Star Trek Picard: Everything You Need To Know About The Borg

Star Trek Voyager's setting of the Delta Quadrant ensured that a face off with the Borg was all but inevitable and the end of its third season finally delivered. Scorpion parts 1 and 2 are among Voyager's best episodes. The Borg are shown, in one of the franchise's shortest teaser segments, to be completely obliterated in moments by an enemy even greater than them.

Species 8472, Star Trek's first entirely CGI aliens, were another formidable force. Coming from another reality, they cut through the Collective like it was made of butter. However they show no intention of stopping with the Collective along, leaving Captain Janeway with only one solution, to broker a treaty with the Borg. To see the Borg fleeing from 8472 as they do flips the positions between Starfleet and the Borg, as only the Voyager crew are able to create an effective weapon.

In Part 2, the audience is introduced to Seven of Nine. Much like Jean Luc Picard's Locutus, her role is to act as intermediary between the Starfleet crew and the collective. She is quickly transferred to Voyager and finds herself the sole survivor of her Cube. She takes Voyager into 8472's realm and they conduct a devastating attack, resulting in the withdrawal from Borg space.

In showing an enemy that the Borg was truly unable to fight, this story offered a glimpse at the stagnation of the Collective. It is commented that it is because of learning and experimentation that Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram is able to replicate a way to fight Species 8472. The Borg have no such methods and rely on brute strength the entire time.

This shows that even though they have been shown to be unstoppable in the past, they are certainly not invincible and are not above cutting deals to survive.