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Locutus of Borg is a legendary [5-star] crew member. The presence of Locutus of Borg in Star Trek Timelines was first revealed in the PAX East 2015 Demo .

Locutus of Borg is a version of Picard from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" (4x01) .

Captured by the Borg, Locutus was the name given to an assimilated Jean-Luc Picard .

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These items are required by Locutus of Borg in order to advance through groups of levels.

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This character was first released as compensation for a customer service issue, and was originally unavailable through any portal or faction center.
Locutus of Borg first became available to portal packs in September 2017, as part of the time-limited Rejoin The Collective pack.
On January 2, 2019 Locutus of Borg's level 99 equipment was changed from an Artificial Heart to Locutus's Cortical Node , which decreased all base skills by 65 but increased Diplomacy and Science proficiency by 45-85.
"The knowledge and experience of the human Picard is part of us now."
"I am Locutus of Borg"
"Resistance is futile." (in ship battles)
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"Then you must unconditionally surrender." (in ship battles)

Locutus of Borg

Locutus of Borg is a legendary [5-star] crew member.

Locutus of Borg is the borg designation given to Captain Jean-Luc Picard after his assimilation into the Borg Collective. The presence of Locutus of Borg in Star Trek Timelines was first revealed in the PAX East 2015 Demo .

In the Starship Combat in Timelines , it was shown that Locutus has the "Borg" and "Human" traits.

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Advancement [ ]

The equipment needed to advance is as follows:

Locutus of Borg has the skills of Diplomacy , Security , and Science .

The following figures are of a freshly advanced character with no items equipped. Their equipment rank would be level/10+1.

Ship Ability [ ]

When (Character Name) is equipped to a battle station in ship battles , their Ship Ability is as follows:

Locutus of Borg is particularly useful in X mission because they have the combination of Z skill and Y trait, and can unlock a path.

External Links [ ]

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The character Locutus of Borg, who first appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation classic episode “The Best of Both Worlds, Parts I and II” ended up back on the Enterprise-D thanks to the leadership of acting Captain Riker and Lieutenant Commander Data, working with Dr. Crusher and Counseler Troi, who figured out the code (sleep!) to rescue Captain Jean-Luc Picard and remove his cybernetic components. Hands down, Locutus was our favorite of The Borg–that cybernetic race that was the nemesis of Starfleet and every culture they came in contact with and subsequently assimilated.

But what about the costume Patrick Stewart wore in “The Best of Both Worlds” episodes as Locutus? In Trek canon, you could speculate that the components went off for testing at Starfleet Medical. In the real world? The fact is The Borg characters returned in subsequent episodes of the series, including the great character study episode “I, Borg” and the two part “Descent” episodes which featured more than a dozen of these cyborgs of the future. The idea for the Star Trek borg characters were first thought up by Star Trek: The Next Generation writer Maurice Hurley and created by Robert Blackman and Michael Westmore. Just as the Paramount production staff re-used other costumes over the seven-year series run, Stewart’s rubber and plastic components were reused as parts of other costumes and the original Next Generation Locutus costume does not exist complete and intact today. Paramount did create and sell a replica of a limited edition life-size version that looks great as a display. Here is how the replica appeared when they were selling these at the now-defunct Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas a few years back:

I am getting ready to put together a display of Locutus, featuring actual components labeled as Stewart’s that I was lucky enough to pick up over the past few years, that became a part of Adrian Tafoya’s costume seen in Descent as well as used in part in a Borg video game by John de Lancie (who also appeared in The Six Million Dollar Man and the original Battlestar Galactica ) as “Q as Borg” and other characters. Tafoya is seen here on the left:

And I am starting with this replica resin cast I purchased to be used for the head of the mannequin:

First, to find time to paint and refine it! I’ll post an update down the road when I get this painted and the cybernetic components displayed. For now, here are some components of the actual Locutus worn by Patrick Stewart (repainted with a rust paint by production staff and with some parts added later for subsequent actors who played members of The Borg collective)…

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Locutus was created when the Borg assimilated Jean-Luc Picard to act as Speaker of the Borg Collective to the Federation , to prepare the people of the Federation for assimilation. Locutus ceased to exist when the link with the Collective was severed and Picard was returned to normal. ( TNG episode : " The Best of Both Worlds ") The memory of his time as Locutus haunted Picard for many years. ( TNG movie : Star Trek: First Contact , et al.)

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Locutus cloned [ ]

Locutus, the clone.

Locutus returned in 2376 when in the first stages of an invasion of the Alpha Quadrant the Borg assimilated a Dominion cloning facility and recreated the assimilated form of Picard.

This Locutus lead the Borg invasion, and in one timeline succeeded in the complete assimilation of the Federation leading the Borg forces to take Earth . However, with the help of the USS Premonition , Picard was able to take the USS Enterprise -E back in time to prevent the Borg invasion. Locutus's Cube was destroyed but he managed to escape in a Borg Sphere fleeing back in time to destroy the USS Enterprise -D shortly after its first mission to Farpoint Station . Fortunately, the USS Premonition followed Locutus back and destroyed the Sphere before it could attack the Enterprise and alter history. The clone died as a result. ( ST video game : Armada )

Locutus returns [ ]

Resistance .

In 2380 , Picard again heard the "voice" of the Borg and discovered the location of a nearby hive that was close to completing construction on a giant cube and resurrecting the Borg Queen by transforming a normal drone into the appropriate female form.

Defying the orders of Admiral Kathryn Janeway , Picard diverted the Enterprise from her assigned mission, and went to confront the Borg.

After losing an Away Team to the Borg, who now attacked on sight, Picard determined that the only way to get close enough to the queen to destroy her was to infiltrate himself, as Locutus.

His transformation was accomplished by Dr. Beverly Crusher , who implanted a chip in Picard's Borg cybernetics that would allow him to remain himself.

The operation didn't go as planned and Picard was captured by the Queen, who finished his transformation back into Locutus. Using a Romulan cloaking device , Commander Worf brought the Enterprise within range of the cube and began a rescue operation.

The Queen was defeated by Dr. Crusher, who had developed a way to reverse the Queen's transformation and revert her to a normal drone. With the Queen's defeat, all of her drones, including Locutus, went into hibernation mode.

Upon returning with Locutus/Picard to the Enterprise , Dr. Crusher reversed the process and restored Picard. ( TNG novel : Resistance )

At some point in the same year, Picard encountered the rogue Vulcan T'Uerell who was attempting to form a Collective of her own in order to impose her cold logic and order on the galaxy. When she encountered Picard's assembled task force of Federation, Klingon Empire and Romulan Star Empire ; she referred to Picard as Locutus. ( ST video game : Legacy )

Also in the same year, the Borg appeared in orbit of Earth claiming that they had encountered a powerful alien from an alternate universe. They specifically requested the help of Picard. This turned out to be a Borg ruse, however, and the fleet was decimated. But when a version of Data appeared from the future, having been sent by Locutus of 500 years hence, Picard agreed to allow himself to be assimilated again, directly by the queen. He briefly became Locutus again, but in the process introduced a nanovirus to the collective that destroyed them utterly. ( TNG comic : " Hive ")

Parallel universes [ ]

In a parallel universe where (among other differences) the USS Enterprise -D 's attempt to retrieve Locutus during the initial invasion failed, Locutus managed to circumvent the collective to open rifts to different universes. ( TNG comic : " The Worst of Both Worlds ")

The Enterprise crew from both universes worked together to retrieve Locutus from the former Starfleet headquarters on Earth and implement an "eat" command, destroying the Borg by forcing them to draw energy all at once. Beverly Crusher then restored the alternate Picard to human form. ( TNG comic : " And Death Shall Have No Dominion ")

In 2375 , Q took Picard to other parallel universes , in order to bring balance to all of reality. They arrived in one where Locutus continued to thrive; deadlier and more consistent than the version of "their" universe. Q was actually relieved when " mon Capitain " finally stopped his pursuit of them, with an explosion. ( TNG novel : I, Q )

Alternate timeline [ ]

In an alternate timeline , the Borg succeeded in a ruse to destroy most of Starfleet and, in the process, they re-assimilated Picard. He once again became Locutus, and reigned for 500 years alongside the Borg Queen. He then recreated Data from his stored intelligence and sent him on a mission to the past to destroy the Borg. ( TNG comic : " Hive ")

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30 Years Ago: Captain Picard Becomes Locutus of Borg

On June 18, 1990, Capt. Jean Luc Picard appeared on the view screen on the Enterprise bridge, half his face covered with the robotic additions forced upon him by the genocidal Borg Collective.

A red laser shined from the side of his face into the screen. From the Borg ship he told Commander William Riker, “I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward you will service us.” The laser filled the screen. The camera approached and turned on Riker, who, without looking at his weapons officer, gave the instruction: “Mr. Worf, fire.”

So ended the episode that’s reputed to have secured the position of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the long-running franchise’s history. “The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1” was the final episode of the third season, but the show had struggled against Trekkies’ loyalty to William Shatner ’s Captain Kirk and the original series. It worked, in part, because it was a strong story – and also because it was the first-ever Star Trek cliffhanger, and one of the few times the leading character of a leading TV show had been put at risk.

The Borg were previously featured on TNG and proved themselves to be an archenemy in the vein of Doctor Who ’s Daleks. Terrifyingly advanced, they valued improvement over everything, including life, and existed only to assimilate other races, leaving no survivors. While leading Star Trek characters like Spock and Data became icons of the franchise, as non-humans who revealed who we are as we struggle to better ourselves, the Borg depicted the complete rejection of humanity as an element of improvement.

At the end of the third season, they’ve had their interest piqued by humanity and, concluding that a less direct approach is the best way to assimilate the best of the race, they form a plan to have a human spokesperson who’ll streamline the process with minimal massacres. Hence the arrival of a Borg cube, the kidnapping of Picard, the failure of his crew’s attempts to rescue him and his reappearance as Locutus, the voice of the Collective – leading up to the final scene, in which Riker gives the command to open fire on his captain.

