are an implacable, unstoppable foe, one who has menaced the characters of many Star Trek shows for decades. Now, Star Trek Online has unleashed a new version of those Borg, one far fiercer than ever before.

It’s well known to Star Trek fans that there is another universe, called the Mirror Universe, where everything seems backwards. Good people are unrepentant villains, and the world is dark and cruel. Everything in the Prime Star Trek Universe exists there, but we’ve never seen the Mirror Universe’s version of the Borg, until now. Blasting through a portal into our world, these Mirror Borg are more advanced and far more aggressive than the Borg we know. Resistance, they say, will be annihilated.

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Now, teaming up with Captain Harry Kim and Captain Ezri Dax (both portrayed by their original actors, Garrett Wang and Nicole de Boer), your Captain must stop these Borg before they can take a foothold in our universe. If you fail, everything will die.

Star Trek Online has long been known as the place to go for continuation of classic Star Trek stories. From the Bluegills, to the Tzenkethi, to the Voth, Star Trek Online has taken threads that were cut for time from the original Trek shows and developed them into full blown stories. For the past year, players have been battling the Mirror versions of Captain Janeway and Admiral Leeta, but as that conflict resolved, the Mirror Borg came through to wreck our hopes of peace.

In the newest release, Star Trek Online: Both Worlds , players will take the fight to the Mirror Borg as they attempt to place a beach head in our universe. Battle them in a new story mission, including facing their mysterious leader, the Borg King. And for fans of the classic Borg, you can replay one of the most defining moments of Star Trek’s history, the Battle of Wolf 359, in a brand new Task Force Operation.

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The developers of Star Trek Online are huge Star Trek fans, and they relish the opportunity to expand the canon. The Mirror Borg are a unique opportunity to tweak a foe that is very familiar for Star Trek Online fans. The original Borg were one of the very first enemies brought in to Star Trek Online nearly fifteen years ago, and as the player Captains’ powers have grown, this once terrifying threat has been reduced to much less of a challenge. The Mirror Borg bring the Borg back to their roots, once again causing nightmares to reverberate through the Star Trek Universe.

Should you choose to face these new Borg, do it with caution, and get ready to modulate your frequencies. We’ll see you out there in the Final Frontier. Star Trek Online: Both Worlds is available on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One today.

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Season 2 Star Trek: Picard scenes were written to clear up the confusion with Dr. Jurati and the Borg

S tar Trek: Picard season two confused some fans when Dr. Agnes Jurati united with the Borg Queen. Many were wondering if that meant the Borg had "gone good" and if they would now be an ally in the Federation's future. The confusion intensified when Picard's season three once again included the Borg, but they were still the enemy. So what had happened to Dr. Jurati and what was the point of her uniting with the Borg Queen if the Borg were still going to be against the Federation? As it turns out, according to executive producer, Terry Matalas [ via Trekmovie ], there were scenes written for season two that would have clarified things.

Matalas acknowledges that there was some misconception that the Borg had changed after the season two finale, and they would be good from that point forward. However, that would have negated Wolf 359 and would have also had a negative effect on Picard season three. So an explanation had been written where Dr. Jurati says she stayed out of history's way and that, basically, the Borg she was with was just a small collective and not the entirety of the Borg.

“Jurati’s Borg, there is a misconception that they are the Borg in general, that the Borg were good [after season 2], which would have undone Wolf 359, which would have undone Picard, and none of the future they came back to would have looked the same. I was off working on season 3 as those final [season 2] episodes were written. And so we were reading scenes that didn’t end up getting shot. There was a brief scene with Jurati in which she explained that she stayed out of history’s way and they were a small collective of Borg, but they’re not the Borg of tens of billions of drones or anything like that.”Terry Matalas

The Jurati Borg storyline was supposed to wrap in season two just like it did as it was never meant to be a continuing story. The writers did have more dialgoue incorporated into season three to offer an explanation as to the transwarp conduit at Jupiter that Jurati was guarding. It was simply meant to be a distraction so Picard's Borg Queen could fulfill her evil plan. According to Matalas, there was a "whole thing" about it.

