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Star Trek: First Contact

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight ... Read all The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed. The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.

Jonathan Frakes
Gene Roddenberry
Rick Berman
Brannon Braga
Patrick Stewart
Brent Spiner
368 User reviews
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8 wins & 21 nominations total

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Zefram Cochrane

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Trivia On account of budgetary restrictions, the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) was never quite satisfied with the Borg sets and costumes as used during the series. However, the significantly bigger budget for this film finally allowed them to design the Borg in a way that was much closer to what they had intended. As a result, the suits and sets were reused extensively on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) .
Goofs When Geordi is asking Cochrane to look at the intermix chamber blueprints, he is wearing sunglasses, even though his artificial eyes don't require protection from the sun. The sunglasses are probably needed in case a local comes looking around. Only Cochrane and Lily knew about time travelers, and Geordi's futuristic implants could blow their cover. Geordi used dark glasses for the same purpose in Time's Arrow, Part II (1992) as well.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [Quoting "Moby Dick"] And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.

Lily Sloane : What?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : "Moby-Dick".

Lily Sloane : Actually, I never read it.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Ahab spent years hunting the white whale that crippled him, a quest for vengeance, but in the end, it destroyed him and his ship.

Lily Sloane : I guess he didn't know when to quit.

Crazy credits After 'Stunt Players' are listed, the 'Stunt Borg' are listed.
Connections Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Space Jam/The Mirror Has Two Faces/The English Patient/Breaking the Waves (1996)
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Star Trek: First Contact

1996, Sci-fi, 1h 50m

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While fans of the series will surely appreciate it, First Contact is exciting, engaging, and visually appealing enough to entertain Star Trek novices. Read critic reviews

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The Enterprise and its crew follow a Borg ship through a time warp to prevent the Borg from taking over the Earth in a past era. Stuck in the past, Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) helps a pioneer of space travel (James Cromwell) in his efforts to create the first warp drive while Capt. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) battle the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) as she tries to take over the Enterprise.

Rating: PG-13 (Some Sci-Fi Adventure Violence)

Genre: Sci-fi

Original Language: English

Director: Jonathan Frakes

Producer: Rick Berman

Writer: Gene Roddenberry , Rick Berman , Brannon Braga , Ronald D. Moore , Brannon Braga , Ronald D. Moore

Release Date (Theaters): Nov 22, 1996 wide

Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2011

Box Office (Gross USA): $92.0M

Runtime: 1h 50m

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Production Co: Paramount Pictures

Sound Mix: Dolby SR, Dolby A, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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Patrick Stewart

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Jonathan Frakes

Commander William Thomas Riker

Brent Spiner

Lieutenant Commander Data

LeVar Burton

Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge

Michael Dorn

Lieutenant Commander Worf

Gates McFadden

Commander Beverly Howard Crusher, M.D.

Marina Sirtis

Commander Deanna Troi, Counselor

Alfre Woodard

Lily Sloane

James Cromwell

Dr. Zefram Cochrane

Alice Krige

Neal McDonough

Lieutenant Hawk

Robert Picardo

Emergency Medical Hologram

Dwight Schultz

Lieutenant Reginald 'Reg' Barclay III

Patti Yasutake

Lieutenant Alyssa Ogawa, R.N.

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Rick Berman

Brannon Braga

Ronald D. Moore

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Marty Hornstein

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Peter Lauritson

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Jerry Goldsmith

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Joel Goldsmith

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Matthew F. Leonetti

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John W. Wheeler

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Junie Lowry-Johnson

Herman F. Zimmerman

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Ron Wilkinson

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Captain Jean-Luc Picard and crew were second fiddle to Captain Kirk in their first feature film together in 1994's 'Generations', but that wasn't at all the case in 'First Contact'. Putting a newfound focus on the new crew and a new real sci-fi adventure proved to be what was needed to make the best Star Trek film in years. Re-introducing the Borg was a good choice as the conflict with the Klingons seemed to be getting a bit tiresome. Plus, with improved 1996 special effects, the filmmakers were able to fully realize the Borg as terrifying science fiction species. And that brings me to my favorite elements to First Contact, it's true sci-fi aesthetic. Sure, you still get a classic Trek adventure, but I don't think the other films in the franchise capture the science fiction side to the series as well as First Contact does. The main crew are joined by now-prominent actors, James Cromwell, Alfre Woodard, and Neal McDonough. McDonough plays a throwaway crew mate on the bridge, but Woodard and Cromwell are given plenty to do. Unfortunately for Cromwel and other members of the Enterprise crew, their 21st century earth bound mission is not as compelling as what is going on in space. While Woodard spends most of the film attempting to understand what's going on, she serves as a great counterpart to Picard's spiraling emotion. With Picard's unfortunate Borg history, he has a tough time comprehending any other strategies besides what his own mind tells him. Woodard is the only one that can get to him. Their bond and blossoming relationship is the type of thing previous films have been missing. Or really any well-written female characters at all. After taking a few films off, Jerry Goldsmith returned to score First Contact. Goldsmith has always had a keen sense of when to hammer in that heroic side to the Star Trek theme at just the right moments, First Contact does so impeccably. The CGI is also surprisingly polished. The mixture of practical and digital is seamlessly handled. Though Star Trek films seem to have the same structure, First Contact steered away from some flaws of the previous entries. Keeping the fun tone while throwing in some homages to Alien and Terminator with the Borg's presence was a perfect way to kick off The Next Generation's own film without having to rely on old characters. Star Trek First Contact is easily one of the best instalments of the franchise to date. +Real sci-fi +Borg were a nice change up +Woodard and Cromwell +Focus on the team instead of the old crew +Score +Homages to classic sci-fi films -Earth bound material is a bore 8.3/10

First Contact is a brilliant film that has highly entertaining from start to finish. This, for me, is yet another great sequel in the franchise, and one of the finest entries in the series in the 90's. The cast all bring some great to the film, and overall, this is the most ambitious, film in the series, only topped recently by Star Trek Into Darkness. This possesses everything you'd expect from a very well crafted Star Trek film, and it has a well crafted storyline, good action scenes, and enough thrills from start to finish to satisfy genre fans. What First Contact does well is to amp up the stakes in terms of scope, and it furthers the formula even more into new territory that delivers a terrific film going experience. This entry is one of the best Star Trek films I've seen, and it is a well directed affair, one that is thoroughly exciting from the first frame onwards. Even for non Star Trek fans, this is worth seeing because it's a film that has some well executed action scenes, and it's a fine example of genre cinema. Aside from the recent Star Trek films, this is one of my favorites, and the way that the story is told, mixed with engaging performances, makes this a must see film that will even appeal to genre skeptics. Even if you're not big into this particular genre, Star Trek First Contact is a strong picture that elevates the genre significantly. I enjoyed this film, even more so than other previous entries, and it ranks as one of the very best films in the Star Trek series. With a well crafted story, great effects, wonderful performances, this is a memorable and thrilling genre film that should be enjoyed by anyone that is looking for a highly entertaining Science Fiction film to watch.

Against Starfleet orders, the USS Enterprise travels to Earth, where several Starfleet vessels are battling a Borg Cube. The Cube is destroyed but a small sphere escapes and heads towards a temporal vortex, travelling back in time. Realizing the Borg plan to use time travel to change Earth's history, the Enterprise enters the vortex and follows the sphere back in time. Checking the date, Picard (Stewart) discovers it to be April 4th, 2063, the day before Earth first makes contact with alien life. The Enterprise crew track down Zefram Cochrane (Cromwell), the inventor of the warp drive, to ensure his historic first warp flight goes ahead. With the Original Series' crew finally retired, it came time for the Next Gen bunch to step up. Would they be able to carry on the Trek franchise on the big screen? The evidence of the previous film, 'Generations', would suggest not. It had become evident that, of the cast, only Stewart possessed the gravitas to carry a major motion picture. Most fans' biggest gripe concerned the manner in which Data (Spiner) had been transformed into a highly irritating comic foil thanks to the implementation of an "emotion chip". Thankfully, both of these issues are addressed in 'First Contact'. Picard is pushed to the forefront, making it very much Stewart's movie. Data's emotion chip is disabled early on at his captain's request and the groan-inducing comic situations are cast aside. The decision to base the first all-TNG movie around a plot involving the Borg was a no-brainer. Ever since the TV series' pivotal two-parter, 'The Best of Both Worlds', they had become most Trek fans' favorite villains. With the Federation signing peace accords with seemingly every former aggressor, the unfeeling Borg became the perfect antagonists. In 'TBOBW', set six years prior to this film, Picard had been held captive by the Borg, who attempted to assimilate him. This element makes 'First Contact' essentially a revenge movie. Explicit reference is made to 'Moby Dick', (a sci-fi cliche at this point), with Picard cast in the role of Ahab. The captain, out of character, allows his personal vendetta to get the better of him, putting those under his command at risk. Stewart shows us just what a great actor he really is, blowing everyone else off the screen. Allowing cast members to direct had negatively effected the series in the past. The entries helmed by Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner lacked the class of those directed by the legendary Robert Wise and the talented Nicholas Meyer. Many groans were heard when Frakes was named as director but his detractors were left with egg on their faces. The actor does a fantastic job here, making his directorial debut. As Meyer did with 'Wrath of Khan', Frakes changed the entire visual aesthetic of the series, implementing a new, darker look, in keeping with the nature of the Borg plot. The color-coded uniforms are replaced by a more somber grey-toned outfit and the decks of the Enterprise appear as though Starfleet are attempting to cut down on the energy bill. Cromwell had just become a star thanks to the surprise hit 'Babe'. His character, a drunken genius, could have been the one element which brought the movie down, given the comic nature of the role. Had someone like Rob Schneider been cast in the part, (quite possible in the mid-nineties), the result would have been a horror show. Cromwell handles the comic element in just the right manner, keeping the film out of camp territory. 'First Contact' features one of the most impressive effects shots you'll see in any sci-fi movie. It occurs when we're first introduced to the Borg Queen (Krige), as her head and shoulders are lowered down onto a mechanical body which then walks across the set. Unlike today, when CG is over-used to an annoying degree, the effect was achieved by combining CG with practical FX and reportedly took a total of five months to complete. After the bumpy start of 'Generations', 'First Contact' inspired a fresh confidence in fans that Trek could continue successfully as a big screen franchise. Sadly, they would never have it so good again.

