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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 ", " Unimatrix Zero ", " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ", " Endgame ")

Two decades after suffering catastrophic defeat at the hands of Admiral Janeway , the Borg Queen collaborated with a rogue faction of Changelings to rebuild her collective and take revenge upon the Federation . Her final scheme was thwarted by her old enemy, Jean-Luc Picard , and she was killed once and for all by the USS Enterprise -D , bringing an end to the threat of the Borg. ( PIC : " Võx ", " The Last Generation ")

• 1 Role and personality
• 2.2 Attacks on Earth
• 2.3 Conflicts with Voyager
• 2.4 Alliance with the Changelings
• 3 Alternate timeline
• 5.1 Appearances
• 5.2 Background information
• 5.3.1 Borg Invasion 4D
• 5.4 External links

Role and personality [ ]

The Queen defined herself as: " I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. I am the Borg. " As the queen of the Borg Collective and the lone individual within it, the Borg Queen provided direction and purpose for the hive mind. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ", " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ", " Endgame "; PIC : " Watcher ", " Hide and Seek ")

It was thought by Federation exobiologist Erin Hansen that the Borg Queen functioned like the queen of an insect hive, to coordinate the drones. Evidence of this was later seen when the Queen countermanded the Collective's judgment about assimilating Voyager in 2378 . While the Collective felt that assimilation was warranted, the Borg Queen countermanded them and justified the decision due to the fact that Voyager didn't compromise their security. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

The Queen, while providing coordination for the drones she commanded, also provided other functions such as regulation of the Collective's transwarp hubs and interspatial manifolds . She effectively brought "order to chaos" for all things. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

According to Seven of Nine , " The Borg Queen has a kind of trans-temporal awareness. It bridges into adjacent times, realities. They hear echoes of themselves, of— of each other. " ( PIC : " Penance ")

The death of the Borg Queen, while traumatic to drones in the immediate vicinity, did not seem to permanently affect the Collective or its hive mind as a whole. The Queen was subsequently replicated after each death, although the exact mechanism of her reincarnations remains unclear. Borg drones were capable of functioning without a Queen for any length of time by forming a Hive mind of their own. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; VOY : " Unity ", " Dark Frontier ")

The disembodied Borg Queen aboard the partially-assimilated Enterprise -E

In accordance with the Borg pursuit of perfection, a blending of the organic and synthetic, very little of her original humanoid form remained. Her face and upper torso were organic while the rest of her body, including her skull and spinal cord , were synthetic . Because of her disembodiment she saw herself as the epitome of perfection. The Queen had her own chambers within the Borg Unicomplex from which she could oversee and control the Borg via the command interface . Whether she had her own ship or not is unknown, but she used different Borg vessels to travel, such as a Borg cube , sphere , or octahedron . When her physical presence was not necessary her organic part resided above this chamber while her synthetic parts were stored below it, under the floor. If she desired to do so, both could be brought together, and in doing so, created a humanoid form for herself.

The Borg Queen assembled in 2377

Where her drones showed no emotions , the Queen herself did. She was ruthless, vindictive, petty, and selfish. She would do anything to expand the Borg Collective, employing psychological tactics like extortion, manipulation, plain intimidation or even seduction to further her goals. The Queen placed her own self-preservation over that of the Collective, cannibalizing the bodies of her last remaining drones to keep herself alive after the collapse of the hive. On a personal level, she considered Seven of Nine her favorite drone, because the Queen considered her to be unique. ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ", " Dark Frontier ")

Despite being one with the minds of billions, the Queen felt a sense of profound isolation and loneliness. Her inexorable drive to assimilate was partially motivated by a desire for connection. With millions of species not enough to sate her, she attempted to fill this void by grooming potential counterparts that were more than mere drones. Jean-Luc Picard , Data , Seven of Nine , and Agnes Jurati were all such candidates. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; VOY : " Dark Frontier "; PIC : " Hide and Seek ")

Following the decimation of the Borg Collective, the Borg Queen succumbed to desperation and insanity from the isolation she endured. Nevertheless, she retained her intellect and tactical mind, working with the Changelings from behind the scenes to execute her plans for a Borg resurgence. ( PIC : " Võx ", " The Last Generation ")

History [ ]

The Borg Queen (or perhaps merely one of her bodies) was assimilated to the Collective from Species 125 around the age of 7-8, along with her parents, and was already active in the Delta Quadrant in 2354 . ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ")

Attacks on Earth [ ]

The existence of the Borg Queen was documented sometime prior to 2365 by the exobiologists Erin and Magnus Hansen . However, because the Hansens were assimilated, their discovery never reached the Federation . ( VOY : " The Raven ")

It was not until 2373 , that the Federation became aware of her when the Federation starship USS Enterprise -E prevented the assimilation of Earth . This was the second attempt by the Borg, also known as the Battle of Sector 001 . The Borg Queen, along with a contingent of drones, traveled back to Earth's past to prevent First Contact , and by doing so, hoped to be able to assimilate Earth.

The Borg Queen with Locutus in 2366

During this conflict, while Captain Jean-Luc Picard was trying to destroy the Borg, the Queen claimed to have been present during the Battle of Wolf 359 , and even admitted that Locutus of Borg – the assimilated Picard – was intended to be a singular intelligence – a counterpart that was intended to ease the burden of loneliness. However, when Picard continued to resist, even when he could not control Locutus' body, she was regretfully forced to turn him into the form in which Starfleet encountered him—a glorified drone. Whether or not she physically took part in the Battle of Wolf 359 was unknown.

Picard and Data killed the Borg Queen after she tried to persuade Data to give her the encryption code by which he had locked the Enterprise 's computer . She ordered Data to destroy the Phoenix spaceship with quantum torpedoes, and taunted Picard that she would rule Earth without Humans or the Federation in it, when the torpedoes missed. Data told her, "Resistance is futile!" and vented the warp core plasma coolant , which destroyed her organic parts. Picard then broke her cybernetic spinal cord, which ensured that she could no longer function. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

In 2399 , Picard mentally recalled the image of the Borg Queen and Locutus while aboard The Artifact . ( PIC : " The Impossible Box ")

As of 2401 , the remains of this incarnation of the Queen were stored at Daystrom Station . ( PIC : " The Bounty ")

Conflicts with Voyager [ ]

Starfleet's second documented encounter with the Borg Queen was in 2375 in the Delta Quadrant . Here, the lost Federation starship USS Voyager, tried to rescue the former Borg Drone, Seven of Nine, who was then part of Voyager 's crew, when the plan to steal a transwarp coil from a Borg sphere did not work out as planned. The Queen also revealed that Seven of Nine was not really freed by Voyager from the Collective, but was allowed to leave by the Borg. During this encounter, the Borg Queen hoped to assimilate Seven of Nine again, who experienced life as an individual for two years, and by doing so, add to her own perfection. However, Seven rejected the Queen and fled with a rescue mission sent by Voyager in the Delta Flyer . The Borg Queen's octahedron was sent by the Queen to intercept the shuttle , but it was destroyed in the attempt. ( VOY : " Dark Frontier ")

The Borg Queen was one of several real people who was adapted into a character in Kelis ' play, based on descriptions from B'Elanna Torres . ( VOY : " Muse ")

In 2376 and 2377 , the Borg Queen was again encountered by Voyager . This time the Queen wanted to destroy Unimatrix Zero , a virtual world that was populated by regenerating Borg with a genetic mutation. This world was discovered by Seven of Nine and posed a threat to the Borg. During Voyager 's efforts to rescue this virtual world, the Borg Queen demonstrated her powers by destroying a Borg sphere because she could no longer "hear" only one drone. When a nanovirus was released to prevent the detection of Unimatrix Zero , the Queen destroyed several Borg vessels, and killed 75,000 Borg Drones in the process, in the hope of persuading the captured Captain Janeway to give her the antidote. ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ", " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ")

The Borg Queen in 2378

Admiral Janeway confronts the Borg Queen in 2378

The last encounter between Voyager and the Borg Queen was in 2378 . Voyager accidentally discovered a Borg transwarp hub within a nebula and were helped by Admiral Kathryn Janeway, who came from an alternate timeline around twenty-six years in the future , to use the Borg transwarp network to get back to the Alpha Quadrant . Because the Borg guarded their transwarp hub closely, Admiral Janeway devised a plan by which she would infect the Borg Queen with a neurolytic pathogen and in doing so make her lose control over the force fields which protected the interspatial manifolds. When the admiral was captured by the Borg, near the Unicomplex , she was assimilated by the Borg Queen herself. Soon after, the Queen began to lose control over her drones.

The end of the Borg Queen

The pathogen even made her lose control over her own synthetic parts, as her body literally fell apart. Her death caused the destruction of the Unicomplex and despite her efforts, Voyager reached Earth safely. The Borg sphere that was sent after them by the Queen was destroyed by Voyager 's transphasic torpedoes , which were given to them by Admiral Janeway from the future. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

Alliance with the Changelings [ ]

Despite the peace brokered between Jurati's Borg and Starfleet, the original Collective remained hostile, and set in motion a plan to assimilate Starfleet from within. The Collective had slowly dwindled following the neurolytic pathogen infection from Admiral Janeway. The Queen managed to survive by cannibalizing parts of her drones, though without the ability to assimilate new drones into the Collective, the Queen was eventually left alone as her drones died of starvation and old age which apparently drove her insane.

As those voices fell silent, the Queen began to hear a new voice - that of Jack Crusher , the son of Jean-Luc Picard and carrier of a transmitter protein inherited from his father's Borg-altered DNA. She realized that the future of the Borg no longer lay in assimilation, but in evolution, propagation, and the annihilation of all other life forms in the galaxy. Over the years, the Queen communicated with Jack, intending to lure him to her. Jack believed the voice was that of his mother.

The Borg Queen communicating with Vadic as "The Face"

In order to enact her plan, the Borg Queen made a deal with rogue Changelings , lead by Vadic sometime leading up to 2401 . The Changelings, who were vengeful themselves for what had happened to them in the Dominion War, agreed to help by stealing Jean-Luc Picard's body from Daystrom Station in order to extract his Borg DNA and spread it through Starfleet's transporter system as common biology. They would also hunt Jack Crusher with the intent of bringing him to the Borg Queen. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

She communicated with Vadic via Vadic's severed hand , with which the Borg Queen formed a simulacrum of a face in mid-air.

