(VOY: "Muse"), In 2377, a Borg Queen was again encountered by Voyager. When she emerges, she will "re-assemble" herself into a predominantly artificial body — the arms, legs and torso appearing to be entirely synthetic, while the head and shoulders seeming to be organic, but with substantial cybernetic implants. 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. The Queen even brought in the Magnus Hansen drone to convince Seven that her "family" was the Collective. Seven of Nine was specifically mentioned in the Royal Protocol and was most likely to become the next Queen. Voyager in the Delta Quadrant when that Federation crew attempted to procure a transwarp coil. Before she became the Borg Queen, Lieutenant Evoras was the Chief Tactical Officer of the USS Ark Royal in January of 2381. She brings order to the legions of voices within the Hive mind and provides a common direction — much like the queen of an insect colony. Perhaps the closest appearance of the Borg Queen to being handled appropriately, as an avatar of the collective to deal with outsiders on a personal level. The Borg co-opt the technology and knowledge of other alien species to the Collective through the process of "assimilation": forcibly transforming individual beings into "drones" by injecting nanoprobes into their bodies and surgically augmenting them with cybernetic components. In Star Trek Online, a new Borg Queen had emerged in 2409 and led the Collective in an invasion of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, her main targets being the Federation and the Klingon Empire. (PIC: "The Impossible Box"), The second encounter with a Borg Queen was in 2375 in the Delta Quadrant. (It is not clear whether more than one queen exists simultaneously, or if a new queen is created when the old one dies.) But for the Borg Queen the concepts "I" and "we" are interchangeable. Borg Queen: [Data fires quantum torpedoes at Cochrane's ship and inexplicably misses his target, outraging the Borg Queen] DATA!. 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. These temptations ultimately failed, and Seven was rescued by Captain Janeway and the U.S.S. (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. You look after your collective. Drones were made from those assimilated and merged into a collective consciousness. She wished to terminate this realm, because in it drones were able to regain their identities as individuals, and even though they would awaken from it without any memory of the experience, the Queen considered it a threat to her control over the Hive. The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek franchise. It is for this reason that it was recycled after destruction. In 2373, the Borg Queen spearheaded the Collective's attempt to alter Earth's history in order to make humanity easier to assimilate. The Borg's collective nature makes it likely that each Borg Queen has all her predecessors' (and/or counterparts') qualities and memories. 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. Happy mother's day. In 2376-2377, the Queen was engaged in an obsessive quest to uncover the interlink frequency that bound certain drones in a dreamstate realm called Unimatrix Zero while regenerating. The tubules retracted and Janeway collapsed to the ground. 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 Borg Queen is the main antagonist of the film Star Trek: First Contact, and a recurring antagonist in Voyager. In Human terms, the Borg Queen could be characterized as ruthless. This world was discovered by Seven of Nine and posed a threat to the Borg. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. She was born of the merger of the Control simulacrum and Seven of Nines nannites and genetic material. Deceased (2378) In the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy, a newly installed Queen oversaw a massive Borg invasion of the Alpha Quadrant. Star Trek: First Contact director Jonathan Frakes has confirmed that Data (Brent Spiner) and the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) definitely had sex in the 1996 movie. In her own words, she is the "one who is many.". She was introduced in the eighth feature film in the series, Star Trek: First Contact and was played by actress Alice Krige.The Queen has also been presented in the fifth and seventh season Star Trek: Voyager where she was played primarily by actress Susanna Thompson. (VOY: "Dark Frontier"), There were multiple, but identical, Borg Queens. Whether or not she physically took part in the Battle of Wolf 359 was unknown. She resides primarily at Unimatrix One in the Delta Quadrant, but will often leave this home base to participate in assimilation efforts of a special nature. Although this suggested she was an individual within the Collective, while addressing Borg drones as "my drones", she was not an individual. Enter the email address associated with your account and we'll send you a link to reset your password. 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. Sometime in the 2380s, she was resurrected by a temporal anomaly, and she immediately began attacking the Federation. The Queen spends much of her time in her "lair" with her head and spinal column residing in a special alcove. This was the second attempt by the Borg, also known as the Battle of Sector 001. (VOY: "Unimatrix Zero, Part II"), The existence of a Borg Queen was first established sometime prior to 2365 by the exobiologists Erin and Magnus Hansen. 