Star Trek: 10 Worlds We Should Probably Check On

Another Delta Quadrant one, I know! Stranded Captain Janeway and crew were pretty prolific with their first contacts, though, so they're hard to avoid. In this case, both sides probably wish they'd never laid sensors on each other, let alone met up for silk, supper, and spatial trajection.

Voyager might have been the party poopers of the galaxy, but the Sikarians' legendary hospitality that preceded them got tiresome all too quickly. The reason we might want to check up on Sikaris is for what happened after Voyager left — assimilation. Either of a group of Sikarians or the entire planet fell victim to the dreaded Borg Collective.

In light of the events of Star Trek: Picard season three — what looked to be the end of the Borg Collective as we know it — it might be a good idea to go take a peek at Borg space more generally. If we are to believe what the Borg Queen said to Picard in The Last Generation, it doesn't seem like anyone in Starfleet actually did:

Until recently, there was no Collective left. […] You left us, poisoned. No worlds to consume, no roads by which to return. Just the cruelty to die by starvation and age.

There's still a great deal we don't know about the years between alternate Admiral Janeway's neurolytic pathogen and the Jupiter Jack transmitter cube, but if the Collective was in ruins, what did that mean for the "thousands of solar systems" once under their control? What happened to the countless (former-)drones on all the Borg-assimilated worlds? Were billions really just left to die?