Vadic reported that the USS Titan -A , carrying their "asset" Jack Crusher , had fallen into the gravity well at the center of the Ryton Nebula , where her ship the Shrike could not follow due to its portal weapon . The Borg Queen ordered Vadic to pursue regardless, stating that everything, including her and her crew, was expendable. ( PIC : " No Win Scenario ")

After capturing and interrogating William T. Riker and Deanna Troi but failing to gain any information, Vadic contacted the Borg Queen again to report that they would not break. The Borg Queen demanded that she try harder to break them, and noted that Vadic's physiology was not as special or complex as she believed. She stated that the Changelings' nature was to be malleable, while the enemy's kind were "beholden to a singular flesh." The Borg Queen then reiterated that Starfleet's fallure was near and she needed Jack Crusher, but warned that should Vadic fail, the Changelings' existence would become "meaningless." ( PIC : " Dominion ")

After Jack became aware of his true nature, he sought out the Borg Queen, with the intention of killing her. Arriving aboard her makeshift mega-cube in the atmosphere of Jupiter , the Queen welcomed Jack, telling him that she had "thought of so many names" for him – "Regenerati. Peur Dei." Jack rejected these names, and the Borg Queen responded that he was Võx, not Locutus, "the one that speaks". Jack was "the voice itself". Boarding the cube to confront her, Jack raised his phaser but was unable to kill the Borg Queen, who mocked him for his inability. She then assimilated Jack and used him to broadcast a signal to all affected Starfleet personnel, triggering the last stage of their assimilation. ( PIC : " Võx ")

The crew of the USS Enterprise -D tracked a Borg signal to Jupiter. Picard, William T. Riker and Worf beamed aboard the Borg vessel to find both Jack and the origin of the signal. Picard separated from Riker and Worf to find Jack, who had already been transformed completely into Võx .

Picard's confrontation with the Queen escalated until Picard reconnected with Jack and convinced Jack to reject the Borg. The Enterprise flew in overhead, and was able to beam them to safety as the Cube exploded from the Enterprise 's attack, killing the Queen and ending the Collective once and for all.

Following the Borg Queen's death and the destruction of her Cube, the signal to Starfleet was cut ending the Borg control over it. Admiral Beverly Crusher was subsequently able to find a way to remove the Borg DNA from everyone, ending the Borg Queen's plan permanently. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

Alternate timeline [ ]

The Borg Queen from an alternate 2401

In 2401 , an atypical version of the Borg Queen beckoned Jean-Luc Picard to a region of space , where she expressed a desire to join the Federation. After it seemingly appeared to take over the USS Stargazer , Picard destroyed the ship, rather than to allow it to be assimilated.

Following the destruction of the Stargazer , Picard and other members of the Stargazer crew found themselves in an alternate timeline , created through the intervention of Q . Xenophobic Humans dominated parts of the galaxy, and even managed to defeat the Borg; their immobilized Queen was held by the Earth's Confederation. This Borg Queen, who possessed an awareness of the split in the timeline, was set to be executed by Picard. With her species having been wiped out in this timeline, the Borg Queen agreed to help Picard and his crew travel back in time and correct the timeline.

Though killed by a shotgun blast from Jurati, after arriving in 2024 , this Queen had managed to assimilate Dr. Agnes Jurati and live on through Jurati. ( PIC : " The Star Gazer ", " Penance ", " Mercy ", " Farewell ")

• See : Agnes Jurati, Borg Queen

Hologram [ ]

A hologram of the Borg Queen

A hologram of the Borg Queen appeared in Starfleet 's Borg Encounter holographic training drill , in use by 2381 . In the simulation , it was possible for the user to beat the Queen at chess and teach her empathy to improve their score. ( LD : " I, Excretus ")

Appendices [ ]

Appearances [ ].

• Star Trek: First Contact
• " Dark Frontier "
• " Unimatrix Zero "
• " Unimatrix Zero, Part II "
• " Endgame "
• " The Impossible Box " (archive footage)
• " The Star Gazer " (alternate timeline)
• " Penance " (alternate timeline)
• " Assimilation " (alternate timeline)
• " Watcher " (alternate timeline)
• " Fly Me to the Moon " (alternate timeline)
• " Two of One " ( illusion )
• " No Win Scenario " (as "The Face")
• " Dominion " (as "The Face")
• " The Last Generation "
• LD : " I, Excretus " (hologram)

Background information [ ]

The Borg Queen was played by Alice Krige in Star Trek: First Contact , VOY : " Endgame ", PIC : " Võx ", " The Last Generation " (voice only) and (as a holographic duplicate ) LD : " I, Excretus ". The character was played by Susanna Thompson in the Star Trek: Voyager episodes " Dark Frontier ", " Unimatrix Zero ", and " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ". In Star Trek: Picard season 2 , the Borg Queen was played by Annie Wersching . The Borg Queen's Changeling simulacrum, identified in end credits as "The Face", was voiced by Garth Kemp . The body of the Queen in season 3 of Picard was portrayed by Jane Edwina Seymour , credited as "Borg Queen Body Double ".

In an early design meeting for the Borg Queen, the movie Captain EO was mentioned, regarding Anjelica Huston 's performance as a villainous woman who lived in the ceiling and would descend on cables. [1]

The appearance of the Borg Queen in First Contact was a controversial one in the Star Trek universe. Though the Borg provided for a threatening and intriguing alien enemy, their lack of a single villain presented a challenge for the writers. To counter this, and to expand some on the original notion of the Borg as an insect-hive type of race, they created the Borg Queen as a focal point for their story. Writer Brannon Braga has stated in this respect, " I think some people liked the Borg Queen and some didn't, but to us the Borg Queen was the thing that made it all work. We realized very quickly that the Borg aren't that interesting for a feature film for two hours because they don't say anything. They're robot zombies. So, to me, the Borg Queen was the coolest new thing about that movie. " [2]

Later in First Contact , when asked by Picard how she had survived when the cube that was sent to Earth in 2367 was destroyed, the Queen only replied that Picard had become small, and thought in three-dimensional terms.

Alice Krige purposely limited the ways in which she prepared for "Endgame", reviewing neither her own work on First Contact nor any of Susanna Thompson's portrayal of the same character. This choice was not motivated out of any sort of disrespect for Thompson, and had nothing at all to do with the actress. ( Star Trek Magazine  issue 169 , p. 52; [3] ) Krige speculated, " Whoever had played the role, I would have made the same decision. " [4] Explaining why she made the choice, Krige conceded, " I thought to see someone else's performance would throw me off course. It was already going to be fairly different because it was the Borg Queen with two females, as opposed to the Borg Queen with two males [...] I just felt it wouldn't help the process. " ( Star Trek Magazine  issue 169 , p. 52) She also related, " I didn't want something in my head, in my imagination. I needed my performance to happen in the moment. " [5] Krige did, however, request to receive and read all the Voyager scripts featuring the Borg Queen, including the new teleplay for "Endgame". She indeed read the scripts, despite not watching any of the episodes. ( Star Trek Magazine  issue 169 , p. 52; [6] )

In 2002, the Borg Queen was placed second in TV Zone 's list of the top twenty science fiction television villains. Dukat was fourth, Weyoun was eighth, Q was eleventh, and Seska was nineteenth. ( citation needed • edit ) In an early version of the script of Star Trek: First Contact (a script very different from the movie), Geordi La Forge tells Data that he is sending the Borg Queen's remains to the Daystrom Institute for study. [7]

When asked whether the Queen was a "virtual entity; the personification of the collective", Braga's writing partner, Ronald D. Moore , said, " This was not the intention. We saw her as a literal person. " ( AOL chat , 1997 )

According to Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens , they pitched a story for an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise where Alice Krige would play a Starfleet medical technician who made contact with the Borg from " Regeneration ". The encounter would have been the birth of the Borg Queen. [8]

An undersuit that was worn by Krige in First Contact was sold off as lot 9677 in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.

The Borg Queen, Dimitri Valtane , Lojur , Admiral Hayes , B-4 , and the punk on the bus are the only characters to debut in a Star Trek film before appearing in a Star Trek television series.

Apocrypha [ ]

According to the Pocket VOY novel, The Farther Shore published after the television series concluded, a Borg Queen could be replaced in mere seconds by using the Royal Protocol. Seven of Nine was specifically mentioned in the Royal Protocol and was most likely to become the next Queen.

The Pocket TNG novel Resistance showed the creation of another Queen, who was destroyed by the crew of the Enterprise -E. Subsequently, in the Pocket TNG novel Before Dishonor , Admiral Janeway was assimilated by the Borg and became a Queen who was eventually defeated by Seven of Nine.

In the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy, a newly installed Queen oversaw a massive Borg invasion of the Alpha Quadrant. It was later revealed that the Borg Queen was merely an avatar for the true power behind the Collective. The Destiny trilogy also mentioned that multiple Queens have been known to exist simultaneously in the Collective, but they all possessed the same agenda.

One theory regarding the creation of a Queen is that "queens" are members of a specific race, one that was chosen because its females exhibited superior higher-order brain processing-speed, and were therefore assimilated and bred for that purpose. ( Star Trek: Elite Force II ; Star Trek: Legacy )

The extra section of the game Star Trek: Legacy contained the "Origin of the Borg", which told the story of V'ger being sucked into a black hole. V'ger was found by a race of living machines which gave it a form suitable to fulfilling its simplistic programming. Unable to determine who its creator could be, the probe declared all carbon-based life an infestation of the creator's universe, leading to assimilation. From this, the Borg were created, as extensions of V'ger 's purpose. Drones were made from those assimilated and merged into a collective consciousness. The Borg Queen was created out of the necessity for a single unifying voice. However, with thoughts and desires of her own, she was no longer bound to serve V'ger . This explanation, however, was not canon.

In Star Trek Online , a new Borg Queen of Romulan origins had emerged before 2409 and led the Collective in an invasion of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants , her main targets being the Federation and the Klingon Empire .

According to " Shinsei Shinsei ", the Borg Queen's name was Danzek.

In the miniseries The Q Conflict , as part of a contest between various omnipotent beings organised by Q , Trelane challenges the four competing crews to capture a Borg Queen for his menagerie. After being transported to a unimatrix, the Queen is captured by a team consisting of Captain Picard, Spock , Odo and Seven of Nine .

The Borg Queen appears as a boss in Star Trek: Voyager - The Arcade Game .

Borg Invasion 4D [ ]

In 2004, the Borg Queen made a re-entry onto the big screen when the Borg Invasion 4D -ride premiered at the Star Trek: The Experience , an interactive attraction that incorporated live-action stage performance and animation, in which the visitors had a limited part themselves, within a 3D cinema environment. The movie for the attraction was mostly produced by the veteran Star Trek production team on the studio's own premises.

The storyline, set after the events depicted in "Endgame" entailed yet another incursion into Federation space by a Borg cube, attacking Copernicus Station and capturing a shuttle with its occupants (the attraction visitors), who were trying to escape from the overrun space station. While the captured crew was being prepared for assimilation, the Queen made a dramatic entrance and, true to form, begins lecturing about the perfection of the Borg Collective and demanded the surrender of the group's inhibitions and instructed them to join the hive mind. When all seemed lost and much to the dismay of the Queen, Admiral Janeway came to the rescue, by flying USS Voyager straight into the cube, destroying the tractor beam that held the shuttle, enabling it to escape, in the process inflicting critical damage to the cube, which subsequently blew up. Again true to form, the Queen made her escape, but not before exclaiming, " Savor your victory! We will meet again! "

For the film portion of the ride, some of the original, former Voyager cast reprised their respective roles, including Alice Krige as the Queen. Many of the Borg featured in the film (as opposed to the attraction live crew performing as such), were played by performers who had already done so for First Contact (or for the respective Voyager television episodes); " It was a most joyful reunion, " Krige declared tongue-in-cheek. When presented with the first 3D footage of her close-up scenes, Krige admitted to being flabbergasted by her own, literal in-your-face performance. ( VOY Season 7 DVD -special feature, "The Making of Borg Invasion 4D") While an official Star Trek franchise production, events depicted in the film are, as usual for these kind of productions, not considered canon , and treated as apocrypha.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Borg Queen

Long live the Queen!