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“All of us were quite thrilled they had the balls to leave Picard on the Borg cube,” said Jonathan Frakes (who played Riker) in 2015. “It's commonplace now. Shows like Lost and House of Cards — they'll kill off a regular and think nothing of it. This was 1990. It was not commonplace to be killing off any of your series regulars. That was a big ‘Who shot J.R.’ type of plot.”

Riker’s future was also at stake in the episode. After two seasons of being seen as the “best number one in Starfleet,” it seemed strange he didn’t have his own command, and protestations that he was happy where he was didn’t sit well with the ambitious young officer he appeared to be. But while he dealt with the possibility of killing the senior officer who’d helped turn him into an even better number one, he was also trying to decide whether to accept his first command, while a younger and even more ambitious officer, Shelby, vied to take his place on the Enterprise. “The episode was key to Riker's character,” Frakes said. “Previously, I thought it was not very cleverly handled.”

With Picard’s future seemingly stolen from him after being kidnapped by the Borg and turned into the spokesperson they’d use to make assimilating the human race easier, and Riker’s future in doubt because he had a crisis of loyalty, putting the two characters head-to-head made for very powerful drama. There was always the possibility that if Picard didn’t survive, Riker could become a captain without leaving his home ship.

A real-life dilemma helped inspire late writer Michael Piller, who, unusually, didn’t share the plot-development chores with the rest of the writers room. “Michael had a very personal connection to that particular story,” fellow script creator Ronald D. Moore said. “The episode starts with Riker getting an offer to go command another ship. … Michael said very overtly that he was in a very similar place. He was the number two guy on the show, and he was debating whether or not to leave Star Trek and go and run his own show. … So, he was Riker, and he wrote the story from that perspective. ... When Michael did ‘Part I,’ he said, ‘I have no idea how this thing ends. We're going to end on this cliffhanger of “fire” and we're going to figure it out next season.’”

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Rumors persisted that the cliffhanger was in part a producers’ ploy to put pressure on Patrick Stewart (Picard), whose contract was ending and whose agents were applying their own pressure, while the actor had made some outspoken comments about TNG . But Stewart denied his position was ever in doubt, saying in 1999, “I speak my mind about all the work I've been involved with. There have been times when I've perhaps been too public with opinions that should have been expressed privately. But, as far as the series was concerned,I was always very proud of it. … There was never a point when I tried to leave, despite popular opinion.”

“The Best of Both World, Part 1” closed with the caption “To be continued ... ” and fans began a three-month wait to find out what would happen next. That’s the element that appears to have helped TNG find favor with the TOS hardcore. “What people forget now is in the first couple of seasons of Next Generation , we were sort of not taken seriously as Star Trek ,” Moore observed.

“You would go to conventions and there would be bumper stickers and T-shirts that basically said, ‘I’m a real Trekker. Forget the bald guy.’ … When ‘Best of Both Worlds’ came out, suddenly there was all this buzz. And it got in the press and there was all this tension and people were talking about the cliffhanger and Picard. ... Suddenly, we had done something that was legitimate and got people's attention and told a great story. From then on out we carried the torch. We were legitimate and that was the show that turned it around for us.”

In 2013, Frakes argued that an additional layer of tension was added onscreen because even the producers, writers and cast didn’t know how the plot would be resolved. “We were left hanging out to dry,” he said. “And I think it was that seriousness of the story that made for such a brilliant cliffhanger. I think it is one of the greatest cliffhangers in television history.”

However, if Stewart had his way, the episode would never have been made. “I originally said no to doing it,” he recalled in 2020. “I remember questioning whether that storyline was a good one to follow. I wasn’t sure that it was.” As he struggled to work out how to depict what was happening to Picard, he found inspiration in the makeup room. “The best part about Locutus was that I have something to reference, the drama Picard had to endure … the makeup process for me, which was extremely unpleasant and painful and unsettling. No experience is wasted.”

The story was indeed continued with “The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2” as the fourth-season opener, though it wasn’t exactly completed. Even after Picard was saved from the Borg, the experience he had at their hands would fuel many other stories, including the TNG episode “Family” and the plot for Star Trek: First Contact . It also supplied one of the main themes for the first season of Star Trek: Picard .

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In Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 4, "No Win Scenario," Captain Liam Shaw (Todd Stashwick) answers the decades-old mystery of why the Borg named Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) 'Locutus of Borg' when they assimilated him in Star Trek: The Next Generation . Picard's brief time was the 'spokesman' of the Borg Collective has haunted him ever since. Jean-Luc has defeated the Borg time and again, yet the trauma of being turned into Locutus, and the shame of the blood on his hands, remain part of Picard's psyche.

Captain Shaw interrupted Admiral Picard's bonding time with his son, Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers), in Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 4. Shaw bellied up to the bar of the USS Titan-A's holodeck recreation of 10 Forward and revealed exactly why he hates Picard: Shaw is one of the few survivors of TNG 's Battle of Wolf 359. An engineer aboard the USS Constance, Shaw was randomly chosen to live as the Borg, led by Locutus, massacred 40 Federation starships and murdered 11,000 Starfleet Officers. Shaw's riveting monologue was pointed squarely at Picard, the reclaimed, ex-Borg, who he blames for all of those deaths and the trauma Liam has lived with since.

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Why Picard Was Locutus - The Only Borg Given A Name

As Captain Shaw tore into Admiral Picard for "setting the world on fire" at Wolf 359, Liam accused Jean-Luc as Locutus of being, " The only Borg so deadly they gave him a goddamn name. " This may be mere conjecture on Shaw's part, but it does provide a credible answer for why the Borg called Picard Locutus. When Picard met the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) in Star Trek: First Contact , he learned that she wanted him to be "a counterpart" for herself atop the Borg hive mind. Thus, among the billions of life forms the Borg assimilated, Jean-Luc Picard was always considered special by the Collective.

Another possibility is that Jean-Luc Picard's sense of self was so strong that the Borg allowed him this shred of individuality by giving Locutus a name instead of a mere numerical designation. Indeed, Picard was never intended to be a mere drone. At the very least, Locutus was a spokesman for the Borg, and the Borg Queen later confirmed she had greater aspirations for the assimilated Picard. Captain Shaw's assertion for how "deadly" Locutus was is also correct; Picard was a prize catch for the Borg because through the Captain of the Enterprise, the Borg learned details of Starfleet technology and strategy. Hence, the Borg was easily able to decimate Starfleet at Wolf 359.

Why Seven Of Nine Keeps Her Borg Designation Instead Of Her Human Name

The flip side of Locutus of Borg is Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). As detailed in Star Trek: Voyager , Seven was once Annika Hansen, and she was just a young girl when the Borg assimilated her. Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One, was a mere Borg drone when her humanity was reclaimed by Captain Kathery Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the crew of the USS Voyager. Because Seven spent most of her life as a Borg, she no longer identifies as Annika Hansen, whose brief life is just a memory to her.

Seven of Nine prefers to be known by her Borg designation even as a Starfleet Commander and First Officer of the USS Titan-A. However, her Captain, Liam Shaw, forces Seven to go by the name "Commander Annika Hansen," partly because "Seven of Nine" is painful reminder of his near-death experience at the Borg's hands at Wolf 359. Seven taught Shaw a lesson about "respect" towards her preferred name in Star Trek: Picard season 3, episode 4, but Admiral Jean-Luc Picard never wants to be known as Locutus of Borg again, though Picard also must occasionally face the fact that Locutus will always be part of him.

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Type of Drone: Diplomatic

Enhancements/Augmentations: Cortical Implant, Servo-Armature, Exo-Plating.

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In 2366 Captain Jean-Luc Picard was assimilated to be a counterpart between humanity and the Borg alongside the Borg Queen herself. Following his assimilation, the Borg Collective gained tremendous amounts of knowledge including Picard's personal lifetime experience and expertise. Also gaining data relating to Federation starship designs including tactical weaknesses and strengths of each design from 2289 to 2360 plus the entire vessel deployment locations of Starfleet's response force to the Borg's first invasion attempt. This knowledge lead to the destruction of 39 starfleet ships resulting in 11,000 deaths by a single cube during the battle of Wolf 359 which occured when Starfeet attempted to intercept the cube and prevent it from reaching Earth. Following the battle of Wolf 359 the cube continued towards earth, breaching the Mars Defense Perimeter and defeating the small fleet stationed there before taking up position in Earth's orbit as it prepared to assimilate earth. The Enterprise-D lead by Commander William T. Riker were able to infiltrate the cube, kidnap Locutus and use his uplink to the hive mind to implant the looping command to regenerate into the drones aboard which could not be overidden, the Borg Queen then activated the vessels self-destruct sequence.

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During its seven-season run, the show became so popular that it was regarded as one of the greatest television series, with each episode receiving high praise from both audiences and critics. The final episode was titled All Good Things.

The two-hour finale had initially decided to include an unwanted Borg plot featuring Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard. However, Ronald D. Moore, one of the writers of the series, explained that they decided to skip the storyline that would have bounced between four different events, making it too clustered for a wrap-up.

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The TV series gained popularity and became so close to cementing its legacy in pop culture. However, this massive feat was possible only if they managed to air a triumphant final season.

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The show decided to initially feature a complicated storyline in its runtime of 120 minutes. Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore shed more light on their initial plans for the season finale, which later had to be discarded for good.

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During an exclusive interview via Trek Mate Family Network , Moore and Braga had planned a rough storyline that would have featured four timelines. However, the fourth timeline was dropped, where Sir Patrick Stewart’s character would have turned into a Borg called Locutus. He said,

The first story outline, I think, had four timelines that we were going to go back to. The fourth one, which eventually got dropped from the final teleplay, was revisiting the events of [the classic TNG episode] ‘The Best of Both Worlds,’ when Picard was taken and turned into [a Borg named] Locutus. So originally, the finale was going to bounce between those four events.

He further added that Michael Piller, one of the many showrunners of the series, told them that it was too much to take in because they wanted to showcase “the beginning, middle, and end of his life.”

