10 Huge Revelations You Missed From Star Trek: Prodigy

6. Borg: The Previous Generation

Protostar Borg Star Trek Prodigy
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Let Sleeping Borg Lie is likely to be the most chilling Borg installment since Data considered joining the Collective.

A dormant cube is located by the Protostar and it looks like it's been asleep for some time. Rather than taking viewers into familiar post-First Contact design territory, Prodigy opted to turn back the clock to the original TNG Q Who? specs with bulging plastic tubes and ashen makeup.

There's a good balance to that later version of the Borg with a glimpsed Sphere docked on the Cube surface and the first appearance of a vinculum, which interconnects the drones, since Voyager's Infinite Regress.

Let Sleeping Borg Lie allows the Collective to stretch its muscles in ways it hasn’t since The Best of Both Worlds, even if the crew of the Protostar is guaranteed to escape. The chance to see hundreds of drones in action as a true, relentless Hive mind is something Star Trek fans have only really seen in First Contact, though this was teased in Picard - before they were spaced by Romulan Zhat Vash operative Narissa.

However, why the cube is dormant and has potentially been for so long, given the look of the Borg, is not resolved by the episode's close...

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