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“I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. I am the Borg.”

The central locus of the Borg Collective is the amoral Borg Queen . Through her, like the queen of an insect colony, the Hive mind is granted order and common direction.

As the Villain Showdown enter its fourth week, pitting the Borg Queen against Gul Dukat , we’ve put together this handy guide on everything you need to know about the Queen.

The One Who is Many

Throughout the history of the Borg Collective, there have been a number of Queens. Only one Queen exists at any given time; when she is destroyed, a new Queen takes her place. In Star Trek: Voyager, it's revealed that the Borg Queen isn't a singular entity, but the name given to any that serves as its host, possessing all previous Queen's collective consciousness.

The Borg , a fusion of organic and synthetic matter, and their relentless pursuit of perfection brought fear to all quadrants of the galaxy. Residing primarily at Unimatrix One in the Delta Quadrant , the Borg Queen is the only one able to think independently from the Collective; possessing a unique personality and sense of individuality — traits not seen within the Borg.

The first Borg Queen (Alice Krige) made her debut with Star Trek: First Contact (1996) as the Borg sought to erase a historical moment in Starfleet history— First Contact Day —traveling back in time to prevent the creation and need of the Federation .

In her lair, the Borg Queen remains disembodied with just her head and spinal column — the epitome of perfection — with no remnants of her humanoid form. When she leaves her home base for assimilation efforts, she will reassemble herself into a predominantly artificial body.

Your Culture Will Adapt to Service Us.

The Borg doesn’t value the Federation’s belief in individuality – its mission is to add others’ biological and technological distinctiveness to their own, strengthening the Collective in its pursuit of perfection. Defeating their opponents isn’t enough; they sought to assimilate their enemies’ minds and flesh.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard still endures residual trauma decades later following his assimilation into the Borg . As Locutus of the Borg, selected to be their voice to facilitate their introduction into human society, Picard believed he never fully regained himself after they striped away his humanity and sense of self.

There is No 'Me,' Only 'Us'

It is in Star Trek: Voyager where we learn that the Borg Queen, obsessed with power, didn’t create the Borg; she was just tasked with leading the Collective. The collective consciousness, where each drone is linked through the subspace network, allows for the Borg to adapt quickly and eliminate threats as they arise.

In the episode " Dark Frontier " of Star Trek: Voyager, the Borg Queen believes Seven of Nine 's presence is vital to their path forward in their approach to assimilate Earth, seeing value in Seven's knowledge of humanity. The Borg Queen tries to lure her back to the Collective by "allowing" her to remain an individual instead of reverting to a drone. The Queen's seduction involved telling Seven she's "unique," and her experience will add to their perfection. However, she can't be selfish and only think of just her individual self.

Resistance is Futile.

When a Borg Queen is destroyed, another Queen is propped up. Susanna Thompson portrays the Borg Queen in Star Trek: Voyager ’s two-parter, “ Dark Frontier ” and “ Unimatrix Zero .”

Most recently, the Borg Queen was played by Annie Wersching in Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard .

Secrets of the Borg Queen, The

Bringing Order to Chaos

In Star Trek: Picard , the Borg Queen is cut off from the Borg Collective due the actions of Q and a divergence in time. As a result, she becomes wholly and fully obsessed with Agnes Jurati.

Seen as the last of the Borg, instead of finding the Collective, she sets her sights on Agnes in hopes of building out a new Borg collective.

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Everything We Know About the Borg Queen After 'Star Trek: Picard' Season 2

Now that 'Star Trek: Picard' Season 2 has come to a close, let's unpack everything we know about the long-lost Borg Queen.

Star Trek: Picard has ended its strong, focused second season, having tossed the principal characters first into a dark alternate timeline and then several centuries into the past, all thanks to Jean-Luc Picard’s ( Patrick Stewart ) trickster-god nemesis, Q ( John DeLancie ). The major Season 1 characters returned: Captain Rios ( Santiago Cabrera ) now commands a new version of Picard’s old ship the Stargazer ; Raffi ( Michelle Hurd ) and Elnor ( Evan Evagora ) now serve together on a new Excelsior , and Seven of Nine is once again a Fenris Ranger and caretaker of Rios’ beloved La Sirena .

Dr. Agnes Jurati ( Alison Pill ) is another returning character, and for most of this second season, it seemed like the show did not know what to do with her . Then, at about the halfway mark, Jurati’s fate intertwines with one other character, who Star Trek fans haven’t seen in a long time: the Borg Queen ( Annie Wersching ). So who is the Borg Queen? Let’s take a look at her legacy and her current incarnation.

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The One Who Is Many

1997’s Star Trek: First Contact establishes several updates to the Borg which carried over into later series, including Picard. They have the ability to assimilate via retractable cybernetic tentacles, and while we knew they were a decentralized collective, First Contact reveals the singular entity controlling this collective: the Borg Queen, played in that film by Alice Krige .

Krige would go on to portray the character in several episodes of Star Trek: Voyager , including the series finale. Susanna Thompson stepped in to play the Queen in the crucial "Unimatrix Zero" two-parter, setting up a strange mystery that to date has not been directly addressed. At the end of First Contact , the Queen is killed by Captain Picard, who severs her cybernetic spinal cord after Data ( Brent Spiner ) is able to destroy her organic components. The crew of the Voyager encounter the Borg and the Queen in the Delta Quadrant, and the show does not attempt to explain how the Queen can be alive following the events of First Contact .

The Voyager crew encounter the Borg many times during the show’s run, with the series finale centering around a future Janeway ( Kathryn Mulgrew ), who travels back in time to guide her younger self in battle against the Borg. Future Janeway knows that a Borg transwarp hub can propel the ship back to the Alpha Quadrant, and sacrifices herself to poison the Borg Queen and clear the way for Voyager ’s return.

The Borg Slayer

Fast forward to the second season of Picard , which deposits the admiral and company into a dark alternate timeline. Picard himself is a galactically-feared conqueror of countless alien species, and is set to exterminate yet another: the Borg Queen.

In Season 1 of Picard , former Borg drone and Voyager crew member Seven of Nine accessed a Queencell in the massive, abandoned Borg cube known as the Artifact. The concept of a chamber in each Borg cube which could only be accessed by the Queen was made canon. Seven of Nine then relinked herself to the rest of the collective, taking control of them all and allowing the La Sirena crew chance to escape.

The Season 2 premiere ends with a version of the Borg Queen appearing on the bridge of Rios’s Stargazer. Drawn to yet another massive spatial anomaly, Picard’s presence has been requested by an unknown species looking to formally join the United Federation of Planets. This turns out to be a previously-unknown Borg Queen, and as her massive cybernetic tentacles bury themselves in the Stargazer’s consoles and take over her systems, Picard orders the ship to self-destruct.

Jump ahead to this alternate timeline. As the main characters adjust to their surroundings, we learn that Seven was never assimilated by the Borg here. This Annika Hansen has no implants and is in fact the President of the Federation. She is about to honor Picard with the title “Borg Slayer” as he executes the Borg Queen before presumably the entire galaxy.

Echoing Timelines

The misplaced crew quickly comes together, and they learn that they're path back home runs right through the Borg Queen. In this timeline, Agnes Jurati is a scientist working for the Dark Federation and has access to the Queen, who is held in some kind of storage unit. We learn that the Borg have some kind of extrasensory perception of alternate timelines. This Borg Queen understands that the timeline has shifted, and knows who they all are and what they're doing.

Given Seven's reveal that the Queencells were not necessarily created for any one Borg Queen, the notion of a time-shift-sensitive Queen suggests that the Borg Queen could perhaps split her consciousness into many different avatars at once, allowing her to exist as simultaneous incarnations of herself. This could also explain her ability to inhabit the consciousness of Dr. Agnes Jurati. The Queen infiltrates Jurait's mind and in short order finds herself loose on the streets of L.A. in the early 21st century. The Queen needs a certain amount of elements and endorphins to grow her strength, and soon Jurati and the Queen are locked in a battle for control of Jurati's body.

The Star Gazer

The survival of our main characters depends on an internal debate which Jurati eventually wins. She convinces the Borg Queen that no matter the timeline, the Borg are always eventually defeated, whether by "a lone Borg slayer or United Federation." She convinces the Borg Queen that she and her drones will never able to overcome and achieve the perfection she seeks.

Before the season's ultimate dénouement, we watch Jurati and the Borg Queen find a common ground. Borg Queen Jurati then takes off in La Sirena, theoretically giving the Borg a 400-year head start on assimilating the galaxy. Picard and company wrap up their business in the past, repairing the timeline. With what is presumably the equivalent of his final breath, Q sends everyone save Rios (who elects to stay in the past) back to the bridge of the Stargazer, where all of this started.

Picard orders the bridge crew to stand down, cancels the self-destruct sequence, and waits. Borg Queen Jurati reveals herself, and the entire narrative comes full circle. The Borg now openly offer species the opportunity to assimilate. The Borg's request to join the Federation may not have been a ruse, after all. The finale reveal, Borg Queen Jurati tells Picard that there is a much bigger threat out there, one that will necessitate the Federation and the Borg working together. With the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation all officially returning for Season 3, we can expect the ramifications of Picard 's continuity-breaking overhaul fo the Borg to become the focal point of the show's third and final season.

“It was a very different feel for the character.”

'Lower Decks' finally resolves a huge Star Trek villain mystery [Exclusive]

There is only one Borg Queen. Or are there several? First introduced in the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact , the enigmatic leader of the Borg seemed to transcend time and space. She also represents a paradox: A single person speaking for an entire hivemind collective.

Played first by Alice Krige, there are now three Borg Queens in total. Susanna Thompson took on the role in several episodes of Voyager ; and in Picard Season 2 , another Borg Queen will be played by Annie Wersching.

But who is the “real” Borg Queen? In a recent surprising (and hilarious) cameo in Lower Decks , the answer seems to be that the original Borg Queen is still the canonical one — at least during Starfleet training simulations!

To get to the bottom of this classic Star Trek mystery, we spoke to the Borg Queen herself. Here’s what Alice Krige had to say about her surprise return to the Star Trek canon and why she thinks her character is always there, even when you don’t see her.

Alice Krige at the 11th Annual Official Star Trek Convention in 2021.

In Lower Decks, Season 2, Episode 8, “I, Excretus,” Boimler ( Jack Quaid) finds himself in a holographic drill where he has to do everything he can to “resit the Borg.” After obsessively running the drill over and over, Boimler meets a holographic recreation of the Borg Queen. Cue an Easter egg from First Contact.

The Borg Queen blows gently on Boimler’s skin, referencing something similar she did to Data when his android skin was briefly grafted with human skin. It’s a hilarious scene, and all-to-brief, but there’s a degree of Trekkie legitimacy brought to it because it really is the voice of Alice Krige.

The original Borg Queen tells Inverse she never expected to return to Star Trek, especially not like this.