And Michael [Piller], I think, rightly said, ‘It’s one too many, and we want this to kind of be the beginning, middle, and end of his life.’ And that kind of simplified everything, and it became much cleaner and easier to go through it from that angle.

Nevertheless, the story with three alternate timelines featuring Jean-Luc Picard was perfect, where he had to work with three different versions of the Enterprise to fight the anomaly.

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The decision was the right one, as the finale could not get any more perfect, taking their viewers on a rollercoaster of emotions.

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The storyline of the grand finale of TNG was perfect and featured high stakes that revolved around Picard figuring out a way to stop an anomaly that grew bigger as it traveled back in time.

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If he failed, the anomaly would wipe out all of humanity and some other races as well. The finale felt as if it were a movie, which brought out everything good about a well-written story ages before the MCU did by sewing different franchises together.

Moreover, the finale gave a complete closure to one of the most renowned antagonists, Q, and used him to display more cameos from characters that Trekkies have not seen in years.

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However, the finale did not go overboard in character development and cameos, as it also presented gripping action scenes. Hence, the fandom loved the finale, drawing it closer to their hearts.

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Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise have been to the brightest stars and darkest corners of the Star Trek universe. One of their most iconic adventures is depicted across two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "The Best of Both Worlds." The crew has a run-in with the Borg, a race of hive-mind-controlled aliens hellbent on assimilating the universe into their collective. In the special, Picard is captured by the Borg and forced to become Locutus, a sort of living command center. Fortunately for Picard and the people of Earth, the crew of the Enterprise is able to free Picard and stop the Borg before it wipes out the entire Federation and assimilates the entire human race.

However, things didn't end so cleanly in one of Star Trek's many divergent timelines. Writer Michael Jan Friedman and artist Peter Krause explore the answers to these daunting questions in their 1993 Star Trek: The Next Generation storyline "The Worst of Both Worlds," which ran from Star Trek: TNG #47-50. The story begins on the Enterprise years after the events of "The Best of Both Worlds." Picard and crew are on a fairly routine mission to Mardion Three, which is uncomfortably close to Wolf 359, where they once fought the Borg.

Suddenly, they are pulled into an "anomaly" which pulls them into an alternate dimension. Before Picard and Riker can begin to understand what's happened, they encounter a second Enterprise which quickly beams them aboard. Worf's warrior instincts immediately kick in and he lunges at the mysterious people who have taken them onto their ship without permission only to find himself face to face with a version of himself. In fact, everyone on this ship is a doppelganger of an Enterprise crew member.

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After their initial fracas, the captain of the alternative Enterprise introduces himself in an effort to make sense of the situation. Where readers might expect to find an alternative Picard, they instead find a haggard, eye-patch-wearing William T. Riker in his place. Riker explains that in this universe, the Enterprise and humanity lost the battle of the Borg. They were unable to free Picard, who is still the Locutus to this day. Sadly, Picard wasn't the only crew member they lost. Data, Counselor Troi, Guinan and Keiko all died tragically at the hands of the Borg. Later, Wesley reveals that his mother, Doctor Beverly Crusher, was most likely assimilated when the Borg got to earth. In fact, in this timeline - 90% of humanity is under the control of the Borg.

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The tragic results of their confrontation with the Borg has changed the crew, who are far more bitter and angry than their counterparts. Their sole purpose is to fight the Borg empire. Worf blames himself for not being able to rescue his captain; Geordi La Forge can't even look at the main universe's Data because he is too painful of a reminder of the friend he lost and Comms officer Miles O'Brien still grieves the loss of his wife Keiko. There is a particularly heartbreaking moment when O'Brien meets the other Keiko and her daughter. This glimpse of the family he might have had, the family another version of him has is clearly too difficult for him to handle.

Another significant difference between the two universes can be found in the presence of Commander Shelby. In the "Best of Both Worlds" timeline, Shelby leaves the Enterprise after a short stint to help rebuild the parts of the Federation that the Borg destroyed. But in this timeline, she is still aboard the Enterprise and full of bitter resentment for Captain Riker for not following her lead years ago.

After seeing the plight of the crew and the universe, Picard and his crew agree to help rescue Locutus and defeat the Borg. After all, they've done it once already, and this time they have two ships. Both crews journey to Earth where Locutus is being held. They fight a horde of Borg soldiers and manage to beam back onto the Enterprise with Locutus in tow, but they aren't unscathed, as this universe's Worf died in the battle. Data establishes a neural link to the Locutus and commands all of the Borg soldiers to "Eat" at once. This causes them to drain all of their power sources, thus defeating the Borg empire and freeing Picard.

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Once Picard has recovered from his time as Locutus, he reveals that he channeled all of humanity's subconscious desire to defeat the Borg to open up a rift between dimensions and summon the other Enterprise. The original crew heads back home through the same dimensional rift, leaving behind a newly freed, but still wounded universe.

While Star Trek: The Next Generation featured plenty of timelines where events played out differently, this stands as one of the darkest turns of events in this iteration of the sci-fi franchise. The Borg were arguably this era's definitive villains, and plenty of Picard's adventures involved trying to stop the Borg from assimilating Earth. While those timelines were only ever glimpsed on the show, this storyline highlighted the immense personal costs of defeat in agonizing detail.

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Complete List Of Appearances Of The Borg In Star Trek

This article is more than seven years old and was last updated in July 2019.

The Borg are Star Trek's most feared and most loved adversaries they appear in a total twenty-one episodes in the Star Trek franchise in 'Enterprise,' 'The Next Generation' and 'Voyager,' every television incarnation other than the original series and 'Deep Space Nine.' They also appeared in the Star Trek movie 'First Contact.' Below is a complete list of the Borg's appearances in chronological order.

1. Enterprise - 'Regeneration' [S02E23]

2. The Next Generation - 'Q Who' [S02E16]

3. The Next Generation - 'The Best of Both Worlds' [S03E26 - S04E01]

Star Trek The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds

4. The Next Generation - 'I, Borg' [S05E23]

5. The Next Generation - 'Descent' [S06E26 - S07E01]

6. Voyager - 'Unity' [S03E17]

7. Star Trek: First Contact

8. Voyager - 'Scorpion' [S03E26 - S04E01]

9. Voyager - 'The Raven' [S04E06]

10. Voyager - 'Drone' [S05E02]

11. Voyager - 'Dark Frontier' [S05E15 - S05E16]

12. Voyager - 'Survival Instinct' [S06E02]

13. Voyager - 'Collective' [S06E16]

14. Voyager - 'Child's Play' [S06E19]

15. Voyager - 'Unimatrix Zero' [S06E26 - S07E01]

16. Voyager - 'Imperfection' [S07E02]

17. Voyager - 'Endgame' [S07E25]

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Locutus of Borg was the Borg designation forced upon Captain Jean-Luc Picard after his assimilation in late 2366. The Borg intended to use Picard as an intermediary, a spokesman for the Human race in order to facilitate the assimilation of Earth in order to make the process as quick and efficient (or as perfect, if you keep the Borg's driving force in mind) as possible with the fewest number of casualties on both sides. This suggests that the Federation was one of the most advanced civilizations the Borg tried to conquer, certainly more advanced than they were used to and possibly even realised the Federation could pose a challenge. So they decided to try a different approach rather than their usual assimilation techniques of arriving and assimilating worlds one sector at a time.

Picard's assimilation also allowed the Borg to acquire the whole of Picard's knowledge and experience, as well as his own personal knowledge (a fact that was made apparent when Locutus addressed Commander Riker as "Number One"). Picard's detailed information regarding Federation technology and strategy yielded the Borg a significant tactical advantage when Starfleet confronted the Borg Cube at Wolf 359 . (DS9: "Emissary")

This access proved two-way however, as the crew of the USS Enterprise-D was able to capture Locutus and use his link to disable and destroy the Borg vessel by sending the Borg cube a command to regenerate, creating a feedback loop that destroyed the cube and severed Picard's link to the Collective . (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds", "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")

Though his implants were removed and his wounds were allowed to heal, Picard's assimilation continued to haunt him. He returned to Earth, paying a visit to his family in La Barre, France, where he eventually confronted his demons. (TNG: "Family")

When Benjamin Sisko made contact with the Prophets in 2369, one took the form of Locutus as he appeared on the viewscreen of Sisko's ship, the USS Saratoga, shortly before the Battle of Wolf 359 . (DS9: "Emissary") Locutus with the Borg Queen

When the Borg attempted a second invasion in 2373 (See: Battle of Sector 001), Picard's experience with the Borg allowed him to pinpoint a weakness in the Borg defenses, allowing the fleet to destroy the invading vessel. It was later revealed that Locutus was to have been more than a mere drone. The Borg Queen had intended for Picard to become her counterpart, an equal, a way to bridge the gap between humanity and the Borg. However, when Picard refused to give in to the Queen and accept his assimilation, despite being incapable of moving even a finger following assimilation, the Queen was forced to turn Locutus into just another drone. (Star Trek: First Contact) Even Borg Drones such as Third of Five still recognized Picard as Locutus after his separation from the Collective, possibly because the Borg's belief in their perfection meant that they couldn't believe anyone would actually leave the Collective (coupled with the fact that his memories presumably remained in the Borg's hive mind). (TNG: "I Borg", "Descent")

When Captain Kathryn Janeway was conducting negotiations with the Borg in 2374 during the Borg- Species 8472 War, she requested to speak to an individual, citing to the Borg that "You've done it before. When you transformed Jean-Luc Picard into Locutus." (VOY: "Scorpion, Part II")

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Locutus of Borg is a villainous Borg who was given that name rather than a standard Borg designation (ie. Seven of Nine) and a supporting antagonist in Star Trek: The Next Generation . Before and after assimilation, he is known as Jean-Luc Picard , captain of starships USS Stargazer, USS Enterprise D & E.