Star Trek really isn't my thing, but this was a pretty cool film. I wish the story focused on one arc instead of splitting them, however. The main problem seemed to be with the Borg rather than with the astronaut, but they focused on them both even though the latter didn't have too many problems. As a result, both arcs were weaker than they would've been otherwise. A movie about First Contact alone, or about the Borg alone, would've been interesting-there was no need to combine them.

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NATO Explains Why The Theme For ‘Star Trek: First Contact’ Was Played At Sweden’s Induction Ceremony

| March 30, 2024 | By: Anthony Pascale 26 comments so far

Earlier this month Sweden officially joined NATO, becoming the 32nd member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. There was an official ceremony welcoming Sweden at NATO HQ in Brussels, raising their flag to join the other nations in the defense alliance. The Swedish delegation was led by Crown Princess Victoria and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, welcomed by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. A military band was on hand for the ceremony and there was a surprising bit of music from the final frontier that got things started. TrekMovie has the exclusive to explain what happened.

Sounds Swedish

The flag ceremony was held on March 11 in Belgium. As the assorted officials gathered and the flagbearers prepared to raise the Swedish flag, the band started off the event playing the main theme from Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact . You can see and hear the moment below from the live stream replay via Sky News. [music starts after first 15 seconds]

This bit of Trek showing up at such an auspicious occasion eventually got noticed by some fans. Certainly NATO’s mission of an alliance of partners working together to “guarantee the freedom and security of its members” fits with the ideals of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet, but it still is curious. TrekMovie reached out to NATO to find out more about First Contact showing up for Sweden’s big moment, and they replied.

A NATO official tells TrekMovie:

“Ahead of ceremonial military events, the band will often play a range of popular music, with the band given discretion with respect to which music to play. Jerry Goldsmith was a masterful film composer, as exemplified by his work on Star Trek’s “First Contact”. At the ceremony itself, the national anthem of Sweden and the NATO anthem were played.”

The same official noted that next week NATO is celebrating its 75th anniversary. There will be a ceremony complete with military bands and they are expected to again be playing a range of popular songs as guests arrive. It’s not known if Star Trek will be part of their repertoire.

Definitely Swedish

While it’s clear the musical director for the military band was a fan of Jerry Goldsmith, it could be they are also enough of a Trek fan to see a connection to the alliance and the themes of First Contact , which showed humanity’s first encounter with an alien race. Meeting the Vulcans in the aftermath of a world war began a new era of galactic cooperation that is held up as an idealized future for humanity.

Zefram Cochrane greets the Vulcan visitor to Earth in Star Trek: First Contact (Paramount Pictures)

They may also be a big enough fan to remember the specific connection between First Contact and Sweden. In the film, the USS Enterprise-E travels back in time from the 24th century to 2063. When Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) tries to explain the Borg to 21st century local Lily Sloane (Alfre Woodard) you get a bit of a recurring Sweden gag…

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Alternatively, First Contact took place in the aftermath of a nuclear war…

Er, yeah, wasn’t there also a passing mention of the “Eastern Coalition” or some such? I think it’s when they’re under attack from the Borg sphere.

Yes. The Eastern Coalition was heavily involved in WWIII

Okay, thanks.

This was wonderful. as Frakes tweeted.

FC was best Trek movie in many a die hard fan and casual fan/general movie audiences eyes (it was deemed so by many critics and fans when it came out and for a good few years until Wrath came back to the fore and won out in the end) and FC made Trek ‘cool’ for a while, so cool I could buy a STFC caramel filled chocolate bar in my local newsagent (Trek wasnt ‘cool’ again until ST09/ID, and before FC? maybe you could say TWOK or TVH or some of TNG were a ‘cool’ times for Trek, maybe )

The Swedish government has great taste in music.

My favourite score in Star Trek (along with the score to the relaunch of the Enterprise-D in Picard).

Are you talking about “Make it So” on the S3 Picard soundtrack? I listen to it every morning. It’s my favorite too.

That’s the one!!! An incredible piece of music!

Mine too. I LOVE it! 🖖😍👍📯🎶🤝🇸🇪

Same here dear! 😊

This is great! I had forgotten the Borg sounds Swedish gag in FC. I bet that was the fun inspiration for the selection. LOL!

That takes me back. I remember seeing First Contact in the theater in ’96 and the Borg/Swedish gag getting a big laugh. That was a fun night.

Seeing it for the first time, on the big screen back in 1996 — with a really fun, “borgified” laser show with quotes, images and music (!) from the movie directly above the audience, right before the feature — was a great night for us, too! 💨🌫💥🌫💨

What a great 🎶 choice for this event! 🖖😍

A Borg laser show? Awesome!

It was so well done, it must’ve been an officially licensed event that the German CinemaxX chain of theaters ran for their screenings. Wondering now, if it was basically the official trailer (or an extended version of it) as a laser show… maybe somebody else around here can confirm that part of it? 🤷‍♂️

Amazing. Historic. So proud. What an honor for the franchise, for the fans.

It actually sounds like a national anthem.

Goldsmith is my favorite composer in the history of the world bar none but I find the FC theme to fall under the heading of coming across as just ‘graduation day’ music, which is something that happens with some lesser John Williams stuff too. I’m not just picking on the biggies … Dennis McCarthy’s GEN score has the same effect on me, a little more distracting than engaging.

There’s a history with JG’s stuff being trotted out inappropriately (like Trump using AIR FORCE ONE music during a campaign instead of the more appropriate Vader/Imperial March or Nazi Germany’s Horst-Wessel-Lied), but I think the FC stuff might actually be more appropriate for NATO than for the movie.

Interesting, kmart. So, how would you rank your Trek score preferences? For me, it depends on my own mood. Of course, JG is a giant. I also like parts of Horner’s music and the eeriness and mysteriousness of Russo’s Picard s1 theme.

TMP and TFF and TWOK are my fave scores (and films.)

“ like Trump using AIR FORCE ONE music during a campaign instead of the more appropriate Vader/Imperial March or Nazi Germany’s Horst-Wessel-Lied ” How very one-sided of you. You should have left politics out of this. Some would see it as the opposite.

Some ALWAYS see it as the opposite. That’s what makes for horse-racing. Nice to see you out in the open on this.

One word: Priceless.

Fantastic! A great choice. Such a great score to a great film.

Too bad this didn’t happen on actual First Contact Day. But close enough! This is a great theme and a great nod to Star Trek.

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Origin Of First Contact Day Explained

Live long and prosper.

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On the eve of First Contact Day, let's revisit the origins of this significant moment in Star Trek history.

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How Was April 5 Chosen?

Yes, it’s time to celebrate a day that, well, hasn’t happened yet . Before we jump into a detailed explanation of what First Contact Day is within Star Trek canon, we thought we’d address a practical matter — how and why did the writers-producers of Star Trek: First Contact choose April 5 as First Contact Day?

In Montana, a crowd of observers watch the historic landing of the first extraterrestrial craft to openly and publicly visit Earth.

We turned to the film’s co-writer, Ronald D. Moore, who offered a remarkably simple, sensible and succinct explanation. “The short answer on First Contact Day is that it's my oldest son, Jonathan's birthday,” Moore told StarTrek.com. “And that's the only reason the date was chosen.”