“They just, they just called and asked if I would do it. It was great fun,” Krige says, revealing she recorded most of her dialogue in her husband’s closet. “It has the best sound in the house. It’s so full of clothing, plenty of insulation.”

Boimler (Jack Quaid) prepares to be assimilated by the Borg Queen (Alice Krige).

This isn’t the first time since First Contact that Krige has returned to her famous Star Trek role. When the Borg Queen initially crashed the Voyager party for the episode “Dark Frontier,” she was not played by Krige, but instead by Susanna Thompson (perhaps more famous for her role as Lenara Kahn in the DS9 episode “Rejoined.) But when it was time for Voyager’s big finale, Krige was asked once again to don her Borg leather. This put her in the unique position of being one of the few Star Trek villains (Q is another) who have tangoed with both Captain Picard and Captain Janeway.

Krige says that when she returned for Voyager , she realized she’d based much of her performance on the Borg Queen’s attempts to seduce Next Generation ’s leading men.

“There's sexual energy that she kind of manipulated both Data and Picard,” Krige says. “Well, she didn't manipulate either of them, but she thought she was. So I had to decide how to play that in Voyager because instead of two men this was two women [Janeway and Seven of Nine.]”

This led Krige to a quick phone call with “the producers” of Voyager , in which it was decided the Borg Queen was “Omnisexual,” which meant, yes, she would probably have some kind of flirtation with Janeway or Seven, too, if she wanted to.

“After that, I thought great . I just went and had a great time because they're two wonderful actresses,” Krige tells Inverse . “It was a very different feel for the character because it was a very different sort of energetic exchange.”

A time-traveling Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the Borg Queen (Alice Krige)

It’s been exactly 20 years since Krige last played the Borg Queen in Voyager, and because she perished in that episode and we also saw Picard take her out in First Contact , fans have wondered for years just how many copies of the Borg Queen there are, or if the Queens are actually different characters.

With Annie Wersching’s Borg Queen coming to Picard Season 2 and Alice Krige’s delightful return to Lower Decks , could there ever be a meeting of all these Borg Queens? How does she keep coming back? Alice Krige isn’t sure, but she wouldn’t rule out a live-action return.

“She manifests in many different ways, or maybe she doesn't?” Krige says playfully. “Even if she’s not there, it doesn't mean she's not there . She’s so mysterious and endlessly interesting. Who knows how she shows up?”

Lower Decks is streaming now on Paramount+.

This article was originally published on Oct. 8, 2021

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The Borg Queen.

The Borg Queen is the apparent leader of the Borg Collective . Throughout the history of the Borg there have been a number of queens who seem to take on the same character, perhaps indicating the Queen is a persona within the collective which could, in theory, occupy any number of different drone bodies.

• 1.1.1 The beginning
• 1.1.2 Side effects
• 1.1.3 Legacy
• 1.1.4 Destiny
• 1.2 Purpose
• 1.3.1 First Splinter timeline
• 1.3.2 Other alternate realities
• 3.1.1 Appearances
• 3.2 External link

Biography [ ]

Creation [ ].

There are a number of accounts as to how the Borg Queen came into being. Due to time loops and temporal revision resulting from time travel and causality, it is difficult to determine a linear order for which origin might have preceded the others.

The beginning [ ]

The Borg Queen was subject of a world that had been struck down by a deadly disease, which was slowly killing much of the population. The scientists on the planet developed bio-organic regenerators , a nanotechnology which would be injected into a subject's circulatory system, eradicate the disease and rebuild the patients crippled body. The Queen to be, in very ill health, was selected to be the subject of the first experiment. It was successful in eliminating the disease but also began to change her, making her stronger than ever before, replacing her broken body with technology and giving her drive and determination to share her gift with others and make them as perfect as her superior self had become. The establishment attempted to resist but the Queen was not willing to let herself be destroyed and instinctively used the nanoprobes to assimilate others. She quickly led her drones in assimilating the entire planet and set to work to spread her gift to the rest of the galaxy. ( Strange New Worlds VI short story : " The Beginning ")

Side effects [ ]

Alternatively: The Borg Queen was originally a woman named Danzek , (or Asil *), who was the daughter of a scientist named Mynzek . Mynzek, with the aim of finding a cure for a terrible disease established a research base near the event horizon of a black hole . He sent ships out via a series of wormholes to capture subjects and run experiments on them in the search for a cure. Using the gravitational time dilation effect of the black hole he could coordinate centuries of research being conducted on the ships, which for those on the base took only days. Danzek was the guinea pig for these experiments on one ship, integrated with technology and biological components from numerous races she became powerful and returned to the station controlling a group of drone-like test subjects. After a brief confrontation in which the station was destroyed, Danzek, queen of her subjects escaped through a wormhole, which thanks to the temporal distortion generated by the exploding station could have sent here anywhere in space and time. ( TOS comic : " Side Effects ")

The Vulcan Commander T'Uerell engaged in a mind meld with the Borg and discovered that the Collective was created by the probe V'Ger to serve as its heralds. During the Collective's development, it was discovered that females of certain species possessed a mental prowess and were capable of sifting through the endless amounts of information. These would become the first Borg Queens. However, the development of the Queen resulted in an entity that sought its own objectives and eventually abandoned the goals set forth by V'Ger. ( ST video game : Legacy )

Destiny [ ]

A species known as the Caeliar lived on the planet Erigol , having long ago harnessed claytronic atoms , programmable matter able to be controlled via a hive mentality . The Caeliar dedicated their lives to a Great Work , hoping to find the next evolutionary step for them. However, a deliberately malicious feedback pulse destabilized their Work and their solar system, forcing the evacuation of their cities. One of the cities, Mantilis was thrown through a subspace tunnel into the far past . The few Earth Starfleet officers who survived decided to make their living separate from the Caeliar, but were eventually forced to return. One Caeliar remained alive, Sedín , who merged with the three remaining humans, one of whom was Kiona Thayer who became the precursor to the first Borg Queen. ( ST - Destiny novels : Gods of Night , Lost Souls )

The Borg Queen who succeeded in traveling back to 2063 and assimilating Earth had no memory of the name Sedín when confronted by the Jean-Luc Picard of the First Splinter timeline , indicating this origin was specific to only that reality, or possibly that circumstances had caused memory of that to be purged from her alternate timeline version of the Collective. ( ST - Coda novel : Oblivion's Gate )

Purpose [ ]

Borg Queen connectivity.

The Queen appears to lead the Borg, having total control over the entire Collective, however it is possible she acts as a figure head, a voice for the Collective, much like Locutus . When it appears she is ordering the Collective she may simply be enacting the Collective's will. As the Queen is also part of the collective it may be possible she stands in the mid ground, part of Collective decision but filtering out the best ideas herself, bringing "order to chaos". ( TNG movie & novelization : First Contact , et al.) Should the Borg Queen die, any drones under her command would be forced to enter hibernation. ( TNG video game : Armada II )

History [ ]

For years, the Queen selected industrial age worlds and did not assimilate them, but instead gave a select few on these planets technology, advancing the cultures dramatically over a small time period. Among these inhabited worlds were those of Species 642, Narisia , and 1429, a planet which later developed methods of traveling through time in starships. When either the species made significant progress towards something useful or lost their usefulness to her purposes, the Queen severed the assistance and cut off their links. ( ST novel : Engines of Destiny )

In 2367 , the Borg Queen was aboard a Borg cube that was sent to assimilate the planet Earth . Starfleet attempted to amass a fleet at Wolf 359 , which was devastated using the knowledge gained from Locutus of Borg , the assimilated form of USS Enterprise -D Captain Jean-Luc Picard . Although the cube was destroyed over Earth, the Queen was able to escape, either in body or mind, and was present when the Borg again attempted to assimilate Earth in 2373 . This time, the USS Enterprise -E and the USS Defiant were among the fleet that destroyed the cube in the Sol system. The Enterprise -E was drawn into a temporal vortex as a Borg sphere attempted to travel back in time so that the Queen could warn herself of the resistance put up by the fleet. Instead, the time travel technology threw the sphere and Enterprise back to 2063, where the Starfleet crew was able to prevent the Borg from assimilating the Enterprise and Earth, preventing the warp drive that led to the first contact between Humans and Vulcans . ( TNG episode : " The Best of Both Worlds ", TNG movie : First Contact ; ST novel : Engines of Destiny )

In an alternate timeline where Montgomery Scott rescued James T. Kirk before he could be absorbed into the Nexus , the Enterprise -E did not exist, and thus the Queen traveled back in time and was not defeated as before. She and her drones assimilated Earth, erected a sensor barrier around the Sol system, and then methodically proceeded to assimilate surrounding worlds; she also reactivated links to her subject worlds. However, a time traveling Enterprise -D wound up in 2293, which the Queen became aware of through a Narisian named Balitor . The Queen possessed her body and attempted to attack and kill Picard, but was unsuccessful, and she terminated all Narisians linked to the Collective. The Queen was able to then control a Borg cube and eventually destroy the Enterprise , but her existence and that of her timeline ceased to exist when Picard was able to return Kirk to the Nexus. ( ST novel : Engines of Destiny )

By 2375 the Borg Queen was a member of Species 125 . ( VOY episode : " Dark Frontier ")

First Splinter timeline [ ]

The First Splinter timeline which diverged from the " prime" version of reality in the 2380s decade would see two different Queens, perhaps owing to causality of some notable time travel events. The first was created aboard a Borg Cube in Sector 10 . The creation process was, however, halted by the crew of the USS Enterprise -E a short time after coming online. ( TNG novel : Resistance ) Later, the Borg would capture and assimilate Admiral Kathryn Janeway - making her into a replacement Queen. She would be destroyed after being infected by Project: Endgame. ( TNG novel : Before Dishonor )

A new Borg Queen was created, and as soon as she emerged from her chrysalis, she had two objectives - destroy Earth and crush the Federation. Since the Borg believed that they could no longer gain anything by assimilating Earth, they would instead destroy it; thus, the Collective launched their invasion in 2381 , and the new Borg Queen utilized the connection to the former drone Locutus to taunt him. She also oversaw the invasion forces, moving between vessels and not allowing former drone Seven of Nine to lock onto her position. Due to the former Earth Starfleet Captain Erika Hernandez being infused with Caeliar catoms , she was able to listen in on the Borg Collective and locate the Queen as she led an armada to attack the planet Deneva . Noting the similarities between the voice of the collective and the Caeliar gestalt , Hernandez and the USS Aventine attacked and boarded a Borg scout craft to secure its vinculum to control the Collective via Hernandez. Although Hernandez was able to cause the collective to turn on itself for a short period, the Queen transferred her presence to that ship and assaulted the remaining crew, and regained control of her forces, causing them to sleep and regenerate quickly. After the Caeliar city ship of Axion came to the Azure Nebula to lure the invading Borg Collective there with its Omega molecule generator , the Queen overrode all other objectives and had the entire fleet move to the nebula. Once there, Hernandez presented herself for assimilation to act as a link between the Caeliar and the Queen, allowing them to reach past and find the remains of Sedín, which they dissolved along with the Collective. ( ST - Destiny novels : Gods of Night , Mere Mortals , Lost Souls )

Other alternate realities [ ]

A Borg Queen in an alternate reality created by changes made to history by Q in the 2020s decade was encountered by Jean-Luc Picard . This Queen was coerced into assisting Picard's crew into creating time travel computations to undo Q's meddling. She died in the past, in 2024 , but lived on through a mental link with Agnes Jurati , who became assimilated as a new Queen who would be encountered by Starfleet in the year 2400. ( Star Trek: Picard season 2 )

Appendices [ ]

Appearances and references [ ], appearances [ ].