He was portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart , who also played Dr. Jonas in Conspiracy Theory , Rafe Bentley in Masterminds , Pharaoh Seti I in The Prince of Egypt , Napoleon in the 1999 Animal Farm film, King Goobot in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , Avery Bullock in American Dad! , King Claudius in the 2008 Hamlet stage play, Zobek in the Castlevania video game series, the Master of the Hunt in Futurama , Darcy Banker in Green Room , John Bosley in the 2019 Charlie's Angels film and Nettlebrand in Dragon Rider .

1.1 Initial assimilation of Picard
1.3 Re-assimilation
1.4 Locutus's Last Stand
5 Navigation

Biography [ ]

Initial assimilation of picard [ ].

TNG Best of Both Worlds Part 1 - Cliffhanger

Locutus was created when the Borg assimilated Jean-Luc Picard to act as the Collective's voice to the Federation, to prepare the people of the Federation for assimilation. Locutus ceased to exist when the link with the Collective was severed and Picard was returned to normal. The memory of his time as Locutus would haunt Picard for many years to come.

Locutus returned in 2376 when, in the first stages of an invasion of the Alpha Quadrant, the Borg assimilated a Dominion cloning facility and recreated the assimilated form of Picard.

This Locutus led the Borg invasion, and in one timeline succeeded in the complete assimilation of the Federation leading the Borg forces to take Earth. However, with the help of the USS Premonition Picard was able to take the USS Enterprise-E back in time to prevent the Borg invasion. Locutus's Cube was destroyed but he managed to escape in a Borg Sphere fleeing back in time to destroy the USS Enterprise-D shortly after its first mission to Farpoint Station. Fortunately the USS Premonition followed Locutus back and destroyed the Sphere before it could attack the Enterprise and alter history.

Re-assimilation [ ]

In 2380, Picard again heard the "voice" of the Borg and discovered the location of a nearby hive that was close to completing construction on a giant cube and resurrecting the Borg Queen by transforming a normal drone into the appropriate female form.

Defying the orders of Admiral Kathryn Janeway, Picard diverted the Enterprise from her assigned mission, and went to confront the Borg.

After losing an Away Team to the Borg, who now attacked on sight, Picard determined that the only way to get close enough to the queen to destroy her was to infiltrate himself, as Locutus.

His transformation was accomplished by Dr. Beverly Crusher, who implanted a chip in Picard's Borg cybernetics that would allow him to remain himself.

The operation didn't go as planned and Picard was captured by the Queen, who finished his transformation back into Locutus. Utilizing a Romulan cloaking device, Commander Worf brought the Enterprise within range of the cube and began a rescue operation.

Locutus's Last Stand [ ]

The Queen was defeated by Dr. Crusher, who had developed a way to reverse the Queen's transformation and revert her to normal drone. With the Queen's defeat all of her drones, including Locutus, went into hibernation mode.

Upon returning with Locutus/Picard to the Enterprise, Dr. Crusher was able to reverse the process, and restore Picard.

Although his existence was brief, Locutus' actions left their mark more particularly on Picard. Soon after becoming himself again, Picard returned to his family at La Barre where he came to terms with what he had been through.

In 2369, the Commander Benjamin Sisko briefly met Picard on the Deep Space Nine station and he showed him hostility due to Locutus' actions leading to his wife's death, although his resentment is misplaced as Picard was in no way responsible for the actions of Locutus. Shortly after being entrusted with the station, Sisko was finally able to make peace with Picard.

Reluctantly, Picard posed as Locutus in the presence of a Borg cut from the Collective, Third of Five (Later known as Hugh), to test his newfound individuality.

In 2373, Picard was tormented by memories and nightmares of his assimilation during the second attempted invasion of the Borg on earth. Picard's traumatic experience, however, enabled him to deal severe blows to the Borg cubes thanks to Locutus' knowledge. Picard also crossed paths with the Borg Queen whom he had already met as Locutus.

In 2399, Picard meets another former Borg, Seven of Nine, who asks him if he has regained all his humanity. Picard admits he never really recovered but he and she are doing the best they can to try.

Picard later visits a former Borg cube renamed the Artefact which brings back his traumatic memories until he happily reunites with Hugh, now the executive director of the Artefact. The latter reassures Picard shortly afterwards that he is no longer Locutus.

However, unknown to Picard, his assimilation as Locutus had left him slowly dying from the Borg DNA still in his brain. After his death, a rogue Changeling faction led by Vadic recovered his body, and using that Borg DNA, implemented it into the Federation transporter system and Starfleet mainframe, infecting anyone who used the transporter with Borg DNA, turning them into unknowing dormant Borg Drones awaiting the command signal to awaken and carry out the Borg Queen 's endgame against the Federation. Worse still, Jack had inherited that Borg DNA himself, so when he surrendered to the Borg Queen, he became Vox of Borg, successor to Locutus, and the command signal for the Queen's endgame.

When Picard, Riker, and Worf infiltrate the Queen's Super-Cube to recover Jack, Picard, out of his own free will, reconnects to the Collective, momentarily being reminded of Locutus as he rejoins the Borg hive-mind, where he manages to break Jack free of the hive-mind by offering to stay with him in it forever out of love. Upon snapping out of the Borg hive-mind, Jack rips himself and Picard free, thus ensuring the end of both Locutus and Vox, while the Queen herself perishes with the Super-Cube after the Enterprise -D destroyed the beacon sending out the command signal, triggering a massive self-destruct of the Cube, and freeing all the assimilated Starfleet youth and fleet from Borg control forever, but leaving them traumatized by what they had and almost had done. Thus, with the Borg gone forever, Locutus was nothing more than a distant memory Picard could finally lay to rest.

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Locutus of Borg spoke the first line of the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during the infamous Battle of Wolf 359, that being "Resistance is futile. You will disarm your weapons and escort us to Sector 001. If you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you.".

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Star Trek Timelines

Star Trek Timelines is a new role playing strategy game from Disruptor Beam. It was announced in 2014 and released January of 2016 on the App Store and Google Play. A PC version was announced but has not yet been released. The game features the characters from the Star Trek franchise.

Overview Experience the Star Trek universe like never before in STAR TREK TIMELINES. Players will gather their favorite starships and assemble a dream crew of Star Trek characters from across all eras. Featuring stunning 3D graphics and cinematic battles, Timelines draws upon content and characters from The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise.

The game’s immense cast of characters includes familiar faces like Kirk, Spock, Janeway, T’Pol, Worf, Wesley Crusher, Q, Sisko, Locutus of Borg, and many more. Players will resolve conflicts through diplomacy, science, technology, or force of arms.

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In STAR TREK TIMELINES, players explore characters, ships and scenarios familiar from The

Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise – plus the first ten Star Trek films, from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) through Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).

Collect hundreds of familiar and iconic characters for your crew – including Kirk, Spock, Janeway,

T’Pol, Worf, Wesley Crusher, Q, Sisko, Locutus of Borg, and many more – to solve problems using their unique skills and abilities.

Command iconic starships and engage in 3D ship-to-ship battles with other players.
Explore the galaxy, while resolving conflicts through diplomacy, technology, science, or force of arms.
Stunning 3D graphics create the most immersive and thrilling Star Trek experience available on
In the future, the game will see the addition and expansion of game features, more characters,

starships and even in-game events

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Gallery [ ]

Physiology [ ]

The physiology of each Borg drone varied according to the species which it was assimilated from. ( Star Trek: First Contact ) Drones were typically humanoid, although the Collective demonstrated a willingness to assimilate non-humanoid lifeforms. ( VOY : " Scorpion ")

A set of Borg implants after removal

Upon assimilation, a drone would cease to grow body hair and would develop a pallid skin coloration, differing from its original skin pigmentation. Cybernetic implants were either surgically attached to the body or grown internally by nanoprobes injected into the bloodstream; in certain cases these implants could cause severe skin irritation. ( TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds "; Star Trek: First Contact ) The nature of these implants varied from drone to drone depending on the drone's intended function, but the basic nodes of interlink for communications with the Collective and a myo-neural cortical array to control movements were implemented in every drone. In most cases, an eye would be replaced with an eyepiece that improved its vision and an arm would be amputated altogether to make room for a functional prosthetic; in tactical drones, a weapon would be included, and some drones had medical tools built in to heal drones who had minor injuries. ( VOY : " The Gift ", " Dark Frontier ") The implants of a fully assimilated drone allowed it to function for extended periods without shelter, food, water, or even air. A drone could even survive in the vacuum of outer space. Lily Sloane , a Human observer local to the Earth of the 21st century , characterized Borg drones as "bionic zombies " after hearing a description of them, albeit before observing them directly. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

A drone's only requirement was a supply of energy to maintain the implants that in turn maintained its biological functions. This energy was supplied during regeneration cycles within a Borg alcove . Upon receiving damage, a drone would return to the alcove for assessment of the damage. Severely damaged drones were disassembled and scavenged for reusable parts. ( TNG : " Q Who ", " I Borg ")

Infant Borg

The Borg did not procreate; they would add to the Collective's population only by assimilation. ( VOY : " Drone ") Borg infants were not accepted to the collective until they matured to a certain age. Until reaching this age, assimilated infants and youths were placed inside maturation chambers . ( TNG : " Q Who "; VOY : " Collective ")

Commander William T. Riker , in 2365 , observed an infant Borg and speculated the infant represented the Borg's natural offspring, with artificial implants first added immediately after birth. ( TNG : " Q Who ") Later episodes, such as VOY : " Drone ", presented the idea that the Borg do not procreate amongst themselves and that youths taken by the Collective were placed in maturation chambers to accelerate their growth into adult drones.

