Star Trek: First Contact
Summary
Alice Krige , Star Trek ’s original Borg Queen worker , reveals how the Queen seduced Lt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) inStar Trek : First Contact . The Borg Queen made her unforgettable first appearance inStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s hit 1996 feature film , and she would go on to become one of the bang-up villains inStar Trekhistory . But while Borg drones ruthlessly take in the bunch of the USS Enterprise - E inStar Trek : First Contact , theBorg world-beater herself resort to seductionto bend Data to her will .
In theStar Trekoral story " The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 year " by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , Alice Krige let the cat out of the bag about how and why the Borg Queen target Data inStar Trek : First Contactbygiving the android"a taste perception of human sex . “This plunk for up managing director Jonathan Frakes ' previous confirmation thatData and the Borg Queen had sex . Read Krige ’s quote below :
Really what the Queen suffer in Data is an intelligence as formidable as her own . She ’s transfixed by it and she know that Data ’s Achilles heel is his desire to be human . I guess she kind of reels him in with a mouthful of human sexuality , which is kind of compelling . But she gets hoisted on her own petard because she kind of gets fascinated by him . And lets down her guard in the process .
Star Trek : First Contact is not only one of the most beloved big screen entries in the enfranchisement , it also plays a pivotal role in Star Trek : Picard .
The Borg Queen Gave Up On Data & Picard After Star Trek: First Contact
The Borg Queen found new targets of interest.
Multiple versions of the Borg Queen have appeared inStar Trek , played by Alice Krige , Susanna Thompson , Annie Wersching , Allison Pill , and Jane Edwina Seymour .
AfterStar Trek : First Contact , theBorg female monarch ( Susanna Thompson)made multiple appearance inStar Trek : Voyager , where Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) and Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) held her fascination . The Borg Queen ( Annie Wersching ) returned in an alternate realism where Dr. Agnes Jurati ( Allison Pill ) became her unexampled target ; the result of Agnes ' absorption was a more philanthropic hybrid Borg Queen inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 . The original , die out Borg Queen return inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 with architectural plan to evolve her species by seduce Jean - Luc Picard ’s son , Jack Crusher ( Ed Speleers ) , but she was foil for the last fourth dimension by Admiral Picard and the gang of the USS Enterprise - D. Butnone of the Borg Queen ’s later interests accommodate quite the intimate spark she had for DatainStar Trek : First Contact .
Star Trek : First Contactis available to stream on Paramount+ .
Source : " The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 Years : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and wildcat unwritten History of Star Trek " by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
