Star Trek: 11 Things You Didn't Know About The Borg Queen

*Does best Sir David Attenborough voice* For the new queen of a beehive to hatch from her cell, she must first chew through a wax cap in which the worker bees have encased her. The wonders of nature and all that… Planet Earth, this ain't! And as we all know, the Queen Bee then goes on to run the world with a record-breaking solo career.

For her mechanical majesty in Star Trek, queencells also exist aboard Borg vessels, although they seem to function as a place of temporary residence (or hiding), a locus of control, and somewhere to flee from. The queencell also contained a powerful piece of technology called a spatial trajector, assimilated from the Delta Quadrant species the Sikarians, capable of transporting the Queen up to 40,000 light years, but only in the event of an emergency.

Each appearance of the Queen (aside from in Star Trek: Voyager's Endgame) has been in disembodied form. In Voyager, within Unimatrix One, the Queen descended from the central alcove as little more than a head and shoulders, only for the knees and toes to join her from compartments beneath the floor. She is introduced in First Contact in disassembled mode, and Annie Wersching's Queen in Picard is similarly disincorporated (although with arms and more of a torso that time).

It is likely that the Borg Queen spent most of her time disassembled in the central alcove, only going walkabouts when the need arose – you know, to bond with Seven, tubule Admiral Janeway in the neck, or to get it on with Data… Disembodiment is the epitome of perfection, after all!

By the time we see the Queen in season three of Picard, however, she could only dream of such flawless heights!