Borg drones were equipped with myriad technologies integrated into their bodies which enabled them to perform their duties within the Collective, several of which were universal to all drones. A neural transceiver kept them connected to the hive mind . ( VOY : " Scorpion, Part II ") A personal force field protected each drone from most energy-based attacks. ( TNG : " Q Who ") A drone was able to communicate with their ship by signals across a subspace domain, the basis of their hive mind, which Data likened to a transporter beam . ( TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II ") Each drone possessed a pair of assimilation tubules embedded in one hand for the purpose of instantly injecting individuals with Borg nanoprobes. ( Star Trek: First Contact ) A cortical processor allowed a drone to rapidly assimilate visual information. Borg drones were also equipped with a neural processor, which kept a record of every instruction that particular Borg receives from the collective hive mind. Captain Picard used one such processor to discover that the Borg were attempting to use the deflector dish of the USS Enterprise as an interplexing beacon to contact the Borg in 2063. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

Drones also contained fail-safe mechanisms designed to deactivate and even vaporize their own bodies, thereby allowing the Collective to eliminate damaged or dead drones without leaving their remains to be exploited by outsiders. ( TNG : " Q Who ") The captured drone Third of Five also made comments indicating that this vaporization may have been a form of resource re-absorption. ( TNG : " I Borg ") One of these fail-safes was also intended to deactivate drones automatically if they experienced strong emotional states, which the Borg interpreted as a sign of disconnection from the hive mind. ( VOY : " Human Error ")

The Borg typically operated in an atmosphere with a constant temperature of 39.1 °C (102.38 °F ), 92% relative humidity, an atmospheric pressure of approximately 102 kPa , and trace amounts of tetryon particles. According to Amina Ramsey , the Borg smelled like old trash bags . ( LD : " Much Ado About Boimler ").

History [ ]

A Borg skeleton on a ruined planet

The precise origins of the Borg were unclear. As of 1484 , they were reported as controlling only a handful of systems in the Delta Quadrant , but by 2373 , they had assimilated thousands of worlds. In addition to this stronghold in the Delta Quadrant, the Borg also dispatched vessels throughout the galaxy via transwarp conduits . ( VOY : " Dragon's Teeth ", " Scorpion ", " Endgame ")

A Borg vessel traveled back in time from 2373 in an unsuccessful attack on Earth in 2063 . ( Star Trek: First Contact ) Drones which survived this defeat were discovered and reactivated by Human scientists in 2153 , and transmitted a subspace message to Borg space before being destroyed by Enterprise NX-01 . ( ENT : " Regeneration ")

The Borg entered the home system of the El-Aurians at some point in their mutual history, swarming through it, scattering its native inhabitants and leaving little to nothing of the El-Aurians in their wake. ( TNG : " Q Who ", " I Borg ") In 2293 , the Federation offered aid to the El-Aurian refugees fleeing the Borg. ( Star Trek Generations ) These refugees included Guinan , who would later provide secondhand knowledge of the Borg invasion of the El-Aurian system to the crew of the USS Enterprise -D during an encounter in the 24th century. ( TNG : " Q Who ", Star Trek Generations ) However, these earlier incidents contributed almost nothing to the Alpha Quadrant 's awareness or understanding of the Borg Collective.

By the 2340s , rumors of an alien race called "The Borg" had reached the Alpha Quadrant, inspiring exobiologists Magnus and Erin Hansen to set out in search of them. Their research took them all the way to the Delta Quadrant, before they and their daughter Annika were assimilated in 2350 . ( VOY : " The Gift ", " The Raven ", " Dark Frontier ") Borg activity in the Alpha Quadrant, including the assimilation of the USS Tombaugh in 2362 and assimilation of outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2364 , were complete mysteries to Starfleet. ( VOY : " Infinite Regress "; TNG : " The Neutral Zone ")

The Collective's true nature was finally revealed to the Federation in 2365 when Q took the USS Enterprise -D to meet a Borg cube near the J-25 system . ( TNG : " Q Who ")

In late 2366 , a Borg cube invaded Federation space and assimilated Jean-Luc Picard , whose tactical information contributed, along with the Borg's own vastly superior power, to Starfleet 's disastrously one-sided engagement with the cube, the Battle of Wolf 359 . A fleet of forty starships assembled to combat the cube. All but one of these Federation ships were destroyed, while the cube itself remained intact, damaged but healing rapidly. ( TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds ", " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II "; DS9 : " Emissary ") The Enterprise -D recovered Picard and used his connection to the hive-mind to disable the cube before it could attack Earth. ( TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II ")

During the 2370s , the Borg were beset by several major setbacks in the Delta Quadrant, as witnessed by the crew of the USS Voyager .

The Borg-Species 8472 War decimated the Collective from 2373 - 2374 . ( VOY : " Scorpion ", " Scorpion, Part II ") Voyager 's liberation of Seven of Nine allowed Unimatrix Zero to create an active resistance movement in 2377 . ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ", " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ")

In 2378 , a crippling blow was delivered to the Borg when Voyager discovered one of their transwarp hubs and destroyed it, killing the Borg Queen (again) and devastating the Unicomplex in the process. During this battle, the Borg were infected with a neurolytic pathogen , which was carried by an alternate future version of Admiral Janeway and designed to disrupt the hive mind, to 'bring chaos to order'. It was this pathogen that killed the Borg Queen and allowed Voyager to destroy the transwarp hub. ( VOY : " Endgame ") The pathogen decimated the Borg Collective, leaving them reduced a handful of drones slowly cannibalized to sustain the Queen's last remaining body by 2401 . ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

In 2384 , a Borg cube rendered dormant by the neurolytic pathogen was encountered by the USS Protostar . The crew proceeded to venture into the cube in order to access the vinculum to gain information on how to remove a weapon called the living construct from their ship. When the Medusan Zero volunteered to be assimilated to get the information, this act caused the cube and the drones aboard to wake up. The crew barely managed to escape as they helped Zero to break free from the Collective, who then managed to put the Borg back to sleep. ( PRO : " Let Sleeping Borg Lie ")

The Borg emerge from Jupiter on Frontier Day, 2401

The Borg Collective was still believed to operate as late as 2399 , ( PIC : " Maps and Legends ") although in 2401 Dr. Agnes Jurati referred to the Borg as "effectively decimated, functionally hobbled." ( PIC : " The Star Gazer ")

On Frontier Day in 2401, this was confirmed after discovery that the main faction of the Borg were working with the rogue Changelings in a plot to assimilate the Federation via a different means than normal. With the Changelings infiltrating the Federation and spreading Picard's Borg-altered DNA through the transporter system, the Borg were able to quickly gain control over 339 starships, and their crews with only those over 25 years old being immune to their takeover. ( PIC : " Võx ") This proved to be the last stand for the original Borg with the Cube, the Queen and all of her remaining drones being destroyed by the rebuilt USS Enterprise -D , presumably bringing an end to the Borg threat. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

Former Picard Research Assistant Jörg Hillebrand has established that the fleet gathered in the fleet formation mode consisted of a grand total of 339 starships from 17 different ship classes. [1]

In the far future , extant Borg assimilated into galactic society, with Borg children learning side-by-side with children of other species. ( LD : " Temporal Edict ")

Alternate timelines [ ]

Confederation of earth [ ].

Borg Singularity in 2401

In 2401 , an atypical Borg Queen reached out to Admiral Jean-Luc Picard seeking membership in the Federation. Much to the Federation's confusion, this Borg Queen was vastly different to the Queen that had been encountered before and her Collective wasn't nearly as outwardly hostile. However, once aboard the USS Stargazer , the Queen began assimilating the ship and through it, the Stargazer's fleet. In response, Picard activated the ship's auto-destruct , stopping the assimilation. ( PIC : " The Star Gazer ")

In that moment, Q had removed Picard, Agnes Jurati, Seven, Raffaela Musiker, Cristóbal Rios, and Elnor from this timeline, and placed them in an alternate 2401. In this timeline, the Borg had been hunted to extinction by the Confederation of Earth , leaving only the Borg Queen . ( PIC : " Penance ")

Singularity and Starfleet deflect energy burst

The Singularity and Federation vessels deflecting the energy burst

After being returned from 2024 to 2401 by Q , Picard deactivates the auto-destruct, having deduced that the strange Borg Queen was actually the Queen from this timeline that had merged with Dr. Agnes Jurati in 2024 and had set out to create a different Collective, one based on mercy and choice. These Borg had sought out the Federation's help to stop an energy wave that threatened countless lives and by combining the shields of the Federation fleet and the Borg ship, the two former mortal enemies were able to stop it. However, the Borg didn't know the source of the energy wave or the massive transwarp conduit that emerged from it, only that it was a threat to everyone. Picard granted the Borg Queen's request to grant the Borg provisional membership in the Federation so that the Borg could be "the Guardian at the Gates" watching out for whatever this new threat was. ( PIC : " Farewell ")

Parallel universes [ ]

Picard's death [ ].

In one alternate quantum reality , Captain Jean-Luc Picard was lost in the Battle of Wolf 359 and William T. Riker succeeded him as the captain of the Enterprise -D with Worf as his first officer . ( TNG : " Parallels ")

Victory over the Federation [ ]

A disheveled Riker of a Borg controlled quantum reality

In another alternate quantum reality, the Borg, after emerging victorious at Wolf 359, successfully conquered the Federation. A battered Enterprise -D, which was likewise under Riker's command, was one of the few remaining Starfleet ships by 2370 . The Riker from that reality was desperate not to return to his universe once all of the Enterprises began spilling into a single universe from a quantum fissure .