“So while Jurati Borg was always going to be the payoff to [season 2], it was never really intended to be a longer-running thing. At the last minute, we added the thing where there was the hole that was going to open up and destroy—they added that to give a burst of action to the [season 2] finale, to give her a reason to do all of this. So that started to become retrofit into, “Hey could this be something for season 3?” But we were already way down the line on what we were doing with it. So you could say that she was guarding this thing. We did have a line on the Enterprise-D from Riker—when he talks about the Borg transwarp conduit at Jupiter and that the one that Jurati was guarding was a distraction, the Queen’s way of saying, “Go over here.”… We had a whole thing about it. But when we got to the cut, it was just like this big exposition dump that was like, nobody cares. His son is on board, Starfleet is assimilated. There’s this giant thing and now we are retrofitting and explaining the Jurati Borg.”Terry Matalas

There was so much going on in season three of Picard that adding additional information about Dr. Jurati's integration with one of the Borg Queens would have just been a minor payoff. Fans had already seen several Borg Queens, thanks to Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: First Contact so I think we all understood that Dr. Jurati's union with that particular queen on season two hadn't eliminated the threat of the Borg. It didn't take us long to realize that once we got into the final season of Picard.

This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as Season 2 Star Trek: Picard scenes were written to clear up the confusion with Dr. Jurati and the Borg .

Season 2 Star Trek: Picard scenes were written to clear up the confusion with Dr. Jurati and the Borg

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I Borg (episode)

  • View history
  • 1.2 Act One
  • 1.3 Act Two
  • 1.4 Act Three
  • 1.5 Act Four
  • 1.6 Act Five
  • 2 Memorable quotes
  • 3.1 Production history
  • 3.2 Story and script
  • 3.3 Production
  • 3.4 Cast and characters
  • 3.5 Continuity
  • 3.6 Reception
  • 3.7 Video and DVD releases
  • 4.1 Starring
  • 4.2 Also starring
  • 4.3 Guest star
  • 4.4 And special guest star
  • 4.5 Uncredited co-stars
  • 4.6 Stunt doubles
  • 4.7 Stand-ins
  • 4.8 References
  • 4.9 External links

Summary [ ]

While exploring an uncharted system, the USS Enterprise -D receives a strange signal from a nearby moon . Believing it to be a distress call , Captain Picard sends an away team to the surface. There, Commander Riker , Worf and Dr. Crusher find a crashed starship , as well as several Borg corpses. Under the debris lies an unconscious, but very much alive, Borg .

Act One [ ]

When Commander Riker informs the captain of what they have found, Picard immediately prepares to bring the team back. However, Dr. Crusher disagrees, knowing the Borg will not survive if left unattended. Naturally, Worf suggests they kill it at once and make it appear it died in the crash, but Picard agrees to bring it on board for a brief time. A holding cell is prepared and La Forge has a subspace dampening field placed around it, to prevent the Borg from using a homing signal to communicate with its brethren. Picard retires to his ready room , as the team and the Borg are transported aboard, despite Crusher's protestations to treat the Borg in sickbay, not a holding cell. Counselor Troi follows, concerned that Picard is reliving old feelings from his capture by the Borg, but Picard reassures her that he's doing just fine and that he is perfectly comfortable with his decision.

Meanwhile, Crusher tends to the still-unconscious Borg. Some of his Borg implants have been damaged, but La Forge believes he'll be able to replace them without much trouble. Picard asks La Forge if he can access the root commands of the Borg with the new implants, in order to introduce an invasive program ( topological anomaly ), which would function as a slow-acting virus to destroy the entire Borg Collective from within. " You make it sound as if it's a disease ", Crusher says. " Quite right, Doctor. If all goes well, a terminal one ", Picard states.

Act Two [ ]

Riker and Crusher argue about destroying the Borg

" You don't kill civilians indiscriminately. " " There are no civilians among the Borg. "

The crew think it would be a matter of months from the introduction of the program to the destruction of the Borg. Crusher seems to be the only one who is unsettled by this, as it appears to be pure genocide . Picard agrees that their plan would normally be unthinkable but claims that the Borg, and who they are, have left them no other choice. Riker also states that Humanity is at war with the Borg and Picard states that they must do anything they can to survive. Crusher notes that there has been no formal declaration of war but Troi notes that there has been from the Borg, as they have attacked them at every encounter. Shortly thereafter, the Borg regains consciousness and explores its small cell. It searches for a terminal with which to contact the Collective, but it can't find one. Crusher theorizes that the Borg hungers for energy , so La Forge prepares a power conduit on which it can feed. As he works, Crusher observes that the Borg almost seems scared to be so alone.

