There are few alien factions that provoke as much respect and fear among the crew of the Star Trek Starfleet as the Borg. It’s seeing them appear on screen and watching some of our bravest heroes shrink back, and that has a lot to do with the design with which we met the Collective 35 years ago. However, they were supposed to look very different.
As you can see in some of the images accompanying the post, the Borg were presented as humanoid beings with a pale appearance and cybernetic “enhancements” all over their bodies, including a large black exoskeleton capable of protecting them from any phaser attack (at least a couple or three shots from their drones) that, along with their insistence on assimilating us without speaking further, caused, colloquially, a lot of fear.
Their structural concept is quite basic and reminiscent of a swarm of bees. In it, hundreds of millions of drones travel the galaxy guided by the drive for conquest of a Borg Queen, demanding more and more sustenance. In this case, the sustenance is not the nectar or pollen of a flower, but the insatiable appetite for the pursuit of new knowledge and technologies to assimilate, making the collective stronger and increasing its number of members.
The Borg, Traveling the Galaxy like Insects
Perhaps that is why the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where the Borg made their debut in a second-season episode, wanted to present their drones as authentic insectoid beings. Fortunately for fans and the future of the franchise, this was not possible due to being too expensive for a show of the time (late 80s), and they opted for their final design, although, as you have read, without giving up the concept of a great “hive”.
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Years later, during the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise, and thanks to advances in computer-generated imagery, we saw several insectoid races, with one of the famous ones being one of the five species of the Xindi. But when Star Trek: TNG was taking its first steps on television, everything had to be done more practically, and something insect-like should not have been very cheap.
Annie Wersching, who passed away in 2023, played the Borg Queen in Star Trek: Picard.
However, to see the Borg Queen, we had to wait almost a decade. She did not appear on screen until the premiere of Star Trek: First Contact (1997), with Alice Krige as the actress. In Star Trek: Voyager, this role was played by Susanna Thompson, while in the second season of Star Trek: Picard, we had Annie Wersching, who also played Tess in The Last of Us video game.
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