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Complete List Of Appearances Of The Borg In Star Trek

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The Borg are Star Trek's most feared and most loved adversaries they appear in a total twenty-one episodes in the Star Trek franchise in 'Enterprise,' 'The Next Generation' and 'Voyager,' every television incarnation other than the original series and 'Deep Space Nine.' They also appeared in the Star Trek movie 'First Contact.' Below is a complete list of the Borg's appearances in chronological order.

1. Enterprise - 'Regeneration' [S02E23]

2. The Next Generation - 'Q Who' [S02E16]

3. The Next Generation - 'The Best of Both Worlds' [S03E26 - S04E01]

4. The Next Generation - 'I, Borg' [S05E23]

5. The Next Generation - 'Descent' [S06E26 - S07E01]

6. Voyager - 'Unity' [S03E17]

7. Star Trek: First Contact

8. Voyager - 'Scorpion' [S03E26 - S04E01]

9. Voyager - 'The Raven' [S04E06]

10. Voyager - 'Drone' [S05E02]

11. Voyager - 'Dark Frontier' [S05E15 - S05E16]

12. Voyager - 'Survival Instinct' [S06E02]

13. Voyager - 'Collective' [S06E16]

14. Voyager - 'Child's Play' [S06E19]

15. Voyager - 'Unimatrix Zero' [S06E26 - S07E01]

16. Voyager - 'Imperfection' [S07E02]

17. Voyager - 'Endgame' [S07E25]

There's More To Come...

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The Best of Borg worlds: The 7 essential Borg episodes to watch before Star Trek: Picard

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In 1989, in the episode “Q, Who?” Star Trek: The Next Generation took the word "cyborg" and clipped it down to its cold essentials, gifting the world with a new terror: the Borg. Though Doctor Who purists might tell you the Borg are a knock-off of the Cybermen, the black leather aesthetic combined with laser-pointer eyepieces and that chilling catchphrase — "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile" — all cemented the Borg as one the most iconic sci-fi concepts of all time.

The Borg is essentially internet addiction writ large, an enemy that makes you part of its server. In Star Trek: Picard , the Borg are back and several of the main characters (Picard, Hugh, Seven of Nine) were all previously assimilated by the Borg Collective. This means that revisiting some of the more pivotal Borg moments is essential for your Picard homework.

The Borg appear in six episodes of The Next Generation , one episode of Deep Space Nine , one episode of Enterprise , the film Star Trek: First Contact , and 23 episodes of Voyager . And, if you count every single episode of Voyager in which former-Borg Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) appears, that’s 100 episodes right there. So that’s possibly a total of 32 episodes or 108 Borg episodes and 1 feature film, depending on how you look at it. That’s a lot of Borg to binge! So, in honor of Borg efficiency, here are the 7 essential Borg stories to quickly assimilate and help make watching Star Trek: Picard even more ... engaging.

Note: There are ZERO spoilers for Star Trek: Picard ahead. Episode numbers use the Netflix and CBS All-Access watch order for ease of bingeing.

01 . The Next Generation: Season 3 Episode 26 and Season 4, Episode 1, “The Best of Both Worlds Parts 1 and 2”

Although the first canonical appearance of the Borg happens in the TNG Season 2 episode "Q, Who?" whispers of the Borg are hinted at as early as the Season 1 finale, "The Neutral Zone." That said, you don't really need to start getting your Borg on until the Season 3 finale, "The Best of Both Worlds."

That's the famous episode where Picard is singled-out to be assimilated by the Collective, and the Borg make a bee-line to conquer Earth. The conclusion of this two-parter was the Season 4 premiere of TNG , and the repercussions of that episode changed Jean-Luc Picard forever.

02 . The Next Generation: Season 5, Episode 23, "I, Borg"

In Star Trek: Picard , the former-Borg know as Hugh (Johnathan Del Arco) has a semi-regular role, and in the trailers , we've seen a more human-looking Hugh in a few quick shots. What's happened to Hugh since The Next Generation hasn't been revealed yet, but Hugh's origin story is this classic episode, "I, Borg."

The Enterprise finds an injured Borg, Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) and La Forge (Levar Burton) decide to nurse the Borg back to health to learn more about the Collective. Without spoiling anything, this changes the way Picard and everyone else starts to think about the Borg in a big way. Hugh returns in the two-parter "Descent," in Season 6 and season 7, but you can probably skip those ones if you're pressed for time. This is the essential Hugh episode, and, probably defines the possibilities for what can happen to former Borg drones.

03 . Voyager: Season 5, Episode 15, “Dark Frontier”

Arguably, to fully prepare for Seven of Nine's (Jeri Ryan) return in Star Trek: Picard , you might want to rewatch the entirety of Star Trek: Voyager starting with Seven's first appearance in the season 3 finale "Scorpion Part 1." But, that's also little like saying you should rewatch every episode of TNG to make sure you know everything about Jean-Luc Picard. Seven of Nine is one of the greatest Star Trek characters of all time, and creating a list of the very best Seven episodes is its own thing entirely.

But, if you're only trying to download the most essential Borg lore into your brain, rewatching the epic "Dark Frontier" won't disappoint. This episode reveals how Seven was first assimilated into the Borg collective, and why. Plus, it suggests that all former Borg drones have a complicated relationship with the Collective and the Borg Queen in specific.

When it originally aired in 1999, "Dark Frontier" was presented as an extra-long two-hour episode. Netflix preserves it this way, but sometimes, you'll see reference to "Dark Frontier Part 1 and Part 2." Don't be confused; it's all the same thing.

04 . Voyager: Season 6, Episode 16, "Collective"

This episode introduced yet another variation on what it was like for former Borg drones to suddenly live outside of the interconnected hivemind of the collective. The difference this time was that the liberated Borg were all kids. Sure, Hugh was young , but he wasn't a little kid. In this episode, Seven becomes a de facto mother figure/teacher to a group of children, who, just like her, had been assimilated when they were super young. This episode also introduces the character of Icheb, a reoccurring ex-Borg who would later develop an obsession with Starfleet history, with a special interest in Captain Kirk.

05 . Voyager: Season 6, Episode 26 and Season 7, Episode 1 “Unimatrix Zero Parts 1 and 2”

As its title suggests, "Unimatrix Zero," is kind of like the Matrix in The Matrix . But, in this version, the idyllic cyberspace world is a good thing, because it's literally the only place Borg drones can "go" to be themselves. In the virtual sanctuary of Unimatrix Zero, Borg can meet, and converse, and imagine how they may have been or looked before they'd been assimilated. They can also meet and speak with drones whose bodies are plugged into Borg ships millions of light years apart.

So, basically, it's a secret virtual reality chatroom for people who are enslaved by an AI hivemind, which, if you think about it objectively — even outside of the context of Star Trek — is a freaking awesome idea for a story. As a two-part episode of Voyager , "Unimatrix Zero," is one of the best. And as a Borg episode to prep you for Picard , the essential thing about "Unimatrix Zero" is that it basically proves that even when we think we know everything about the Borg, we totally don't.

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06 . Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

It's Picard and Data versus the Borg!

Hailed as perhaps the greatest Star Trek film of all time (or at least in a dead heat with The Wrath of Khan ), First Contact mostly focuses on Picard's deep-rooted hatred for the Borg, and his desire to enact his revenge, no matter what. It also is the first introduction of the Borg Queen (Alice Krige), a character who adds a layer to the Borg that makes them seem both much scarier, and weirdly a little more explicable. The Borg Queen is deranged, to be sure, but it's not clear she's evil , per se.

If you haven't seen the movie, I won't tell you what happens between her and Data (or her and Picard) but let's just say, this: the Borg Queen might be the most interesting villain in all of Star Trek . And, based on everything we learned in Star Trek: Voyager , she also might be indestructible.

07 . Voyager Season 7, Episode 24: "Endgame"

Before there was Avengers: Endgame , there was Voyager: Endgame ! In the series finale of Star Trek: Voyager , Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) , travels back in time from the year 2404, to help get the USS Voyager home to Earth about 23-years sooner than they did the first time around. Future Janeway's workaround is all about hijacking a transwarp hub used by the Borg to pop-around the galaxy with relative ease, much quicker than the Starfleet warp drives. But, Admiral Janeway's plan involves slightly more than just stealing some propulsion tech.

Without spoiling anything, the ending of this episode will make you wonder what state the Borg Collective could possibly be in during the time of Picard . "Endgame" took place in 2378, and the events of Picard happen in 2399. Whatever happened to the Borg in those 21 years might not be 100 percent answered in Picard . But, in terms of the Star Trek timeline, "Endgame" is where we left the Borg. So, when we see them again, the events of this episode will almost certainly have impacted the Collective. Even if they're too shy to mention it.

Star Trek: Picard debuts Thursday, January 23 on CBS All Access.

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Caretaker, Part I

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1995

While searching for a missing officer, Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of the Starship Voyager are swept 70,000 light years from home.

Caretaker, Part II

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1995

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1995

Tensions rise between the merged Starfleet and Maquis crews when the ship becomes trapped inside a star that's collapsed upon itself.

Time and Again

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1995

The Voyager crew discovers a world that has been destroyed by a type of energy that has been banned on all Federation worlds as being too dangerous to use.

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1995

While seeking a source of new dilithium for the ship's power source, the crew encounters a planet of people who are stealing body organs. Neelix finds another use for Captain Janeway's private dining room.

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1995

The crew discovers that a nebula is not what it seems, and Paris invites his fellow officers to share a little "R&R" in his holodeck program.

Eye of the Needle

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1995

The discovery of a wormhole in deep space raises the crew's hopes of finding a shortcut home.

Ex Post Facto

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1995

After Paris is convicted of a murder he swears he didn't commit, Tuvok must play detective to clear him.

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1995

Kim confronts life and death issues when he's held against his will by an alien race.

Prime Factors

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1995

An alien leader has the technology that could send the crew 40,000 light years closer to home -- but refuses to share it with them.

State of Flux

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1995

Stardate: 48658.2 Stolen food replicator technology found on a severely damaged Kazon-Nistrim ship indicates a traitor aboard  Voyager . The fatal disaster occurred when the Kazon attempted to integrate Federation technology with their own. Seska becomes the prime suspect. The evidence is reinforced when questions arise over her true heritage. Who'd have thought Chakotay's old Maquis cell contained a Cardassian spy disguised as a Bajoran and his onetime lover?

Heroes and Demons

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1995

Stardate: 48693.2 Harry Kim disappears from the holodeck while role-playing in his medieval holo-novel, "Beowulf." According to the characters, he died at the hands of a mystical beast called "Grendel." When Chakotay and Tuvok investigate and also disappear, Janeway transfers the Doctor to the holodeck for his first Away Mission: to investigate/rescue the three vanished crewmembers. Kes encourages the Doctor to pick a name for himself and chooses Doctor Schweitzer. In the story, he survives fear, romance, and heartbreak to unmask the unlikely trespasser as a photonic alien life form taking the form of Grendel and turning missing crewmembers into energy.

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: May 1, 1995

An encounter with a strange nebula leaves Chakotay brain dead and the crew battling a powerful force that seems to be taking over their minds.

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: May 8, 1995

Stardate: 48784.2 The Vidiians capture Paris, Torres, and Durst while on an away mission. Then a bizarre Vidiian scientist divides the dual ethnic heritage of Torres into separate Human and Klingon bodies to test her Klingon DNA for resistance to the Phage disease destroying his people.

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: May 15, 1995

A painful chapter in Neelix's past is reopened when the scientist responsible for killing his family beams aboard Voyager.

Learning Curve

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: May 22, 1995

Tuvok incurs the wrath of Maquis crewmembers when he's put in charge of a "boot camp" designed to bring them up to Starfleet standards.