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. I am the Borg." (VOY: "The Raven"). After being transported to a unimatrix, the Queen is captured by a team consisting of Captain Picard, Spock, Odo and Seven of Nine. Affiliation: Information on this being is still very limited. 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. The Queen was actually approached by Admiral Janeway with an "offer" — to help the Queen prevent Voyager from destroying the Transwarp Hub in exchange for the ship's safe passage to the Alpha Quadrant. The Borg are cybernetic organisms linked in a hive mind called "the Collective". (Star Trek: First Contact), In 2399, Picard mentally recalled the image of the Borg Queen and Locutus while aboard the Artifact. 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. Species: The enigmatic Borg Queen is the central locus of the Borg Collective. Starring the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation, First Contact is the second movie featuring the cast and the first Frakes would direct. 0 ERMAGERD, WER ER THER BERG. Voyager, to the Queen's chagrin. 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 exact criteria for producing a queen is unknown, but it has been speculated that females from certain species possess a superior level of mental processing, allowing them to establish order amongst the chaotic chorus of the billions of voices within the collective. Apparently the Borg Queen has been destroyed on a number of occasions, but another queen always seems to take her place. She was preparing for a career in psychology until she attended an acting class at Rhodes University. Her successor later "allowed" the drone Seven of Nine (who had been the daughter of the Hansens — probably the first humans ever assimilated) to be separated from the Collective by the U.S.S. 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 – her counterpart, was intended to ease the burden of loneliness. Ranking #20,637. Because of her disembodiment she saw herself as the epitome of perfection. Got the role of the "Borg Queen" on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) only because Alice Krige (who played the role in the movie Star Trek: First Contact (1996)) refused to reprise her role. (Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Dark Frontier", "Unimatrix Zero", "Unimatrix Zero, Part II", "Endgame"), As of the 2380s, at least some Borg cubes contained a queencell, which in turn contained a spatial trajector reserved for the Queen in the event of an emergency. When Data asked her about this in, This was further complicated by the re-appearance of a Queen during the run of, Alice Krige purposely limited the ways in which she prepared for "Endgame", reviewing neither her own work on, In 2002, the Borg Queen was placed second in, When asked whether the Queen was a "virtual entity; the. Alice Krige, Actress: Star Trek: First Contact. 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. (VOY: "Endgame"), The Borg Queen was assimilated to the Collective from Species 125 around the age of 7-8, along with her parents, and was already present in 2354. (Star Trek: First Contact) In accordance with the Borg pursuit of … The Borg Queen is the iconic central hub of the entire Borg Collective. The earliest Federation data on the Borg Queen was collected by Magnus and Erin Hansen, two exo-biologists who spent several years studying the Borg in the 2350's aboard their science vessel, the U.S.S. Borg (formerly Species 125) When necessary, she would employ psychological tactics, like extortion or plain intimidation to get what she wanted. At this time, it is not known if the Queen was subsequently replicated, or even if the Borg Collective survived the pathogenic attack. The purpose of the Queen was to bring order to chaos. Thanks to intervention by Voyager, the Queen actually got her wish, but not quite how she wanted: Unimatrix Zero was shut down, but the drones who occupied it regained their individuality in the physical world and began a resistance movement to undermine the Collective. A large part of what made the borg so terrifying was the mystery behind them and I absolutely loved it. Almost two years later, in 2375, the Queen attempted to lure Seven back into the Collective — again, by having her give herself voluntarily to the goal of Borg "perfection", while remaining an individual within the Hive. The Borg are a major enemy faction in the MMORPG Star Trek Online and serve as the antagonists of both the opening sequence (tutorial-stage) as well as the second-to-last Episode mission-chain: they will also feature heavily in an upcoming patch devoted to a proposed battle with the Borg Queen herself. 