10 Most Overrated Star Trek Villains
4. The Borg (Post-First Contact)
The Borg in TNG and First Contact are unquestionably terrifying. Unstoppable, adaptive, relentless, emotionless.
From their first appearance in Q Who through to their sole movie appearance in the eighth big screen outing, there was always that dark possibility that they could win. They nearly did once.
But Voyager changed all of that with the introduction of Seven of Nine. Fans were chomping at the bit for the appearance of the Borg all the way through the first three seasons of the show. The Delta Quadrant was their stomping ground and the final reveal of a Borg skeleton in Blood Fever ramped up the anticipation to unbearable.
But then they became a Villain of the Week whom fans knew would be stopped in their tracks by Janeway, Seven and the crew. Hard to swallow when a good proportion of the main Starfleet including Picard and the Enterprise-D and -E had struggled to contain their malevolence on multiple occasions.
An appearance from the Borg became more a ratings pull than a genuine threat and the Delta Quadrant's lions had their claws abruptly removed, even more so with the reveal of a "mental safe haven" of Unimatrix Zero.