10 Modern Star Trek Plots That Are The Same

4. It's The Borg

There. Are. Other. Villains.

So, the first season of Picard saw the return, in a manner of speaking, of the Borg - Starfleet's greatest enemy of all time. They arrived with a twist. This impressive Borg Cube was in fact crewed by ex-B's, Drones who had been liberated from the Collective. They shared their space with Romulan refugees, and were eventually betrayed by them.

The second season of Picard saw the return, in a manner of speaking, of the Borg. This time, they had a new ship, and a new version of the Queen. After a season of time travel hijinks, the Queen was revealed to be an assimilated Agnes Juratti, and the Borg were, in fact, friendly.

The third season of Picard saw the return, in a manner of...ok you get the point.

While the final version of the Borg, seeing the return of the Borg Queen, voiced once more by Alice Krige, was certainly the most intimidating, there is no escaping the fact they had become a little old-hat at this point. The franchise's overreliance on them as a primary antagonist dulls the impact of their arrival, so that the reveal of the Borg Cube behind the red door in Jack Crusher's mind was a bit like...sigh. Ok then.

That's not to say the following episodes weren't impressive, but please, for now at least - let the Borg die!