In addition to directing, frakes also plays commander will riker, first office on the enterprise. While the star trek wiki has plenty of information about the history of the character. It is extremely powerful and heavily armed with a wide array of abilities at its disposal. Jan 11, 20 this pin was discovered by mary mclaughlin. Picard season 1, jeanluc picard patrick stewart finally came facetoface with soji asha isa briones, the synthetic daughter of the late commander data brent spiner. Star trek online wiki is a fandom gaming community. Star trek first contact is easily one of the best instalments of the franchise to date. The borg queen learns of the plan and uses it in an attempt to return seven of nine to the borg by issuing her an ultimatum. She was the female ruler of the pseudorace of biomechanical entities known as the borg, resulting in her transformation into one of the main antagonists of the entire star trek series due to the fact that.
Picard episode 6 revealed new borg technology that explains how the borg queen manages to escape each time shes defeated. The borg queen was played by alice krige in star trek. This queen was soon replaced by another, almost identical one a drone assimilated from species 125 who encountered the u. Data and the borg queen kissing in star trek first contact. The borg have a singular goal, namely the consumption of technology, rather than wealth or political expansion as most species seek. She arrives as a disembodied torso that descends from cables inside the assimilated engine room of the enterprisee before joining with the rest of her borg body. Picard, hugh reveals a spatial trajector on the borg cube that allows picard and soji to narrowly escape.
She is well known for playing the dual role of eva gallialma mobley in ghost story, and the borg queen in the star trek franchise, beginning with the film star trek. This episode also features the return of alice krige from the movie star trek. The borg travel back in time intent on preventing earths first contact with an alien species. Ign recently hosted a watchalong party of star trek. Rejoin the collective or watch as the uss voyager is assimilated. The existence of the borg queen was discovered by magnus and erin hansen, the parents of seven of nine jeri ryan, but the hansen family was assimilated before they could transmit their data to starfleet. Voyager only because alice krige who played the role in the movie star trek. Data and the borg queen totally had sex and 6 other things. In the television series stg, vogager and movies there has always been a borg queen character. For the final episode, susanna thompson was not available because of shooting once and again so alice krige played the borg queen in the final episode. In late 2366, during the borg incursion that culminated in the costly battle at wolf 359, the queen wanted captain jeanluc picard to give himself freely to the borg. But other fans just dont think thats happening at all. She brings order to the legions of voices within the hive mind and provides a common direction much like the queen of an insect colony. Spiner and the borg queen alice krige definitely had sex in the 1996 movie.
The enigmatic borg queen is the central locus of the borg collective. This star trek scene belongs in the vfx hall of fame. In an early design meeting for the borg queen, the movie captain eo. He also tells a great story behind the work and design. Their only chance to do away with the borg and their seductive queen is to make sure that zefram cochrane makes his famous fasterthanlight travel to the stars. Star trek borg star wars jerry ryan star trek posters science fiction star trek images star trek 1966 star trek characters beautiful actresses. It was also the first feature film for director and star jonathan frakes.
First contact director jonathan frakes has confirmed that data brent spiner and the borg queen alice krige definitely had sex in the 1996 movie. The borg queen alice krige reveals herself to data brent spiner. Picard patrick stewart faces off against the borg queen alice krige. Theres so much cool stuff on the set of a movie like star trek. See more ideas about star trek, star trek borg and trek. Star trek makes major change to seven of nine and the borg. The first trek film to feature the cast of the star trek. In the last minutes of an intense episode of star trek. While the borg race works as a unified mind, it is the responsibility of the queen to coordinate and organise the actions and thoughts of the countless assimilated beings within the collective consciousness, much like how the queen of an insect hive manages. First contact 20 years after the groundbreaking 1996 hit took trek to new heights.
According to their spokesman, in the form of an assimilated captain jeanluc picard, the borg only want to raise the quality of life of the species they assimilate. One of the movies most memorable scenes and one of the most iconic in all of trek history is the borg queens entrance, the first time the audience has seen her in the flesh. The kriges later moved to port elizabeth where alice grew up in what she describes as a very happy family, a family that also included two brothers both of whom became physicians and her mother, pat, a clinical. The queen was able to then control a borg cube and eventually destroy the enterprise, but her existence and that of her timeline ceased to exist when picard was able to return kirk to the nexus. The newlycommissioned uss enterprisee scrambles to confront them, only to learn that the borg have decided to use time travel to stop. The experience borg invasion 4d short the borg the borg queen 2004 the mystery of natalie wood tv series maria gurdin 2003 children of dune tv miniseries lady jessica atreides. The borg queen has long sought a counterpart with a mind of his or her own to help bridge the gulf between humanity and the borg someone to be more than just another drone. Jonathan frakes reveals if data and borg queen had sex in. The assimilation of the sikarians and their technology could bring upon. Engines of destiny by 2375 the borg queen was a member of.
