Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Borg

The Borg Queen was never truly intended to be a singular, discrete (or discreet) entity. Her "You think in such three-dimensional terms" to Picard in Star Trek: First Contact was evidence enough of that. Her Royal Highness has continued to pop back up even after dismemberment and death, and as we learnt from Star Trek: Picard's second season, possessed a form of 'transtemporal awareness' meaning that even queens and collectives from other universes had at least some sense of each other's existence.

It is highly apt, therefore, that the Borg Queen in Picard's third season was actually two actresses in one, and that the 'having spoken' of Locūtus had been replaced by the 'voice' of Vōx standing before her. On set for (the episode) Võx and The Last Generation, it was Australian actress Jane Seymour who played the neurolytic pathogen-deformed queen, whilst the voice was provided by the original Borg monarch herself, Alice Krige. As Terry Matalas said to Wil Wheaton during The Ready Room after-show for The Last Generation, "It had to be Alice."

In an interview for TrekMovie, Picard makeup department head James MacKinnon laid out some of the considerations that went into the look of the Seymour-Krige Queen, which included "How rotted is she [after 20 or so years]?" and much like for the design of the very first Borg in Q Who, "How much Giger plays into it?" MacKinnon also revealed that Seymour had to be glued into the set for the whole effect to work. "Poor Jane. She was a trooper," Terry Matalas told Entertainment Weekly.