• Star Trek: First Contact
• Star Trek First Contact (Marvel 1996)

External link [ ]

• Borg Queen article at Memory Alpha , the wiki for canon Star Trek .
• 1 Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
• 3 Odyssey class

‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 2 Adds Annie Wersching as Borg Queen

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“ Star Trek: Picard ” Season 2 will see Jean-Luc squaring off against an old adversary: the Borg Queen.

Variety has confirmed that Annie Wersching will play the Borg Queen in the second season of the Paramount Plus series. Wersching will now be the third actress to take on the role after Alice Krige played the leader of the Borg Collective in the film “Star Trek: First Contact” and in “Star Trek: Voyager” series finale. Susanna Thompson also played the character in multiple episodes of “Voyager.”

Exactly how the Borg Queen will factor into Season 2 is unknown, but chances are it will involve some manner of time travel. An early trailer for the new season , which also gave fans a tease of John de Lancie returning as Q, hinted that time would be a major theme of the next installment of the series.

Wersching’s recent TV credits include “Bosch,” “Runaways,” “The Rookie,” and “Timeless.” She is also known for her roles on shows like “The Vampire Diaries,” “24,” and “General Hospital.”

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“Picard” stars Patrick Stewart, reprising the iconic role of the Starfleet captain that he made famous in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” The first season of the series was released in 2020. Fellow “TNG” alums Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, and Marina Sirtis also appeared in Season 1 along with “Voyager” alum Jeri Ryan. Jonathan Del Arco also reprised the role of Hugh, the former Borg drone, whom he played in multiple episodes of “TNG.”

Produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, “Star Trek: Picard” is executive produced by Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Terry Matalas, Stewart, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Doug Aarniokoski and Dylan Massin. Aaron Baiers and Kirsten Beyer serve as co-executive producers, while Goldsman and Matalas serve as co-showrunners for Season 2.

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Star Trek: First Contact star Alice Krige returned as the voice of the Borg Queen.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Thursday's episode of Star Trek: Picard, "The Last Generation."

The first words we hear in the premiere of Star Trek: Picard season 3 — other than the sound of The Ink Spots singing "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" — is a log recording of Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) talking about the Borg, the cybernetic hive mind species and one of the most famous Trek adversaries. In hindsight, perhaps it shouldn't have come as a surprise to see the Borg make their return in dramatic fashion in the conclusion to Picard 's final season, but here we all are, still floored by the sight of the floating cube and the Borg Queen reprisal.

Showrunner Terry Matalas confirms this surprise had been kicking around as early as the concept of Picard and Crusher's son , Jack (Ed Speleers). "We have been keeping the Borg alive in the storyline throughout, so we knew we were going that way from the very beginning," he says.

It's a story that hits close to home for Picard. On Star Trek: The Next Generation , the renowned Starfleet captain was chosen to be the human voice of the Borg and he was assimilated into the hive mind "Collective" as Locutus. The penultimate episode of Picard season 3 revealed that the Borg had implanted organic technology into Picard, who then passed it along to his son when he conceived Jack, inadvertently turning his progeny into a Borg transmitter.

In the finale, Picard and Crusher, surrounded by their former crew mates on the Enterprise-D, execute a rescue mission to extract Jack from the Borg Cube, where he's found under the influence of the Borg Queen as the new Locutus. Alice Krige, the South African actress who played the role in the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact , returned to voice the Borg Queen. Jane Edwina Seymour served as her body double on set.

"We asked ourselves, 'What's the very worst thing Picard could go through?' It would be to watch his son become the Locutus, to watch his son go through the very worst thing that happened to him," Matalas explains of the kernel that started it all. "That led to, 'What if some dormant part of that Borg experience was passed on inadvertently to his son?' Thematically that became about parents and their children and what we pass on. The story of legacy."

Though Speleers as Jack hit a lot of the familiar story beats Stewart once went through as Picard, the 82-year-old icon of Star Trek never felt he needed to be a "counselor" to lead his costar through this process. "One of the greatest pleasures was in rehearsing and shooting the two-hander scenes that I had with him," Stewart recalls. "We had a great on-camera... 'relationship' isn't quite the right word, but vulnerability. I think that counted for a lot in bringing fresh emotions, fresh turbulence into these scenes."

Recreating the interior of the Borg cube "was a painstaking, expensive process," Matalas divulges — one that began as soon as Paramount+ pulled the trigger on a third Picard season. "By the time we started shooting on the Enterprise-D, we were still gluing on pieces of carpet." Nothing about it was digitally enhanced, he adds.

At first, the look of the set wasn't working. It didn't give off the right Borg cube vibes. "It looked like Dagobah the first time," Matalas remarks, referencing the planet from Star Wars where Luke Skywalker honed his Jedi skills with Yoda. (We all know how heated fans can get when Star Wars spills into Star Trek and vice versa.) "We had gone down some paths that weren't working," he admits. Thank the Borg gods for camera tests.

As for the queen herself, Matalas knew he didn't want to put 68-year-old Krige underneath all the heavy prosthetics. The Borg leader "looks so emaciated and wildly different" than Krige's look in First Contact , the showrunner points out, "but we had to have Alice. It had to be her."

According to Matalas, Krige was eager to get into the recording booth, where he says they embarked on "very long, intense voice sessions." The Borg Queen is no longer what he describes as the "sensual, sort of perfect" image fans remember from First Contact . "It's this other H.R. Giger-esque demon," he describes.

Creature designer Neville Page started off with the iconic Borg Queen look, which then evolved through several different stages of deformation. Prosthetics guru Vincent Van Dyke then sculpted practical Borg pieces based off that concept, and James MacKinnon led the make-up team in applying those prosthetics onto Seymour. "It was an arduous process," Matalas says. "Poor Jane. She was a trooper."

Stewart didn't get to spend too much time reconnecting with his former scene partner Krige, who wasn't present on set. "We had very few scenes and encounters," he recalls. "It was a little disappointing. We shot seasons 2 and 3 back to back, literally. In series television, there's always a significant break, but we wrapped season 2 at 7 o'clock one evening, and we started season 3 at 7 o'clock the next morning." In other words, there wasn't much time for reminiscing. "I had to be very cautious about abusing my stamina. Everything had to be saved for the days that I was filming," he continues. "The producers were extraordinarily generous and compassionate towards me because I'm an old geezer, as Marina [Sirtis, his costar] loves to call me."

Matalas at least remembers when Krige saw the final rendering of the new Borg Queen. "We shot it and then she saw the footage and was like, 'Oh my God! That's what I look like?'" he says. "It's such a different take that she enjoyed jumping into it."

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Throughout the six-decade history of Star Trek , there have been many iconic villains, but perhaps none more so than the Borg. Created by Maurice Hurley, the head writer for Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, the Borg began as an organic species looking attain perfection. They achieved this by merging their organic bodies with cybernetic components. Individuality was erased, creating a hivemind culture of beings that sought only to assimilate more species and their technology in the search for perfection. They are led by a queen, a singular consciousness that can occupy multiple bodies.

The Borg are incredibly powerful and are known to travel via transwarp. They are even capable of time travel, though they don't do it very often. Given all that the Borg have going for them, it's no surprise that they were meant to be the ultimate villains Starfleet could never reason with. Over time, these villains became more complex and some even became Federation allies. Yet, the Borg have a long history in the Star Trek timeline, predating the earliest human space travel.

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The Borg have existed in their modern form since at least the time of the 15th Century on Earth. During the USS Voyager's travels in the Delta Quadrant, they met members of the Vaduwaur species who had been in stasis for more than 900 years. They had "many encounters" with the Borg who, by this time, had assimilated a few star systems in the Delta Quadrant. However, given the Vaduwaur didn't see them as their worst nemesis, they weren't as advanced as the Borg in the 24th Century.

In 2063, a Borg Sphere emerged from a temporal rift to prevent the Humans from making first contact with the Vulcans. The USS Enterprise-E followed them and destroyed the sphere, though a number of drones beamed aboard their vessel. Captain Picard defeated them, and Zefram Cochrane made his first warp flight . Some 90 years later, in Star Trek: Enterprise , remnants of the sphere were found in the North Pole. A handful of drones were revived and escaped in a space vessel. They were pursued and destroyed by the NX-01 Enterprise, but not before sending a message about Earth's location to the collective in the Delta Quadrant.

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The El-Aurian Guinan was saved by the USS Enterprise-B in 2293, along with fellow survivors of her people. Her planet had been assimilated by the Borg, and this was when Starfleet learned the species' name. Erin and Magnus Hansen, tried to study them in the late 2340s before they and their daughter Annika, Seven of Nine, were assimilated. In The Next Generation Season 2's "Q Who," the omnipotent being sent the USS Enterprise-D thousands of lightyears away from Federation space where it encountered a Borg Cube. They were only concerned about technology at the time, but this meeting led them to Federation space.

One year later, in 2366, the Borg sent a single cube to assimilate Earth. They captured Captain Jean-Luc Picard and assimilated him, giving him the name "Locutus." He was meant to demoralized Starfleet to prevent humans and the rest of the Federation from fighting back. He was freed of their control, but not before the Battle of Wolf 359 which destroyed 39 ships and killed 11,000 people. Among those were the wife of Commander Benjamin Sisko and the crew of the USS Constance of which Captain Liam Shaw was one of ten survivors. Commander Data briefly connected himself to the collective, ordering the Borg drones to enter regeneration and initiating the self-destruct sequence.

In 2368, the USS Enterprise-D encountered the Borg again, discovering a crashed scout ship. The drone Third of Five survived . Picard wanted to use the drone to implant a deadly virus into the collective. However, separated from the collective, the drone became an individual named "Hugh." He was returned unchanged to the collective, though Hugh's individuality caused a meltdown in the collective. A year later, Data's brother Lore found the cube and became their leader. He tried to replace their organic minds with positronic brains like his. The rogue Borg eventually overthrew him with help from the Enterprise. Five years later, another Borg cube was sent to Earth and was eventually destroyed, but not before sending the Sphere holding the Queen back to 2063.

How Did Star Trek: Voyager Become a TV Series?

In 2373, the USS Voyager entered Borg space on their journey home from the Delta Quadrant. At the same time, the Borg tried to assimilate Species 8472, which hailed from a dimension of "fluidic space." The assimilation didn't work and war broke out. Because 8472 was so hostile, Captain Janeway was able to enter into an alliance with the Borg to help defeat them, specifically with the help of the ship's holographic Doctor. The Borg betrayed them, which Janeway anticipated. The drone Seven of Nine was freed from the collective and became a member of the crew. Though she wished to rejoin the collective and tried to do so twice, she eventually chose to stay with Voyager .