What is the Significance of First Contact Day?

First Contact Day pays tribute to the flight of the warp-capable Phoenix and the pivotal first interaction between humans and Vulcans, which occurred on April 5, 2063.

The Vulcan leader greets Cochrane with the Vulcan salute 'live long and prosper'

The Phoenix , built and piloted by inventor Zefram Cochrane, was the spacecraft that marked mankind’s first successful attempt at traveling at warp, utilizing a warp drive. That night, shortly after launch, the Phoenix broke the warp barrier, which caught the attention of a Vulcan survey ship, the T'Plana-Hath , as it was passing Earth.

The T'Plana-Hath , landed in Bozeman, Montana, after tracking the warp signature of the Phoenix , believing this civilization was advanced enough with their discovery of faster-than-light travel. Minutes later, a robed Vulcan, displaying the split-fingered Vulcan greeting, made the acquaintance of Dr. Cochrane, initiating Earth's first contact with another species and ushering in a new era for humanity.

First Contact was made, and it paved the way to the formation of the United Federation of Planets.

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" Metamorphosis " ( Star Trek : The Original Series) – Stars Glenn Corbett as a young Cochrane
" First Contact " ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ) – Starfleet’s official definition of "making first contact" is to make contact with a planet or species that is about to become warp capable. In this episode, we see just how delicate the moment of First Contact can be.
Star Trek: First Contact – The Next Generation big-screen adventure with James Cromwell in the role of Cochrane (which he reprises, briefly, on Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: Lower Decks )
" Homestead " ( Star Trek: Voyager ) – Neelix and Naomi Wildman throw a party celebrating the 315th anniversary of First Contact Day, complete with heaping portions of Cochrane's favorite food (cheese pierogi), a classic jukebox, and Tuvok flashing the Vulcan salute and speaking the legendary line, "Live long and prosper"
" Grounded " ( Star Trek: Lower Decks ) – Mariner enlists her friends on a rogue mission to exonerate her mother, which includes a detour to Bozeman, Montana. In the three centuries since First Contact, Bozeman has become a tourist attraction thanks to Cochrane’s efforts. There’s even a replica of the Phoenix you can ride like a magic carpet right into space, piloted by a holographic representation of Cochrane himself!

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Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact ( Paramount Pictures , 1996 ) is the eighth feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series . In it, the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation again encounter their adversaries, the Borg , and this time attempt to prevent the Borg from changing history by conquering the Earth of the 21st century through the use of time travel . The film is from a script by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore , with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith .

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We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

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Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact is the eighth full-length motion picture in the Star Trek franchise and second movie set in the TNG time-frame.

The film begins with a Borg attack on the Federation . Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the new Sovereign-class starship Enterprise-E , having the most experience with the Borg of anyone in Starfleet, are naturally sent off to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone during the attack because of the fear that Picard's former assimilation might make him more of a liability in the battle than an asset. Some time during the battle, Picard and crew decide to dismiss their orders and join the battle. They arrive in time to rescue Worf and the crew of the Defiant . Picard still has some remaining Borg technology in him, allowing him to "hear" the Collective. Through this contact, he learns the exact spot needed to shoot at on the cube to destroy it. The cube is destroyed but launches a sphere before it explodes.

The Borg sphere travels back in time to the twenty-first century. Its goal is to prevent humanity's first contact with Vulcans , thus creating a new timeline where Earth is not strong enough to resist the Borg (contrary to Borg propaganda that "resistance is futile"). Firing from orbit, the sphere damages the first warp-capable ship, the Phoenix , built from an ICBM by Zephram Cochrane . Upon seeing the changes to the timeline, including a Borg-inhabited Earth, Picard orders the Enterprise-E to follow the sphere back in time to attempt to repair the timeline.

The Enterprise destroys the sphere but several Borg, including the Borg Queen transport to the Enterprise and begin assimilating the ship and crew. The surviving Borg make multiple other attempts to change history, each being subsequently thwarted. The final showdown takes place in the Borg hive in main engineering. Data, previously captured and tempted to join the Collective, fires on the Phoenix at the command of the queen. At the last second though, we see the torpedoes miss their target and we realize Data has resisted the queen's temptations. Data kills the queen by smashing a plasma coolant container which dissolves the queen's organic components, killing her, and the queen's death in turn destroys every Borg drone on the ship.

Eventually, the warp flight is made, the Vulcans come to Earth, and the Enterprise returns to its own time.

Continuity problems

Much has been made concerning the history of the man Zefram Cochrane . He and his personality seem portrayed very different in this film than in the TOS episode "Metamorphosis", in which the character first appeared.

The Borg also appear to have been completely changed from their first conceptions. When first introduced, we are told they have no gender, are not interested in humans, just the Enterprise as something to be used. We are also initially given the distinct impression that they have no centralized leadership. We neither saw nor heard of assimilating other life forms with the injectors seen in this film. Data even comments on the contradiction of having a Queen in this film. In the film's defense however, most people's major bugbear with the post-TNG Borg (that they were literally incapable of deductive reasoning and could only understand by assimilating) actually originated with Star Trek: Voyager rather than First Contact .

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The beloved score from Star Trek: First Contact was a surprising choice as the theme for the flag-raising ceremony when Sweden joined NATO.

Sweden surprises by playing Star Trek: First Contact's theme at NATO ceremony.
Director Jonathan Frakes approves of First Contact theme choice.
Star Trek: First Contact referenced Sweden, adding to the interesting connection.

The theme from Star Trek: First Contact , the second and most successful Star Trek: The Next Generation movie, was a surprise choice to play when Sweden joined NATO, and director Jonathan Frakes offers his reaction. Sweden joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on March 7, 2024. Sweden had maintained a policy of neutrality in military affairs since the Napoleonic Wars, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 prompted Sweden, along with Finland, to apply for NATO membership in May 2022.

TrekCentral posted a video on Twitter/X of the flag-raising ceremony in Brussels when Sweden officially joined NATO, where the theme from Star Trek: First Contact played. First Contact 's orchestral score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith , and it's one of the most popular movie themes among Star Trek fans. Check out the video below:

Star Trek: First Contact' s director, Jonathan Frakes , reacted to his movie's theme at Sweden's NATO ceremony in an X post:

Amusingly, Sweden is referenced in Star Trek: First Contact. When Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) explains the Borg to Lily Sloane (Alfre Woodard), she replies, "Borg? Sounds Swedish."

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Star Trek: First Contact is the most successful and popular of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies, and it's also one of the most important Star Trek movies due to its significance to the franchise. First Contact depicts the literal first meeting between humans and Vulcans, and the first warp flight of a human-made starship built by Dr. Zephram Cochrane (James Cromwell). These pivotal events are the literal origin of Star Tr ek and the starting point for what would become Starfleet and, later, the United Federation of Planets.

Star Trek: First Contact is the high-water mark of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films.

In addition, Star Trek: First Contact is a dazzling and exciting sci-fi adventure as Captain Picard takes on the Borg aboard the USS Enterprise-E. First Contact introduced the Borg Queen (Alice Krige), one of the greatest Star Trek villains, who has returned numerous times in Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Picard . Directed by Jonathan Frakes and co-written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga, Star Trek: First Contact is the high-water mark of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films. Sweden must agree First Contact is one of the best Star Trek movies if Jerry Goldsmith's theme was chosen for the country's NATO flag-raising ceremony,

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Resistance Is Futile .

The most popular Next Generation villain, the Borg, make another attempt to assimilate Earth . The newly-commissioned USS Enterprise -E scrambles to confront them, only to learn that the Borg have decided to use Time Travel to stop Earth's First Contact with aliens and Take Over the World , thus preventing The Federation from ever existing.

Arriving above Earth in the year 2063 , the Borg aim to stop Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive , from making his historic flight. Our heroes beam down to Set Right What Once Went Wrong , discovering in the process that the man their history paints as a visionary luminary was really a cynical drunk who just wanted to get rich . Regardless, they work to restore the damage the Borg caused and make sure that first contact goes as planned.

Believing that to be all their problems, they discover the Borg have invaded the Enterprise and are slowly taking control. This causes Picard, who was assimilated back in the TNG episode "The Best of Both Worlds", to go all Ahab . Meanwhile, Data is captured and the Borg Queen offers him a Deal with the Devil to Become a Real Boy .

Considered the best movie with the Next Generation crew, and a strong contender for second best Star Trek movie behind Wrath of Khan . Among the reasons behind its popularity includes strong continuity ties with the series while remaining a reasonable Gateway Series entry (everything you need to know about the characters is well-explained and it is action-oriented), as well as introducing some Backstory elements of how the Star Trek universe came to be. It was also a box office hit, earning $146,027,888 in the worldwide market, putting it behind only The One With The Whales in absolute dollars (adjusted for inflation, it would fall in the middle of the pack, though still well ahead of the other TNG movies).

