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First introduce inStar Trek : First Contact , the Borg Queen ’s multiple incarnation have been played by several different actors across theStar Trekfranchise . The Borg Queen is the name assign to the Borg Collective ’s fundamental link , and while they have had unlike faces across theStar Trektimeline , they appear to share the same memories and personality . The world of a Queen draws a comparison between the Borg and bees , with the Borg Queen coordinating her drones via a hive creative thinker .
Of all theStar Trekshows that feature the Borg , it wasStar Trek : Voyagerthat revealed most about the Borg Queen . For example , Voyagerrevealed thatthe Borg Collective ’s cardinal link was nickname the Queen by Magnus and Erika Hansen , eminent expert on the Borg and parents to young Annika . The Hansens were finally capture and assimilated by the Borg , with Annika becoming Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) . Like Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) before her , Seven retain a complicated link back to the Borg Collective , and the many faces of the Borg Queen .
Since her introduction to the Star Trek franchise , the Borg Queen has become a legendary villain with a recollective , complex , and engrossing history .
7Alice Krige In Star Trek: First Contact
The original Borg Queen. (And the best?)
The first Borg Queenwas played by Alice Krige in the 1996Star Trek : The Next GenerationmovieStar Trek : First Contact . amazingly , for the queen regnant of a race of emotionless drones , she had a decided personality and even seek to seduce Lieutenant Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) with promises of the manhood he craved . The Borg Queen ’s economic consumption of manipulation and even sexuality has limit the theatrical role from her first appearing inFirst ContacttoStar Trek : Picardseason 2 , which talk to Alice Krige ’s last impact on the character .
In an interview withStar Trek ’s official website , Brannon Braga explicate why the Borg Queen was created forStar Trek : First Contact , say : " the Borg are n’t that interesting for a feature photographic film for two hours because they do n’t say anything . "
It ’s heavy implied inStar Trek : First Contactthat Captain Jean - Luc Picard ’s absorption into the Borg Collective as Locutus was an attempt to leave the fairy with a mate- something that was foiled by Picard ’s resistance to his Borg conditioning during theBattle of Wolf 359 . Krige play the role of the Borg Queen as a cold and cipher operator , who could seamlessly agitate from seduction to ordering the death of mankind . As such , despite being destroyed by Data ( Brent Spiner ) in the movie ’s climax , Krige ’s Borg Queen is still the most placeable incarnation .
6Susanna Thompson In Star Trek: Voyager
Susanna Thompson got a second chance to be the Borg Queen.
Susanna Thompson had in the first place auditioned to play the role of the Borg Queen inStar Trek : First Contact , but lost out to Alice Krige . However , she got her wish to trifle the role when the USS Voyager lastly entered Borg space during their escapade in the Delta Quadrant . As Alice Krige was unavailable to reprise her role forStar Trek : Voyagerseason 5 , episodes 15 and 16 , " Dark Frontier " , Thompson was put instead . In " Dark Frontier " , Captain Janeway launches a daring programme to larn Borg technology that take chances Seven of Nine ’s exemption .
Susanna Thompson ’s Borg Queen expressed a preference for Seven , stating she was her favourite Borg trailer and threatened to assimilate the entire Voyager crew if Seven did not retort the Collective . Thompson took Krige ’s delineation as the groundwork for her own performance , and brought new depth to it , adding a twisted enate fascination with Seven into the mix . This was a consummate counterpoint to Captain Janeway ’s own paternal relationship with Seven . Thompson reprised the role once more forStar Trek : Voyager"Unimatrix Zero " , in which the Voyager crew inspire a radical of Borg drones to revolt against their Queen .
2nd Borg Queen Susanna Thompson was a regular Edgar Albert Guest worker across all three of Star Trek ’s 90s shows , from TNG to Voyager via a controversial DS9 role .
5Alice Krige In Star Trek: Voyager’s Finale
Voyager finally secured Alice Krige for Janeway’s last battle with the Borg Queen.
Alice Krige reprised her role as the Borg Queen inStar Trek : Voyager ’s finale"Endgame " , in which she faced off against Starfleet ’s Admiral Janeway . The patch of " Endgame " centre on an older Admiral Janeway traveling back in time to get the USS Voyager abode decades in the beginning than it had in her timeline . This plan required her to commandeer the Borg Collective ’s transwarp corridors , and present down the Borg Queen one last time . Alice Krige toldStar Trek Magazinethat she was advise by aVoyagerproducer to institute the same sexually charge energy fromStar Trek : First Contact , noting thatthe Borg Queen was omnisexual .
To gear up for her return , Alice Krige prefer not to watch any of Susanna Thompson ’s previous installment but or else interpret the previousStar Trek : Voyagerscripts in which the Borg Queen appeared .
Physically , this is a dissimilar Borg Queen fromStar Trek : First Contactand the previousStar Trek : Voyagerepisodes . However , the Borg Queen always retains the same machine characteristic , so the final confrontation between the older Janeway and the Borg Queen is electric . The return of Alice Krige gave " Endgame " blockbuster energy , which must have fed into Garrett Wang ’s desire to release an extended version ofStar Trek : Voyager ’s finale in movie theaters .