In 2375, a transporter accident involving the Doctor's mobile emitter (based on 29th Century technology) and Seven of Nine's Borg nanoprobes. A drone was "grown" in the tank and designated One. The Borg tried to assimilate him and he willingly ended his own life. Later that year, the USS Voyager salvaged a transwarp coil from a destroyed Borg vessel. This led the Borg to enact a trap meant to bring Seven of Nine back into the collective as a replacement for Locutus. Janeway and the crew rescued her. A year later, while trading with the Brunali, Voyager was attacked by Borg vessel. However, they hid a photon torpedo in a captured Brunali vessel that destroyed the Borg ship, allowing Voyager to escape.

In 2377, Seven of Nine was reunited with other Borg in "Unimatrix Zero," a digital plane where drones retained their individuality. Captain Janeway used this opportunity to plan an attack on the collective and start a resistance movement. Captured by the Borg, many of Voyager's crew were assimilated. Thanks to the Doctor, they retained their individuality freeing thousands of drones and starting a Borg civil war. In 2378, a time-traveling Admiral Janeway showed up on Voyager with a plan to get the ship home. The plan succeeded, but the Admiral was assimilated. She carried a virus that decimated the collective to nearly the point of destruction. Five years after the return of the USS Voyager, the rag-tag crew of the USS Protostar found a Borg Cube, but they let sleeping Borg lie .

The Picard Blu-ray Underscores Why Each Season Needed the Borg

A Borg Cube that assimilated a Romulan vessel suffered a submatrix collapse, and it was captured by the Romulan Star Empire. In 2399, the ex-Borg Hugh led the Borg Reclamation Project on a ship dubbed "the Artifact." To stop a plan by a cult of anti-synthetic Romulans in the Tal Shiar, Seven of Nine created her own mini-collective and led the Artifact to crash on a planet populated by synthetics. It's presumed the surviving xBs (as they were called) joined the society on that planet. Hugh, however, was killed in the attempt.

In 2401, a Borg vessel of unknown origin appeared and asked to speak with Admiral Jen-Luc Picard. The Queen of this collective was Agnes Jurati, who was assimilated by the Borg Queen of an alternate timeline who took Picard and his allies into the past to save the future they knew. Jurati convinced the Queen to create a new kind of collective in which individuality was maintained and assimilation was voluntary. This new collective applied for provisional Federation membership to stand guard at a rift in space through which a still-unknown threat would emerge.

Also that year, the near-dying Borg Queen allied with Changeling terrorists angry with the Federation after the Dominion War. They infiltrated Starfleet, adding a DNA sequence to Starfleet transporters that would assimilate anyone under the age of 25 once they received a coded message. That message was sent by Jack Crusher , the son of Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher. He was assimilated by the dying Borg Queen and named Võx. New technology added to modern Starfleet vessels allowed these new Borg to assimilate the ships in moments. Using a rebuilt USS Enterprise-D, the command crew of that vessel saved Jack and destroyed the remaining Borg, seemingly defeating them once and for all.

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Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Is Bringing Back The Borg Queen

Resistance is futile. The Borg Queen will be assimilated into season 2 of "Star Trek: Picard." Annie Wersching will take over the role, joining "Picard" when the series beams back onto Paramount+ in 2022.

Deadline reports that Wersching will join the cast, not as a guest star, but as a recurring character in season 2. She's no stranger to streaming dramas, having played notable roles in "Bosch" on Amazon Prime and Marvel's "Runaways" on Hulu.

As faithful viewers (or even just entertainment news readers) should know, the Queen isn't the only Borg woman from "Star Trek: Voyager" to appear on "Picard." The trailer for season 2  also showed Jeri Ryan, who will return as a de-Borged Seven of Nine.

There's also a fellow named Q (John De Lancie). We got our first glimpse at him in that trailer, and with this news of the Borg Queen's return, season 2 is shaping up to be a reunion on multiple fronts.

This will be our third contact, at least, with the Borg Queen. The earliest  official teaser for "Star Trek: Picard" season 2 explained, "The true final frontier is time," so time travel may be involved here, just as it was when the Borg Queen made her debut back in 1996 in "Star Trek: First Contact."

First (and Second) Contact with the Borg Queen

When the Borg collective first appeared in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," there was nary a Queen in sight. If anything, the face of the Borg was Picard himself, who was briefly assimilated into the collective and became Locutus.

It was only in the second "Next Generation" film, "Star Trek: First Contact," that the Borg Queen was introduced. We're coming up on the 25th anniversary of that film this November. Given that they're under heavy makeup and that the movie is almost a quarter-century old now, no one would fault the casual "Star Trek" fan for forgetting that two different actresses have already portrayed the Borg Queen.

The first was Alice Krige, who portrayed the Witch last year in "Gretel & Hansel." Producers added her character as a sort of retcon to make the hive-minded monolith of the Borg a more compelling movie villain. At first, Susanna Thompson played the Borg Queen when the character returned on "Star Trek: Voyager," but then, oddly, Krige stepped back into the role for the series finale, with no explanation for the change.

Now, the game of musical chairs continues and we're on our third Borg Queen with Wersching. 

"Star Trek: Picard" season 2 premieres on Paramount+ in 2022.

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Star Trek: Picard Series Finale Recap: The Next Generation Crew Gets a Fitting Send-Off… But What’s Next?

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Star Trek: Picard signed off after three seasons by giving Jean-Luc and his Next Generation pals the final mission they’ve always deserved… but maybe this story’s not over just yet.

While Seven and Raffi manage to retake the Titan by transporting the Borg-infected crew off the bridge and locking them in the transporter room, Jean-Luc prepares to beam down to the Borg cube to stop the transmitter and find Jack: “Let me bring him home,” he implores Beverly. Riker and Worf volunteer to go with him, and on the Borg cube, it’s oddly quiet and littered with a bunch of Borg corpses, which explains why they need the reinforcements. Jean-Luc sends Riker and Worf to locate the transmitter while he searches for his son, finding Jack wired into the cube and fully Borgified, spouting Borg-approved rhetoric. Jean-Luc says he’s here to bring Jack home, but the Borg Queen interrupts to say Jack is already home… and so is Jean-Luc: “At last, Locutus has returned.”

They send the transmitter coordinates to the Enterprise , and the ship would have to fly into the very center of the Borg cube to reach it, but Data is confident: “My gut tells me I can do this.” (Hey, Data has a gut now!) He pilots them right into the heart of the cube with breathtaking agility as the Borg-infected ships take out Earth’s defense system and start targeting the planet’s most populous cities for destruction. (Plus, the Titan is a sitting duck after the Borgified crew escape and knock out their cloaking device.) Data reaches the cube’s core and finds the transmitter, but to stop it, they’d have to destroy the cube… and everyone on it. A tearful Beverly nods her approval, and Geordi warns Riker and Worf that they’ll only have a minute or so to get off the cube after the Enterprise fires. Meanwhile, Jean-Luc realizes that the only way to reach Jack is to become a Borg himself.

The Borgified youth, including Geordi’s daughter Sidney, all come to their senses now that the Borg have been eliminated, and Jean-Luc proudly gives Jack a tour of the Enterprise bridge. Starfleet fixes all of its ships’ transporters to purge all Borg genetic code, thanks to Beverly’s efforts, and figures out a way to detect Changelings, too. Seven informs Tuvok that she intends to resign from Starfleet, but after seeing the glowing recommendation left for her by the late Shaw (aw!), he promotes her to captain instead. Worf helps Raffi reconnect with her son and granddaughter, and Data now has so many human emotions, he’s boring Troi to tears with them during their therapy sessions.

We flash-forward to a year later, as Jack nervously prepares for his first Starfleet posting. He’s been assigned to the Titan … which has been rechristened the Enterprise-G ! Seven is the captain, with Raffi as her first officer, Jack as “special counselor to the captain” and Sidney onboard as well. (“A bunch of ne’er-do-wells and rule-breakers, really,” Jack notes with a sly smile.) The Next Generation  gang gets drunk at a bar together, and Jean-Luc toasts with a quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar . (“We must take the current where it serves, or lose our ventures.”) They clink glasses, and then Jean-Luc pulls out cards for a game of poker! The old friends laugh as they play a few hands, with Jean-Luc taking home a big pot: “I’ve come to believe that the stars have always been in my favor.” And as the cards are dealt, the camera pulls overhead, just as it did in the Next Generation series finale.

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Bring on #StarTrekLegacy.

I wasn’t entirely a fan of more Borg when we had Borg last season, even if a bit different, but overall it was a near perfect send off while also setting things up nicely for a spinoff that they hopefully confirm soon. The Anton Chekov name was a nice touch.

Very Satisfying! I enjoyed the series!

This was so exceptional! I want Star Trek: Legacy!!!!

Well done. All we needed was a Sisko appearances

Oh, that woulda been great.

Shaw! I want Shaw to somehow be alive. Q! Can’t you help???

Loved season 3 overall but a couple of things bugged me. 1) Laris should´ve had a closure scene in the finale. 2) Why did Vadic communicate with the Borg Queen in such a nasty way (cutting her hand)?

So apparently we will indeed have a Picard season 4 but focused on Jack with nice cameos from Patrick Stewart and friends. It would be nice if Jack gets to meet his brother Wesley.

The point about Laris is a good one. All it needed one was just one more midcredit scene of them reuniting maybe. But I think they probably wanted to leave open possible reconciliation between Beverly and Jean Luc? To be honest I was hoping for it until I realized Laris is still out there.

They’ve backtracked a bit on the final season though and said they could come back to Picard at a later date. It just is planned and meant to be. I just am glad we got to see enough of Seven of nine and was happy with where she ended her arc. I was a bit scared considering after she got left behind but I should’ve had faith. The show runner has always seemed to be a huge a fan of her and done right by her.

Terry Matalas is the best thing that could´ve happened to Trek Universe. Let him helm more and more projects.

At the very end, Jack had a wedding photo of Picard and Beverly on his nightstand. Apparently they completely forgot about poor Laris.

Was that a wedding photo? They were both very young in that picture; and in reality it looks like it might have been the actors at an Emmys ceremony. back in the day.

It was obviously a picture of Gates McFadden and Patrick Stewart from some event in the 90s.

Correction, that image is from 1988. No idea why that images makes people believe, they got married.

I don’t think it means we will see a season 4 of Picard. I think there is a chance it transitions into another Star Trek series (either Legacy , which it was confirmed it isn’t in devopment, but doesn’t mean it won’t or another series) especially how Q was at the end of it.

I loved this ending and this season so much. It was amazing to see the big “D” get to do all the things I wanted it to do during the series. It wasn’t “perfect” but it was perfect.

Very nice to have that tip of the hat to Anton Yelchin – he did make a fine Chekov on J.J. Abrams’ movies!

We need to know Seven’s command line. Very mean to tease us like that… she and the crew on the Enterprise G better return! Really enjoyed this season and most of the OG crew got better storylines than in 7 years of TNG – especially Troi and Crusher! But Patrick Stewart really is looking a bit old for this action!

Yeah, most of them look great but Sir Patrick is really showing his 80+ years, bless him. Lol. My wife thinks Q is hot, now.