After the present reality's Enterprise -D fired lightly upon the other ship to draw the alternate reality crew's attention away from that crew's attempt to prevent the closing of the fissure, the heavily damaged ship was accidentally destroyed when its shields collapsed and their warp core overloaded , due to having a weakened warp containment field , as Riker presumed, from fighting with the Borg. ( TNG : " Parallels ")

Borg-Earth [ ]

Borg-assimilated Earth

In another alternate timeline, the Borg were successful at preventing First Contact in 2063 and had assimilated the Earth. In 2373 , the assimilated Earth had an atmosphere containing high concentrations of methane , carbon monoxide , and fluorine . It had a population of approximately nine billion Borg drones . ( Star Trek: First Contact )

Culture [ ]

A trio of Borg drones, including one of Klingon origin

The Borg Collective was made up of, at the very least, trillions of humanoids referred to as drones. ( VOY : " Dark Frontier ") Through the use of their cybernetic implants, the Borg interacted by sharing one another's thoughts in a hive mind . Upon assimilation, these trillions of "voices" would overwhelm the drone, stifling individual thought and resistance to the Collective's will. ( TNG : " Family ") To some drones these voices could eventually become a source of comfort, and their absence a source of pain. ( TNG : " I Borg "; VOY : " The Gift ")

Borg philosophy was governed by a primary directive to add the biological and technological distinctiveness of other species to that of the Borg. In this manner, the Collective sought to achieve its definition of perfection; all other pursuits were deemed irrelevant including commerce and trade. Accordingly, Borg drones did not engage in any activities except their duties and regeneration . ( TNG : " Q Who ", " The Best of Both Worlds "; VOY : " Scorpion, Part II ") Individual drones have demonstrated puzzlement at other species' unwillingness to be assimilated, the drones believing in the superiority of their way of life.

Having no regard for individuality, Borg drones were identified with designations rather than names. A drone's designation typically described its position within a group, e.g. " Third of Five ." To identify a drone more specifically, its function could be appended to this designation, for example " Seven of Nine , Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01 ." In the same manner, the Borg referred to alien species by number rather than by name. ( TNG : " I Borg "; VOY : " Scorpion ")

If a drone was sufficiently injured or otherwise in distress, other drones would offer assistance. ( TNG : " I Borg "; VOY : " Dark Frontier ") However, if a drone was deemed irreparable by the hive-mind, the Borg would deactivate it and redistribute any salvageable components throughout the Collective. ( TNG : " Q Who ")

Borg drones ignored alien species until they demonstrated the potential to be a threat, or to be a suitable candidate for assimilation. This indifference even extended to their attitude to people boarding their vessels; the drones went about their business as long as the intruders did not interfere. When addressing a small number of individuals, drones would simply attempt to assimilate them without comment. Before assimilating a larger population, such as a starship or an entire culture, the Borg would collectively transmit a standard announcement of their purpose and the futility of resistance. ( TNG : " Q Who "; VOY : " Dark Frontier "; Star Trek: First Contact ) Species which the Borg found unremarkable or detrimental would be deemed unworthy of assimilation. As of 2374 , the Borg considered the Kazon beneath their notice, and by 2376 , they only took interest in the Brunali if they detected sufficiently relevant technology. ( VOY : " Mortal Coil ", " Child's Play ")

Even examples of civilizations which had previously been targeted for assimilation could be passed over; while moving to engage the dire threat to the Borg presented by Species 8472 , a group of Borg ships encountered Voyager , but, while one ship did pause momentarily to scan the Federation vessel, the Borg ship and its companion ships quickly moved on without attempting to attack or assimilate the interloper in their space. ( VOY : " Scorpion ")

Representatives of the Collective: Locutus with the Borg Queen

On the rare occasions that the Borg were willing to open any dialogue with individuals, they would choose a single drone to speak for the Collective. Jean-Luc Picard was assimilated and given the name Locutus in the misguided assumption that such a representative would lower the Federation's resistance to assimilation. ( TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds ")

Seven of Nine speaks for the Collective

The Omega molecule

When Kathryn Janeway successfully negotiated a truce with the Borg and refused to discuss the terms via a neuro-transceiver , the Collective agreed to communicate via Seven of Nine. ( VOY : " Scorpion, Part II ")

The Borg Queen also spoke for the Collective, acting not as a mere liaison, but as a physical manifestation of the hive mind. The exact nature of her role is unclear. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

The Borg possessed a near-reverence for particle 010 , which they considered to be an expression of perfection. The Collective's fascination with assimilating this molecule has been compared to a religion. ( VOY : " The Omega Directive ")

Tactics [ ]

The Borg had a tendency to "scoop" all machine elements from a planet, leaving great rips in the surface where remaining sections of the road system suggested a city had once been. ( TNG : " The Neutral Zone ", " Q Who "; VOY : " Child's Play ")

The Sakari colony attacked by the Borg some sixty or seventy years before 2373 seen in " Blood Fever " appeared destroyed in a more conventional manner.

The Borg were known to retrieve their own damaged technology, including nonfunctional Borg cubes. However, when a cube underwent submatrix collapse , the collective would immediately sever its link to the afflicted population, considering it dead. ( VOY : " Unity "; PIC : " Maps and Legends ")

Technology [ ]

Borg technology was a combination of technologies assimilated from other cultures, and technology developed within the Collective itself, in order to overcome obstacles to its goals. When confronted by a problem it could not solve with its existing resources and/or configuration, the entire Collective would work in concert to consider all possible solutions, and implement the one determined to be the most efficient. By applying the unique skills of each drone to a task, the hive mind could engineer new technologies and solutions at a pace that would astound an individual. ( TNG : " Q Who ", " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II ")

The Borg were usually exceedingly quick to adapt; their shields would often nullify nearly any energy weapon, and their weapons could usually penetrate nearly any shield or defense, within minutes. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

Spacecraft [ ]

Borg cubes, arguably their most iconic ship design

Borg vessels were highly decentralized, with no distinct bridge , living quarters, or engineering section. Each ship was collectively operated by its complement of drones, under the general direction of the hive mind. Owing to the Collective's disregard for aesthetic considerations, the architecture of Borg ships took the form of basic shapes such as cubes and spheres and were made from a tritanium alloy. Borg ships were capable of regenerating from damage. ( TNG : " Q Who "; VOY : " Endgame ")

Each Borg spacecraft was equipped with a vinculum to interconnect its crew, which was in turn connected to a central plexus that linked the ship to the Collective. ( VOY : " Infinite Regress ", " Unimatrix Zero ") In addition to warp drive , vessels were fitted with transwarp coils that could achieve even greater speed by opening transwarp conduits . ( TNG : " Descent "; VOY : " Dark Frontier ") When critically damaged or otherwise compromised, a Borg ship would self-destruct to prevent outsiders from studying Borg technology. ( TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II ") In other situations, only the valuable technology would self-destruct, such as the case of the crew of Voyager's first attempt to steal a transwarp coil. USS Voyager encountered several damaged Borg vessels, notably including the cube carrying Icheb , Mezoti , Azan , and Rebi , and a sphere carrying a transwarp coil, which Voyager stole. ( VOY : " Collective ", " Dark Frontier ")

Infrastructure [ ]

Borg structures were located in deep space, in planetary systems, or on planets themselves. Each planet that the Borg modified showed a typical climate and assimilated infrastructure adapted from the previous inhabitants. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; VOY : " Dark Frontier ", " Dragon's Teeth ")

Their buildings consisted of simple shapes, similar to their geometrical ships, and rather than being single structures they were annexed together and added to when needed. By joining the new structures to existing ones, they would form a uniform complex. These buildings were gargantuan in scale, with structures so big that they could house Borg spheres which would dock inside. ( VOY : " Dark Frontier ")

The Borg also constructed structures that had specific functions, such as the transwarp hub . There were six such known hub locations in the galaxy that allowed Borg vessels to deploy rapidly to almost everywhere within it. These transwarp hubs had many structures for opening portals on them, and inside their corridors were interspatial manifolds which supported the transwarp conduits . Several of these manifolds that led to the Alpha quadrant were destroyed by Voyager via transphasic torpedos and collapse of the conduit itself on the vessel's return to the Alpha Quadrant . ( VOY : " Endgame ")

The Borg Unicomplex in deep space at Unimatrix 01

Appendices [ ]

Appearances [ ]

A Borg in the database of Voyager

" The Best of Both Worlds "
" The Best of Both Worlds, Part II "
" Descent "
" Descent, Part II "
DS9 : " Emissary "
Star Trek: First Contact
" Blood Fever "
" Scorpion "
" Scorpion, Part II "
" The Raven "
" The Killing Game "
" Living Witness "
" Hope and Fear "
" Infinite Regress "
" Dark Frontier "
" Survival Instinct "
" Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy "
" Collective "
" Child's Play "
" Unimatrix Zero "
" Unimatrix Zero, Part II "
" Imperfection "
" Flesh and Blood "
" Shattered "
" Endgame "
ENT : " Regeneration "
" Remembrance "
" Maps and Legends "
" The Impossible Box "
" Broken Pieces "
" The Star Gazer "
" Penance "
" Assimilation "
" Watcher "
" Fly Me to the Moon "
" Hide and Seek "
" Farewell "
" The Last Generation "
" Envoys " (holograms)
" Temporal Edict "
" Crisis Point " (hologram)
" I, Excretus " (holograms)
" wej Duj "
PRO : " Let Sleeping Borg Lie "

Background information [ ]

Concept and development [ ].

