10 Most Irredeemable Star Trek Villains

Given the (*spoiler alert*) events of the final season of Star Trek: Picard, we've already discussed the Borg Queen quite a bit recently, but it would be difficult to write a list about irredeemable villains without including her Majesty on it.

In season two of Picard, we got a semblance of a hint that the, or rather a Queen could mend her ways. Even then, it was only with the persuasive skills of Dr Agnes Jurati that this alternate timeline Queen could be convinced a kinder Collective was the future. Moreover, in that Queen's home universe, humanity was arguably the far greater villain.

Back in our regular reality, and as the role requires, the Borg Queen has always been quite open in expressing just how awesome she thinks assimilation is. She has always done so without the slightest shred of compassion for all the lives affected. Quite the contrary in fact, the Queen and the Collective's mission statement is to liberate everyone from the humdrum of daily existence into the bosom of Borg perfection. What makes the Borg and the Queen so terrifying, after all, is that psychopathic absence of empathy as they make you one of their own.

We did catch a glimmer of light for one incarnation of the Prime Borg Queen in the Star Trek: Voyager feature-length episode Dark Frontier. When her Royal Highness rumbles Seven of Nine's attempt to help a group of species 10026 escape assimilation, she at first tries to recapture the fleeing vessel. Strangely, Seven's subsequent pleas for mercy don't fall on deaf ears as the Queen lets the ship go. This may simply have been a scheme to win over her would-be protégée, or perhaps a spark of something a little deeper. Either way, for her return in season three of Picard, the Queen is all Borg business, seething with anger towards Starfleet and the Federation and ready to get some high-end revenge.