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Aug 28, 1995

The crew of Voyager discovers an unusual object floating in space while following a particle trail. They then land on a planet and discover an old Earth aircraft and then are led to a cave that contains cryogenic units with people from Earth in them.

Initiations

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 4, 1995

Stardate: 49005.3 While performing a ritual to honor the anniversary of his father's death, Chakotay's shuttlecraft unknowingly violates Kazon-Ogla space. He becomes the target of Kar, a young Kazon boy undergoing a manhood ritual to earn his warrior name and place among his people.

Projections

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 11, 1995

The ship's holographic doctor has a strange encounter with Lt. Barclay that leads to him having problems telling reality from fiction. He is lead to believe that Voyager is nothing but a holographic simulation that he must fix.

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1995

When Voyager's crew encounters a swarm of strange alien lifeforms in space, the aliens start forming what seems to be a attachment to Voyager. Meanwhile the encounter seems to accelerate Kes's reproductive cycle that comes only once in her species lifetime.

Non Sequitur

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1995

Stardate: 49011. Ensign Harry Kim arises one morning to find he is back in San Francisco on Earth with his girlfriend, Libby. In this alternate reality, Starfleet records show he never served aboard Voyager , which Starfleet considers lost. Instead, Kim works in Starship Design at Starfleet Headquarters. To help him restore reality, he enlists the help of a shady figure in France named Tom Paris, who has no idea who Harry is.

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1995

While giving a party for Kes, the crew starts encountering a spatial distortion phenomenon. It gradually starts occurring inside the ship, changing Voyager's structural layout.

Parturition

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1995

During a shuttle mission to replenish Voyager's food supplies, Neelix and Lt. Paris discover an embryonic pod and become caretakers of the hatchling infant.

Persistence of Vision

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1995

A strange force causes the crew to enter a delusional state in which their most buried thoughts come to the surface.

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1995

On an away team looking for needed resources, Chakotay is reminded of his youth when he disappointed his father by not embracing his tribe's cultural heritage. He finds a familiar cultural symbol drawn in the ground used by his ancestors to "heal the land." Chakotay then tries to contact the beings his tribe calls the "Sky Spirits." Meanwhile, the Doctor continues to monitor Ensign Samantha Wildman's pregnancy.

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1995

Voyager encounters people of Kes's race, the Ocompa, living on a space station; they lead the crew to the female of the Caretaker's species, who believes they caused the Caretaker's death.

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1995

Chakotay feels responsible after Seska masterminds a successful raid on the Voyager that gives the Kazons vital Federation technology.

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1995

Janeway is forced to rely on her own devices when Torres and Tuvok are captured by the Mokra during an away mission to find tellurium. She is then assisted by a man who thinks she is his daughter.

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1996

Lt. Torres and Ensign Kim help a humanoid robot that is discovered by Voyager. Torres is then kidnapped by the robot and its fellow robots, who threaten to destroy Voyager unless Torres helps them.

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1996

Captain Janeway reluctantly tries to form an alliance with the Kazons and their longtime enemies in order to strengthen Voyager's position in the quadrant.

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1996

Paris experiments with breaking the warp 10 barrier. Once transwarp is achieved, Lt. Paris starts to undergo a strange transformation which places his life in danger.

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1996

After a crewman is murdered, Tuvok decides to try and understand what drives a person to commit violent crimes. He uses a mind meld on the killer and starts to have violent tendencies of his own.

Dreadnought

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1996

Stardate: 49447.  Voyager  encounters  Dreadnought,  an advanced, self-aware Cardassian missile also drawn into the Delta Quadrant that B'Elanna Torres reprogrammed during her time in the Maquis. The missile, believing it is still in the Alpha quadrant on its Maquis mission, is on course to destroy Rakosa V, an inhabited world of millions. Now, B'Elanna must outsmart her programming to disarm  Dreadnought  before it reaches its objective.

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1996

While taking a sample of a strange space phenomenon, Voyager brings a Q aboard. This in turn causes the original Q to come onboard, demanding that the new Q come back to the Q Continuum with him.

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1996

Voyager rescues a dying Vidiian and during the process of trying to save her life, the Doctor's adaptive program allows him to experience romantic feelings for the first time. Lt. Paris starts objecting to his treatment on Voyager and ends up assaulting Chakotay.

Investigations

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1996

Lt. Paris leaves Voyager to travel with a Talaxian convoy claiming to not fit in with Voyager's crew. Neelix later suspects Lt. Paris of being a traitor to Voyager when he decides to become a investigative video journalist.

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1996

While trying to avoid the Vidiians, Voyager travels to a region of space that will disguise them from their sensors. Subsequently, an onboard disaster occurs while Ensign Wildman is having her baby, which causes problems for the Doctor.

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1996

After Tuvok crash lands on a moon that is considered sacred, he attempts to save three abandoned children from the messenger of death while repairing his shuttle.

Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1996

The crew of Voyager discovers a world with technology and no people. They then determine that the planets inhabitants are in hibernation in order to protect themselves from a natural disaster.

Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: May 6, 1996

Stardate: 49655.2 While returning from an away mission, a transporter accident merges Tuvok and Neelix into one new being with the personality of both combined. He calls himself "Tuvix." But the  Doctor's search for how to restore their original forms causes a moral dilemma as Tuvix does not wish to be terminated.

Resolutions

Episode: 2x25 | Airdate: May 13, 1996

After Captain Janeway and Chakotay contract a deadly virus, they are set down on a small planet so the rest of the crew will not become infected.

Basics, Part I

Episode: 2x26 | Airdate: May 20, 1996

Chakotay is told his son has been taken by the Kazons, during the process of trying to rescue him Voyager is taken by the Kazons after the crew looses the ship in a running battle with the Kazons.

Basics, Part II

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 4, 1996

Captain Janeway and her crew battle the primitive planet they were dropped on while a rescue attempt originates from Voyager itself.

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 11, 1996

Mind melding with Tuvok causes Captain Janeway to relive her tour of duty with Capt. Sulu and Cmdr. Rand.

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1996

Lt. Paris and Ensign Kim are accused of being members of a terrorist group called 'Open Sky' and imprisoned; Nexis is asked to use his ship on a special mission to help them.

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1996

Voyager's crew fights off alien vessels; a holodeck accident cause the Doctor's memory circuits to fail; Lt. Paris and Belana are injured.

False Profits

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1996

Stardate: 50074.3  Voyager  discovers a pair of Ferengi masquerading as demigods to profit from a planetary culture still in its Bronze Age. They arrived through the Barzan Wormhole, which leads back to the Alpha Quadrant; however, its Delta Quadrant end is highly unstable and always moving. The crew must find a way to end this exploitation while trying to use the same wormhole to return home.

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1996

Lt. Torres is haunted by dreams of a forbidden love affair when the crew of Voyager picks up several Enaran passengers.

Sacred Ground

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1996

Kes is accidentally injured at a sacred shrine and Captain Janeway undergoes a arduous spiritual test in order to try and save her on the Nechani world.

Future's End, Part I

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1996

Voyager accidentally travels back in time when they have a encounter with a ship from the future that wants to destroy them. They arrive in 1996 Los Angeles and attempt to help prevent a event that could drastically alter Earth's future in the 29th century.

Future's End, Part II

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1996

Lt. Paris and Tuvok seek help in Los Angeles as Henry Starling takes Voyagers Doctor hostage and prepares to launch his stolen time ship.

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1996

Stardate: 50348.1 An injured Ilari named Tieran, brought on board  Voyager  before his ship explodes, transfers his consciousness into Kes' mind moments before he dies. The alien gains control over her and uses her abilities to steal a shuttlecraft. The warlord returns to his home world to attempt a political coup.

The Q and the Grey

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1996

Q surprises Captain Janeway in her quarters with the announcement that he has chosen her to be the mother of his child to be. Janeway discovers that there is a civil war going on in the Q Continuum.

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1996

Stardate: 50425.1 Captain Janeway and Neelix return from a difficult first contact and trade mission with the Tak Tak to find  Voyager  disabled and adrift in space with the crew barely alive. They soon learn that alien macroviral lifeforms overran the ship and grew rapidly in size. After Neelix becomes infected, Captain Janeway and The Doctor must retake the ship.

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1997

Neelix meet's up with Wiiban, a fellow Telaxian who he used to work with in the past and is conned into using a Federation shuttlecraft to traffic in narcotics.

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1997

When Ensign Kim falls for a attractive Holodeck character, he seeks help from Tuvok in learning how to suppress his emotions.

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1997

Captain Janeway is critically injured in a shuttle crash all the crew except for Kes thinks she is dead. Janeway has visions of her deceased father Admiral Janeway.

Blood Fever

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1997

Torres has a unpleasant encounter with Vorick, a Vulcan crew member who is starting to go through Pon-Far. Torres then finds herself getting more and more out of control putting crew members in jeopardy.

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1997

Commander Chakotay is attacked after answering a distress signal then is surprised by the people who sent the signal. Captain Janeway makes a scary discovery in nearby space, a derelict Borg Cube.

The Darkling

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1997

Stardate: 50693.2 When the doctor tries to enhance his personality by incorporating the psychological profiles of famous and historical people, he is overwhelmed by their dark sides and begins exhibiting signs of a split personality, one the regular doctor and the other dark and evil. Kes considers leaving Voyager when they encounter a race with vast knowledge of the region of space they are currently exploring.

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1997

Voyager's crew is giving help to the Nezu's planet when they are being hit by asteroids. Tuvok and Neelix are trapped on the ground when they attempt to rescue a Nezu doctor who says he has information about the asteroids that are hitting the planet.

Favorite Son

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1997

Ensign Kim leads Voyager to a strange planet where the almost all female population claims to recall his birth there on that planet.

Before and After

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1997

Stardate: 50973 The Doctor's life-extension experimental treatment sends Kes out of temporal sync. She begins traveling backward through time from the moment of her death. With each shift, she comes closer to a solution but she also grows months and years younger at a time.

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1997

Voyager comes across a previously unseen phenomena in space, and Tom becomes trapped inside it. The Doctor attempts to experience a home life by creating a holographic family. B'ellana helps him make them more real after meeting them and seeing they are far too perfect.

Distant Origin

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1997

Scientists of the Voth race discover the human remains of a Voyager crewman and locate a genetic pattern similar to their own.

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: May 7, 1997

Strange aliens replace Voyager's crew members one by one and claim not to know why they are there. The transplanted crew members arrive in an idyllic world. The aliens take over Voyager when enough are aboard, and Janeway scrambles to retake it. 

Worst Case Scenario

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: May 14, 1997

Members of the Voyager crew clandestinely participate in a hidden holodeck program where the ship's Maquis members stage an insurrection.

Scorpion, Part I

Episode: 3x26 | Airdate: May 21, 1997

About to enter Borg space, the Voyager crew discovers a threat so devastating that even the Borg cannot deal with it.

Scorpion, Part II

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 3, 1997

Voyager finds a solution to combat the invader of Borg space. All Janeway asks is free passage through their territory and she'll share knowledge. Seven of Nine is assigned to work with Janeway and the Voyager crew.

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1997

Kes's telepathic powers increase and she has to make a life changing decision. The Doctor starts to remove Seven of Nines Borg implants, even though she does not want him to, because of her body is starting to reject them.

Day of Honor

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1997

Torres confesses her love to Paris when they are left for dead after Caatati attack their shuttlecraft.

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1997

After Chakotay is marooned on a planet where two alien life forms are attempting genocide against each other, he starts to feel sympathy for the aliens who are helping him since he is not of their enemy race. Janeway and the command crew attempt to discover where Chakotay's shuttle crashed.