The conceptual genesis of the Borg, who were intended to replace the Ferengi as Star Trek: The Next Generation ' s main villains in its second season, was as a race of insectoids , an idea that would ultimately require modification due to the series' budgetary constraints. As Maurice Hurley explained in the March 1990 issue of Starlog (#152, p. 33): " What we really wanted to do, but couldn't because of money, was create a race of insects...insect mentality is great because it is relentless. The Borg are a variation of an insect mentality. They don't care. They have no mercy, no feelings toward you. They have their own imperative, their own agenda and that's it. If all of them die getting there, they don't care. We needed a villain who could make you dance, and the Borg could do it! "

Hurley made it a plot point in " The Neutral Zone " that Federation and Romulan starbases along the Romulan Neutral Zone had been mysteriously wiped out, having been "scooped off" the face of the planet in the same way that would later be referenced in " Q Who " and shown in " The Best of Both Worlds ". Intentions to lay more extensive groundwork for the Borg's introduction were frustrated by the Writer's Guild strike of 1988 . By the time of their first appearance in "Q Who", the species had been changed from insects to their more budget-friendly cyborg form. ( Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages , pp. 169 & 180)

The Star Trek Encyclopedia , 3rd ed., p. 52 stated: " Writer Maurice Hurley derived the name Borg from the term cyborg (cybernetic organism), although it seems unlikely that a people living on the other side of the galaxy would know of the term. "

According to Michael and Denise Okuda in their Star Trek Chronology , 2nd ed., p. 290, there had been plans to connect the parasitic beings from " Conspiracy " to the Borg, but these were ultimately abandoned: " At the time the episode was written, this was apparently intended to lead to the introduction of the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation' s second season. The Borg connection was dropped before 'Q Who?' (TNG) was written, and the truth about the parasites remains a mystery. " They also noted that, following production of the latter episode, it was "half jokingly speculated" by Gene Roddenberry that the machine planet encountered by Voyager 6 , leading to its transformation into V'ger , "might have been the Borg homeworld." ( Star Trek Chronology , 2nd ed., p. 23)

A Borg insignia

The Borg insignia, which first appeared in "Q Who", was described on its own Star Trek: The Next Generation - Inaugural Edition trading card (82-A) as " Resembling a great red claw over a background of circuitry, the symbol of the Borg is as mysterious as the race it represents. The Borg symbol may possibly define an amalgam of living tissue with computer circuits... " [2]

Westmore's Borg make-up is reviewed for "Q Who"

Michael Westmore revealed that the Borg actors were glued into their suits, and had to be unglued if they needed to use the bathroom. [3]

The idea for the sound of the Borg's multiple voices speaking in unison was thought up by sound editor Bill Wistrom and co-producer Merri Howard . After experimenting with different techniques, they discovered a way to lay multiple voices over one another and "make it sound like it was 8 million people," explained Wistrom. ( Star Trek: Communicator issue 147 , p. 32)

Chronologically, the first known in-universe appearance of the Borg to Humanity was in the 1996 motion picture Star Trek: First Contact , in which the Borg traveled back to the year 2063 to enslave the Human race. The writers of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Regeneration ", Michael Sussman and Phyllis Strong , stated, in the audio commentary on the ENT Season 2 DVD release, that it was their explicit intent to have the episode deal with the consequences of events depicted in Star Trek: First Contact , the Borg wreckage encountered in that episode being the debris of the Borg sphere destroyed by the Enterprise -E in that movie.

While it is not explicitly stated in "Q Who", Q implies that the sole focus of the Borg is on the technology of the USS Enterprise -D, and the Borg show no interest, in that episode, in the crew (although the segment of hull that the Borg remove from the ship apparently contained several crew members). By their next appearance, "The Best of Both Worlds", the Borg's objectives had changed to the assimilation of lifeforms, and this change of premise was referenced in dialogue. Subsequent episodes ignored the change in premise entirely.

Director Cliff Bole , who directed the "Best of Both Worlds" two-parter, thought highly of the Borg. He enthused, " The Borg are like Klingons. You can do anything you want with them. They're fun and a real expensive thing to play with. With them, you can do a big production value [...] The Borg allow you to have fun with the camera, the lighting and everything else. They challenge the imagination. " ("Cliff Bole – Of Redemption & Unification", The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 17 , p. 31)

Through the course of Star Trek history, further retroactive continuity changes appear to have been made in respect of the Borg. As of "Q Who" and "The Best of Both Worlds", it appeared that Starfleet had never heard of the Borg. Subsequently, Star Trek: Voyager s " Dark Frontier " and Star Trek: Enterprise s " Regeneration " showed that not only was Starfleet previously aware of the existence of the Borg, Federation scientists actually pursued them – even if they were considered mere rumor. Further, although Guinan indicates in "Q Who" that her people were attacked by the Borg, it is implied that Starfleet was not aware of the threat. However, it was later revealed in Star Trek Generations that Starfleet, in fact, rescued the El-Aurian survivors of the Borg attack including Guinan, and it seems unlikely that Starfleet would not inquire as to the cause of their plight.

The existence of the Borg Queen was a controversial change made to the Borg during the writing of Star Trek: First Contact . While the writers had intended to stay true to the original concept of the Borg as a collective hive, they found it difficult to maintain the dramatic impact of villains without having a central face. Thus, they created the Queen. In the film, she claimed to have been present during the events of " The Best of Both Worlds ", which in retrospect would appear to have negated the reason for Picard's assimilation in that episode (it was claimed that the Borg needed a single representative to speak for them). While the Queen appeared to be killed at the climax of First Contact , she apparently survived unaffected by the Borg's next appearance in Voyager 's " Scorpion ". While many fans have attempted to reconcile this, there has never been an official explanation for her survival (save for an enigmatic comment by the Queen), and the appearance of relatively identical Borg Queens in later episodes. Some, though, have theorized that the Borg Collective contained many queens that served as focal points to different branches of their society. Still another explanation is that the Borg were in possession of innumerable copies of their Borg Queen, and that the superficial death of one version simply resulted in the activation of a similar version to take her place, in a similar fashion to the Vorta . The latter theory was corroborated by Rick Berman in an interview in Star Trek: Communicator . ( Star Trek: Communicator issue 121 )

Impact and legacy [ ]

The Borg were considered as an enemy for the Deep Space 9 crew (along with the Klingons , Cardassians , and the Romulans ) when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was in development. Rick Berman later commented, " The Borg are not the kind of bad guys that are practical to use on a regular basis. " Whereas the Cardassians were eventually chosen for the main villain role, the Borg made no further appearances in Deep Space Nine after " Emissary ", although they were mentioned in episodes such as " The Storyteller ", " Playing God ", " The Search, Part I ", " The Way of the Warrior ", " For the Cause ", " Let He Who Is Without Sin... ", and " In Purgatory's Shadow ". ( Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before ) According to Robert Hewitt Wolfe in a tweet dated 28 January 2019, following the premiere of Star Trek: Voyager , a mandate was passed to the writing staffs of both Deep Space Nine and Voyager that the Borg (along with Q, following his single appearance on Deep Space Nine ) were only to be used on Voyager while Deep Space Nine retained creative control over the Alpha , Beta , and Gamma Quadrants , which Wolfe called "a fair trade." [4]

The Borg were considered by some commentators to be the greatest villains of Star Trek: The Next Generation . However, they were featured in only six episodes throughout its seven-year run. The creators have stated that this was due to the fact that the Borg were so powerful, and so it was not easy to come up with solutions for beating them. However, as time passed and future series went into production, the concept of the Borg evolved to include inherent flaws that could be exploited in many different ways – leading them to appearing in nineteen episodes of Star Trek: Voyager (although in only a fraction of these appearances were the Borg the primary villains; many episodes had them in supporting or otherwise non-antagonistic roles). This generous use caused many fans to complain that the Borg were being used too often on Voyager . TNG, DS9, and one-time VOY writer Ronald D. Moore once said of their perceived overuse, the Borg had been defeated so many times, that they had "lost their teeth." ( citation needed • edit )

Following "Regeneration" and the season it was in, ENT Season 2 , Brannon Braga stated, " We have no plans to see the Borg ever again. " ( Star Trek: Communicator issue 145 , p. 30)

In 2006 , the Borg were honored with their own DVD box set Star Trek: Fan Collective - Borg , featuring a number of their more memorable appearances in the Star Trek universe.

In an interview with StarTrek.com published on 1 April 2019, the actor Alan van Sprang , who played Leland in Star Trek: Discovery , echoed fan speculation regarding a potential connection between Control and the origins of the Borg: "I think it's very intriguing. When I first read the script I thought, 'Oh, is this the making of the Borg? Is that how it happens?' We're as much in the dark as anybody else, but as soon as I saw that, I thought, 'This is like The Borg.' The Next Generation' s Borg episode just blew my mind [when I watched it originally], let alone when Picard became Locutus . That's the first thing I thought of, which kind of tickled me to no end. 'Wow, I'm just going to milk this for all it’s worth.'" [5]

In an interview with TrekCore.com published on 19 April 2019, Michelle Paradise , then writer and co-executive producer of Discovery , clarified: "It's interesting — we weren't thinking Borg at all. I mean, we talked about all sorts of different things in the room, but there was never any intent on our part to parallel that in any way. I can certainly understand why people started to think we were going in that direction, but it was never where we intended to go with it." [6]

In an Instagram story dated 12 March 2020, Michael Chabon , then showrunner of Star Trek: Picard , opined of the same theory: "It has the virtue of making sense. But I don't think it's much fun." [7]

Apocrypha [ ]

The absence of the Borg from Deep Space Nine was explained in the novel The Siege , when a Borg cube tries to pass through the Bajoran wormhole and is destroyed by subspace compression; Sisko concludes that this event will cause the entire Collective to believe that the wormhole is unstable and would now avoid it.

In the alternate timeline seen in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine book series Millennium , the Borg forged an alliance with the Federation to defeat Weyoun . The entire Borg Collective was destroyed along with the universe. This entire timeline was later reset thanks to Benjamin Sisko.

In an alternate timeline in the game Star Trek: Armada , the Borg succeed in conquering the Alpha Quadrant. Using a clone of Locutus, the Borg manage to assimilate Spock , kill Worf, and assimilate Earth. The timeline was reset thanks to Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise -E, who travel back in time with the aid of a ship from the future to prevent Spock's capture.

In the game Star Trek: Legacy , an alternate explanation was given to the creation of the Borg which states that the probe V'ger created the Collective to serve as its heralds in its search for knowledge. However, the creation of the Borg Queen resulted in the creation of an entity that abandoned the original intent of V'ger . This is also similar to the Shatnerverse version of events.

In the current volumes of the Next Generation Relaunch series of novels, the Borg have been driven to near extinction as a result of the Starship Voyager 's destruction of the Queen and the transwarp conduit network. However, they begin to reconstruct the Collective by building a massive cube in the Alpha Quadrant, in order to launch a vengeful new offensive against the Federation; their first strike results in the assimilation of Admiral Janeway and the destruction of Pluto before the Enterprise -E manages to destroy the cube with the original Doomsday Machine .