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After the End : The crew travels back in time to the mid-21st century, when civilization is in ruins after a nuclear war (the Enterprise itself comes from centuries further ahead, After-the- After the End , and Zefram Cochrane's warp-drive experiment is about to give Earth a huge push in the right direction).
Alien Invasion
Arguably an inversion of the trope, as it's Cochrane (re)introducing it to the time travelers from the future.
Almost Kiss : Picard gives Lily a peck on the cheek. The way Lily reacted, she wanted something more intimate.
Ax Crazy : Picard, after being confronted with the decision to destroy the Enterprise or to continue fighting a near-hopeless battle against the Borg. (See his quote above.)
Badass : Worf recovers his reputation in this film after The Worf Effect had led to Badass Decay .
Badass Boast : "Brave words. I've heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created. And now, they are all Borg."
Another possibility is that while Data is a poor liar, previous TNG episodes reveal that he is an incredibly talented actor . He was simply playing the part .
Become a Real Boy : The Borg Queen attempts to win Data over by giving him the gift of organic skin and the ability to experience tactile sensations as a human would, something that the movie sets up earlier on that he can't do.
Big Bad : The Borg Queen.
Worf returns the favor when he saves Picard from an assimilated Hawk .
Big No : Complete with smashing his model ship collection.
Data, as more and more of his artificial skin is replaced with organic flesh takes on a ghoulish appearance as if sewn together from several corpses. Appropriate, since the only source of flesh the Borg would have is what their new drones don't need...
One scene shows one poor officer in the process of assimilation. By the time we see this, the Borg have already removed the lower half of his arm.
Broken Faceplate : Picard takes a blow to the head while wearing a Starfleet space suit, causing the visor to crack. Fortunately for him, it still holds.
Broken Pedestal : Cochrane. Unusually for this trope, the crew doesn't seem to mind. Cochrane slowly coming around is a lighter inversion of Picard falling from the "more evolved" sense of responsibility and morality he tells Lily humans have in the 24th century.
Bunny Ears Lawyer : Cochrane is without a doubt one of the brightest minds of his time. He's also a heavy drinker and thinks first contact is best celebrated with whiskey and dancing.
Possible Red Shirt ?
Including Data's comment that's he's "fully functional" and "programmed in multiple techniques". As a side note, Dr. Soong was a dirty, dirty man.
The holonovel Picard runs in order to access a Tommy Gun is The Big Goodbye . This callback is especially apt as the plot of that episode is not only the first ever Holodeck malfunction, but also features a character being maimed with a hologramatic gun. In this case, the safeties were deliberately turned off to achieve the same effect.
Worf's "Perhaps today is a good day to die! is a call-back to a few Klingon episodes.
Riker calls the Defiant a "tough little ship"; Thomas Riker had said the exact same thing to Sisko.
Michael Zaslow, who played Star Trek' s first ever Red Shirt , appears as Eddie the bartender.
Nonhuman example: The Millennium Falcon can (just barely) be seen zipping around the battle with the Borg cube.
Cargo Ship : Lampooned in-universe by Troi. Picard reaches out and touches the Phoenix , because he was never allowed to do so seeing it at a museum, and Data tries to understand why touching it would mean anything, which makes for an interesting conversation for Troi to walk in on...
Catapult Nightmare : Averted and then played straight during Picard's Dream Within a Dream . When he falsely wakes up from his first nightmare he simply opens his eyes while sitting in his desk chair; when he wakes up for real, he jumps up from his bed (although what wakes him up is a distress call, so there's somewhat more logic to it).
China Takes Over the World : The Eastern Coalition or ECON, one of the factions in the Third World War (and who Cochrane originally thinks the Borg's attack comes from) is said to be a version of this in the Star Trek Expanded Universe , although it's not detailed in the film itself.
City Planet : Earth has become this under Borg rule in an alternate timeline. Oddly enough the population consists of only 9 billion Borg even though the planet's entire surface seems to have been completely urbanized and technified. Presumably, the rest of the space is taken up by automated factories or other automated urbanization.
Conqueror From the Future : The Borg's plan.
Continuity Nod : The moon hiding the Enterprise -E from the approaching Vulcan ship is probably a nod to The Wrath of Khan , where the Enterprise hid from the Reliant by circling around Regula on its opposite side .
The USS Defiant was introduced on Deep Space Nine as being a prototype starship specifically designed to fight the Borg. Apparently it was a running fight from where the fleet engaged the cube to when it came in orbit around Earth. This is the only time the ship got to fulfill its purpose and despite its size, it took a hit from a Borg weapon and returned fire.
Several other background starships from the opening battle have gotten surprising amounts of love from the fans , most notably the Akira-class . Canonically the ships were designed and built after the devastating defeat at Wolf 359 from the episode "Best of Both Worlds," already forming a major backstory to this film, and were meant to be more battle-hardy than previous Starfleet ships.
It could be a moment of Fridge Brilliance if one believes that the Star Wars movies exist in the Star Trek universe and someone created a starship that looks just like the Millennium Falcon as a tribute.
Not surprising, considering it's the aftermath of World War III .
Dawn of an Era
Darker and Edgier : TNG was sometimes criticized for lacking in action and character drama, which admittedly was because Gene Roddenberry wanted a series that spent more time on ideas rather than violence and characters who argue all the time. This movie is a rock-em action flick with some serious interpersonal conflict (Picard and Worf especially), with a literally darker color palette in both the new uniforms and the sets even before Borg assimilation.
Deal with the Devil : Subverted .
And both, in different senses, created the world of Star Trek .
Picard's hate for the Borg in his "The line must be drawn here" speech is like a person's hate for a rapist.
Also, the interactions between Picard, Data, and the Borg Queen come across as a jilted girlfriend wanting to show her ex how he could never measure up to her new boyfriend, and prove that she's totally winning the break-up.
Dramatic Shattering : Picard with his Big No .
Dream Within a Dream / Mind Screw : The entire opening sequence. Picard is on the Borg cube, but it's All Just a Dream , so he rinses himself off as a Borg implant pops from his face, but that's All Just a Dream too!
The End of the Beginning
Epic Tracking Shot : The movies start almost inside Picard's eye and then pulls back to show the humongous Borg complex he was in, All Just a Dream , or rather a traumatic memory.
Executive Meddling : A positive one: Ira Steven Behr insisted that the "tough little ship" exchange be added to the opening battle, so it was clear that the Defiant had survived and could still be used on Deep Space 9 .
Eye Scream : To Picard. In the freaking opening sequences, no less! Later on, assimilated Enterprise crew appear to have had one of their eyes gouged out and replaced with some kind of interface circuitry prior the the installation of the prosthetic visualizer.
Face Palm : After Drunk Cochrane restores power to the jukebox and starts drunkenly dancing again, Riker dances slightly too... and then Troi passes out, which Riker promptly responds to with a facepalm.
Fake Defector : Data .
Fate Worse Than Death : Picard expresses this conviction about being turned into a Borg drone. While the strike team is preparing after the Borg are found to have infiltrated the Enterprise, he tells his men that when they encounter assimilated crew members they shouldn't hesitate to kill them, because they'll be doing them a favor.
First Contact : Obviously.
Future Imperfect : Only applies in the crew's hero worship of Cochrane. Otherwise — like many other Time Travel Tropes in this film — averted. Picard simply asks the computer to make them some period costume and then they fit right in.
Hearing Voices : Picard can't get the Collective out of his head...
Buck Compton , the Tin Man and David Williams is Lieutenant Hawk.
Bob Pinciotti traded his afro for a metal nose as holographic gangster Nicky the Nose.
You Look Familiar : Cromwell had also previously been seen in two roles on Next Generation . He was the Angosian Prime Minister in "The Hunted" and a Yridian information dealer named Jaglom Shrek in both parts of "Birthright".
Get Out! : Picard says this to Lily when she confronts him about his lust for revenge against the Borg.
Historical Hero Upgrade : In-Universe example. Cochrane in the future is seen as a great visonary. In reality though, he was a drunken jerkass who was just trying to get rich.
Hold the Line . The Captain Ahab variety.
Humans Are Morons : Humans of the mid-21st Century live in a post-apocalyptic society with just barely enough infrastructure to continue research on a warp drive , while the other races have already begun exploring the galaxy and view humanity as being "too primitive". The main goal in the movie is to ensure that humanity overcomes that notion and gains recognition from the alien community (or at least the Vulcans) at large. Naturally, as the large majority of the rest of Star Trek canon shows, humanity generally overcomes this view among alien races to become the dominant space-faring race .
Humans Are Special : Why are the Borg going to such extreme lengths to assimilate Earth? Because once Earth rolls over, the rest of the Federation will be a piece of cake and assimilating Earth in the past saves them even more trouble by preventing the Federation from even existing.
I Am the Trope : The Borg Queen is the Borg. Data himself isn't quite sure what this means.
Rule of Funny also plays a small part, as well.
I Need a Freaking Drink : When Lily protests that Cochrane can't fly the Phoenix drunk, he insists that he sure as hell isn't going to do it sober.
Insignificant Little Blue Planet : Discussed Trope after Cochrane's first brief warp flight and he turns the ship around to look at the Earth behind them.
Instant Expert : Data learns deception . He goes from unconvincingly lying about "mimicking the behavior of humans" when his arm flesh gets slashed, to convincing Queenie that he had sided with her and would betray Humanity to the Borg.