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 2366, a Queen, along with Locutus of Borg, an assimilated Jean-Luc Picard - led a Cube on a mission to assimilate Earth and the Federation. She would do anything to protect the Borg Collective. Again true to form, the Queen made her escape, but not before exclaiming, "Savor your victory! The Queen had her own chambers within the Borg Unicomplex from which she could oversee and control the Borg via the command interface. Picard killed that Borg Queen after she tried to persuade Lieutenant Commander Data to give her the encryption code by which he had locked the Enterprise's computer. The USS Ark Royal was one of the ships that were destroyed in the Azure Nebula, when half of Task Force Archeron encountered the Borg. (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. If so, she was replaced by another virtually-identical successor, whom Voyager once again encountered, in 2377, at a time when the so-called "Unimatrix Zero" phenomenon threatened the integrity of the Collective. Soon after, the Queen began to lose control over her drones. The Borg Queen comes closest, but merely acts as a leader, rather than a progenitor. The extent of the damage to the Borg as a whole, and its status as a continued threat to the galaxy, remains unknown at this time. 1 Summary 2 Powers and Stats 3 Gallery 4 Others The Borg were a pseudo-species of cybernetic beings, or cyborgs, from the Delta Quadrant. Her forces were eventually stopped by the crew of the USS Enterprise-E. 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. Died: Alice Maud Krige was born on June 28, 1954 in Upington, South Africa where her father, Dr. Louis Krige, worked as a young physician. However, because the Hansens were assimilated, their discovery never reached the Federation. Borg Collective Raven. Yes, Data and the Borg Queen Borg-Boned One of the highlights of First Contact is the dynamic between Brent Spiner's beloved android Data and Alice Krige's sexy/creepy Borg Queen. Her face and upper torso were organic while the rest of her body, including her skull and spinal cord, were synthetic. One of her earliest roles was a 1980 made-for-TV version of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, which starred Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest actor Chris Sarandon. She commands trillions of drones at her will, and is linked to each and every one of the 29,000 or so Borg ships in the Galaxy. The name was given to her by the Federation scientists Magnus and Erin Hansen, who discovered her existence. Evidence of this was later seen when the Queen countermanded the Collective's judgment about assimilating Voyager in 2378. Happy mother's day. After refamiliarizing Seven with assimilation procedures during an attack upon Species 10026, the Queen ordered her to program nanoprobe viruses that would be used surreptitiously upon Species 5618 — the human race. The email will only be created once you click on the "Send Email" button. The Borg Queen attempts to bring Seven of Nine back into the collective to acquire all of the knowledge she has gained as a member of Voyager's crew. But the Queen wanted more — she wanted to assimilate the technology from the future. Status: 1 talking about this. In late 2366, during the Borg incursion that culminated in the costly battle at Wolf 359, the Queen wanted Captain Jean-Luc Picard to give himself freely to the Borg, but he resisted and was transformed into Locutus. The Borg Queen designated as Alpha is the most superior of models used by the Collective, and also the most logical choice for reactivating the Queen when the current becomes dysfunctional. The pathogen even made her lose control over her own synthetic parts, as her body literally fell apart. "I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many.I am the Borg." The Queen defined herself as: "I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. The Borg Queen's octahedron was sent by the Queen to intercept the shuttle, but it was destroyed in the attempt. The Queen is a member of Species 125 (a Delta Quadrant species with retainers lodged in their throats). However, with thoughts and desires of her own, she was no longer bound to serve V'ger. She is also the main antagonist of the Voyager series finale, "Endgame". Yes, Data and the Borg Queen Borg-Boned One of the highlights of First Contact is the dynamic between Brent Spiner's beloved android Data and Alice Krige's sexy/creepy Borg Queen. In accordance with the Borg pursuit of perfection, a blending of the organic and synthetic, very little of her original humanoid form remained. The Borg Queen, along with other drones, traveled back to Earth's past to prevent First Contact, and by doing so, hoped to be able to assimilate Earth. (VOY: "Endgame"). 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. She effectively brought "order to chaos" for all things. I am the Borg." The exact nature of the Queen is still hotly debated and has many possible explanations. That Queen apparently died in 2378, when a neurolytic pathogen was introduced into the Hive and wreaked havoc on a massive scale. Fortunately, the crew of the U.S.S. Type of Drone:Command The Queen is typically housed in the Unicomplex, where she coordinates and controls the entire Borg Collective. The Borg Queen has long sought a counterpart with a mind of his or her own to help bridge the gulf between humanity and the Borg — someone to be more than just another drone. 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