Really loved this season. This season and Strange New Worlds has proven they can get New Trek right when they try hard enough. Walter Koenig playing the voice of “Anton” Chekov in honor of Anton Yelchin made me tear up a bit. A true class act there.

Agreed! Nice touch.

I absolutely loved. It really managed to make me feel similar to what I felt when I watched the original series finale of TNG. Very satisfying and thank god they didn’t kill anybody of. I didn’t know I needed the episodes to end with my favorite Star Trek crew once again seated at a round table, playing poker.

Thank you Terry Matalas and the whole cast and crew, what a wonderful gift. See you soon.

Wish we could’ve seen Wesley one last time.

Agree 100%. I find it hard to believe Wesley never met his brother and has not visited his mom is 20 years.

Or at least done a drive by & saw them, but not lets them see him.

Agreed. I was holding out hope for a Wil Wheaton cameo. TNG was always my favorite and Picard is my hands down my favorite captain. That last episode was near perfection. Great to see all those characters together for a final ride.

96.74% gave the finale and A (87.46%) or a B (9.28%). Verrrryyyy impressive, Terry Matolis.

What a great end ( well hopefully not) Thankfully they had the time to give it the ending it deserved. Having been a trek fan for over 50 years, TNG has always been my fav..Hats of to cast and crew. Now lets see the Enterprise G, Boldly return to our screens with captain 7 and her crew

It was great until the final scene. I thought he died. He rui Ed it for me.

What a massive improvement over the first two seasons. Amazing what comes of getting somebody in charge who actual respects what came before. (Retconning Q’s death was a perfect way to end things.)

Wow. That was so perfect. I knew the OGs would be playing poker at the end. Looking forward to the (hopefully inevitable) spin-off with Seven and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise G!

Surprised when they were in 10 Forward Guinan wasn’t tending bar instead of having a mention.

Finally Deanna had something to do besides sit next to the captain’s chair and offer advise. Didn’t know she could navigate a star ship.

Is Seven officially Captain Seven or they call her that out of respect to her service to Star Fleet?

Since this is on streaming and shouldn’t have a time limit per episode like the previous episodes with 45 minutes they could have added a few minutes to fill in the gaps in the plot like Laris missing at the end and use the time to make the last episode a 2 parter if the series ever goes on commercial TV.

Keep Q out of any future Trek shows!!! He’s the single most disgusting reason why I didn’t take to Next Gen. Until the Borgs came, anyway. This ressurecting the dead trick is also soooo old that it really deserves to be put to rest in the Trek universe. Permanently!

This season was so good I almost forgive Akiva Goldsman for ruining Batman. ALMOST.

And this episode should be made available to all showrunners – this is how you end a series.

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I felt so disappointed with S1, S2 was a little bit better, and S3 ruined my childhood and TNG series. The only good and the best thing about S3 was the return of Q. Did anyone really think he would “die”? lol

This was absolutely THE BEST season out of the 3 seasons of Picard! It is what it always should have been!! I loved this season! Wish they would do more. I totally agree with the commenter above saying Terry Matalas should helm more Star Trek projects. He absolutely hit it out of the ballpark with this! Oh and 1 more thing about Terry Matalas. I LOVED all the easter eggs from his TV Series 12 Monkeys! That was an absolutely amazing show also! You guys should definitely check it out!

1 thing I was really hoping for was the Kate Mulgrew would return as Admiral Kathryn Janeway. They kept name dropping her during the season and I was certain she would be in the finale. I guess they couldn’t work it out. It was Awesome to see Tuvok tho!! Hopefully they will do a spinoff of Voyager with Jeri Ryan, Kate Mulgrew, Tim Russ(Tuvok) and the rest.

A+++ to this entire season!!!

The return of Mulgrew as Admiral, this time; Ryan as Captain of the ex-Titan became Entreprise, Russ’s Tuvok as Janeway’s/Seven’s counselour would be great. But please, no more Chakotay or Harry Kim!

I was surprised by the snubb of the Doctor, though the whole 3 seasons. I mean, I’m pretty sure that Robert Picardo would have been happy to be called so what’s happened behind the scene? As for Mulgrew, it seems that she was stuck to Prodigy even if Picard and Prodigy are produced by Krutzman. But yes, I’d like seeing her return in a show.

I despise all the NuTrek for being mostly dumb(ed down) and hip. But Picard S3 was excellent. Yes, they overdid it with the nostalgia at times and yes, the finale did not quite live up to expecations (whatever does ?) but still. Even with its flaws, it was excellent !

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What an ending and possible beginning.

Star Trek: Picard has kept fans with a Paramount+ subscription entertained for years, but all good things must come to an end. The series decided to go out with a bang with a massive reunion of the cast of The Next Generation and brought back all of Patrick Stewart 's co-stars for a story that introduced Jean-Luc to his previously unrevealed son and a dastardly plot tied to Changelings and the Dominion War. In the end it set the stage for a final showdown between Picard and the Borg, but who came out on top? 

For those that want to know or just need a breakdown of all that occurred, we have you covered. Here's what went down in the Star Trek: Picard ending and that post-credit scene that absolutely threw into question one major event we saw in a prior season. 

The Borg Queen Was Defeated

The Borg Queen returned in the final episodes of Season 3 of Picard , though viewers soon realized she was behind the scheme all along. Through the use of Jack and a pact with the Changelings, she assimilated all Starfleet officers under the age of 25 and managed to take control of a bulk of the fleet on Frontier Day. It seemed she had finally found a way to punish humanity and restore the Borg empire until Jean-Luc and friends got involved. 

He, Riker, and Worf managed to sabotage the Borg Queen's cube and rescued Jack from being held by the Collective. Her plot was foiled, and she was blown to pieces along with the cube. I would like to think that this means the Borg threat is effectively gone from Starfleet, but can the Borg ever truly be defeated? Somehow, somewhere, they always seem to find a way back into the story. 

Jean-Luc And Crew Played A Game Of Poker

With the Borg threat behind them and Starfleet saved, Jean-Luc and the crew hit the bar to celebrate a job well done. After some words exchanged back and forth, Jean-Luc pulled out the cards, much to the delight of the rest of the Enterprise D crew. They all gathered around the poker table, and had a blast talking through each hand. 

Star Trek: The Next Generation fans should know why this is more or less the perfect way to end Picard , given how many times we've seen the crew gathered around a poker table. In fact, this scene seems like a direct homage to the series finale of TNG , which features a very similar overhead poker table scene. It might be one of the best nods to the series this season had, so it's fitting it came toward the very end. 

Seven Of Nine Became Captain Of The Enterprise G

Seven of Nine helped buy the Enterprise D time by navigating the Titan through the Borg-controlled fleet and distracting them, and played a key role in helping save the day. As her old crewmate, Tuvok, reminded her, however, she was complicit in a number of Starfleet violations throughout Star Trek: Picard Season 3. Seven accepted that perhaps her viewpoints weren't in line with that of Starfleet and handed in her resignation. 

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Of course, Tuvok wasn't there to deliver news of her termination but to inform her of her official promotion to Captain. Later, we saw Seven assume command of the Titan, which was renamed the Enterprise G in honor of The Next Generation crew. With Raffi as her Number One, Seven sent out the opening orders of her run as captain. Unfortunately, the camera cut before we got her official catchphrase, but if there's a spinoff, I'm sure we'll hear it there. 

Jack Joined Starfleet As An Ensign

One year after being saved from Borg assimilation by his father, Jack Crusher decided that he, too, wanted to follow in his parents' footsteps and join Starfleet. Thanks to an expedited Starfleet Academy program and possibly some nepotism, the character was officially an ensign in the flash-forward scene. 

Jack is serving on the Enterprise G as "special council to the captain" and will sit next to Captain Seven of Nine on the bridge. That's quite a job for an ensign, though with Jack's level of experience traveling with his mother, not undeserved. 

Beverly And Jean-Luc Are Together? 

A lot can happen in a year, including Jean-Luc going from being happily in love with Laris to possibly being back with Beverly Crusher. A picture Jack placed on his nightstand showed Picard and Beverly smiling and walking together, and they appeared to be in formal attire. Apparently, it's open for interpretation, but I'm leaning toward them reconciling. 

If that's the case I can't help but feel a little sad for Laris,  who helped push Jean-Luc out into space in order to find Beverly! I guess she could've figured something was up when he wasn't making calls home after being gone for so long, but imagine worrying about him during the Borg invasion only for him to come home with that news. If Picard and Bev are together it's rough stuff for those who were excited that Orla Brady returned to play Laris , but a tremendous payoff for Star Trek fans who wanted to see Picard and Bev together all these years . 

Q Returned In The Post-Credit Scene, Despite His Death In Season 2

The post-credits scene cut to Jack in his quarters on the Enterprise G , unpacking his belongings for his long mission. He was interrupted by a familiar face and one that viewers were likely not expecting. Actor John De Lancie was back as Q, but like, how? He died in Season 2 of Picard , right? 

The only clue that Q gave was that he was dead in a linear sense, suggesting that the version talking to Jack in the future was a younger version of the Q that died. It didn't make a ton of sense, but all things when it comes to the Q Continuum are confusing, so that bit isn't too surprising. It seems like we'll eventually get more answers on Q's return in some form or another, whether that's through a spinoff series, comic, or novel. 

Star Trek: Picard is over, but viewers will be able to binge it to their heart's desire over on Paramount+ . The future is bright for Trek on the whole, so I would encourage anyone who enjoyed this season to stick around for all the upcoming shows on the horizon. 

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• Despite their love/hate relationship, Q and Picard shared a special bond, with Q choosing to spend his apparent last moments with Picard.

Jean-Luc Picard is one of Star Trek 's most famous characters, second only to James T. Kirk . After assuming command of the Starship Enterprise in 2263, Picard honored the Starfleet mission statement by seeking out new life and new civilizations, including the Borg, the Tamarians, and the powerful Q Continuum. Yet while Picard was an excellent commander, his stoic nature limited his social life aboard the Galaxy -class Enterprise -D during his appearances in the Star Trek franchise.

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Despite his somewhat introverted personality, Picard formed lifelong bonds with several individuals. Some of these relationships bordered on the romantic, while others were purely professional. However, each came to influence Picard's eventful life in their own way.

Picard's Mentor At Starfleet Academy

• Played by Ray Walston

Boothby, a groundskeeper at Starfleet Command , served as a mentor to many cadets who attended the nearby Starfleet Academy, including Jean-Luc Picard. Boothby could be relied upon for excellent advice and even helped to save Picard's career after the young cadet was nearly kicked out of the Academy.

Boothby was such a fixture of Starfleet Command that the mysterious Species 8472 created a replicant of the gardener as part of a training simulation in the Delta Quadrant. Nor was Boothby's guidance limited to Picard; he also provided boxing lessons to a young Chakotay.

Picard's Most Influential Professor

• Played by Normal Lloyd

Jean-Luc Picard's penchant for archeology was encouraged by Galen, one of his professors at Starfleet Academy . The two men were so close that Picard stated that Galen was like a father to him, although they grew apart when Picard chose a career in Starfleet over a life as an archeologist.

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Picard and Galen reconnected in 2369, although the former was soon assassinated by Cardassian-backed forces. This convinced Picard to finish his mentor's work, leading to the discovery of a shared evolutionary history for many of the galaxy's species, including the Klingons, Cardassians, and even the human race itself.