Ironic Echo : Data repeats the Borg's famous line "Resistance is futile" right before he reveals he was playing the Borg Queen and releases the gas which will destroy them.
Keystone Army
That said, notice how the second drone Picard dropped with his holo-tommy took a LOT more direct hits before going down than the first. If there had been a third drone...
Melee attacks weave in and out. On one hand, Worf and Data do well beating up drones in melee. On the other hand, Worf is inhumanly strong and Data is superhumanly strong, and both still ended up taking hits. The one human Red Shirt that attempts to Phaser-butt a drone gets his ass handed to him in short order. Later on, one officer practically balks at the idea of hand-to-hand combat with Borg, clearly aware that such an attempt would fail horribly.
An example of Tropes Are Not Bad . That monologue is freaking epic, and it's mainly Patrick Stewart's skill as an actor that keeps from turning it into Narm .
Last-Note Nightmare : The opening titles. Beautiful, uplifting music that fades into silence... and then ... WHAM!
Let Me Get This Straight... : Invoked by Cochrane.
Mauve Shirt : Lt. Hawk.
Meaningful Name : The Phoenix, the first warp-drive ship, can be seen as having risen from the ashes of World War III.
Mercy Kill : Picard shoots a crewmember as he is being assimilated by the Borg.
Mundanisation : Averted. This is one of the few time-travel stories that involves people from the far future going back to the near future, rather than the present day or past. Another Star Trek example is the Deep Space Nine episode "Past Tense".
My God, What Have I Done? : Picard's reaction after Lily's quoting of Moby Dick and his Unstoppable Rage smashing his model ships ( Enterprise -D and -C for extra pathos, if you're an astute observer) makes him realize he's throwing the crew's lives away because of his own vendetta against the Borg.
Never Trust a Trailer : The trailer depicts Picard's " The line must be drawn HERE !" speech as a Badass Boast , instead of the Roaring Rampage of Revenge / Sanity Slippage on Picard's part. Additionally, the trailer also features Data's sneering "Resistance is futile" retort, but makes it seem as if Data had been fully subverted by the Borg, instead of being a Pre-Mortem One-Liner aimed at the Borg Queen. And more importantly, the trailers made it look like the Borg were mounting a full-scale invasion against the Federation, instead of only attacking Earth.
Picard himself is stopped just short of doing this when Lily chucks a What the Hell, Hero? at him.
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot : Klingon Borg!
No One Gets Left Behind : Picard refuses to leave the self-destructing Enterprise without Data.
Not Using the Z Word : Averted, the Borg are described as bionic zombies on a couple of occasions.
Oh Crap : Riker and Geordi share a look that just screams this when, after being told that a system has malfunctioned, Cochrane proceeds to hit the controls , shrug, and say, "Don't worry!"
The Other Darrin : James Cromwell replaces Glenn Corbett as Zefram Cochrane, who first appeared in the original series episode " Metamorphosis ".
Our Founder : When informed that he's standing in the exact same spot as his future statue, Cochrane goes a little bit nuts.
Out-of-Character Moment : Troi getting drunk trying to reason with Cochrane. Rule of Funny at play. Justified because she's, well, drunk.
Percussive Maintenance : Averted. Cochrane attempts to fix a warning light on the Phoenix by hitting the console. It doesn't work, and he ultimately tells Riker and Geordi to ignore it.
Popcultural Osmosis : Lily never read Moby Dick , but it's so well known, the basic point was still clear to her.
Don't forget Lily started her What the Hell, Hero? speech to Picard by saying "You son of a bitch!".
"Assimilate THIS. "
" Resistance Is Futile ."
Ramming Always Works : Worf was going to do this before the Enteprise -E decided to have a Big Damn Heroes moment.
Rapid-Fire Typing : Data shutting down the main computer. Justified Trope : Data's an android and can type at super speed (he did it all the time during the show). That's why he was asked to do it.
Refusal of the Call : Cochrane, when he got overwhelmed with his role in history.
He gets over it.
Cochrane was also called "Cochrane of Alpha Centauri" in "Metamorphosis". However, fanon had long since decided he was a human who just moved to Alpha Centauri after inventing warp drive, presumably because Earth Is the Centre of The Universe .
Cochrane also looks much older than he should, according to dates given in "Metamorphosis." The semi-official explanation for this is that he is younger than he looks because of radiation poisoning.
This actually fits in with the original concept of The Borg as a race that simply replaces biological parts with mechanical ones as they wear out.
Revenge Before Reason : Picard's motivation for fighting the Borg at any cost. Lily points this out with "Captain Ahab has to go hunt his whale!"
Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory : The Enterprise can see the Borg!Earth timeline, but since they're in the wake of the time disturbance caused by the Borg Sphere, they're unaffected. It's strongly implied that they'd vanish from existence had they not went through the time aperture themselves.
They wanted him to choose to join them of his own free will, though. With a very tempting benefits package, too.
Sacrificial Lamb : Lt. Hawk
Scale-Model Destruction : Picard takes some of his anger out on the model ships in the stateroom.
~Screw The Rules, I'm Doing What's Right~: Captain Jean-Luc Picard disobeys the orders of Star Fleet and goes to the front line to engage the Borg. And the crew are behind him.
Set Right What Once Went Wrong : An interesting use of the trope because, unusually, the historical event in question lies in our (the viewers') future, and we don't know exactly what it is until the end of the film.
Songs of Solace : After being told he will not be part of the fleet to defend Earth Picard spends his time in his office listening to opera so loud that it vibrates objects on his desk.
Sophisticated As Hell : (drunkenly) "In my professional opinion as ship's counselor... he's nuts."
Shouting Shooter : Picard when taking down the Borg with a Tommy gun.
The Maglock system has a subsystem designation of AE35 .
Sleeves Are for Wimps : Picard is in a sleeveless uniform for the climactic showdown, and damn .
Spheroid Dropship : The Borg Sphere.
Team Rocket Wins : The crew spend most of the movie getting their collective asses repeatedly handed to them by the Borg.
~This! Is! SPARTA!~: "Resistance. Is. Futile."
Theme Music Power-Up : During the Enterprise' s Gunship Rescue moment.
Time Travel
Tired of Running : Subverted because it showcases Picard's obsession to destroy the Borg.
Title Drop : The only one in the whole series: "You're all... astronauts, on... some kind of star trek." Naturally, the phrase "first contact" is also used a few times.
Fridge Logic : If it sounded as if a fellow engineer has his hand crushed by heavy machinery or a similar accident, most people would rush in to help too.
Tuckerization : One of the Borg drones Picard guns down during the Dixon Hill program, Ensign Lynch, was widely believed to be named after TNG reviewer Tim Lynch. In fact, he was named after a friend of Brannon Braga .
Two Lines, No Waiting : For most of the film, there are three storylines going; Riker convincing Cochrane to make his flight, Picard fighting the Borg and Data's interrogation by the Borg Queen. Since Picard didn't voice his suspicion that the Borg are aboard the Enterprise before returning to the ship with Data (upon which they lost all communications), Riker, Troi, LaForge and the rest of the engineers on the surface never actually realize what's happening aboard the Enterprise.
Unfazed Everyman : Lily. Overlaps with The Watson .
Verb This : Occurs before destroying the Borg's interplexing beacon .
Villainesses Want Heroes : the Borg Queen wanted Picard to willingly submit to the Borg and be her..."consort".
Wham! Line : "Population: 9 billion. All Borg. "
This is likely the case. There are numerous incidents of torpedoes missing their targets and sailing off in the series, and the only time anyone goes to retrieve one is a special, experimental torpedo that had clearly suffered a major malfunction during testing.
Lt. Porter, the first Enterprise crewmember to be assimilated, is one of the drones who pulls Picard to the assimilation table.
What Measure Is a Mook? : Lily bashes Picard for his callous treatment of the crew and for killing Ensign Lynch (who got turned into a Borg) during the "The line must be drawn here!" scene.
What the Hell, Hero? : Most of Picard's crew is hesitant to follow his increasingly judgment-impaired orders and Worf has a particularly venomous response when Picard calls him a coward for refusing to obey suicidal orders. Lily gives Picard a big one for his willingness to sacrifice his crew to get revenge on the Borg instead of doing the necessary thing. Picard finally wises up and orders the evacuation and destruction of his ship, like he should have earlier.
What Year Is This? : Averted, as the ship's sensors identify the approximate time period from orbit from the level of pollution in the atmosphere and then narrow it down to a specific date. Data also mentions taking astrometric readings, presumably comparing the stars where they are to where they should be in their present.
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? : Averted by Lt. Hawk regarding simply shooting the Borg deflector dish modifications instead of manually detaching them . Picard responds with Made of Explodium Techno Babble . It's also consistent; when they finally detach the dish, Worf then hits it once and it ignites into a giant fireball.
Also when Picard shows Lily the Earth below her through a force field window.
Worthy Opponent : Worf tells Picard as much when Picard insults him;
You Will Be Assimilated : Yeah.
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First contact , the first contact between species
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First Contact Day , a day celebrating the first human-alien contact
First Contact Office , an office in Starfleet dedicated to first contact
First Contact (episode) , a TNG episode
Star Trek: First Contact , the eighth Star Trek movie
First Contact (CCG) , a CCG set
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The Borg Queen was the name of the entity that existed within and served as the queen of the Borg Collective . An ancient being, the Queen has existed for many hundreds of years. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; PIC : " Surrender ") In the event of her body's destruction, she would appear to be reincarnated with her personality and memories intact. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; VOY : " Dark Frontier ", " Unimatrix Zero ", " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ", " Endgame ")