The name was given to her by the federation scientists magnus and erin hansen, who discovered her existence. First contact, krige played the borg queen, who attempts to assimilate earth. First contact phasers, costumes, communicator badges, borg gadgets, etc. The next generation, first contact is the second movie featuring the cast and the first frakes would direct. Though strongly implied, it has now been confirmed lt. One of the most striking characters movie history is the borg queen alex krige from star trek.
Both films are sequels to financially successful but critically lukewarm predecessor. The borg queen is the main antagonist of the film star trek. John eaves shared some concept art and storyboards of the borg queen that he and alex jeager worked on. The borg queens octahedron is the main flagship of the borg collective, and personal vessel of the borg queen. Following the borg sphere, picard and his crew realize that they have taken over the enterprise in order to carry out their mission. Earlier this month trekmovie first reported the next poster in the popular alamo drafthousemondo series of star trek limited editions would be the borg queen. Dark frontier there were multiple, but identical, borg queens.
The second trek movie starring the tng crew, and their first feature without any handholding from original series vets, first contact has quite a lot in common with the other second trek movie, wrath of khan. The borg queen was the name given to the entity that existed within and. Seven of nine goes full borg queen broken pieces has solid dialogue and character moments but is mostly tablesetting. Dark frontier, unimatrix zero, unimatrix zero, part ii. Picard is nearing its big finale, and in episode 8, broken pieces we see the various storylines of season 1 converge in a major and thrilling way. The story of the next generation crews greatest movie. Voyager episodes dark frontier, unimatrix zero, and unimatrix zero, part ii.
She is also the main antagonist of the voyager series finale, endgame. Alice maud krige was born on june 28, 1954 in upington, south africa where her father, dr. Borg queen memory beta, noncanon star trek wiki fandom. Definitely when we conceptualized the borg queen, because at an early. Jonathan frakes, brannon braga, and more look back at star trek. Jonathan frakes and genie francis at an event for star trek. The ending was a little too convenient but to be fair, i thought the episode was very touching and lot of fun. Jonathan frakes reveals if data and the borg queen had sex during an ambiguous sequence in the movie star trek. Their only chance to do away with the borg and their seductive queen is to make sure. In 2366, a queen, along with locutus of borg, an assimilated jeanluc picard led a cube on a mission to assimilate earth and the federation.
Trekkers met the borg queen alice krige for the first time in star trek. She was the female ruler of the pseudorace of biomechanical entities known as the borg, resulting in her transformation into one of the main antagonists of the entire star trek series due to the fact. The borg queen was added may 3, 2017 as a repeating threshold reward for the may 2017 borg megaevent, beginning with the galaxy event zero hour the borg queen is particularly useful in the missions act of betrayal and trust issues because it has the combination of communicator and diplomacy, and can thus unlock a rare reward node in each mission. First contact was the second film to feature the star trek. The borg queen was the name given to the entity that existed within and served as a central nexus for the borg collective. The one where the borg time travel to make wrong what once went right star trek. It remains the highest grossing of all trek films that were released before j. Data pauses, then presses a button on a control panel, firing three quantum torpedoes at the phoenix borg queen.
The character was played by susanna thompson in the star trek. First contact, and a recurring antagonist in voyager. First contact when the borg attempted to assimilate earth in 2063, before they were stopped by captain picard and. Borg queens octahedron official star trek online wiki. The borg queen is first revealed in the eighth star trek film and is portrayed by alice krige.
Commander data and the borg queen bumped sockets together during the borgs takeover of the u. Im still unclear as to a couple of things regarding the queen. For viewers with vulcan hearing, hugh mentions the technology the borg assimilated came from the sikarians, a species first encountered in star trek. Enterprised were able to rescue picard and destroy the cube, but the queen was able to survive by unknown means the queen led a second attack on earth in 2373, this time attempting to. First contact is the eighth movie in the star trek film series, released in 1996 the most popular next generation villain, the borg, make another attempt to assimilate earth. Spiner is captured and seduced by the borg queen alice krige. Discovery are increasingly wondering if the show might be leading us on a new exploration of the origin of the borg.