In the meantime, Picard and Guinan fence , both physically and verbally. While Crusher disagrees with Picard on the introduction of the virus, Guinan suggests the danger of having the Borg on board at all is greater than he knows. When Picard cites humanitarian reasons, Guinan demonstrates the danger by suckering Picard into an easy defeat during another round of fencing.

Worf and La Forge enter the cell and set the Borg up with a power conduit. The Borg calls himself "Third of Five," but shows no real gratitude or Humanity whatsoever, merely repeating over and over, " You will be assimilated . Resistance is futile. " La Forge and Worf finish their work and leave the Borg alone.

Act Three [ ]

Some time later, La Forge and Crusher prepare to give the Borg perception tests in a science lab , when Crusher voices a great dislike for the proceedings. The Borg is beamed into their science lab and introduced to Crusher. After a brief discussion of how and why she saved its life and a mention of the upcoming tests, the conversation turns to names. Crusher explains that she and La Forge have names, not designations. During the conversation, the Borg believes he is being called " Hugh " (in reality, La Forge was saying "you") and the name sticks.

Hugh passes a spatial acuity test with flying colors and La Forge realizes it is because of Hugh's prosthetic eye. Hugh placidly hands over the prosthetic for examination and listens to Crusher explain that Humanity doesn't want to be assimilated. This puzzles Hugh, because he no longer hears the "voices" of other Borg that permeate his existence under normal circumstances. Crusher sympathizes with Hugh's feeling of loneliness and La Forge tells him that, after the tests are done, Hugh can be returned to the Collective, although he knows it will not be what Hugh is thinking.

After talking with Hugh, La Forge has begun to have second thoughts about their plan, so he voices them to Guinan at the bar in Ten Forward . Contrary to her normally sympathetic attitude, Guinan is completely closed off to him. She warns him what the other Borg are capable of and dismisses his soul-searching. When La Forge suggests she go and talk to Hugh, she refuses. " Then just listen; that is what you do best, isn't it? " La Forge replies. In the meantime, long-range sensors pick up a Borg scout ship about thirty-one hours away.

Act Four [ ]

Guinan reluctantly visits Hugh in his cell and angrily informs him that " resistance is not futile ." As she describes the El-Aurians ' struggle against the Borg, she laments how few of her kind are left, scattered throughout the galaxy. Processing this, Hugh realizes that Guinan, like him, is lonely. For once, Guinan is speechless.

On hearing that the Federation wants to learn about other species , Hugh observes that assimilation allows the Borg to learn everything about a species. He fails to understand why Humans do not wish to be assimilated, prompting La Forge to talk of individuality and having a sense of self and how he would rather die than lose that. Hugh listens to La Forge's explanations and when La Forge describes friendship, he observes that their current relationship fits the description.

Later, La Forge and Data present the invasive program (topological anomaly) to an impressed Picard in the observation lounge . However, La Forge voices his newfound doubt about the plan, observing how un-Borg-like Hugh is now. It doesn't feel right to him to use Hugh as an instrument of genocide, but Picard likens La Forge's attitude to that of 20th century scientists growing attached to laboratory animals . Picard coldly notes that this would become a problem when the experiments involved the scientists killing the animals. He orders La Forge to "unattach" himself from Hugh.

That evening, Guinan visits Picard in his quarters . After they exchange some small talk, she expresses her own doubts about the morality of Picard's plan. She suggests that at the very least, Picard should talk to Hugh before committing to the plan before he regrets what he is about to do.

Picard seems unmoved, but he later has Hugh beamed directly to his ready room, along with Worf. Picard dismisses Worf and Hugh recognizes Picard as Locutus of Borg , so Picard plays along, attempting to bring out Hugh's full Borg-like nature. Instead, it brings out Hugh's individuality. The thought of La Forge and the others being assimilated seems to frighten Hugh, who has developed feelings of his own and refuses to help assimilate them. Most moving to Picard is Hugh's sudden grasp and use of the word "I".