Two decades after suffering catastrophic defeat at the hands of Admiral Janeway , the Borg Queen collaborated with a rogue faction of Changelings to rebuild her collective and take revenge upon the Federation . Her final scheme was thwarted by her old enemy, Jean-Luc Picard , and she was killed once and for all by the USS Enterprise -D , bringing an end to the threat of the Borg. ( PIC : " Võx ", " The Last Generation ")

1 Role and personality
2.2 Attacks on Earth
2.3 Conflicts with Voyager
2.4 Alliance with the Changelings
3 Alternate timeline
5.1 Appearances
5.2 Background information
5.3.1 Borg Invasion 4D
5.4 External links

Role and personality [ ]

The Queen defined herself as: " I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. I am the Borg. " As the queen of the Borg Collective and the lone individual within it, the Borg Queen provided direction and purpose for the hive mind. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ", " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ", " Endgame "; PIC : " Watcher ", " Hide and Seek ")

It was thought by Federation exobiologist Erin Hansen that the Borg Queen functioned like the queen of an insect hive, to coordinate the drones. Evidence of this was later seen when the Queen countermanded the Collective's judgment about assimilating Voyager in 2378 . While the Collective felt that assimilation was warranted, the Borg Queen countermanded them and justified the decision due to the fact that Voyager didn't compromise their security. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

The Queen, while providing coordination for the drones she commanded, also provided other functions such as regulation of the Collective's transwarp hubs and interspatial manifolds . She effectively brought "order to chaos" for all things. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

According to Seven of Nine , " The Borg Queen has a kind of trans-temporal awareness. It bridges into adjacent times, realities. They hear echoes of themselves, of— of each other. " ( PIC : " Penance ")

The death of the Borg Queen, while traumatic to drones in the immediate vicinity, did not seem to permanently affect the Collective or its hive mind as a whole. The Queen was subsequently replicated after each death, although the exact mechanism of her reincarnations remains unclear. Borg drones were capable of functioning without a Queen for any length of time by forming a Hive mind of their own. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; VOY : " Unity ", " Dark Frontier ")

The disembodied Borg Queen aboard the partially-assimilated Enterprise -E

In accordance with the Borg pursuit of perfection, a blending of the organic and synthetic, very little of her original humanoid form remained. Her face and upper torso were organic while the rest of her body, including her skull and spinal cord , were synthetic . Because of her disembodiment she saw herself as the epitome of perfection. The Queen had her own chambers within the Borg Unicomplex from which she could oversee and control the Borg via the command interface . Whether she had her own ship or not is unknown, but she used different Borg vessels to travel, such as a Borg cube , sphere , or octahedron . When her physical presence was not necessary her organic part resided above this chamber while her synthetic parts were stored below it, under the floor. If she desired to do so, both could be brought together, and in doing so, created a humanoid form for herself.

The Borg Queen assembled in 2377

Where her drones showed no emotions , the Queen herself did. She was ruthless, vindictive, petty, and selfish. She would do anything to expand the Borg Collective, employing psychological tactics like extortion, manipulation, plain intimidation or even seduction to further her goals. The Queen placed her own self-preservation over that of the Collective, cannibalizing the bodies of her last remaining drones to keep herself alive after the collapse of the hive. On a personal level, she considered Seven of Nine her favorite drone, because the Queen considered her to be unique. ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ", " Dark Frontier ")

Despite being one with the minds of billions, the Queen felt a sense of profound isolation and loneliness. Her inexorable drive to assimilate was partially motivated by a desire for connection. With millions of species not enough to sate her, she attempted to fill this void by grooming potential counterparts that were more than mere drones. Jean-Luc Picard , Data , Seven of Nine , Agnes Jurati were all such candidates. ( Star Trek: First Contact ; VOY : " Dark Frontier "; PIC : " Hide and Seek ")

Following the decimation of the Borg Collective, the Borg Queen succumbed to desperation and insanity from the isolation she endured. Nevertheless, she retained her intellect and tactical mind, working with the Changelings from behind the scenes to execute her plans for a Borg resurgence. ( PIC : " Võx ", " The Last Generation ")

History [ ]

The Borg Queen (or perhaps merely one of her bodies) was assimilated to the Collective from Species 125 around the age of 7-8, along with her parents, and was already active in the Delta Quadrant in 2354 . ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ")

Attacks on Earth [ ]

The existence of the Borg Queen was documented sometime prior to 2365 by the exobiologists Erin and Magnus Hansen . However, because the Hansens were assimilated, their discovery never reached the Federation . ( VOY : " The Raven ")

It was not until 2373 , that the Federation became aware of her when the Federation starship USS Enterprise -E prevented the assimilation of Earth . This was the second attempt by the Borg, also known as the Battle of Sector 001 . The Borg Queen, along with a contingent of drones, traveled back to Earth's past to prevent First Contact , and by doing so, hoped to be able to assimilate Earth.

The Borg Queen with Locutus in 2366

During this conflict, while Captain Jean-Luc Picard was trying to destroy the Borg, the Queen claimed to have been present during the Battle of Wolf 359 , and even admitted that Locutus of Borg – the assimilated Picard – was intended to be a singular intelligence – a counterpart that was intended to ease the burden of loneliness. However, when Picard continued to resist, even when he could not control Locutus' body, she was regretfully forced to turn him into the form in which Starfleet encountered him—a glorified drone. Whether or not she physically took part in the Battle of Wolf 359 was unknown.

Picard and Data killed the Borg Queen after she tried to persuade Data to give her the encryption code by which he had locked the Enterprise 's computer . She ordered Data to destroy the Phoenix spaceship with quantum torpedoes, and taunted Picard that she would rule Earth without Humans or the Federation in it, when the torpedoes missed. Data told her, "Resistance is futile!" and vented the warp core plasma coolant , which destroyed her organic parts. Picard then broke her cybernetic spinal cord, which ensured that she could no longer function. ( Star Trek: First Contact )

In 2399 , Picard mentally recalled the image of the Borg Queen and Locutus while aboard The Artifact . ( PIC : " The Impossible Box ")

As of 2401 , the remains of this incarnation of the Queen were stored at Daystrom Station . ( PIC : " The Bounty ")

Conflicts with Voyager [ ]

Starfleet's second documented encounter with the Borg Queen was in 2375 in the Delta Quadrant . Here, the lost Federation starship USS Voyager, tried to rescue the former Borg Drone, Seven of Nine, who was then part of Voyager 's crew, when the plan to steal a transwarp coil from a Borg sphere did not work out as planned. The Queen also revealed that Seven of Nine was not really freed by Voyager from the Collective, but was allowed to leave by the Borg. During this encounter, the Borg Queen hoped to assimilate Seven of Nine again, who experienced life as an individual for two years, and by doing so, add to her own perfection. However, Seven rejected the Queen and fled with a rescue mission sent by Voyager in the Delta Flyer . The Borg Queen's octahedron was sent by the Queen to intercept the shuttle , but it was destroyed in the attempt. ( VOY : " Dark Frontier ")

