Recasting Every Prime Star Trek Movie Villain

First Contact sure is one hell of a Trek movie, and like the better films in the series benefits enormously from an iconic, statuesque antagonist.

In this case it's the Borg Queen, played with mesmeric relish and skin-crawling menace by the great Alice Krige.

According to director Jonathan Frakes (aka Riker), casting the part originally took quite some time because it required an actress who was both sexy and intimidating.

Krige certainly fit the bill, delivering an intoxicating villain impossible to look away from, whose uneasy charms managed to seduce even Data (Brent Spiner) for a time.

The part clearly requires an acting chameleon who loves disappearing into a character in the most intimate way possible, and does any actress really suit that description better than Tilda Swinton?

Swinton has lost herself in more roles than most actors have even had roles, and certainly boasts the sensual qualities necessary to follow Krige's lead. Cate Blanchett was a close second, but it's just tough to imagine her being willingly covered in all the slimy, sweat-like Borg secretions.