Act Five [ ]

Picard is shocked and calls a staff meeting to explore other options. The crew eventually decide that, although the Borg would more than likely erase Hugh's memory of recent events, there might be a short time in which Hugh's " singularity " would affect the entire Collective consciousness , perhaps altering the nature of the Borg forever. Their plan is shattered when Crusher asks what will happen if Hugh doesn't want to leave.

Picard and La Forge let Hugh choose his fate, which confuses Hugh. Picard explains that Hugh could seek asylum aboard the Enterprise instead of returning to the Collective. Although he wants to stay with La Forge, he concludes that it would be too dangerous for his new friends. It would appear that while Hugh has gained a sense of self, he has also maintained a sense of selflessness. When they beam Hugh back to the moon where they found him, Picard allows La Forge to go as well, knowing the Borg ignore individuals who pose no threat. Picard says goodbye to Hugh and he tells the captain that he does not want to forget his individuality. Meanwhile, the Enterprise hides in the star 's chromosphere . Two Borg beam to the surface and link with Hugh. The Borg then reclaim the circuits from their fallen comrades and return to their ship, but as the beam whisks them away, Hugh gives a slight, but noticeable farewell nod to La Forge.

Memorable quotes [ ]

" Away team, prepare to return to the ship! " " Captain, we can't leave him here. He won't survive. " " I think the captain understands that. " " I don't. "

" Kill it now! Make it appear that it died in the crash. "

" Infect it? You make sound as if it's a disease. " " Quite right, Doctor. If all goes well… a terminal one. "

" I just think we should be clear about that. We're talking about annihilating an entire race. " " Which under most circumstances would be unconscionable, but as I see it, the Borg leave us with little choice. "

" When I look at my patient, I don't see a collective consciousness, I don't see a hive. I see a living, breathing boy who has been hurt and who needs our help. "

" You felt sorry for me. Look what it got you. "

" We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. " " Just look around, pal. You're hardly in a position to make any demands. "

" You will be assimilated. " " Yes, but before that happens, could we ask you a few questions? "

" Let me tell you something, when this kid's big brothers come looking for him, they're not gonna stop until they find him. And they'll come looking for us, and they will destroy us. And they will not do any of the soul-searching that you're doing now. " " So why don't you go and talk to him? It might not be so clear-cut then. " " Because I wouldn't have anything to say. " " Then why don't you just listen? That is what you do best, isn't it? "

" If you are going to use this person– " " It's not a person, damn it! It's a Borg! " " If you are going to use this person to destroy his race, you should at least look him in the eye once before you do it. Because I am not sure he is still a Borg. "

" Resistance… is not futile? "

" Captain, I do not want to forget that I am Hugh. "

Background information [ ]

Production history [ ].

  • Fourth draft script: 30 January 1992
  • Production meeting: 27 February 1992 ("Imaginary Friend" call sheet)
  • Final draft script: 3 March 1992 [1]
  • Principal photography: 6 March 1992 – 16 March 1992 ("Lost and Found", Star Trek Magazine  issue 147 ; "I Borg" call sheets)
  • Premiere airdate: 11 May 1992
  • First UK airdate: 24 May 1995

Story and script [ ]