The Borg Queen was one of several real people who was adapted into a character in Kelis ' play, based on descriptions from B'Elanna Torres . ( VOY : " Muse ")

In 2376 and 2377 , the Borg Queen was again encountered by Voyager . This time the Queen wanted to destroy Unimatrix Zero , a virtual world that was populated by regenerating Borg with a genetic mutation. This world was discovered by Seven of Nine and posed a threat to the Borg. During Voyager 's efforts to rescue this virtual world, the Borg Queen demonstrated her powers by destroying a Borg sphere because she could no longer "hear" only one drone. When a nanovirus was released to prevent the detection of Unimatrix Zero , the Queen destroyed several Borg vessels, and killed 75,000 Borg Drones in the process, in the hope of persuading the captured Captain Janeway to give her the antidote. ( VOY : " Unimatrix Zero ", " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ")

The Borg Queen in 2378

Admiral Janeway confronts the Borg Queen in 2378

The last encounter between Voyager and the Borg Queen was in 2378 . Voyager accidentally discovered a Borg transwarp hub within a nebula and were helped by Admiral Kathryn Janeway, who came from an alternate timeline around twenty-six years in the future , to use the Borg transwarp network to get back to the Alpha Quadrant . Because the Borg guarded their transwarp hub closely, Admiral Janeway devised a plan by which she would infect the Borg Queen with a neurolytic pathogen and in doing so make her lose control over the force fields which protected the interspatial manifolds. When the admiral was captured by the Borg, near the Unicomplex , she was assimilated by the Borg Queen herself. Soon after, the Queen began to lose control over her drones.

The end of the Borg Queen

The pathogen even made her lose control over her own synthetic parts, as her body literally fell apart. Her death caused the destruction of the Unicomplex and despite her efforts, Voyager reached Earth safely. The Borg sphere that was sent after them by the Queen was destroyed by Voyager 's transphasic torpedoes , which were given to them by Admiral Janeway from the future. ( VOY : " Endgame ")

Alliance with the Changelings [ ]

Despite the peace brokered between Jurati's Borg and Starfleet, the original Collective remained hostile, and set in motion a plan to assimilate Starfleet from within. The Collective had slowly dwindled following the neurolytic pathogen infection from Admiral Janeway. The Queen managed to survive by cannibalizing parts of her drones, though without the ability to assimilate new drones into the Collective, the Queen was eventually left alone as her drones died of starvation and old age which apparently drove her insane.

As those voices fell silent, the Queen began to hear a new voice - that of Jack Crusher , the son of Jean-Luc Picard and carrier of a transmitter protein inherited from his father's Borg-altered DNA. She realized that the future of the Borg no longer lay in assimilation, but in evolution, propagation, and the annihilation of all other life forms in the galaxy. Over the years, the Queen communicated with Jack, intending to lure him to her. Jack believed the voice was that of his mother.

The Borg Queen communicating with Vadic as "The Face"

In order to enact her plan, the Borg Queen made a deal with rogue Changelings , lead by Vadic sometime leading up to 2401 . The Changelings, who were vengeful themselves for what had happened to them in the Dominion War, agreed to help by stealing Jean-Luc Picard's body from Daystrom Station in order to extract his Borg DNA and spread it through Starfleet's transporter system as common biology. They would also hunt Jack Crusher with the intent of bringing him to the Borg Queen. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

She communicated with Vadic via Vadic's severed hand , with which the Borg Queen formed a simulacrum of a face in mid-air.

Vadic reported that the USS Titan -A , carrying their "asset" Jack Crusher , had fallen into the gravity well at the center of the Ryton Nebula , where her ship the Shrike could not follow due to its portal weapon . The Borg Queen ordered Vadic to pursue regardless, stating that everything, including her and her crew, was expendable. ( PIC : " No Win Scenario ")

After capturing and interrogating William T. Riker and Deanna Troi but failing to gain any information, Vadic contacted the Borg Queen again to report that they would not break. The Borg Queen demanded that she try harder to break them, and noted that Vadic's physiology was not as special or complex as she believed. She stated that the Changelings' nature was to be malleable, while the enemy's kind were "beholden to a singular flesh." The Borg Queen then reiterated that Starfleet's fallure was near and she needed Jack Crusher, but warned that should Vadic fail, the Changelings' existence would become "meaningless." ( PIC : " Dominion ")

After Jack became aware of his true nature, he sought out the Borg Queen, with the intention of killing her. Arriving aboard her makeshift mega-cube in the atmosphere of Jupiter , the Queen welcomed Jack, telling him that she had "thought of so many names" for him – "Regenerati. Peur Dei." Jack rejected these names, and the Borg Queen responded that he was Võx, not Locutus, "the one that speaks". Jack was "the voice itself". Boarding the cube to confront her, Jack raised his phaser but was unable to kill the Borg Queen, who mocked him for his inability. She then assimilated Jack and used him to broadcast a signal to all affected Starfleet personnel, triggering the last stage of their assimilation. ( PIC : " Võx ")

The crew of the USS Enterprise -D tracked a Borg signal to Jupiter. Picard, William T. Riker and Worf beamed aboard the Borg vessel to find both Jack and the origin of the signal. Picard separated from Riker and Worf to find Jack, who had already been transformed completely into Võx .

Picard's confrontation with the Queen escalated until Picard reconnected with Jack and convinced Jack to reject the Borg. The Enterprise flew in overhead, and was able to beam them to safety as the Cube exploded from the Enterprise 's attack, killing the Queen and ending the Collective once and for all.

Following the Borg Queen's death and the destruction of her Cube, the signal to Starfleet was cut ending the Borg control over it. Dr. Beverly Crusher was subsequently able to find a way to remove the Borg DNA from everyone, ending the Borg Queen's plan permanently. ( PIC : " The Last Generation ")

Alternate timeline [ ]

The Borg Queen from an alternate 2401

In 2401 , an atypical version of the Borg Queen beckoned Jean-Luc Picard to a region of space , where she expressed a desire to join the Federation. After it seemingly appeared to take over the USS Stargazer , Picard destroyed the ship, rather than to allow it to be assimilated.

Following the destruction of the Stargazer , Picard and other members of the Stargazer crew found themselves in an alternate timeline , created through the intervention of Q . Xenophobic Humans dominated parts of the galaxy, and even managed to defeat the Borg; their immobilized Queen was held by the Earth's Confederation. This Borg Queen, who possessed an awareness of the split in the timeline, was set to be executed by Picard. With her species having been wiped out in this timeline, the Borg Queen agreed to help Picard and his crew travel back in time and correct the timeline.

Though killed by a shotgun blast from Jurati, after arriving in 2024 , this Queen had managed to assimilate Dr. Agnes Jurati and live on through Jurati. ( PIC : " The Star Gazer ", " Penance ", " Mercy ", " Farewell ")

See : Agnes Jurati, Borg Queen

Hologram [ ]

A hologram of the Borg Queen

A hologram of the Borg Queen appeared in Starfleet 's Borg Encounter holographic training drill , in use by 2381 . In the simulation , it was possible for the user to beat the Queen at chess and teach her empathy to improve their score. ( LD : " I, Excretus ")

Appendices [ ]

Appearances [ ].

Star Trek: First Contact
" Dark Frontier "
" Unimatrix Zero "
" Unimatrix Zero, Part II "
" Endgame "
" The Impossible Box " (archive footage)
" The Star Gazer " (alternate timeline)
" Penance " (alternate timeline)
" Assimilation " (alternate timeline)
" Watcher " (alternate timeline)
" Fly Me to the Moon " (alternate timeline)
" Two of One " ( illusion )
" No Win Scenario " (as "The Face")
" Dominion " (as "The Face")
" The Last Generation "
LD : " I, Excretus " (hologram)

Background information [ ]

The Borg Queen was played by Alice Krige in Star Trek: First Contact , VOY : " Endgame ", PIC : " Võx ", " The Last Generation " (voice only) and (as a holographic duplicate ) LD : " I, Excretus ". The character was played by Susanna Thompson in the Star Trek: Voyager episodes " Dark Frontier ", " Unimatrix Zero ", and " Unimatrix Zero, Part II ". In Star Trek: Picard season 2 , the Borg Queen was played by Annie Wersching . The Borg Queen's Changeling simulacrum, identified in end credits as "The Face", was voiced by Garth Kemp . The body of the Queen in season 3 of Picard was portrayed by Jane Edwina Seymour , credited as "Borg Queen Body Double ".