Raffi Musiker

One of picard's most resourceful allies.

• Played by Michelle Hurd

Raffaela "Raffi" Musiker worked with Jean-Luc Picard to evacuate Romulan civilians from their devastated region of space. However, interference from Starfleet and several clandestine groups caused Raffi to grow increasingly paranoid. Despite her difficulties, Picard sought her out in 2399 as he knew that he could rely on her to help him with his investigations into an apparent Romulan conspiracy.

The resulting investigation vindicated Raffi and restored her friendship with Picard, which had become strained by their respective departures from Starfleet. Raffi's relationship with Picard, while routinely troubled, proved integral to protecting the Federation from threats like the Borg and the Romulans, and it is therefore fitting that she joined the crew of the Enterprise -G in 2402 as the starship's executive officer.

Picard's Surrogate Son

• Played by Evan Evagora

Picard first met Elnor while assisting in the evacuation of Romulan space following a devastating supernova. Although Picard had frequently clashed with the Romulans during his time aboard the Starship Enterprise , he spent a significant amount of time with the young Romulan, acting as the child's father figure. However, their relationship grew strained after Picard was called back to Federation space as a result of the 2385 Synth attack on Mars.

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However, the two eventually reconciled, and Elnor was able to utilize the training he'd undertaken as a member of the sword-wielding Qowat Milat to assist Picard against a Romulan secret society, the Zhat Vash. Elnor later joined Starfleet thanks to Picard's guidance.

Picard's Best Frenemy

• Played by John de Lancie

It may be more accurate to describe Q's friendship with Picard as a love/hate relationship, as the powerful entity often caused mischief aboard the Enterprise -D. However, Picard's apparent dislike of Q concealed a deeper feeling that, at points, came close to friendship. Q did help Picard throughout his life, such as by showing him how his recklessness as a young man was integral to his present success.

Indeed, Q chose to spend his apparent last moments with Picard rather than die alone. This final wish demonstrated that, for all of their mutual animosity, both Q and Picard recognized their special bond.

William Riker

Picard's right-hand man.

• Played by Jonathan Frakes

Picard and Riker's relationship was initially frosty; shortly after the executive officer came aboard the Enteprise -D, Picard challenged him to manually dock the starship's saucer to its secondary hull, a difficult test of skill. However, the two men warmed to one another during their years aboard the Enterprise , and Picard was one of the guests at Riker's wedding to Deanna Troi in 2379.

However, Riker did not let his friendship with Picard blind him when faced with tough dilemmas. When Picard was assimilated by the Borg in 2366, Riker did not hesitate to open fire on the Borg cube, even though the action endangered Picard. Their relationship was always secondary to their dedication to Starfleet and the Federation, but Riker and Picard demonstrated one of Star Trek 's best working relationships.

Picard's Closest Confidante

• Played by Whoopi Goldberg

The mysterious Guinan was far more than just the bartender aboard the Enterprise -D. As an El-Aurian , she had seen her home planet destroyed by the Borg, and recognized the threat posed by the Collective. This allowed her to offer counsel to Picard prior to the Enterprise 's disastrous encounter with the Borg in 2366. She attempted to assuage Picard's concerns that the Borg would overwhelm the Federation by pointing out the tenacity of life.

The exact nature of Guinan and Picard's relationship is shrouded in mystery (both describe it as being more than a friendship), as is its origin. The pair pretended to have met aboard the Enterprise -D, although Guinan joined the starship on Picard's request. One questionably canon novel suggested that their first meeting involved an encounter with Cardassian master spy Enabran Tain. However, regardless of its foundation, Guinan and Picard's friendship is one of the franchise's firmest.

Picard's Android Savior

• Played by Brent Spiner

While Data's closest friend throughout The Next Generation was undoubtedly engineer Geordi La Forge , both the TNG movies and Star Trek: Picard emphasized the friendship between Picard and the android Commander Data. When the Borg attempted to alter the course of history, Data resisted the Borg Queen's offer of an alliance and saved Picard's life. He would repeat this act in 2379, when Data sacrificed himself to save Picard from the destruction of the Scimitar .

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Data's sacrifice haunted Picard. In 2399, Picard encountered Data's simulated "ghost", allowing him to gain a measure of closure. A resurrected version of Data assisted Picard in his final battle against the Borg in 2401, demonstrating that not even death could stand in the way of their mutual admiration.

Beverly Crusher

The love of picard's life.

• Played by Gates McFadden

While Captain Kirk has gained a reputation as a ladies' man, Captain Picard stayed laser-focused on the Enterprise -D's exploratory mission throughout The Next Generation . However, he was interested in one particular woman: Doctor Beverly Crusher, the Enterprise -D's long-term chief medical officer . Their relationship was complicated by the fact that Picard had sent Beverly's husband to his death, which perhaps stopped their friendship from growing into something more during their time together aboard the Enterprise .

Despite the lack of romantic consolidation, Crusher was Picard's closest friend aboard the starship. They regularly ate breakfast together and relied on one another for advice in times of need. For example, Crusher sought advice from Picard during her romance with the Trill diplomat Odan. Star Trek: Picard hinted at a more romantic, if short-lived, relationship between the pair, although, for the most part, they were simply very close friends.

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Resisting the Borg: A Celebration of Neurodivergence

Unmasking in the spirit of star trek, resistance is not futile..

Posted May 3, 2024 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods

• In Star Trek, The Borg is a collective machine that assimilates all else.
• Neurodivergent people are often pressured to conform to neurotypical social norms and mask.
• Sometimes neurotypical social norms don't match neurodivergent brains.
• Unmasking and celebrating neurodiversity are acts of resistance.

If you aren't familiar with Star Trek, The Borg is a collection of creatures living within a giant machine that, when introduced, does nothing but take over other starships and 'assimilate' any passengers into itself. The Borg will say resistance is futile, you will be assimilated. That is until one creature tells a single injured Borg that resistance is not always futile, that because of resistance her species was scattered all over the universe and not assimilated into the Borg. He brings that message to the rest of The Borg.

I think The Borg can be a metaphor for many things. There are infinite situations where people have been pressured to conform and change themselves. To some extent, we all do. Yet, for neurodivergent people, the pull to blend in when one feels different can be immense, leading a person to mask or hide aspects of the self.

Masking is not always bad. Many choose to camouflage their neurodivergent traits in particular situations for a variety of reasons. For example, someone who is most comfortable while stimming by twirling their hair but chooses not to in a job interview.

Yet, when it is done often or in a forced way, it can damage a person to make them ask where the division is between themselves and the mask. A study of 342 autistic adults found that masking was associated with higher levels of depression and anxiety as well as lower levels of self-esteem and sense of authenticity (Evans, 2023).

But in a world where difference is not always readily embraced, freely exhibiting what might feel most comfortable for some neurodivergent people, such as not making eye contact, discussing a special interest in depth, fidgeting , or being very direct, can be misunderstood. Tragically, this misunderstanding can lead to isolation and discrimination .

At times, a neurodivergent person may face the choice of joining the collective through adaptation of neurotypical social norms, or risking social rejection.

The conundrum of The Borg.

At times, as a neurodivergent person, I've moved toward the current of The Borg, reading books about social etiquette, and mimicking how I saw others behave. Yet, the cost was clear. My efforts to connect led only to more disconnect. I wasn't myself. I felt merely a shadow.

Resisting The Borg has meant radical acceptance of myself. At times, this has meant educating others about my differences. Yet, resistance has allowed me to blossom.

As a psychotherapist, I respect my clients' choices regarding masking. Yet, for those who choose to unmask, the mental health benefits are clear. Unmasking does not have to equate to loneliness . Celebrating diversity, including neurodiversity , not only benefits the divergent but everyone. Possibilities for new relationships and innovation are revealed.

Everyone deserves a chance at authenticity.

Resistance is not futile.

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Star trek reveals the mind-blowing origin of its 'conspiracy' parasites (they're not just aliens).

At long last, Star Trek has revealed the mind-blowing secret origin of one of it biggest loose ends: the parasite aliens from "Conspiracy."

• The "Conspiracy" aliens, from another dimension, threaten the Star Trek universe with their terrifying agenda and overwhelming numbers.
• Spock's mind meld backfires as the crew of the Defiant battles to free infected crew members from alien parasites.
• Star Trek: Defiant #14 reveals the origin and menace of the "Conspiracy" aliens, connected to a long-standing franchise plot line.

Warning: contains spoilers for Star Trek: Defiant #14!

The “Conspiracy” aliens have returned to the Star Trek franchise, and for the first time, their mind-blowing origin has been revealed. Worf and the crew of the Defiant are waging a valiant stand against the parasitic aliens on a remote Starbase. As they fight off the creatures in issue 14, Mister Spock makes a shocking discovery about where the aliens come from–and their agenda.

Star Trek: Defiant #14 is written by Christopher Cantwell and drawn by Angel Unzueta. B’Elanna Torres has been taken over by one of the parasites, and the crew of the Defiant is trying to free her from its clutches. Spock hits on an idea: use a mind meld to disrupt the parasites. The others protest, but Spock presses on. His mind meld backfires, and does not free B’Elanna. Instead, Spock learns the creatures are not from another planet, or another galaxy. Instead, they come from another dimension.

Furthermore, they have an enormous queen that towers over Spock.

The "Conspiracy" Aliens Nearly Did What the Klingons and the Romulans Have Failed to Do

These terrifying aliens are an existental threat to the star trek universe.

“Conspiracy” was the finale to the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation , and it would go on to become one of the Star Trek’s franchise's biggest dangling plot lines. For over 30 years, fans have clamored for the aliens to return, and for the show to explore their origins. The parasitic creatures attempt a takeover of Starfleet, but are thwarted by the crew of the Enterprise . Many years later, the aliens have returned, taking over Starbase 99 and infecting its crew. Previous issues teased the true nature of the parasites, and now it has been confirmed.

Star Trek: Defiant’s current storyline, “Hell is Only a Word,” has already positioned the “Conspiracy” aliens as terrifying entities. A text piece in a previous issue revealed the horrifying physical changes that can come over a host, particularly if they are infected with a queen. Furthermore, Defiant has drawn parallels between the parasites and the Borg , particularly in terms of social structure. The aliens have an agenda, one of conquest and subjugation. Their ability to infect a host and function discreetly is one of their greatest advantages. They used this effectively in “Conspiracy.”

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The "conspiracy" aliens are legion--can the federation hope to stop them, the parasites could easily overrun the federation--and the galaxy.

Now the secret of the “Conspiracy” parasites is revealed: they are invaders from another dimension . Spock had a vision of this dimension, and it was overrun with parasites. Their numbers are great, and would easily overwhelm and infect any type of resistance. There may be enough parasites to infect everyone in the Federation and beyond. Finally, the parasite’s queen, standing several stories tall, is a horrific and disgusting sight. Worf and the crew of the Defiant are outnumbered, so they must find a way to close the gate, lest the “Conspiracy” aliens return to menace the Star Trek universe.

Star Trek: Defiant #14 is on sale now from IDW Publishing!