Star Trek: 11 Things You Didn't Know About The Borg Queen
1. Is This The End, My Friend?
Star Trek: Picard, the series, has reached its conclusion. And, what an epic ride the final season has been! Not only was it the best of reunions for The Next Generation cast of characters (sorry Wesley — at least your Mum gave you a shout out), it turned out their greatest enemy, the Borg Queen, was hiding behind that big red door… inside Jupiter!
In the series finale, the Queen is revealed in a mangled, ghoulish state. Her face is mutilated, scarred; blackened, broken, twisted tubes and tubules intersect and dissect her head and shoulders, leading down to the gruesome sight of her fleshless ribcage. She does have arms though, so it’s not all bad! Standing beneath her less-than-majestic majesty is Jack Crusher, now prince consort or even king Vōx, looking rather good in his levelled-up Locutus get-up. Or, as our editor Kris said, he is the Borg-er King!
This Queen is desperate, vengeful; she has been working with the (rogue) changelings all along to ‘weaponise’ Picard’s pre-synth corpse Borgified DNA. Jack, who would probably have preferred to inherit the vineyard, instead receives the Picard genes, altered enough to turn him into a transmitter for a new Borg code. He is the command signal for this new evolution of the Collective set to procreate and propagate throughout the galaxy, and, in some warped way, the Queen believes she is his mother.
It is family — both chosen and by birth — that wins the day, however. Picard’s love for his son helps Jack break free of the Queen’s grasp, and it is the unshakeable bond between the crew of the Enterprise-D, and Riker with his imzadi, that saves the day. The last we see of the Queen is her raising her hand in a futile attempt to shield herself from the fiery blast as the cube explodes all around her, screaming out with no one there to hear.
The title of the finale episode is The Last Generation. “It’s done. The time of the Borg is over,” Jack also adds, after disconnecting from the Collective. This is the end of Star Trek: Picard, but could this really be the last we see of the Borg and their Queen?