  • After the success of " The Best of Both Worlds ", the writing staff had been trying to find a way to bring the Borg back but were facing the problem of how to follow up with an enemy that was only barely escaped once. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion  (2nd ed., p. 202)) Ronald D. Moore commented, " I think this is a real good way to bring the Borg back, because they're very limiting in the way they are. They're this huge collective with no voice to communicate to and you can't relate to these guys. We keep saying they're unstoppable and if we keep stopping them it undercuts how unstoppable they truly are. " ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 246)
  • The idea for this episode originated at a retreat the writing staff took in the Fall of 1991. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion  (2nd ed., p. 174))
  • René Echevarria recalled, " I had this flash of inspiration: What if you reversed the way you look at the Borg? What if this was an intimate story about one of them? What would just one Borg be like – by himself? " ( Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 , p. 259)
  • The title of the episode is an allusion to Isaac Asimov 's book I, Robot . This in turn was a reference to Robert Graves ' book I, Claudius . It also makes a pun on the word "cyborg". While no comma was used when the title appeared on screen, the title was given with a comma in the script, as well as in a number of reference works including the Star Trek Encyclopedia  (1st ed., p. 133), the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion  (2nd ed., p. 201), and on StarTrek.com . [2]
  • Jeri Taylor provided an uncredited polish on the script. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion  (2nd ed., p. 202))
  • Hugh uses the pronoun "I" much earlier in the episode, when he asks Crusher and La Forge " Do I have a name? ". Exchevarria acknowledges this, much to his embarrassment, on the episode's audio commentary on the TNG Season 5 Blu-ray . By the time Echevarria had caught the error in the script and reported it to Taylor, the scene had already been filmed.

Production [ ]

  • This was the first episode directed by Robert Lederman .
  • The production meeting for this episode took place on Thursday 27 February 1992 at 2:30 p.m. ("Imaginary Friend" call sheet)
  • Filming for the episode took place between Friday 6 March 1992 and Monday 16 March 1992 on Paramount Stage 8 , 9 , and 16 . ("Lost and Found", Star Trek Magazine  issue 147 , "I Borg" call sheets)
  • During filming of this episode contest winners and personal guests of Peter Lauritson visited the set on every day of filming. ("I Borg" call sheets)
  • This was the first Borg episode not to be scored by Ron Jones . Instead, the composer is Jay Chattaway , who would compose " Descent " and " Descent, Part II ", the last episodes of The Next Generation to feature the Borg.
  • Costume designer Bob Blackman and make-up effects artist Michael Westmore once again honed the Borg make-up, adding a hologram in Hugh's eyepiece that would become common in later Borg designs. Westmore's son, Michael Westmore, Jr. , created the LED lighting visible when the eyepiece was removed. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 , p. 260)
  • When explaining to Jean-Luc Picard the "virus" they will implant on Hugh, the display reads "Topological Anomaly 47 47 ."

Cast and characters [ ]

Lederman directing del Arco

Robert Lederman directing Jonathan Del Arco

  • Jeri Taylor likened Hugh to the titular character of the film Edward Scissorhands , a characterization that influenced both casting and Robert Lederman's later direction. Almost thirty actors auditioned before Jonathan Del Arco won the part. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 , p. 260)
  • Del Arco was a fan of Star Trek: The Original Series while growing up, and jumped at a chance to be on The Next Generation . He had auditioned for the role of Wesley Crusher , but when it was given to Wil Wheaton he was so disappointed that he refused to watch "The Next Generation" until he got the chance to guest star on it. He joked that prior to taking the assignment, a friend warned him that he would be asked about it for years afterwards, which indeed proved to be the case. ( Intergalactic Guest Stars , TNG Season 5 DVD special features)
  • During filming, Lederman worked with Del Arco to create a "Borg meter" to reflect where Hugh was in his personal evolution, with "one" being all Borg and "ten" being nearly Human. Lederman remembered, " In every scene, we had a numerable for where he was on the scale. During rehearsal, if I said, 'Jonathan, you're at six – we need you to be at eight,' he immediately knew what I meant. " ( Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 , p. 259)

Continuity [ ]

  • This episode recalls Picard's experience spanning from " The Best of Both Worlds " to " Family ".
  • The aftermath of Hugh 's rejoining the Collective is revealed in " Descent " and " Descent, Part II ". At the beginning of the Descent two-parter, Admiral Alynna Nechayev criticizes Picard's decision to revise the invasive program from the original plan. Hugh would also appear in the latter episode. The concept of Borg individuality is explored at length on Star Trek: Voyager with the character Seven of Nine .
  • This episode establishes that Borg are designated by numbers, in relation to small groups (ie, Third of Five , Seven of Nine , etc.). Hugh's designation, "Third of Five," is different from other Borg names (such as Seven of Nine ) in that he uses the ordinal ("third") rather than the cardinal number ("three").
  • This episode marks another instance of Guinan using the term "scattered throughout the galaxy", in reference to her people. Other usages of the term were in the episodes " Q Who ", and " The Best of Both Worlds ".
  • The Argolis Cluster was later visited by the Enterprise -D in " True Q " and the USS Defiant in DS9 's sixth season episode " Behind the Lines ".