4Alice Krige In Star Trek: Lower Decks
Boimler fought a holographic Borg Queen in “I, Excretus”
Alice Krige played the Borg Queen again inStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 2 , episode 8 , " I , Excretus " . The episode revolve around the gang of the USS Cerritos enduring a serial of impossibly difficult hologram simulations as part of a rigorous police officer assessment programme . Ever the over - achiever , Ensign Brad Boimler ( Jack Quaid ) became obsess with getting a perfect sexual conquest on the Borg Cube pretence , which pitted him against the Borg Queen .
AsStar Trek : Lower Decksis preponderantly a clowning , and as the Borg Queen in " I , Excretus " is a holographical reconstruction , Krige gets to send up the fictitious character . Krige playsLower deck ' Borg Queen in a more heightened fashion , making her even more vampish . The vista in which the sexually confident Borg Queen has an incredibly awkward - face Boimler strapped to a Borg conversion bed bring home the bacon a great deal of jest .
Star Trek : Lower Decks sport an fantastically talented and prolific voice cast of actors . Here ’s who ’s who aboard the USS Cerritos .
3Annie Wersching In Star Trek: Picard Season 2
An alternate reality Borg Queen who crossed over into the prime Star Trek timeline.
Not content with just bear Q ( John de Lancie ) and Dr. Adam Soong ( Brent Spiner ) as antagonists , Star Trek : Picardseason 2 also brought back the Borg Queen . herald from the alternate Confederacy of Earth reality , the parallel cosmos ’s Borg Queen was played by24 ’s Annie Wersching . This alternate Borg Queen had different powers but retained the centripetal trait of both Alice Krige and Susanna Thompson ’s Incarnation - an implicit in desolation . It was that solitariness that drewStar Trek : First Contact ’s Borg Queen to Locutus and Data , and it was a similar loneliness that drewStar Trek : Voyager ’s Borg Queen to Seven .
InStar Trek : Picardseason 2 , the Borg Queen is rescued from public writ of execution by Jean - Luc Picard ’s calico bunch because she has the processing power to make the exact calculations that will reserve them to locomote back to 2024 and fix the timeline . As Picard face his puerility trauma and Seven was eventually set aside to embrace her humankind , the Borg Queen search fellowship elsewhere . Using her famously manipulative techniques , theBorg Queen seduce Agnes Jurati ( Alison Pill ) . Annie Wersching was wonderful at dally this version of the Borg Queen who was desperate to unite , providing a more haunting and melancholic take on the graphic symbol .
2Alison Pill In Star Trek: Picard Season 2
Agnes Jurati showed the way to a better type of Borg.
Alison Pill give a nuanced performance of not one by two Borg Queens inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 . The first was the infamously cold and ruthless version but housed in the body of cyberneticist Agnes Jurati . Pill ’s second Borg Queen performance was her more evolved flesh , immix Agnes ' humanity and Borg applied science to become something unequaled . Alison Pill performed both these versions well , and kept viewing audience guessing whether Agnes had fully go over to the Collective . Instead , Agnes ' new Borg Collective blend the technology of the Borg with the more utopian outlook of the Federation .
Agnes Jurati ’s new Borg Collective were granted provisionary Federation rank inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 ’s conclusion .
Agnes ' modification to the Borg could lead to some fascinating developmentsinfutureStar Trekshows . Jurati has spent century create a raw Collective , while the Borg have engage war elsewhere in the wandflower . Now that they ’ve arrived to remain firm safety over the anomaly , offering the hand of friendly relationship to the Federation . It creates a fresh dynamic that could completely change the fan - favoriteStar Trekaliens , especially as the original Borg Collective were wiped out shortly after .
Terry Matalas considered take Agnes Jurati ’s Borg Queen make a surprisal return in Star Trek : Picard time of year 3 . Here ’s why it did n’t chance .
1Alice Krige & Jane Edwina Seymour In Star Trek: Picard Season 3
“The Last Generation” was the Borg Queen’s last stand.
Alice Krige returned to give the Borg Queen her air - off inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 . However , this clock time Krige only vocalise her lines . The cleaning woman in the Borg Queen make - up was Jane Edwina Seymour , credited as " Borg Queen Body Double " inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 ’s finale . With Picard ’s Word Jack Crusher ( Ed Speleers ) under her influence as Võx of Borg , the Queen launched a devastating fire on Starfleet and the Federation by at the same time ingest every officer under the age of 25 .
Voice worker Garth Kemp deserves an honorable mention for voicing The Face , the conduit by which the Borg Queen communicated with Captain Vadic ( Amanda Plummer ) .
While viewers may be disappoint that it ’s not Patrick Stewart and Alice Krige face to face in theStar Trek : Picardfinale , thecombination of Krige ’s voice work , and Jane Edwina Seymour ’s appal movements make for a unforgettably disfigure Borg Queen . Now that the crew of the USS Enterprise - D have ruin the Borg Collective once and for all , there will likely be no more Borg Queens besides the benevolent Agnes Jurati Queen . This means thatStar Trek ’s lineage of Borg Queens both start and cease with Alice Krige .
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