WHY CREATE THE BORG QUEEN?
The Borg Queen was created for the film ‘Star Trek: First Contact’. The reasons: Ron Moore: “One of the things with the Borg has always been the difficulty of dealing with a race that is decentralised dramatically, because there’s no one thing to focus on, there’s no character to go up against. It’s hard to write scenes about us versus the Collective. We did try initially to go with the Collective as a collective and not establish a single villain, sort of like in ‘Aliens’. Even in that movie, they had to find the Big Mama eventually. We got to the point where we needed somebody to personify the Borg for us, somebody to hate, somebody to talk to, somebody to get an idea of where they’re coming from and who, one they’ve destroyed you, would destroy everybody else. Also, we wanted something for Data. Data’s arc, in which he discovered a part of humanity he hadn’t anticipated through the acquisition of flesh, was something that was tailor-made for the Queen. So we just started thinking ab