Reception [ ]

  • Rick Berman praised writer René Echevarria and director Robert Lederman. " The minute I saw the story I fell in love with it. The dramatic relationships are so vivid. Guinan, who comes from a people who were destroyed by the Borg, Picard who was brutalized and violated by the Borg – both are put in the position of being prejudiced. Geordi and Dr. Crusher are in the position of being open-minded and eventually sympathetic to this young man and the end result is a wonderful series of relationships and wonderful scenes between Guinan and the Borg […] The writing was wonderful and the acting great. " ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 246)
  • Jeri Taylor commented, " I think it will become a classic. I think it's a wonderful concept and it's just real special […] The Borg will never be the same again. " ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 246)
  • Jonathan Del Arco remarked, " All I had to go on as an actor was one of the best scripts I'd ever read. It was so – you read the script and it comes to life – I heard the voice in my head… It holds up the chalice of that highest moral that I think Gene Roddenberry meant the show to do – question, question, question, every step of the way. " ( Mission Overview: Year Five , TNG Season 5 DVD special features)
  • This episode was Michael Piller 's favorite of the season . He called it "everything I want Star Trek to be". ( Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion  (2nd ed., p. 202))
  • Piller stated, " I think it's just a great premise which forces both Guinan and Picard to confront their own prejudices. And you would think these are two characters who have none, but when it comes to the Borg the old issue is 'know your enemy.' It's a lot harder to hate them if you know them and it deals with the issue of what happens to these communal Borgs which cannot be treated as anything else but parts of the whole when one is separated and becomes an individual? I feel that if you take the unstoppable villain, the stereotype and you turn it inside out, that's great dramatic storytelling. " ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , p. 246)
  • Piller noted that not all fans were as enthused with the episode. " There were some people who really felt that 'I Borg' betrayed the vision of the Borg because it humanized them more than they wanted to see. But I just think every time you can understand your enemy, those stories have a huge impact. " ( Mission Overview: Year Five , TNG Season 5 DVD special features)
  • In about early 1999, Susanna Thompson cited this as her favorite episode of Star Trek . ( Star Trek: Communicator  issue 121 , p. 17)
  • Another person who was fond of this outing was J.M. Dillard . In her book Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before (paperback ed., p. 203), she characterized it as "moving."
  • A mission report for this episode by John Sayers was published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine  issue 21 , pp. 49-51.

Video and DVD releases [ ]

  • Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video ): Volume 62, 15 March 1993
  • As part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek: The Next Generation - Borg Box : 5 December 1994
  • UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment ): Volume 5.8, 23 December 2002
  • As part of the TNG Season 5 DVD collection
  • As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Borg collection

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

  • Patrick Stewart as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
  • Jonathan Frakes as Cmdr. William Riker

Also starring [ ]

  • LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
  • Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
  • Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
  • Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
  • Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data

Guest star [ ]

  • Jonathan Del Arco as Third of Five/Hugh

And special guest star [ ]

  • Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan

Uncredited co-stars [ ]

  • Rachen Assapiomonwait as Nelson
  • Joe Baumann as Garvey
  • Steven Bosnyak as operations ensign
  • Michael Braveheart as Martinez
  • Cameron as Kellogg
  • Eben Ham as operations ensign
  • Mark Lentry as civilian
  • Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings
  • Command ensign
  • Joycelyn Robinson as Gates
  • Bill E. Rogers as operations ensign
  • Sissy Sessions as operations ensign
  • Théyard as civilian
  • Dru Wagner as Daniels
  • Christina Wegler Miles as command ensign
  • Four dead Borg drones
  • Security officer (voice)
  • Ten Forward waiter
  • Transporter officer (voice)

Stunt doubles [ ]

  • Joy Hooper as stunt double for Whoopi Goldberg
  • John Nowak as stunt double for Patrick Stewart

Stand-ins [ ]

