The Borg Queen (Alice Maud Krige) was a villianess in the Star Trek Universe [also played by Susanna Thompson]
Summary[]
While the "Hive Mind" of the Borg Collective went around the universe assimilating thousands of species into a Collective Hive Mind the Borg Queen was a focal Queen Bee of the Borg Transwarp Collective, which enabled the Borg to travel anywhere in space. Unlike the Borg drones , the Queen consisted of a head and torso with synthetic arms and legs. Four times the Borg Queen has been in conflict with the United Federation of Planets but failed each time:
- Star Trek: First Contact" [Movie] The Borg Queen almost succeeds in assimilating Lt Commander Data; however Data - at the cost of his Semi Human Skin destroys the Borg Queen and allows Humanity to explore space using Vulcan technology.
- Star Trek:Yoyager episode "Dark Frontier" where the Borg Queen tries to assimilate Seven of Nine into the collective again but fails
- Star Trek: Yoyager episode "Unimatrix 1 and 2" Captain Janeway, Tuvok, et all allow themselves to be assimilated into Borg in order to start a resistance movement against the Borg..in which the Borg drones assert being individuals--instead of being a mindless collective: the Borg Queen destroyes the "infected" Borg Qube but Janeway and the others escape.
- Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Endgame 1 and 2" a future [33 years later] version of Captain [Now Admiral] Janeway travels back in time to Voyager in order to get the missing ship home faster; in the process Admiral Janeway is assimilated by the Borg; however she has infected herself with a pathogean deadly to the Borg Queen which causes her body to separate from her artificial limbs causing Voyager to escape within a Borg Spere [the Borg Queen and the Future Admiral Janeway are killed; while the transwarp selfdestructs]. Voyager destroys the Spere & returns home after missing for 7 years [ 2 years more out of its regular 5 year mission.]
Borg Triva[]
- In "Star Trek The Next Generations" "Parrell" the Borg have assimilated the United Federation of Planets
- By the time of "Star Trek:Voyager", the Borg have assimilated 10,026 species [Humans are species number 5618];The only exception to assimilation are races either too primitive to assimilate (who are ignored) or races too dangerous to assimilate (who are destroyed).
- Despite their ability to adapt to various attempts to destroy them, the Borg can be defeated several ways:
- Commander Data linked with the assimilated "Loctus of Borg" (Jean-Luc Picard) and sends a command that starts the Borg regeneration sequence and effectively put them all to sleep; the command caused the Borg power net to feed back on itself and triggered a self-destruct sequence in The Best of Both Worlds,
- Data and La Forge came up with an invasive program designed as a geometric form that could not actually exist in physical space. In the Borg collective memory each step to understand the program would start anomalous solutions that would interact with each other, resulting in an endless, unsolvable puzzle. Eventually, the Borg neural network would collapse under the strain of attempting to solve the paradox, resulting in a total system failure across the entire Collective in I Borg,
- A Borg experiences being an individual; this is so dangerous that the Borg Queen will destroy an entire Borg Square/or Sphere if even a hint of individuality is about to form in one Borg."I Borg"; "Unimatrix 1 and 2" and "Endgame".
- Species 6339 developed a synthetic pathogen so that when they were assimilated by the Borg, it would be spread to the Borg vinculum. From there, it caused all drones within range to experience the Borg equivalent of multiple personality disorder, eventually leading to their self-destruction. The process would be repeated when another Borg vessel retrieved the vinculum, and so on in "Infinate Regress",
- Future Admiral Kathryn Janeway had herself injected with a neurolytic pathogen and allowed herself to be assimilated by the Borg Queen who in turn self-destructed " along with The Borg transwarp complex and many Borg Spheres. "Endgame",