In Star Trek: Destiny a history of the Borg was presented. They were survivors of the Caeliar Gestalt and the crew of the Earth ship Columbia NX-02 thrown back in time and into the Delta Quadrant following an attack on a Caeliar city ship. The Caeliar forced the Humans into a perverted form of their Gestalt (a mental linking of the Caeliar) based upon the will of the last surviving Caeliar and not the whole. They launched a final attack of Federation space with over 7,000 cubes at their disposal; however, they were stopped after the Caeliar were made aware of their responsibility for the Borg's actions. The Collective was dismantled, and the assimilated Borg drones were accepted into the Caeliar's gestalt. Former drones fully regained their individuality (as evidenced by Seven of Nine's remaining implants dematerializing). This was followed up in the novel Full Circle . Q later noted that this timeline's invasion was provoked by Admiral Janeway's trip to the past in " Endgame ", reflecting that, if she had done nothing, the Borg would have eventually launched a massive assault on the Milky Way galaxy centuries in the future that would have completely assimilated all other life. The Voyager relaunch novel Unworthy explores the aftermath of the destruction of the Borg, including some Federation scientists trying to harness remaining Borg technology and Voyager encountering a vast fleet called the "Indign" consisting of species who actually wanted to be assimilated but were considered unworthy of that "honor" by the Borg.

In the Star Trek: The Original Series short story "The Trouble with Borg Tribbles" from the anthology book Strange New Worlds V , a Borg cube encountered a pod full of Tribbles which had traveled through a micro-wormhole from the Alpha Quadrant in early 2268 . This was the Borg's first contact with life from that part of the galaxy. The Borg assimilated the surviving Tribbles, only to find that their instinctive drive to eat and procreate was starting to overwhelm the hive mind, causing a widespread series of malfunctions.

The comic book series Star Trek: Countdown shows that Nero 's ship, the Narada , was enhanced with a mixture of Romulan and Borg technology. The sequel miniseries Star Trek: Nero has the Borg, the Narada and V'ger originating from an unknown civilization on the " machine planet " that was seen inside V'ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture .

The Star Trek: The Manga story "Side Effects" in Shinsei Shinsei provided a different story to the creation of the Borg, with an experiment gone wrong to save a race through the daughter of one of the 1,000 or so survivors. Cybernetic implants, along with DNA from nine different species designed to keep a disease from spreading caused the girl to go insane and gain a twisted idea of saving her people. However, the intervention of Captain James T. Kirk made the situation even worse, as the laboratory where she was augmented collapsed and was sucked into a black hole . But an escape pod with the girl was launched, and apparently catapulted far into the past by the slingshot effect , where her cybernetic implants and DNA evolved to where she became the very first Borg Queen.

In the game Star Trek Online , the Borg have resurfaced after thirty years and are the main antagonists of several missions. The Borg of 2409 initially looked much more like zombies, with some of their cybernetic implants looking like bones coming out of their bodies, but were visually overhauled to more resemble their TV show versions by "Season Thirty: Incursion". "Incursion" also introduced the mirror counterpart of the Collective, named the "Borg Kingdom", as major antagonists of the "Kings & Queens" story arc.

The Cybermen and the Borg

The comic book crossover series Star Trek: The Next Generation - Doctor Who: Assimilation² involves a plotline in which the Cybermen of the Doctor Who universe alter time and space in order to form an alliance with the Borg. The united cyborg force proves to be a devastating threat to the Federation, but the two races end up turning against each other, with the Cybermen going to war with the Borg and forcing the crew of the Enterprise -D and the Eleventh Doctor and his companions to ally with the Borg to restore the Collective and vanquish the Cybermen. At the end of the series, the Borg start to investigate time travel in order to find a way to assimilate the Doctor.

In The Delta Anomaly , a book set in the alternate reality created by the Romulan Nero 's attack on the USS Kelvin , the serial killer known as The Doctor ( β ) is suggested to be related to the Borg. This therefore establishes an earlier contact with Earth than in the prime reality.

The Borg of the alternate reality

In Star Trek: Boldly Go , a comic series also set in the alternate reality and after the events of Star Trek Beyond , the Borg make an appearance as the villain in the first arc of the series, seeking the Narada due to their awareness of its ties to the Borg. They attempt to assimilate Spock , but the primitive assimilation of this era is unable to cope with his hybrid DNA. The shock of his escape and the retrieval of other near-assimilated officers enables the Federation and the Romulans to destroy the Borg.

External links [ ]

Borg at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Borg at Wikipedia
1 Daniels (Crewman)
2 Star Trek: Prodigy
3 USS Voyager (NCC-74656-A)

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Background. In 2366 Captain Jean-Luc Picard was assimilated to be a counterpart between humanity and the Borg alongside the Borg Queen herself. Following his assimilation, the Borg Collective gained tremendous amounts of knowledge including Picard's personal lifetime experience and expertise. Also gaining data relating to Federation starship ...
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59. Locutus is not a name, it is his function. "Locutus" came from Latin and means "the one who speaks" like in the word locutor. Picard was not Locutus of Borg, he is more like the Locutus of Borg, but the Locutus could be anyone else. They choose Picard to do that because he was the "locutus" of the Enterprise on their first encounter.
"It's one too many": Star Trek: The Next Generation Almost ...
During an exclusive interview via Trek Mate Family Network, Moore and Braga had planned a rough storyline that would have featured four timelines.However, the fourth timeline was dropped, where Sir Patrick Stewart's character would have turned into a Borg called Locutus. He said, The first story outline, I think, had four timelines that we were going to go back to.
Star Trek: How Picard Staying the Borg Locutus Could've Shattered TNG
Published May 4, 2021. Star Trek: TNG's Captain Picard was forever changed by his Borg assimilation, but one comic showed how Locutus could've doomed the TNG era. Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise have been to the brightest stars and darkest corners of the Star Trek universe. One of their most iconic adventures is depicted across ...
List Of Star Trek Borg Episodes In Chronological Order
Stardate: 50893.5. IMDb Rating: 7.6/10. 8. Voyager - 'Scorpion' [S03E26 - S04E01] 'Scorpion' is a two-part episode which spans seasons three and four of Star Trek Voyager. Voyager enters a sector of space occupied by the Borg but are able to find a narrow path through the sector that is free of the Borg.
Locutus
Locutus of Borg was the Borg designation forced upon Captain Jean-Luc Picard after his assimilation in late 2366. The Borg intended to use Picard as an intermediary, a spokesman for the Human race in order to facilitate the assimilation of Earth in order to make the process as quick and efficient (or as perfect, if you keep the Borg's driving force in mind) as possible with the fewest number ...
Proof that if you play enough, Locutus is possible
Player-run community for the hit mobile game, Star Trek Timelines. ... 1 X Locutus FFFE, 1 X Locutus 3/5 FE 1X Armus FFFE, 1 X Armus 4/5 FE 1X Red Angel FFFE, 1X Red Angel 3/5 FE 1X Caretaker 4/5 FE 1X Bartender Guinan 3/5 FE And no need to spend Dil kids 🙂 Reply reply
Crew Retrieval: A walkthrough
Here are some of these crew: Honor Hall - Kahless The Unforgettable, Captain Beverly Picard, Emergency Medical Holoprogram Mk. 1, Stargazer Picard, Nanoprobe Phlox, Borg Queen Seven, Captain Tribble. Gauntlet - The Red Angel, Locutus of Borg, Armus, Caretaker, Bartender Guinan, Balok.
Locutus
Locutus of Borg is a villainous Borg who was given that name rather than a standard Borg designation (ie. Seven of Nine) and a supporting antagonist in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Before and after assimilation, he is known as Jean-Luc Picard, captain of starships USS Stargazer, USS Enterprise D & E. He was portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart, who also played Dr. Jonas in Conspiracy Theory ...
5th Locutus! : "The knowledge and experience of the human ...
Player-run community for the hit mobile game, Star Trek Timelines. Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home. r/StarTrekTimelines A chip A close button. Reddit Recap Reddit Recap. Get app Get the Reddit app Log ... 5th Locutus! : "The knowledge and experience of the human, Picard, is part of us now. It has prepared us for all possible courses ...
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Star Trek Timelines is a new role playing strategy game from Disruptor Beam. It was announced in 2014 and released January of 2016 on the App Store and Google Play. ... Sisko, Locutus of Borg, and many more - to solve problems using their unique skills and abilities. Engaging Ship & Space Battles Command iconic starships and engage in 3D ship ...
Borg
In the Star Trek in-universe timeline, the earliest the Borg have been displayed is in 1996's Star Trek: First Contact. Overall, Borg aliens ... Armada, the Borg invades a Dominion cloning facility to create a clone of Jean-Luc Picard to create a new Locutus. In video games. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Birth of the Federation; Star Trek: A ...
Borg
In an alternate timeline in the game Star Trek: Armada, the Borg succeed in conquering the Alpha Quadrant. Using a clone of Locutus, the Borg manage to assimilate Spock, kill Worf, and assimilate Earth. The timeline was reset thanks to Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E, ...
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Complete List Of Appearances Of The Borg In Star Trek

1. Enterprise - 'Regeneration' [S02E23]

2. The Next Generation - 'Q Who' [S02E16]

3. The Next Generation - 'The Best of Both Worlds' [S03E26 - S04E01]

4. The Next Generation - 'I, Borg' [S05E23]

5. The Next Generation - 'Descent' [S06E26 - S07E01]

6. Voyager - 'Unity' [S03E17]

7. Star Trek: First Contact

8. Voyager - 'Scorpion' [S03E26 - S04E01]

9. Voyager - 'The Raven' [S04E06]

10. Voyager - 'Drone' [S05E02]

11. Voyager - 'Dark Frontier' [S05E15 - S05E16]

12. Voyager - 'Survival Instinct' [S06E02]

13. Voyager - 'Collective' [S06E16]

14. Voyager - 'Child's Play' [S06E19]

15. Voyager - 'Unimatrix Zero' [S06E26 - S07E01]

16. Voyager - 'Imperfection' [S07E02]

17. Voyager - 'Endgame' [S07E25]

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