  • David Keith Anderson – stand-in for LeVar Burton
  • Candace Crump – stand-in for Whoopi Goldberg
  • Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis
  • Marty – stand-in for Whoopi Goldberg
  • Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner and Jonathan del Arco
  • Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden
  • Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes
  • Dennis Tracy – stand-in for Patrick Stewart
  • James Washington – stand-in for Michael Dorn

References [ ]

access code ; access terminal ; Argolis Cluster ; Argolis Cluster moon ; Argolis Cluster planet ; Argolis Cluster star ; Argolis Cluster system ; assault ; assimilation ; biochip ; biological tissue ; Borg ; Borg Collective ; Borg scout ship ; cage ; chromosphere ; civilian ; collective consciousness ; command pathway ; computational cycle ; computer system ; cubical ; declaration of war ; detention cell ; dimensions ; energy ; fencing ; genocide ; geometric form ; heart ; hive ; holographic imaging system ; homesick ; homing signal ; humanitarianism ; invasive program ; kidnapped ; laboratory animal ; Locutus of Borg ; memory banks ; metric ton ; Milky Way Galaxy ; Midsummer Night's Dream, A ; mutilated ; neural network ; Number one ; paradox ; perceptual test ; pet ; political asylum ; power conduit ; primitive culture ; prosthesis ; rat ; ration ; rescue vessel ; root command structure ; rules of war ; score ; subspace damping field ; topological anomaly ; transporter room 2 ; transporter room 3 ; virus

External links [ ]

  • "I, Borg" at StarTrek.com
  • " I, Borg " at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
  • " I, Borg " at Wikipedia
  • " "I, Borg" " at MissionLogPodcast.com , a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
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    What is 'Star Trek: Borg'? 'Star Trek: Borg' was a single-player 1996 FMV game developed and published by Simon & Schuster (published by Virgin Interactive in some regions) for PC and Macintosh. 'Star Trek: Borg - Remastered' is a fan project attempting to recreate the game in-browser, using AI to remaster the original game footage to HD quality using a rare Japanese DVD release of the game.

  19. Star Trek: Borg

    Star Trek: Borg is an interactive movie PC game and audiobook set in the Star Trek universe. It was written by Hilary Bader, directed by James L. Conway, and featured an original score by Dennis McCarthy. It was released in 1996 by Simon & Schuster for PC and Macintosh.

  20. Borg Queen

    The Borg Queen was the name of the entity that existed within and served as the queen of the Borg Collective.An ancient being, the Queen has existed for many hundreds of years. (Star Trek: First Contact; PIC: "Surrender") In the event of her body's destruction, she would appear to be reincarnated with her personality and memories intact.(Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Dark Frontier ...

  21. What Happened To Star Trek: Picard's Other Borg Queen Explained By

    Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas delved into the confusion about Picard season 2's benevolent Borg Queen, formerly known as Dr. Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill), and how she was considered for a Picard season 3 appearance.Picard season 2 saw Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his friends travel back in time to the 21st century to repair the past that had been altered by Q (John ...

  22. Take On the Mirror Borg in Star Trek Online: Both Worlds, Out On Xbox

    In the newest release, Star Trek Online: Both Worlds, players will take the fight to the Mirror Borg as they attempt to place a beach head in our universe. Battle them in a new story mission, including facing their mysterious leader, the Borg King. And for fans of the classic Borg, you can replay one of the most defining moments of Star Trek ...

  23. Season 2 Star Trek: Picard scenes were written to clear up the ...

    Star Trek: Picard season two confused some fans when Dr. Agnes Jurati united with the Borg Queen. Many were wondering if that meant the Borg had "gone good" and if they would now be an ally in the ...

  24. I Borg (episode)

    The discovery of an injured adolescent Borg brings to the surface hard feelings for both Captain Picard and Guinan for what the Borg Collective had done to them. Matters are complicated when plans to use the young Borg to destroy his people are halted when it is discovered that the Borg has become an individual. "Captain's log, stardate 45854.2. The Enterprise is charting six star systems that ...

  25. Star Trek: Borg

    This episode is from the 1996 Interactive Movie game "Star Trek: Borg".Written by Hilary Bader, directed by James L. Conway, and featured an original score b...