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1997

The Doctor and Torres go on a away mission to a space station after receiving a distress call from a holographic crewman. Ensign Kim and Seven of Nine work with each other again and start to get to know each other.

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1997

Seven of Nine's Borg implants begin regenerating after she experiences hallucinations and flashbacks from her life before assimilation. She flees  Voyager  in a shuttle to attempt rejoining the Borg. After escaping into a region of space governed by the B'omar, she discovers a wrecked Federation spaceship on an uninhabited moon. This ship is the  Raven  where the Borg assimilated her and her parents 20 years ago. 

Scientific Method

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1997

The Doctor and Seven of Nine discover that a mysterious illness striking down the crew is the work of aliens conducting genetic experiments on crew members.

Year of Hell, Part I

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1997

A renegade Krenim warship with the ability to alter the time stream threatens the crew of Voyager as they pass through what has now become the Krenim empire.

Year of Hell, Part II

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1997

Captain Janeway desperately tries to keep Voyager from being completely destroyed, Paris and Chakotay try to plot how to save Voyager while on the Krenim time ship.

Random Thoughts

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1997

While Voyager's crew is on shore leave on a planet of peaceful telepaths with no crime, one of the world's citizens performs a savage beating. This sparks an investigation and jailing of Lt. Torres due to her voilent thoughts. Tuvok makes friends with the world's police officer, and Neelix becomes interested in a female shopkeeper.

Concerning Flight

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1997

While on their journey home, Voyager is plundered by space pirates, who use a special transporter to steal machinery from passing ships. Captain Janeway and Tuvok pursue them to their homeworld, where the holodeck program of Leonardo Da Vinci helps Captain Janeway get Voyager's items back.

Mortal Coil

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1997

Neelix is accidently killed by a protomatter discharge on an away mission  and then "reactivated" by Seven's Borg nanoprobes. He finds himself in a deep existential and spiritual crisis, questioning his faith and the meaning of his existence,

Waking Moments

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1998

The crew experiences vivid nightmares, all containing the same mysterious alien. Chakotay must stay awake to lead an attack against a species that lives in the dreams of  Voyager's  crew.

Message in a Bottle

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1998

Seven of Nine discovers an ancient subspace relay network that extends to the Alpha Quadrant. They can send the Doctor through to a Federation ship at the other end, the experimental U.S.S.  Prometheus , only to discover that Romulans have taken it over.

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1998

After contacting Starfleet Command using the alien relay modules to communicate with Earth, Starfleet replies with letters from the crew's friends and family. Using of the alien array attracts the attention of the Hirogen, an alien species that live to hunt other humanoids.

Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1998

Stardate: 51652.3 - When  Voyager  encounters a disabled Hirogen ship with a wounded Hirogen aboard, Captain Janeway beams him aboard for treatment. Soon, the prey being hunted by this particular Hirogen, a member of Species 8472, boards  Voyager , damaging it. The only immediate solution is to let the Hirogen assist the crew in tracking its prey. Finding the creature severely wounded, Captain Janeway puts it under her protection, much to the chagrin of Hirogen. Seven of Nine disobeys Janeway's order and transports the Hirogen hunter and the creature to another Hirogen ship. 

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1998

After working with an arms dealer, Seven of Nine starts having mental images of the arms dealer holding her captive and stealing Borg Nanobots from her. Captain Janeway starts an investigation into the matter with the help of the Doctor.

The Killing Game, Part I

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1998

When the Hirogen capture and board  Voyager , they discover that they can use the holodeck to improve the hunt by putting the prey through different situations and locations. In one simulation, Captain Janeway, Torres, Tuvok, and Seven of Nine are members of the French resistance in occupied France during World War II, with the Hirogen in roles as Nazi SS Officers. Since the Hirogen implanted the crew with subdermal transmitters, they have no idea this is on the holodeck with the safety protocols removed, and they think it's real. The Doctor in sickbay is forced to heal the injured, and it is up to him to disable the transmitters and help the crew escape.

The Killing Game, Part II

Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1998

Captain Janeway, Seven of Nine, and Harry Kim work to shut down the Holodeck simulation set in occupied France during World War II that the Hirogens started and expanded while also trying to restore the rest of the crew's identities.

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1998

An identity-stealing alien (or genome thief) switches physical forms with Tom Paris and then takes command of Voyager after assuming Janeway's identity.

The Omega Directive

Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1998

Stardate: 51781.2 -  Voyager  is forced out of warp when it detects the most powerful substance known to exist called "Omega," which only Janeway and Seven of Nine know about onboard the ship. The Borg experimented with "Omega" in the past. Due to the nature of the particle, a top-secret Starfleet directive gives knowledge of it only to Starfleet Captains and orders its destruction at all costs because the unstable molecule has the power to destroy subspace. Janeway must enlist the help of the senior crew on a need-to-know basis to destroy it safely.

Unforgettable

Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1998

A beautiful alien fleeing danger asks for Chakotay's help, claiming they knew each other in the past. She requests asylum aboard  Voyager , saying   she was on the ship a month ago and fell in love with Chakotay. But neither he nor any of the crew remembers her anymore.

Living Witness

Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1998

Seven hundred years into the future, a backup version of the Doctor is reactivated and faces trial for war crimes. He must uncover the truth to defend  Voyager's  crew and set history straight when an alien race claims that the  Warship Voyager  was responsible for war crimes committed against their race when the ship passed their planet centuries ago.

Episode: 4x24 | Airdate: May 6, 1998

Stardate: Unknown - In search of the vital chemical deuterium essential to Voyager's energy supplies, they discover a hostile "Demon class" planet with reserves large enough to replenish the ship. Ensign Kim and Tom Paris take a shuttlecraft to the planet's surface in environmental suits. Soon they are found on the planet without suits, and the ship's atmosphere becomes poisonous to them.

Episode: 4x25 | Airdate: May 13, 1998

Stardate: 51929.3 - When Voyager encounters a deadly radioactive nebula, Captain Janeway decides to save time by going through it and placing the crew in protective stasis chambers to survive, with only Seven of Nine and the Doctor left to protect the ship. Seven soon starts experiencing hallucinations when an alien wants to trade vital supplies.

Hope and Fear

Episode: 4x26 | Airdate: May 20, 1998

Stardate: 51978.2 - An alien translator named Arturis can finally decode the Starfleet message received by  Voyager  five months ago. It directs them to a nearby sector where an unmanned Federation starship waits for them. It's equipped with a propulsion system faster than warp drive, which can bring them home within three months. While the crew members are elated, Seven requests permission to remain in the Delta quadrant. However, everything is not what it seems when alien technology is found aboard the new ship.

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1998

Stardate: 52081.2 -  Voyager  enters a desolate expanse of space where no stars are visible and will take two years to cross. The lack of starlight causes morale issues with the crew, and Janeway questions the choices that stranded her crew in the Delta Quadrant so far from home. They encounter two mysterious alien races who may be at war with each other. Janeway comes to the aid of one of them.

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1998

A transporter accident merges some of Seven Of Nine's Borg nanoprobes with the Doctor's 29th Century moble holo-emitter during an away mission, creating a 29th Century super-Borg drone hybrid. Seven discovers her maternal nature as she raises and educates the young drone. Captain Janeway must decide how to deal with the potential danger to all non-borg life.

Extreme Risk

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1998

Tom Paris designs a new type of shuttlecraft named the "Delta Flyer" with Borg and Starfleet technologies to retrieve a Starfleet probe stuck in a giant planet's hazardous atmosphere and gravity well before aliens do. Torres exhibits reckless behavior by engaging in dangerous holodeck programs, such as orbital sky diving; her erratic behavior over several months comes to a peak and alarms her crewmates.

In the Flesh

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1998

The crew of  Voyager  discovers a simulation of San Francisco's Starfleet Headquarters being run by Species 8472 and used to practice launching an assault on Earth and the Alpha Quadrant. Species 8472 shape-shift into human form using regular doses of drugs.

Once Upon a Time

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1998

While Voyager searches for the crew of the crashed Delta Flyer carrying Tuvok, Paris, and Ensign Samantha Wildman, Neelix must keep Samantha's daughter Naomi occupied. He tries to amuse her with a magical "holonovel" about forest creatures called Flotter and Trevis. When it is discovered that Samantha is badly injured, Neelix must decide how much he should tell Naomi in an attempt to protect her feelings.

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1998

Voyager uses new quantum slipstream technology in an attempt to return home, but a miscalculation by Kim causes the ship to crash into an ice planet. Fifteen years later, the sole survivors, Chakotay and Kim, have resigned from Starfleet and attempt to alter history to save the ship from disaster before Starfleet can stop them. They steal the Delta Flyer to send a message back in time and avert the catastrophe. However, Captain Geordi LaForge is determined to stop them at all costs.

Infinite Regress

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1998

Voyager  encounters a Borg cube's debris field containing technology called a Vinculum, a device that connects all the drone's minds. The device causes Seven of Nine to exhibit multiple personalities of people she assimilated as a member of the collective, including a Klingon, a Ferengi, a Vulcan, and a human. Soon, they become so strong that they may overwhelm Seven's own personality.

Nothing Human

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1998

A dying alien organism attaches itself to B'Elanna's nervous system, and the Doctor doesn't know how to treat her. He enlists the help of a holographic recreation of the Cardassian Dr. Crell Mossett, an exobiology specialist and war criminal, to save her life. B'Elanna refuses all treatment when the Bajoran crew informs her that Crell was responsible for sadistic war crimes during the occupation. The Doctor experiences a moral quandary about using and retaining Crell's program.

Thirty Days

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1998

The crew of  Voyager  discovers a strange ocean world in space and offers to help the inhabitants find out why the ocean is losing water to space. They find the forcefield maintaining the planet's integrity is breaking down. Tom Paris directly disobeys orders in an attempt to save the planet, which results in his demotion to Ensign and being placed in the brig for thirty days. Paris tells the story of this episode in a letter for his father to pass the time in the ship's brig. When first encountering the world, Paris interrupts Kim in the middle of his Chaotica holodeck adventure.

Counterpoint

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1998

While traveling through Devore space, Captain Janeway must hide all telepaths on board in transporter stasis as telepathy is illegal under Devore law. This includes two families of alien telepathic refugees rescued by the ship's crew. The Devore commander boards and inspects  Voyager  numerous times during their passage through that area of space. Sometime later, he returns in a small shuttle and requests asylum wishing to defect.

Latent Image

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1999

The Doctor discovers evidence that his short-term memory files may have been tampered with and altered with some events deleted. He launches an investigation into whom or what could be responsible and is shocked at who it is and why they're doing it. The Doctor recalls the death of crew member Jetal and believes he was responsible.  

Bride of Chaotica!

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1999

Chaos erupts when aliens from the Fifth Dimension interpret Lt. Paris' "Captain Proton" holographic novel as reality. These photonic energy life forms mistake the characters in Tom's holonovel for real people and a threat. The holodeck characters interpret this as an attack, and soon Dr. Chaotica tries to wipe them out. The only person that can stop him is Captain Janeway in the role of Queen Arachnia of the Spider People.

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1999

When the shuttle carrying Tuvok, Paris, and the Doctor crashes on a deserted planet pulled down by its intense gravity, they wait to be rescued. This is a temporally-distorted area of space. From their perspective, many weeks have passed with no contact from Voyager, while onboard, only a few hours have passed as the crew plan a rescue attempt. The three are stranded with an alien woman who falls in love with Tuvok, and he finds himself somewhat attracted to her.

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1999

After five years, discovering a wormhole leading directly to Alpha Quadrant and Earth elates the crew beyond belief, but Seven Of Nine remains unconvinced that this is real. She suspects there is something wrong with how quickly and easily the  Voyager's  crew accepts the appearance of the phenomenon. To help her cause, she recruits Naomi Wildman, the Doctor, and an alien pilot named Qatai to stop the ship from entering and from being digested by a large bioplasmic space-dwelling lifeform.

Dark Frontier, Part I

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1999

Stardate: 52619.2 - After defeating a Borg scout ship, Captain Janeway decides to launch an attack on another damaged Sphere to steal a trans-warp coil (Borg propulsion technology). However, as the crew prepares for their heist, the Borg Queen is secretly aware of the entire plan. During the mission, Seven of Nine's loyalty becomes divided between the Borg and Voyager and is lured back to the Borg collective by the Queen in exchange for the crew's safety.   

Dark Frontier, Part II

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1999

After defeating a Borg ship, Captain Janeway decides to launch an attack to steal a trans-warp coil to shorten  Voyager's  journey home. The Borg detect her plan and access Seven Of Nine's neural transceiver to deliver an ultimatum: rejoin the collective or the ship and its crew will be assimilated. The ship will be guaranteed safe passage through Borg space if she agrees. After she agrees to rejoin the Borg Collective, the Borg Queen attempts to put her to work helping the Borg. Janeway launches a rescue mission to save Seven of Nine from being totally assimilated by the Borg.

The Disease

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1999

Ensign Kim breaks Starfleet medical rules involving contact with unknown alien species, putting Voyager in possible medical jeopardy. Without medical clearance, Kim involves himself in a love affair with an exotic member of the Varo species. Problems arise when they become biochemically interdependent after the incident.  

Course: Oblivion

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1999

Stardate: 52586.3 After Paris and Torres wed, the ship and its crew start to disintegrate on the molecular level due to subspace radiation caused by their new enhanced warp drive. As  Voyager  crew members begin dying, they make a startling discovery about their true identities. They are not the real  Voyager . Every member of the crew and even  Voyager  itself are biomimetic duplicates from the "Demon class" planet visited months ago in the episode "Demon" (S04E24).

Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1999

When  Voyager  is trapped in "chaotic space," an area where the laws of physics are in a state of flux, Chakotay begins hearing and seeing things. The telepathic aliens living inside the space are trying to contact the ship. However, prolonged communication may leave him insane or braindead. In their first attempt, Chakotay was boxing on the holodeck. The aliens induced further hallucinations of him boxing as "The Maquis Mauler," fighting Delta Quadrant's champion "Kid Chaos." Ultimately, the aliens help  Voyager  safely leave "chaotic space."

Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1999

A group of extremely intelligent aliens offers to help Voyager escape from a race of bounty hunters known as the Hazari, in exchange for Seven of Nine.

Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1999

Voyager  encounters a damaged and adrift Malon freighter in danger of releasing deadly theta radiation into that sector of space and rescues two crew members. Captain Janeway sends a repair crew to try and contain the radiation spread. Before they embark on the mission, the two crewmen warn them about the "Angel of Decay" that wreaks havoc aboard the ship.

Someone to Watch Over Me

Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1999

The Doctor teaches Seven Of Nine about human behavior and how humans interact with each other while dating. The Doctor learns a bit about his own possible humanity during the lessons. After her disastrous first date with a crew member, the Doctor personally guides her, but he soon realizes he is falling in love with her. Meanwhile, Neelix guides an ambassador of a monastic colony through the ship, unwittingly creating a potentially embarrassing situation for the ambassador when he requests forbidden food and drink.

Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: May 5, 1999

Captain Janeway recalls a 21st-century ancestor Shannon O'Donnel, involved in creating a seminal self-contained biosphere called the Millennium Gate on Earth on New Year's Eve 2000. O'Donnel must convince the last holdout, local bookstore owner Henry Janeway to approve the plan.

Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: May 12, 1999

When Voyager is destroyed, Captain Braxton of the 29th Century Timeship Relativity recruits Seven of Nine to travel back in time and find who planted the "temporal disruptor." However, to save  Voyager , she must do this without being discovered by the past Janeway.

Episode: 5x25 | Airdate: May 19, 1999

While Kim is serving as commander of  Voyager , the ship receives a distress signal. When the away team, including the Doctor, goes to a planet searching for someone needing assistance, they find a mysterious object with artificial intelligence. After Kim beams the device onboard, the crew discovers it to be an intelligent alien missile. They attempt to separate the intelligence from the weapon to save the intelligence and neutralize the weapon. But, it links with the Doctor's program terrorizing the crew and requests it be allowed to complete its mission of mass destruction.

Equinox, Part I

Episode: 5x26 | Airdate: May 26, 1999

Voyager  encounters another Federation starship, the USS  Equinox , commanded by Captain Rudy Ransom, which the Caretaker also abducted and stranded in the Delta Quadrant. As Janeway tries to figure out Captain Ransom, hostile aliens attack both ships. However, the Doctor exposes a terrible secret the  Equinox  crew harbors, and Ransom steals Voyager's technology and takes Seven of Nine and the Doctor as hostages.

Equinox, Part II

Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1999

Captain Janeway takes her quest for revenge against Captain Ransom to extremes when she orders the use of photon torpedoes against the Equinox , tractors a neutral ship, nearly kills an Equinox crewman during an interrogation, and relieves Chakotay of duty when he questions her actions.

Survival Instinct

Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1999

Stardate: 53049.2 - Seven of Nine discovers that she was freed from the Borg collective once before with three other Borg drones when their ship crashed on a planet. She is also responsible for their re-assimilation. Now, the three renegade drones stalk Seven because they are linked in their own "collective" and want to learn from Seven how to terminate their neural links and restore their individuality. Seven is willing to help.

Barge of the Dead

Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1999

Stardate: Unknown. During a near-death experience aboard a shuttlecraft, B'Elanna finds herself aboard the Klingon Barge of the Dead, a spectral vessel transporting dishonored souls to  Gre'thor . It is the Klingon Hell and the antithesis of  Sto-vo-kor . After seeing her mother Miral there, B'Elanna must confront her Klingon heritage and risk her life to go back and save her mother's soul from this fate, even at the cost of her own.

Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy

Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1999

Stardate: Unknown. The Doctor programs himself with a subroutine allowing him to daydream, which puts him directly into the center of a crisis. An alien scavenger race called the Overlookers gains access to the Doctor's cognitive subroutines to make him their spy. But, the alien spy monitoring the Doctor's visions mistakes them for reality. When the alien raiders believe they have gathered enough information about  Voyager , they plan to launch an attack.

Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1999

Tom Paris persuades Chakotay to allow him to buy a shuttle from a space junkyard. While repairing it, the shuttle, which Tom names "Alice," begins to gain control over Tom's mind. The sexy female persona turns the space shuttle into an obsession of Tom's, and it convinces him to cannibalize  Voyager's  parts.

Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1999

An attack by an intelligent energy source robs Tuvok of his mental prowess, leaving him exposed and vulnerable. He soon starts experiencing emotions he never expressed before. Janeway searches for the "shadow people" responsible for the attack. Neelix takes care of Tuvok the entire time. 

Dragon's Teeth

Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1999

Voyager  comes under attack from an armada belonging to a territorial race of aliens known as the Turei. Escaping the attack by sheltering on a decimated planet, the  Voyager  crew finds a hibernating warrior race in chambers deep below the surface. Captain Janeway tries to ally with the inhabitants, the Vaadwaur. However, she soon begins to think the Vaadwaur may pose a more significant threat than the enemy above.

One Small Step

Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1999

Voyager  crosses paths with a graviton ellipse, a rare spatial anomaly that swallowed the  Ares IV , an Earth ship orbiting Mars in 2032. The discovery calls for an away mission to search the 300-year-old U.S. spacecraft from the first manned mission to Mars trapped inside this massive ball of energy.

The Voyager Conspiracy

Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1999

Seven of Nine begins a new method of data analysis that makes her craft a conspiracy theory that Janeway and Tuvok intentionally stranded Voyager in the Delta Quadrant. Later, a data-overloaded Seven of Nine starts spreading rumors of a mutiny and insurrection when the ship encounters an alien with technology that can catapult the ship light-years closer to home and cut years off their journey.

Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1999

On Earth, the Starship  Enterprise's  Lt. Barclay tries to find a way to communicate with the Starship  Voyager  using an artificially generated micro-wormhole. He becomes so obsessed that he needs the help of Counsellor Troi to keep his grip on reality.

Episode: 6x11 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2000

The  Voyager  crew enjoys leisure time in a holo-program created by Tom Paris and set in Fair Haven, an Irish coastal village of the early 20th century. Captain Janeway falls for a handsome holo-character designed specifically for her. But, a deadly neutrino wave approaching  Voyager  brings the festivities to a halt as this wave may prove more dangerous than they first imagined.

Blink of an Eye

Episode: 6x12 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2000

Voyager  becomes trapped in orbit of a primitive planet where time passes rapidly (days are seconds aboard the ship) and enters the mythos of its indigenous people. Inadvertently influencing the civilization,  Voyager  eventually becomes the target of newfound weaponry. 

Episode: 6x13 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2000

When a technologically superior race, the Qomar, discovers the Doctor's singing talents, he becomes a celebrity among a race that never developed music. His newfound popularity makes him consider resigning his commission to stay on the alien world, embracing a career in opera singing with his millions of adoring fans.

Episode: 6x14 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2000

The crew of  Voyager  experience vivid memories and dreams of a battle they don't remember having, with an enemy they have never encountered. Captain Janeway worries about crew members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders after Chakotay, Neelix, Kim, and Paris return from an exploration.

Episode: 6x15 | Airdate: Feb 9, 2000

Seven of Nine is forced to fight a Pendari gladiator in a competition for her life known as "Tsunkatse" when she and Tuvok are abducted from the Delta Flyer. If she refuses to fight, Tuvok will be denied the medical aid needed to keep him from dying of injuries sustained from an explosion on the shuttle.

Episode: 6x16 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2000

A Borg ship captures a  Voyager  shuttle with Chakotay, Kim, Neelix, and Paris on board. Janeway enters hostage negotiations with a gang of dangerously erratic Borg children, who the Borg rejected as unworthy drones.

Spirit Folk

Episode: 6x17 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2000

The inhabitants of the holographic town of Fair Haven suspect the  Voyager  crew of having mystical powers when they witness the use of their futuristic technology.

Ashes to Ashes

Episode: 6x18 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2000

The long-dead Ensign Lindsay Ballard seeks sanctuary aboard  Voyager  after being killed during an away mission with Ensign Kim three years ago. She is pursued by an alien race known as the Kobali, whose only reproduction method is reanimating cadavers of other species or "resurrection" of the dead through genetic engineering. They had revived her and taken her as a new member of their race. When the full extent of her new Kobali genes is activated, they reach a point where she must choose between her old home on the ship or her new home with her adoptive Kobali family.

Child's Play

Episode: 6x19 | Airdate: Mar 8, 2000

Seven of Nine defends a child Borg drone whose parents come to reclaim him. Seven suspects that Icheb's parents are not telling the truth about their son's assimilation. Mezoti, one of the Borg children still on board  Voyager , holds the key to the mystery. The boy's parents plan on using him as a secret genetic weapon for revenge on the Borg, even if it results in his death.

Good Shepherd

Episode: 6x20 | Airdate: Mar 15, 2000

Captain Janeway takes three crew members with poor performance records on an away mission in the Delta Flyer to bring them up to Starfleet standards. However, an unexpected collision with a Dark Matter comet leaves the crew in a dangerous situation. Plus, an unexpected attack forces them to work together to survive.

Live Fast and Prosper

Episode: 6x21 | Airdate: Apr 19, 2000

A group of con artists impersonates Captain Janeway and the crew of  Voyager  while pulling scams and marring Starfleet's reputation. The crew must find the imposters soon, or they will be punished for the con artists' crimes.

Episode: 6x22 | Airdate: Apr 26, 2000

A well-meaning alien poet discovers an unconscious B'Elanna Torres after her crash landing in the  Delta Flyer . He uses her  Voyager  stories to inspire his theatrical work, composing plays based on the crew and their life on the ship to win favor with his Warlord.

Episode: 6x23 | Airdate: May 3, 2000

Former crew member Kes returns to  Voyager  in a state of rage, blaming Captain Janeway for her past. Using her expanded Ocampan powers in a fit of revenge, she travels through time to betray the crew to the Vidiians, an alien life form that will absorb the crew's internal organs.

Episode: 6x24 | Airdate: May 10, 2000

The Pathfinder Project uses a pulsar and the MIDAS Array, allowing a data stream to reach  Voyager  and  Voyager  to reply every 32 days. News reaches  Voyager  through the up-and-running Pathfinder that the Doctor's creator, Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, is critically ill. In an attempt to save his life, Captain Janeway authorizes the transmission of the Doctor's program to the Alpha Quadrant. Once there, the Doctor finds Zimmerman refuses to be examined by an "obsolete" EMH program and himself in danger of matrix degeneration.

The Haunting of Deck Twelve

Episode: 6x25 | Airdate: May 17, 2000

When  Voyager  encounters some engineering problems, Neelix keeps the Borg children entertained with a ghost story about an electromagnetic life force that holds  Voyager  hostage while trying to make contact with Janeway and get itself home. It's the story of an adventure the crew experienced several months ago with the ghost that lives on Deck Twelve.

Unimatrix Zero, Part I

Episode: 6x26 | Airdate: May 24, 2000

Seven of Nine is led to a place known as Unimatrix Zero, a place where Borg drones are individuals for a short period during their regeneration. However, once their regeneration is complete, all recollection of the event is erased. Captain Janeway uses this to form a plan of attack that would create a mutiny instilling independent thought from within the Borg Collective.

Unimatrix Zero, Part II

Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Oct 4, 2000

Stardate: 54014.4 - The away team of Janeway, Tuvok, and Torres infiltrate the Borg Collective and execute their plan to undermine it, even though it may destroy Unimatirix Zero forever. Meanwhile, the Borg queen launches a full-scale attack against Voyager. Seven of Nine reunites with a former lover.

Imperfection

Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Oct 11, 2000

Stardate: 54129.4 - Rebi and Azan reunite with their home world and leave the crew of  Voyager . Mezoti accepts the invitation to stay with Rebi and Azan and live with them. Seven of Nine is placed in a life-threatening situation when her Borg implants begin to malfunction. She can only survive with replacement parts from a living drone. Janeway, Tuvok, and Paris search a destroyed Borg ship for parts but find only drones deactivated for too long. With Icheb now the last of the remaining Borg children on  Voyager , he offers his implants through a risky procedure that may cost both of their lives. Seven rejects his offer to protect him, but Icheb secretly performs the dangerous operation on himself to save the ailing Seven.

Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Oct 18, 2000

When Paris enters the Delta Flyer in a race with Torres as his co-pilot, he learns that the Flyer is targeted for foul play.

Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2000

After members of the crew are discovered unconscious, Tuvok leads the search for the mysterious attacker who preys on those involved in the Maquis resistance movement.

Critical Care

Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Nov 1, 2000

The Doctor is abducted from  Voyager  and forced to work in a hospital where patients are treated based on their social status. He must sidestep the tyrannical hospital administrator to treat patients other than the privileged.

Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Nov 8, 2000

Stardate: 54208.3 -  Voyager  receives a hologram of Reginald Barclay, bringing news that the ship can be returned home in a matter of hours through a "geodesic fold." However, after seeing him exhibit strange behavior, the crew becomes suspicious of the holographic Barclay's intentions. On Earth, Barclay enlists Counselor Deanna Troi's help to warn the  Voyager  crew when they discover the Ferengi hijacked Lt. Barclay's hologram and reprogramed it.

Body and Soul

Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Nov 15, 2000

Stardate: 54283.3 - While in the Delta Flyer, the Doctor, Harry Kim, and Seven of Nine come under attack for transporting a hologram through Lokirrim space, an act they strictly forbid. Seven of Nine downloads him into her cybernetic implants to hide the Doctor shortly before being taken to a Lokirrim holding cell. While inside Seven, the Doctor revels in his newfound human sensations, especially an attraction to a female alien. On board Voyager, Tuvok enters Pon Farr.

Nightingale

Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Nov 22, 2000

Stardate: 54274.7 - While  Voyager  stops for major maintenance on an uninhabited planet, Harry Kim, Seven, and Neelix use the  Delta Flyer  to search for dilithium when they come across a war between two alien races, the Kraylor and the Annari. After receiving a distress call from a damaged Kraylor ship claiming to be on a humanitarian mission, Harry accepts his first chance at commanding a vessel of his own. However, power goes to his head as captain of the crippled alien ship under attack. Finding the ship has an uninspiring name, he renames it the  Nightingale.  Meanwhile, on  Voyager , Icheb believes B'Elanna Torres has become attracted to him.

Flesh and Blood, Part I

Episode: 7x09 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2000

The Doctor shocks Janeway and the crew when he commits treason to help a group of rebel holograms escape subjugation by the Hirogen.

Flesh and Blood, Part II

Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Nov 29, 2000

The Doctor commits treason to help a rebel band of holograms but becomes disillusioned when the leader abducts a Voyager crew member.

Episode: 7x11 | Airdate: Jan 17, 2001

The ship splinters into a myriad of time zones, and only Chakotay can travel among the fragments of time to save Janeway and the crew.

Episode: 7x12 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2001

A pregnant B'Elanna Torres is tormented by memories of an unhappy childhood as a human-Klingon youngster and the toll it took on her family.

Episode: 7x13 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2001

Seven of Nine cries a river of shame over her actions as a Borg after she witnesses a once-violent alien criminal's intense guilt.

Episode: 7x14 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2001

A band of nomadic Klingons mistake B'Elanna's unborn child for their long-awaited messiah, and they resolve to follow the baby.

Episode: 7x15 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2001

Janeway forges an alliance among several hostile ships that have been preying on each other while trapped in a void.

Workforce, Part I

Episode: 7x16 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2001

Stardate: 54584.3 - The crew of  Voyager  carries out their everyday lives as workers on an industrial planet called Quarra, totally unaware of their time on  Voyager  or their situation in the Delta Quadrant. Almost the entire crew has been abducted and brainwashed to serve in this severely short-handed alien society. Chakotay, Kim, and Neelix return from their trading mission on the  Delta Flyer  to find the ship abandoned and adrift in a nebula with only the Doctor on board and the acting Captain. The Doctor informs them that the vessel hit a space mine and fell into a trap, forcing them to abandon the ship in the escape pods. Alien ships captured the crew, and the Doctor has heard nothing from them. After going undercover on the planet, Chakotay and Neelix must now find a way to return the crew and restore their memories while evading local authorities who have uncovered their plan. Kim and the Doctor remain on  Voyager  to complete repairs. Also, Janeway falls for a mystery man on Quarra.

Workforce, Part II

Episode: 7x17 | Airdate: Feb 28, 2001

Stardate: 54622.4 - While the Doctor and Kim defend the ship, Chakotay must infiltrate the Quarren power plant and convince Janeway and his other abducted colleagues to return to  Voyager . Matters are complicated when Chakotay is exposed and taken for interrogation. He struggles to maintain his identity against the Quarren's Division 6. Meanwhile, Neelix transports back to  Voyager  with an unconscious B'Elanna, whose memories slowly return.

Human Error

Episode: 7x18 | Airdate: Mar 7, 2001

When Seven of Nine tries to perfect her social skills on the holodeck, she experiences the breadth of human emotions while researching relationships. She soon overwhelms her Borg implants as her hobby quickly becomes an obsession. This leads her to neglect her duties, placing  Voyager  in great danger when it accidentally wanders into an interstellar firing range.

Episode: 7x19 | Airdate: Apr 11, 2001

Q2, Q's adolescent son, must receive a weeklong rehabilitation period at the hands of his reluctant aunt.

Author, Author

Episode: 7x20 | Airdate: Apr 18, 2001

The Voyager crew is in for an unpleasant surprise when the Doctor publishes a novel filled with characters based on his colleagues.

Friendship One

Episode: 7x21 | Airdate: Apr 25, 2001

Janeway must gain the trust of an alien society crippled by the advanced knowledge of anti-matter contained inside a first contact probe launched from Earth in 2067.

Natural Law

Episode: 7x22 | Airdate: May 2, 2001

Seven of Nine and Chakotay crash land on an isolated planet section that has been shielded from the rest of the inhabitants where they are surrounded by a primitive tribe of hunter-gatherers.

Episode: 7x23 | Airdate: May 9, 2001

Neelix is reunited with his own species when he finds a settlement of Talaxians being oppressed by mercenaries on a mineral-rich asteroid.

Renaissance Man

Episode: 7x24 | Airdate: May 16, 2001

The Doctor impersonates several crew members to retrieve the ship's warp core and save Janeway's life.

Endgame, Part I

Episode: 7x25 | Airdate: May 23, 2001

A time traveler forces Janeway into a deadly showdown with her nemesis, the Borg Queen; a romance ignites during Voyager's peril.

Endgame, Part II

Episode: 7x26 | Airdate: May 23, 2001

A time traveler forces Capt. Janeway into a deadly showdown with her nemesis, the Borg Queen; a romance ignites during Voyager's peril.

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Some of the best Star Trek stories involve the Borg, one of the deadliest enemies that Starfleet ever faced. The Borg is an entity that was outside of Federation space for some time, and it wasn't until The Next Generation that this dangerous race even appeared. RELATED: Underappreciated Space Western TV Shows The Borg was introduced to the Star Trek universe on The Next Generation timeline, so most of the best Borg episodes are either TNG or Voyager episodes from roughly the same era. The series Picard , which is currently in circulation, includes several Borg characters from the TNG series along with Seven of Nine from Voyager .There's some speculation that early versions of the Borg, or maybe even an origin story , might appear as part of the plot in the more recent TV shows like Discovery. These are based in the Trek universe but pre-date TNG on the timeline.

6 Endgame (Voyager)

The final episode of Voyager carried the burden of seven years worth of expectations. After this many seasons, much of it spent dodging the Borg in the far reaches of space, it took a total of 27 years for Janeway and her crew to get home.

The main thing is that they made it, but for the Captain, that's not good enough. Tuvok was suffering from a debilitating cerebral disorder that couldn't be treated in time, which is one of the reasons Janeway takes the risk of going back in time and making a deal with the Borg to get them back twenty years sooner. This isn't the first time that Janeway outsmarted the Borg, and with the aid of her younger counterpart , they were able to get it done a second time.

5 Q Who? (The Next Generation)

This memorable episode isn't just recognized as one of the greatest TNG episodes, featuring one of the most popular and endearing supporting characters, but it was also the very first time the Borg appeared in the Star Trek universe. The Enterprise-D had to find some way to get that far across the galaxy, and it was Q that got them there.

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This was one of the life lessons or tests that Q would often throw at Picard when he thought the captain was getting too arrogant, or when Q himself was simply bored. Picard is excited at the prospect of exploring a new part of the galaxy at first, even though Gainan warns him that they need to get back to Federation space as soon as possible. Once they encounter the Borg, it seems that the omnipotent Q is all that can save them.

4 I, Borg (The Next Generation)

As it is with Star Trek , there's more nuance to every villain than simply "ugly alien bad" and the Borg is no exception. Plenty of debate took place among the officers of the Enterprise regarding what kind of considerations the Borg should be given as a sentient, independent race, and "I, Borg" was part of that discussion. In this episode, the Enterprise responds to a distress call as they would, but it's from a Borg drone that crashed while on a scouting mission.

The debate rages as to whether or not they should help the Borg or use him to destroy the local Collective. They decide that any principled Starfleet officers would, especially as the drone in question even starts to show signs of sentience and individuality - they help him and send him on his way with no strings attached. Hugh, which is the name the drone eventually took for himself, would return again in later episodes of TNG and Picard .

3 Descent (The Next Generation)

What could be worse than being attacked by the Borg? Well, how about getting attacked by a group of Borg in league with a powerful and amoral android? This is actually a two-part episode, and also a great choice for Data fans. This character takes a central part in the plot, and questions about the android's humanity are also brought into question.

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The episode starts with a now-famous scene of Data on the holodeck, playing cards with Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. A few scenes later, the crew is attacked by Borg who seems to be acting strangely. Part of the tension is finding out why, and it turns out that Lore, essentially Data's evil twin, is behind it all.

2 Scorpion (Voyager)

One of the best episodes of Voyager and memorable for several reasons, the main one being the introduction of Seven of Nine to the crew. This was also the first time that Janeway showed how humans could defeat the Borg - by outsmarting them.

The Federation protocols for a ship and crew that find themselves on the other side of the galaxy, with thousands of light-years filled with Borg between them and earth, might not be so clear. That might mean making a few deals focused on defeating a common enemy. The Borg thought it could take the earthlings for a ride, but Janeway turned the tables on them at the last minute by separating Seven of Nine from the collective. She eventually became one of the most valuable members of the crew.

1 The Best Of Both Worlds (The Next Generation)

Another two-parter, this time part one was the last episode of the third season and the first episode of the fourth, which is a pretty clever marketing ploy. This storyline is a daring one , and beloved by fans and critics alike. This time the Borg was at the Federation's doorstep, ready to conquer earth. Their plan was to use Jean-Luc Picard, now as the Borg drone Locutus, as their emissary to do so.

This wasn't just a chilling story about the implications of a Borg takeover, both as individuals and also on a global scale, but there was a crucial glimmer of hope here. The possibility that Borg drones could be rescued and recovered was what raised the stakes in this episode as viewers wondered if their beloved Captain Picard would be lost forever.

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Star Trek: Voyager - Episode Guide - Season 4

This is when Voyager becomes assimilated – not merely by Borg- and Borg technology-centered episodes, but also by the new character Seven of Nine herself.

Stealing the drone through whom the Borg communicated with voyager’s crew during the season-opening battle with Species 8472. In return, the so-called “Seven of Nine” rapidly begins stealing the show, along with the companionship of the Doctor; these two characters essentially become a fragmented Data, i.e. the mouthpiece for outsiders to learn human culture.

The introduction of Seven to the cast also results in the swift ejection of Kes from Star Trek: Voyager, regrettable only in that she didn’t take freakin’ Neelix with her…

1. Scorpion, Part II – A Borg drone is assigned to work with Janeway, Tuvok and the Voyager crew, who come up with an ingenious biological weapon to use against Species 8472. Naturally, the Borg rapidly renege on the deal (shocker!), but Janeway et al are way too clever to completely trust them. ****

2. The Gift – Kes is rapidly “changing” and “becoming something else” (namely expendable with the arrival of Seven of Nine), so her psychokinetic abilities are running amok. The last few minutes with Janeway and Kes running down corridors become unintentionally hilarious if you imagine the explosions are a bombardment from the producers trying to get Kes off the damn show already … **

3. Day of Honor – B’Elanna plays out the events of the Police song “Any Other Day” except on a starship and involving her refusal to complete a Klingon rite of passage. **

4. Nemesis – Not to be confused with the godawful tenth Star Trek movie, “Nemesis” instead tells a strange tale of Chakotay’s informal enlistment into a guerilla war. ***

5. Revulsion – Torres and The Doctor board an alien ship which had sent a distress signal . The sole survivor is a clearly deranged hologram; the whole thing descends into psycho killer mode quickly and, together with “Prototype” serves as a cautionary tale for B’Elanna: Never board an alien ship which is not populated by humanoids. ***

6. The Raven – Slowly becoming biologically more human, Seven has strange visions composed of memories of her time as a drone mixed with symbolic remembrances of her childhood. ***

7. Scientific Method – A dark and über-creepy story about aliens who can walk freely among the specimens of various species upon which they experiment. When Seven finally sees (literally) the reality of the situation on Voyager, it’s almost enough to send her scrabbling back to the collective. ***

8. Year of Hell, Part I – A race with control over time resets history in a region of space through which Voyager is passing. The result is a vast empire “defended” by ships with superior technology to Voyager’s, and months upon months of continuous attacks. Meanwhile, Chakotay and Paris are captured by the “timeship” manipulating history repeatedly. ***

9. Year of Hell, Part II – A seriously shredded Voyager takes refuge in a nebula (good old nebula!) to enact repairs. Aboard the timeship, Chakotay finally sees the egocentric nature of the captain’s ways. They manage to restore the timeline which began this leg of the voyage (or at least close enough) and even provide the captain which a more productive life in the reset universe. ***

10. Random Thoughts – On a world where violent thoughts themselves are forbidden, B’Elanna is busted for just such crimethink. Seeing Tuvok solve a whodunit mystery is always cool, but the suspense in this one is ruined fairly early by a very small cast. ***

11.  Concerning Flight – Components of Voyager as well as Janeway’s hologram of Leonardo da Vinci are (rather easily) stolen and about to be fleeced on the black market. So Janeway and Da Vinci save the day, escaping via a magical glider which hypnotizes pursuers into not shooting from 60 or so feet away. **

12. Mortal Coil – A freak accident kills Neelix, and when Seven unfortunately revives him 10 hours later, he whines about the lack of afterlife. *

13. Waking Moments – A trippy (literally) episode featuring a race with yet another unique spin on the invasion plan: These guys put their prey into a shard dream state and have their way in the dream world. Naturally, Chakotay and his very sloppily defined indigenous abilities help save the day. ***

14. Message in a Bottle – Voyager finds an apparently abandoned subspace communications network. They locate a Federation starship in the Alpha Quadrant and send the Doctor through. Upon arrival, he discovers that Romulans have taken the ship, with only he and the ship’s own, more advanced, EMH. Hilarious interplay between the Doctors combines nicely with the general suspense of the episode. ****.

15. Hunters – Introducing the Hirogen, a rather unstable-seeming nomad species which is obsessed with eternally hunting “lesser species.” In “Hunters,” the Federation uses a Hirogen communication network to transmit a detailed message to Voyager. The Hirogen soon demand that Voyager cease using the network and shortly after *that* begin the shooting war… **

16. Prey – Species 8472 is back … or at least one weak and wounded member of ‘em is. Hirogen hunters think they have the fluidic beastie captured, but just one survives to be treated aboard the Enterprise. The 8472er has followed the hunter to Voyager, however, and the battle resumes. Janeway and Seven have a tiff over how the 8472 should be dealt with. ***

17. Retrospect – What starts as an intriguing-looking whodunit turns into an underdone script with the Voyager bridge crew all ultimately blaming the victim; in this case, it’s Seven, who has vivid memories of a trader stealing Borg technology out of her body. 0

18-19. The Killing Game – Now here’s how you do a holodeck story. Hirogen take over Voyager and force the crew to play out various war scenarios. Most of the action takes place in a Casablanca-feeling French village. Nazis and aliens as bad guys? Vive la resistance? Seven first as a lounge singer, then as hero? The Doctor doing Doctor things? Klingons verses Nazi troops? Nice. *****

20. Vis à Vis – An alien requesting assistance with his ship gets on board Voyager and performs the ol’ body-swapping trip with Paris. Pretty standard stuff here. **

21. The Omega Directive –Voyager encounters incredibly explosive omega particles and Janeway is under standing orders to destroy all such particles regardless of circumstances. ***

22. Unforgettable – An alien contacts Voyager – and specifically Chakotay – in an effort to gain political asylum with Voyager and the Federation. Naturally, she’s (all together now) not all that she seems! ****

23. Living Witness – An absolutely fascinating look at the distortions of history and dogma. Some 700 years in the future, the EMH is reinitialized on a Delta Quadrant world and the Doctor pressed by a local historian for details of the EEEEvil Voyager crew. His mere telling of the truth, however, has a profound effect on the planet’s peoples. A great twist and satisfying ending, too. ****

24. Demon – Paris and Kim head down to a “Demon-class” planet for fuel, only to find a bizarre substance which they ultimately identify as “biomimetic fluid.” Standard “life but not as we know it” kinda stuff, but a stunning payoff for this episode does come … about one season later. **

25. One – From season 4 on, one can’t blame the uninitiated for thinking of Star Trek: Voyager as the “Doctor and Seven Show.” This episode serves as prime example of the phenomenon. So as to pass through a nebula cram-packed with lethal radiation, all Voyager crew except Seven and (naturally) The Doctor are put into stasis. Eventually the Doctor shuts down as well, leaving Seven to fend for her own against loneliness – and other dangers. ***

26. Hope and Fear – Quite an interesting and heady episode, if you’re willing to look past some rather obvious plot holes. An alien with an otherworldly (sorry) talent for languages helps Voyager decode certain tricky bits of the message Voyager received in “Hunters” – or does he? Despite the improbability of several plot devices in “Hope and Fear”, some good questions regarding Janeway’s decisions emerge – and, upon consideration, the baddie here isn’t totally unjustified in his actions. ***

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Everything You Need to Know About the Borg Queen

Long live the Queen!

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“I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. I am the Borg.”

The central locus of the Borg Collective is the amoral Borg Queen . Through her, like the queen of an insect colony, the Hive mind is granted order and common direction.

As the Villain Showdown enter its fourth week, pitting the Borg Queen against Gul Dukat , we’ve put together this handy guide on everything you need to know about the Queen.

The One Who is Many

Throughout the history of the Borg Collective, there have been a number of Queens. Only one Queen exists at any given time; when she is destroyed, a new Queen takes her place. In Star Trek: Voyager, it's revealed that the Borg Queen isn't a singular entity, but the name given to any that serves as its host, possessing all previous Queen's collective consciousness.

The Borg , a fusion of organic and synthetic matter, and their relentless pursuit of perfection brought fear to all quadrants of the galaxy. Residing primarily at Unimatrix One in the Delta Quadrant , the Borg Queen is the only one able to think independently from the Collective; possessing a unique personality and sense of individuality — traits not seen within the Borg.

The first Borg Queen (Alice Krige) made her debut with Star Trek: First Contact (1996) as the Borg sought to erase a historical moment in Starfleet history— First Contact Day —traveling back in time to prevent the creation and need of the Federation .

In her lair, the Borg Queen remains disembodied with just her head and spinal column — the epitome of perfection — with no remnants of her humanoid form. When she leaves her home base for assimilation efforts, she will reassemble herself into a predominantly artificial body.

Your Culture Will Adapt to Service Us.

The Borg doesn’t value the Federation’s belief in individuality – its mission is to add others’ biological and technological distinctiveness to their own, strengthening the Collective in its pursuit of perfection. Defeating their opponents isn’t enough; they sought to assimilate their enemies’ minds and flesh.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard still endures residual trauma decades later following his assimilation into the Borg . As Locutus of the Borg, selected to be their voice to facilitate their introduction into human society, Picard believed he never fully regained himself after they striped away his humanity and sense of self.

There is No 'Me,' Only 'Us'

It is in Star Trek: Voyager where we learn that the Borg Queen, obsessed with power, didn’t create the Borg; she was just tasked with leading the Collective. The collective consciousness, where each drone is linked through the subspace network, allows for the Borg to adapt quickly and eliminate threats as they arise.

In the episode " Dark Frontier " of Star Trek: Voyager, the Borg Queen believes Seven of Nine 's presence is vital to their path forward in their approach to assimilate Earth, seeing value in Seven's knowledge of humanity. The Borg Queen tries to lure her back to the Collective by "allowing" her to remain an individual instead of reverting to a drone. The Queen's seduction involved telling Seven she's "unique," and her experience will add to their perfection. However, she can't be selfish and only think of just her individual self.

Resistance is Futile.

When a Borg Queen is destroyed, another Queen is propped up. Susanna Thompson portrays the Borg Queen in Star Trek: Voyager ’s two-parter, “ Dark Frontier ” and “ Unimatrix Zero .”

Most recently, the Borg Queen was played by Annie Wersching in Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard .

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Bringing Order to Chaos

In Star Trek: Picard , the Borg Queen is cut off from the Borg Collective due the actions of Q and a divergence in time. As a result, she becomes wholly and fully obsessed with Agnes Jurati.

Seen as the last of the Borg, instead of finding the Collective, she sets her sights on Agnes in hopes of building out a new Borg collective.

Star Trek: Picard - The Borg Queen Returns

Interested in learning more about the Borg Queen and her latest machinations, stream all episodes of Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard now!

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Collective (episode)

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Voyager finds a Borg cube controlled by assimilated children who have been separated from the Collective mind.

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Summary [ ]

The ace of cubes trumps them all; a Borg cube catches the Delta Flyer unaware

Commander Chakotay is on an away mission aboard the Delta Flyer . With him are Ensigns Tom Paris and Harry Kim , and Neelix . Passing the time, they sit together playing poker . It is time to compare hands. But when Paris is asked to show his, his eyes stare in horrified surprise at the front windows. The others turn to look; a Borg cube is coming straight toward them. The four men scramble to battle stations. " And I had a full house… " Paris mutters.

Act One [ ]

The Delta Flyer flees at full impulse , with the gigantic Borg vessel hot on its tail, firing at it. Neelix voices the question all of them have: why did sensors not detect it? Kim supplies a possible answer: a dispersal field was used to make it invisible to sensor scans. This is a worrying development; the Borg have never before employed such clever tactics. Warp speed is unavailable; the Flyer 's plasma injectors are damaged. Paris tries his best to avoid the incoming fire, but they suffer a direct hit, causing sparks to fly and degrading the deflector shields .

As Kim tries to clear the injectors, the cube's power output starts fluctuating. This means they still have a chance; they target its propulsion matrix. The tactic is successful; the cube is rendered dead in space, no longer able to chase them. But as they are about to make their escape, the Flyer shudders; the cube catches them in a tractor beam and begins pulling them in. Kim desperately tries to get the warp engines going, but is unsuccessful; then a power surge causes an explosion which knocks him unconscious. Power is lost, and the three awake men hear a chilling, familiar hail, in the emotionless, multi-track resonant voice of the Borg Collective :

As they watch helplessly though the forward windows, an immense hatch opens in the side of the cube. The Flyer is drawn in, and they are enveloped in complete darkness.

In the chamber of horrors: Paris, Neelix and Chakotay are in a Borg assimilation chamber

Dreaming that his crew mates were assimilated , Neelix gasps as he is woken by Chakotay. He, Chakotay and Paris are in a Borg assimilation chamber . Kim is nowhere to be found. They look around the room for him and see, on a platform, the horrific sight of a partially-assimilated alien . But the alien is dead; the assimilation apparently went awry. Paris is very agitated, expecting Borg drones to come in and begin assimilating them at any moment. Chakotay tells him to calm down; they are not drones yet, and may find an escape. The three men begin searching for a way to disable the force field preventing them from leaving the room.

Seven is baffled by the cube's weak, erratic attacks

Voyager conducts an intensive search for the Flyer . They follow its ion trail to where it ends, but the chief engineer , Lt. B'Elanna Torres , filling at the ops station for Ensign Kim, reports detection of a Borg cube; the same one the away team ran afoul of. Grim-faced, Captain Janeway orders red alert , a course alteration to intercept, and a constant remodulation of the ship's deflector shield frequencies, a standard, albeit, very temporary, defense against the Borg. The cube, however, does not move as Voyager approaches. A perplexed Seven of Nine , the ship's single foremost authority on the Borg, observes that its propulsion system is not that severely damaged; the drones aboard should have repaired it already. Then the ship shudders as the cube targets their warp core .

Janeway orders return of fire. The ship shudders again as the cube again fires, first at their impulse engines, then at their sensor array. None cause Voyager any real damage. Seven is baffled; the attacks, far from being the devastatingly powerful and efficient strikes that are par for the Borg, are very erratic and inefficient. Lt. Commander Tuvok targets and destroys their weapons. It is obvious that something is extremely amiss; this is far too easy.

Janeway is not intimidated by the damaged Borg cube

The away team is detected aboard the cube, unassimilated as yet. Voyager fires on the cube's deflector shield generator, in order to collapse the shield and allow the beam-out of the away team, but that fails. Seven, after further scans of the cube, finds the reason for the cube's unbelievably weak attacks: there are usually thousands of drones aboard a cube, but here there are only five. A hail from the Borg Collective comes through, informing, as it always does, of their intent to assimilate them. Janeway coldly answers by demanding the release of the away team.

The Borg repeat their intention. But Janeway now knows she is dealing with a lion whose teeth and claws have been pulled. " Not today, and not by you. " she replies, and threatens to resume firing if the away team is not released. A brief silence follows, during which cube scans them. Then the response comes: an offer to free the away team in exchange for specific technology, namely Voyager 's navigational deflector . Seven informs Janeway that the cube's communications array was damaged; the deflector would allow the five drones to reestablish their link with the Collective. This is the last thing Janeway wants, not that she was even considering the offer at all. She stalls, responding that she would consider the exchange if she is allowed to send over someone to make sure the away team is safe. The drones agree; she can send one person. Her obvious choice is Seven of Nine.

Voyager hovers at all stop, facing the cube. Seven beams aboard and walks through the corridors of the cube. Not a single drone is seen, except for one dead one. The 'Collective voice' tells her to go to a certain area: Grid 63, Subsection 01. She complies, and finds that it is a Borg neonatal unit. She hears something behind her, turns and finds five adolescent Borg at the unit's entrance looking at her; two twin boys, two older boys and a young girl. It is apparent that they are too young to be out as drones serving the Collective; they should still be in neonatal maturation chambers themselves. She identifies herself and asks where the adult drones are. The voice replies: " There are no others; the others were… " One of the children steps forth, the "Collective voice" is replaced by his single voice, and he finishes the statement " deactivated. We are the Borg. " Seven cannot believe it; they are dealing with not just five Borg, but five neonatal Borg; in effect, five Borg children .

Act Two [ ]

The five neonatal drones note Seven's possession of a Borg designation. She tells them that she used to be a drone herself and that she will help them repair the damaged cube. The second oldest, who has assumed leadership of the group, loudly objects that this was not the agreement they made. Seven, in a tone that brooks no argument, responds that she is modifying the agreement; she did not realize they were dealing with children. But she is reminded that they hold the away team as hostages. So, when the second oldest shouts at her to comply with the original agreement, she acquiesces, and asks to see the hostages. As she is taken to them, the "leader" menacingly tells the others to assimilate her if she resists.

As she walks with the others, Seven speaks to the oldest, asking about his designation and what makes them think they will survive in their incomplete state on this damaged vessel. The youth calls himself "Second". Their "leader", he says, is called "First". The designations refer to hierarchical position; originally, being the oldest, he was "First" and the other boy was "Second". But he could not maintain order in the group, so "Second" became "First" and he became "Second". He confidently tells Seven that the Collective will come to retrieve them.

They go to the assimilation chamber where the team (minus the still-missing Ensign Kim) is being held, and Seven ascertains they are in good health. She quietly warns them as they gaze in surprise at the neonatals not to judge by appearances; they control the vessel and its weapons. She is disgusted by the horribly botched attempt at assimilation she sees there. Second explains that they were trying to perfect their assimilation techniques. Seven harshly tells him that they failed to do so. The girl matter-of-factly indicts Ensign Paris for attempting to interfere with the force field controls, and punishes him with an electric shock when he tries to do it again under the pretext of denying it and trying to show what he was "actually" doing. Satisfied that they are well, Seven leaves with the neonatals. As she departs, Commander Chakotay pointedly asks her to give their "regards to Harry" as a way of covertly conveying that Harry is missing. Once outside the chamber, Second presses Seven for the deflector array, but she responds that she has to report back on the hostages' condition to the captain. Also, she says she has to take an adult drone's corpse with her to find out what happened to the vessel and the other adult drones. They agree.

Back on Voyager , Janeway and Tuvok walk down a corridor to sickbay , discussing Ensign Kim's absence among the hostages. Janeway tells him to try to contact him using a Borg frequency so the children would not detect the transmission. They enter sickbay.

The anti-Borg pathogen

In sickbay, The Doctor has found something remarkable in the drone corpse Seven returned with; a pathogen was responsible for killing it and all the other adult drones. He informs the two officers . Seven tells them the five juveniles she found were not affected; their maturation chambers protected them. The Doctor answers Tuvok's question as to whether it would only kill Borg in the affirmative, but then is suddenly horrified to realize that the Captain is considering using it as a bio-weapon against the juveniles. She asks Seven her opinion; would they really kill the hostages if their demands are not met? Seven's answer is yes. Janeway orders The Doctor to keep the pathogen as an option, but she will not use it until she has met the drones themselves. She then leaves with Seven.

On the Delta Flyer , Ensign Kim regains consciousness after having been knocked out in the initial attack by the cube. He slowly goes into to the cockpit, bathed in the harsh green light of the Borg vessel's interior, and finds the com signal sent from Voyager as per Captain Janeway's instructions. To answer on the same carrier wave, the computer tells him, significant system modifications have to be made; but he is well aware of this and immediately begins making them, as the Flyer is seen to be held in a colossally vast, cavernous hangar bay within the Borg vessel along with at least two other unidentified craft.

Act Three [ ]

Janeway and Seven are on the cube with the young drones. First angrily demands that she stick to the agreement: the hostages for the deflector. But Janeway offers them another option: come with Voyager and be individuals again. She begins asking the youngsters questions about their homeworlds and lives before their abductions and assimilations, but First belligerently presses his demand for the deflector. Janeway begins to stall again but he forces her back against a wall by the throat. Keeping her cool, she tells him that they cannot have it, and assimilating her will not get it for them. She then offers to help them repair their cube's technology. First sullenly agrees, giving them two hours. Seven is to remain to do the work. As Janeway leaves, First warns her not to return.

Voyager continues to sit before the massive cube. Janeway walks onto the bridge , announces they have two more hours, and asks about the pathogen. Tuvok tells her it should be ready by then. Lt. Torres voices her incredulity that they are actually negotiating with adolescent drones. Janeway comments on the drones' unpredictable nature. Tuvok notes that delusions of superiority and contempt for authority are common traits of juveniles of any species. Then a transmission from the hidden Ensign Kim on the cube comes in. Janeway decides to have him get to the cube's shield generator and destroy it. Tuvok is to guide him there by audio signal.

Seven chats with Second

On the cube, Seven works to fix the damage. Second enters with some technology she requested. As she works, they get to talking about their lives, pre-assimilation. Second does not remember his, but Seven's questions begin to bring back memories. She also fixes his sub-vocal processor, letting him speak normally. While Seven is making the simple adjustment, Second reacts quizzically, recalling that First has said that his malfunction could not be repaired until they reconnect with the Collective. Repair complete, Seven simply flashes Second a sly, knowing, look and resumes her work. Intrigued, Second gazes at her intensely, eventually noting that her hair reminds him of his mother's hair. Just then First enters and angrily rebukes him for his " irrelevant conversation " with her. He orders Second to return to his station, then gives Seven a baleful stare as he leaves to return to his.

Seven speaks to Janeway about the five young drones

Seven returns to Voyager and briefs Captain Janeway in her ready room about a disturbing discovery she made in the cube's communication records; the Collective did indeed receive the drones' distress call. But it has no intention of responding; the drones are immature, and damaged due to their premature release from their maturation chambers. They are, therefore, unimportant; the Collective, not interested in retrieving them, permanently severed their link to the hive mind . The drones, who do not have the ability to decrypt the message, are unaware of this.

Janeway considers that they can use this to win them over; once they find that they have been rejected by the Collective, they will have no place to turn but Voyager . They could regain their individuality. Seven is doubtful; they do not have the discipline to overcome their separation from the hive mind. But Janeway is determined to try. But she decides to hold on to the information for now. Seven leaves to return to the cube and finish the repairs.

Act Four [ ]

Ensign Kim carefully walks along the damaged corridors of the cube, guided by Tuvok's voice over the com and using playing cards to mark his way, in case he has to backtrack.

Seven returns to find First inspecting her work. He accuses her of stalling. She responds that she is working as quickly as she can, and shows him a PADD containing the data she is using. He dismisses the data as flawed. Annoyed, she counters that it is his understanding of the scientific theory behind the data that is flawed. In front of the other children, she belittles his ability to ensure their survival. He tells her she has forgotten what it means to be Borg. She quickly proves that false, outlining the tenets of Borg philosophy : the unity of the Collective; common goals; the quest for perfection. But, she insists, they do not have to remain drones to experience these things.

She invites them to return to Voyager with her. But First is unmoved; he tells her she has 38 minutes left out of the two hours he gave her. Just then, an alarm sounds; another maturation chamber is malfunctioning. This one contains a Borg infant; its autonomic functions are failing. First insists that it will adapt, but the girl reports after looking at a monitor that this is not happening. She pleads with him to let Seven help. Seven takes charge. She has them transport it to an incubation pod, but it still shows signs of acute distress. The only option left is to transport it to Voyager . First stubbornly refuses, saying that it is part of their collective, but he is overridden by the others.

Ensign Kim approaches the location of the cube's shield generator . He arrives, and begins planting spatial charges to destroy it. But he is surprised by the Borg girl. He distracts her with conversation while he reaches for his phaser, but she is not fooled; she tells him matter-of-factly that his weapon is useless there; a dampening field is present. He stares at her nervously.

On Voyager , Janeway and Tuvok walk briskly down a corridor, as he reports on losing contact with Kim. The Doctor hails her and asks her to come to the Sickbay. She orders Tuvok to keep trying to regain contact with Kim and goes to the Sickbay while he goes to the bridge.

The Borg infant

In the Sickbay, The Doctor shows her the Borg baby, which Seven had beamed there directly. He has stabilized her. Perhaps trying to get Janeway to change her mind about using the pathogen on the juveniles, he has her hold the child, who immediately stops fretting once in her arms. But Janeway is unmoved; if she must take that option to save her officers, she shall; she only hopes that she is not forced to actually do so.

On the cube, First confronts Seven with one of the spatial charges Kim had planted. He accuses her of trying to deceive them. They show him Ensign Kim, lying against a wall. He has been injected with Borg nanoprobes . But, since the young drones cannot yet properly assimilate, the nanoprobes are simply destroying his body instead of assimilating it. First orders Seven to call Captain Janeway; they want the deflector array now . She tries to continue stalling, but First has none of it. Frustrated, she calls Voyager .

Act Five [ ]

On Voyager 's bridge, First is on the viewscreen. He insists Janeway surrender the deflector immediately. She demands that he transport Ensign Kim back to them first, but he refuses. He threatens to "assimilate" the others (which would certainly kill them) if they do not get the deflector right away. Janeway stares at him and angrily tells him that they cannot simply remove it; it is part of the ship. No amount of threats from him will change that. First's sullen face is replaced by the image of the cube as he terminates the connection. The ship shudders as the cube's tractor beam locks onto the deflector in an attempt to tear it off. Hull stress on the ship increases; Lt. Torres reports hull integrity breaches on two decks . Janeway orders randomization of the ship's shield harmonics to in an attempt to break free, but the beam adapts.

Second finds out their worth to the Collective, or lack thereof

On the cube, Seven, aware of what the drones are trying to do, decides that it is time to reveal what she knows about their awaited rescue by the Collective, and does so. First accuses her of lying, but Seven gives him the encryption code to check for himself. He does not, but Second steps forward to do so. First angrily tells him to return to his station, but he ignores him. His face registers his shock as he sees the message. First insists that Seven is again trying to trick them, but Second responds that the message is authentic. First pushes him aside and looks at it. He insists it is a mistake. Seven reminds him of what every drone knows: the Collective does not tolerate imperfection. They are damaged; thus, to the Collective, they are irrelevant. First stubbornly responds that they will 'assimilate' more species to prove their worthiness.

On Voyager , hull stress is almost critical. But then Tuvok reports a fluctuation in the cube's shield grid; they can use it to release the pathogen. But Janeway is loath to finally take this step, and determinedly seeks an alternative. She sees on the command console that the tractor beam draws power from the same grid as their shield matrix. She orders a feedback pulse be sent through the tractor beam from the deflector; this would disrupt both the beam and the shields.

On the cube, Seven continues to press her point; the children have no future with the Collective, but they do on Voyager . But First refuses to listen. Fed up, Seven turns to the others an appeals to them directly. Then the cube shudders as Voyager begins sending the feedback pulse. Second checks a monitor, sees what is happening and reports it to them. The feedback is overloading the shield matrix; this will soon destroy the cube. First orders them to " Adapt! " and hurries to a console. The other drones do the same.

On Voyager 's bridge, Tuvok reports that both the cube's tractor beam and shields are weakening. Lt. Torres reports a successful transporter lock on all of the crew members aboard the cube except Kim and Seven. The three they have, Chakotay, Neelix and Paris, are beamed aboard from the assimilation chamber where they were being kept. But they cannot yet lock onto Kim and Seven; their location is still too heavily shielded. Janeway orders amplification of the feedback pulse.

On the cube, the girl reports the departure of the three hostages. Second reports the weakening of the shields around the room where they are. The drones turn to First for instructions, but he stands there impotently. Seven urges them to drop the shields. Nobody moves to do so. Her urging becomes a command. Still, nobody moves. She goes to a console to do it herself. First rushes up and pushes her away so hard she lands on the floor half-stunned. He desperately tries to stave off the imminent failure of the shields, but fails.

In impotent rage, he grabs two heavy objects and rushes at Seven with an angry scream, intending to crush her head in, but Second intercepts him, takes the objects away and stares at him with a look that says, in no uncertain terms, to back off. First orders him back to his station; he does not move. First angrily orders him to obey. But neither Second nor any of the others are taking orders from him any longer. Seven groggily gets to her feet as the cube again shudders, violently; its induction grid is overloaded. Its destruction is imminent. First runs to a console in a last-ditch effort to try to prevent it. Then consoles begin to explode, including the one he is at, sending an energy discharge into him. He convulses and collapses. Seven runs to him and scans him with her tricorder . But he cannot be saved; his cortical node is going off-line. To his last breath, he calls on the others to continue resisting, insisting that the Collective will come for them. The girl kneels at his side and tells him that they will find a new home. His final words show him as stubborn to the last: " We are Borg. "

Seated on her ready room 's sofa, Janeway speaks to Seven about the children's future. They have sent out hails to any ships in the area from two of their respective races: The Brunali for Second, and the Norcadians for the girl, but they have gotten no responses, and as for the twin boys, they do not even know what species they are from (they are later identified as Wysanti ). Janeway puts Seven in charge of them. Seven is uncertain about this; she cites Neelix as being a much better choice, given his experience with children.

Janeway, however, insists that Seven is the right one; she has already bonded with them, and only she could understand what they are going though as former drones. Seven muses that she could help them avoid some of the pitfalls she faced when she was first severed from the Collective. With a deep breath, steeling herself,

Seven comes to inform the children of their identities

she leaves and goes to her quarters , cargo bay 2. This is where her alcove is located. There are five alcoves in all; she uses one, and the children, who of course will need to periodically regenerate as she does, will use the other four.

She meets the children there, now de-assimilated and clad in clothing instead of covered in Borg exo-plating . Like her, all of their implants have been removed except for those tied into their vital functions, and external traces of implants are on their faces. Seven gives each of them PADDs containing limited biographical data she had downloaded from the cube. Second's name is Icheb , the girl's is Mezoti , and the twins are Azan and Rebi . She then puts them "to bed" – into their alcoves. The regeneration cycles kick in and they close their eyes, silent and still as they engage in the Borg equivalent of falling asleep. Seven has the computer dim the lights and exits the cargo bay. Before the doors close, she turns around in the corridor and has a final look at them.

Memorable quotes [ ]

" Does that beat a flush? " " I knew you were bluffing. " " That beats me. Tom? " (Tom stares at a Borg cube dead ahead) " Battle stations! " " And I had a full house… "

" We will return your crew members in exchange for specific technology. " " Talk about unusual behavior. The Borg negotiating? "

" You will be assimilated. " " Not today and not by you. "

" They're not exactly drones. Mature Borg are predictable. They'll ignore you or assimilate you, but these juveniles, they're unstable. " " They are contemptuous of authority, convinced that they are superior. Typical adolescent behavior for any species. "

" Borg vessels may be forbidding, but they are not haunted. "

" Sweet dreams. "

Background information [ ]

Production [ ].

• The final draft of this script was completed on 2 November 1999 .
• The shield generator on the Borg cube appears to be the same prop, heavily modified, that was originally used to represent the " Think Tank " artificial intelligence.

Continuity [ ]

• After " Memorial ", this was the second time in three episodes that Chakotay, Paris, Kim and Neelix ran into difficulty on an away mission.
• This episode marks the first appearances of Icheb , Mezoti , Azan , and Rebi on the series.
• One of the Borg children, Mezoti, belonged to the Norcadian species, which Voyager had first encountered in the previous episode " Tsunkatse ".
• Mezoti 's dress in the last scene was previously worn by Isabella in TNG : " Imaginary Friend ".
• It is never revealed what became of the Borg infant. When asked in 2000, Brannon Braga stated the infant had been returned to its people off-screen. " The baby was returned to its people, which you did not see depicted in an episode. We considered showing it on-screen, but decided it would be best to focus on the remaining Borg kids. They have given us some great story material so far. " [1]
• The Borg on the cube demand the USS Voyager 's navigational deflector to reestablish communication with other Borg in the region. This is an allusion to Star Trek: First Contact , where the Borg tried to construct an interplexing beacon on the navigational deflector of the USS Enterprise -E to contact the 21st century Borg in the Delta Quadrant .

Video and DVD releases [ ]

• UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment ): Volume 6.8, 2 October 2000 : This volume came with a reversible sleeve: the standard Voyager layout, and a "Special Edition" layout, with a prominent image of Seven from " Tsunkatse " as the cover image.
• As part of the VOY Season 6 DVD collection

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

• Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway

Also starring [ ]

• Robert Beltran as Chakotay
• Roxann Dawson as B'Elanna Torres
• Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris
• Ethan Phillips as Neelix
• Robert Picardo as The Doctor
• Tim Russ as Tuvok
• Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine
• Garrett Wang as Harry Kim

Guest Stars [ ]

• Ryan Spahn as First
• Manu Intiraymi as Icheb
• Marley S. McClean as Mezoti
• Kurt Wetherill as Azan
• