Star Trek: 11 Things You Didn't Know About The Borg Queen

Forgotten everything you knew about the Borg Queen? Must be something you assimilated!

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[pauledwards]

I always thought of the Borg queen to be an AI that exists in the entire collective, and that she chooses to manifest herself in a physical form in some areas . That would explain how we have seen her destroyed only to see her again with the memories of the previous events.

[JoshC]

Props to the video editor on this one; pulling from a huge variety of episodes/movies just for tiny snippets. Your work is both recognized AND appreciated.

[TheKnightsShield]

Alice Krige's performance as the Borg Queen was head and shoulders above the others.





I'll see myself out.

[redemption]

The Borg are 100% not dead. Even if this universe's Borg are crusty mummies or an allied faction, the technology they used to breech dimensions and invade still existed, and they didn't stop at species 8472, because the next time we saw them they were assimilating species 10024 two years later. There are likely Borg spurs in several thousand other dimensions waiting to come back through to the prime universe.

[NEXCUSX]

I think the Borg survived. There are times the Borg were able to disconnect segments when a virus was introduced.

[glitterpede]

My lore theory is that the Queen is a preserved consciousness dating from the origins of the Borg, and she integrates with host bodies in a way that's analogous to a Trill symbiote joining with successive hosts. So the Alice Krige and Susanna Thompson variants were the same Queen, but melded with different bodies. In the case of Thompson, the Queen discussed memories of her host's origin and assimilation. When we had a Queen played by Krige again, perhaps it was a purely synthetic body recreated in the image of the First Contact-era Queen's body (or a Borg drone, perhaps the Thompson drone, cosmetically altered to resemble the Krige host). This might indicate that the Queen's inherent consciousness had a particular affinity for some aspect of the Krige host - or even, after a time, has all of her hosts cosmetically altered to resemble her original organic form.

[AzraelThanatos]

I think we might see the Borg again.

We have the more friendly collective from Season 2 along with whatever became of the Cooperative...and, potentially, anything that might be reactivated out in space such as we saw in Prodigy

[nicksmith]

Annie absolutely killed it as the Borg Queen. She will be missed

[thebaccathatchews]

"Alice Krieg was not bifurcated for the role."

Good. I hate method acting.

[bdchiaccio]

I always learn something new while watching. Sean, your humor, my friend, is unmatched, and keeps me coming back!

[jennhack]

Absolutely love your work. You're an intelligent geek with a great sense of humour!

[ratboygaming]

So pleased you included Star Trek: Destiny, such a good series of books. In my head canon this is the origin story of the Borg.

[michaelobrien]

The 4-D show was amazing! Getting assimilated was a serious trip

[darencoleman]

Star Trek without the Borg is like Dr Who without the will be back.

[jonathonwhitington]

@6:57 I really wasn't expecting to see any Stargate footage in this video. No complaints thought. I'm always happy to see it.

[mattdawg]

I never had a problem with there being a Borg Queen. I always wondered how the Borg came to be, but also I speculated there had to be something or someone behind the scenes we hadn’t seen.

[SpinX]

I would think Jurati and her collective still exists, otherwise I would think they would have mentioned that they were somehow wiped out in the 3rd season of Picard.

[chrisryland]

I've always wondered in the Voyager episode Unity, Ex-Borg Riley says she was assimilated at Wolf 359 but that cube was destroyed by the enterprise D in The Best of Both Worlds Part II. So how where the newly-assimilated Borg transported back to the Delta Quadrant. As the spacial trajector was a newly-assimilated technology as Hugh explained to 7 of 9.

[heidiedelman]

I love these videos and how all the info is put together and delivered. High five to you all!

[ismirdochegal]

Alice Krige (along with the other Borg-Actors and the (mechanical) Make-Up Artists) did an amazing job. And the visual effects used in the assambly scene really payed off.