In an early design meeting for the Borg Queen, the movie Captain EO was mentioned, regarding Anjelica Huston 's performance as a villainous woman who lived in the ceiling and would descend on cables. [1]

The appearance of the Borg Queen in First Contact was a controversial one in the Star Trek universe. Though the Borg provided for a threatening and intriguing alien enemy, their lack of a single villain presented a challenge for the writers. To counter this, and to expand some on the original notion of the Borg as an insect-hive type of race, they created the Borg Queen as a focal point for their story. Writer Brannon Braga has stated in this respect, " I think some people liked the Borg Queen and some didn't, but to us the Borg Queen was the thing that made it all work. We realized very quickly that the Borg aren't that interesting for a feature film for two hours because they don't say anything. They're robot zombies. So, to me, the Borg Queen was the coolest new thing about that movie. " [2]

Later in First Contact , when asked by Picard how she had survived when the cube that was sent to Earth in 2367 was destroyed, the Queen only replied that Picard had become small, and thought in three-dimensional terms.

Alice Krige purposely limited the ways in which she prepared for "Endgame", reviewing neither her own work on First Contact nor any of Susanna Thompson's portrayal of the same character. This choice was not motivated out of any sort of disrespect for Thompson, and had nothing at all to do with the actress. ( Star Trek Magazine issue 169 , p. 52; [3] ) Krige speculated, " Whoever had played the role, I would have made the same decision. " [4] Explaining why she made the choice, Krige conceded, " I thought to see someone else's performance would throw me off course. It was already going to be fairly different because it was the Borg Queen with two females, as opposed to the Borg Queen with two males [...] I just felt it wouldn't help the process. " ( Star Trek Magazine issue 169 , p. 52) She also related, " I didn't want something in my head, in my imagination. I needed my performance to happen in the moment. " [5] Krige did, however, request to receive and read all the Voyager scripts featuring the Borg Queen, including the new teleplay for "Endgame". She indeed read the scripts, despite not watching any of the episodes. ( Star Trek Magazine issue 169 , p. 52; [6] )

In 2002, the Borg Queen was placed second in TV Zone 's list of the top twenty science fiction television villains. Dukat was fourth, Weyoun was eighth, Q was eleventh, and Seska was nineteenth. ( citation needed • edit ) In an early version of the script of Star Trek: First Contact (a script very different from the movie), Geordi La Forge tells Data that he is sending the Borg Queen's remains to the Daystrom Institute for study. [7]

When asked whether the Queen was a "virtual entity; the personification of the collective", Braga's writing partner, Ronald D. Moore , said, " This was not the intention. We saw her as a literal person. " ( AOL chat , 1997 )

According to Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens , they pitched a story for an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise where Alice Krige would play a Starfleet medical technician who made contact with the Borg from " Regeneration ". The encounter would have been the birth of the Borg Queen. [8]

An undersuit that was worn by Krige in First Contact was sold off as lot 9677 in the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.

The Borg Queen, Dimitri Valtane , Lojur , Admiral Hayes , B-4 , and the punk on the bus are the only characters to debut in a Star Trek film before appearing in a Star Trek television series.

Apocrypha [ ]

According to the Pocket VOY novel, The Farther Shore published after the television series concluded, a Borg Queen could be replaced in mere seconds by using the Royal Protocol. Seven of Nine was specifically mentioned in the Royal Protocol and was most likely to become the next Queen.

The Pocket TNG novel Resistance showed the creation of another Queen, who was destroyed by the crew of the Enterprise -E. Subsequently, in the Pocket TNG novel Before Dishonor , Admiral Janeway was assimilated by the Borg and became a Queen who was eventually defeated by Seven of Nine.

In the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy, a newly installed Queen oversaw a massive Borg invasion of the Alpha Quadrant. It was later revealed that the Borg Queen was merely an avatar for the true power behind the Collective. The Destiny trilogy also mentioned that multiple Queens have been known to exist simultaneously in the Collective, but they all possessed the same agenda.

One theory regarding the creation of a Queen is that "queens" are members of a specific race, one that was chosen because its females exhibited superior higher-order brain processing-speed, and were therefore assimilated and bred for that purpose. ( Star Trek: Elite Force II ; Star Trek: Legacy )

The extra section of the game Star Trek: Legacy contained the "Origin of the Borg", which told the story of V'ger being sucked into a black hole. V'ger was found by a race of living machines which gave it a form suitable to fulfilling its simplistic programming. Unable to determine who its creator could be, the probe declared all carbon-based life an infestation of the creator's universe, leading to assimilation. From this, the Borg were created, as extensions of V'ger 's purpose. Drones were made from those assimilated and merged into a collective consciousness. The Borg Queen was created out of the necessity for a single unifying voice. However, with thoughts and desires of her own, she was no longer bound to serve V'ger . This explanation, however, was not canon.

In Star Trek Online , a new Borg Queen of Romulan origins had emerged before 2409 and led the Collective in an invasion of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants , her main targets being the Federation and the Klingon Empire .

According to " Shinsei Shinsei ", the Borg Queen's name was Danzek.

In the miniseries The Q Conflict , as part of a contest between various omnipotent beings organised by Q , Trelane challenges the four competing crews to capture a Borg Queen for his menagerie. After being transported to a unimatrix, the Queen is captured by a team consisting of Captain Picard, Spock , Odo and Seven of Nine .

The Borg Queen appears as a boss in Star Trek: Voyager - The Arcade Game .

Borg Invasion 4D [ ]

In 2004, the Borg Queen made a re-entry onto the big screen when the Borg Invasion 4D -ride premiered at the Star Trek: The Experience , an interactive attraction that incorporated live-action stage performance and animation, in which the visitors had a limited part themselves, within a 3D cinema environment. The movie for the attraction was mostly produced by the veteran Star Trek production team on the studio's own premises.

The storyline, set after the events depicted in "Endgame" entailed yet another incursion into Federation space by a Borg cube, attacking Copernicus Station and capturing a shuttle with its occupants (the attraction visitors), who were trying to escape from the overrun space station. While the captured crew was being prepared for assimilation, the Queen made a dramatic entrance and, true to form, begins lecturing about the perfection of the Borg Collective and demanded the surrender of the group's inhibitions and instructed them to join the hive mind. When all seemed lost and much to the dismay of the Queen, Admiral Janeway came to the rescue, by flying USS Voyager straight into the cube, destroying the tractor beam that held the shuttle, enabling it to escape, in the process inflicting critical damage to the cube, which subsequently blew up. Again true to form, the Queen made her escape, but not before exclaiming, " Savor your victory! We will meet again! "

For the film portion of the ride, some of the original, former Voyager cast reprised their respective roles, including Alice Krige as the Queen. Many of the Borg featured in the film (as opposed to the attraction live crew performing as such), were played by performers who had already done so for First Contact (or for the respective Voyager television episodes); " It was a most joyful reunion, " Krige declared tongue-in-cheek. When presented with the first 3D footage of her close-up scenes, Krige admitted to being flabbergasted by her own, literal in-your-face performance. ( VOY Season 7 DVD -special feature, "The Making of Borg Invasion 4D") While an official Star Trek franchise production, events depicted in the film are, as usual for these kind of productions, not considered canon , and treated as apocrypha.

External links [ ]

Borg Queen at StarTrek.com
Borg Queen at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Borg Queen at the Star Trek Online Wiki
Borg Queen at Wikipedia
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Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki. in: Disambiguation. First Contact. First contact could refer to: First contact, the first contact between species. First Contact (drawing), a drawing by an Earth student. First Contact Day, a day celebrating the first human-alien contact. First Contact Office, an office in Starfleet dedicated to first contact.
Star Trek: First Contact (novel)
The novelization of Star Trek: First Contact is an adaptation of Star Trek: First Contact, written by J.M. Dillard. Published by Pocket Books, the novel was first released in hardback in December 1996. From the book jacket From the deepest, darkest reaches of space came the greatest threat the Federation had ever faced: the Borg. Half organic/half mechanical, the Borg were relentless and bent ...
20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek: First Contact 1996
First Contact remains a mighty Trek classic over 25 years or so later. New York judge says FDNY booing of Letitia James, pro-Trump chants not about politics, 'has to do with race' The Only Way You ...
Star Trek: First Contact
Ffilm llawn cyffro llawn antur gan y cyfarwyddwr Jonathan Frakes yw Star Trek: First Contact a gyhoeddwyd yn 1996. Fe'i cynhyrchwyd gan Rick Berman, Marty Hornstein a Peter Lauritson yn Unol Daleithiau America; y cwmni cynhyrchu oedd Paramount Pictures.Lleolwyd y stori ym Montana a chafodd ei ffilmio yn Califfornia, Arizona, Los Angeles Union Station, Titan Missile Museum, Angeles National ...
Borg Queen
The Borg Queen was the name of the entity that existed within and served as the queen of the Borg Collective. An ancient being, the Queen has existed for many hundreds of years. (Star Trek: First Contact; PIC: "Surrender") In the event of her body's destruction, she would appear to be reincarnated with her personality and memories intact. (Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Dark Frontier ...

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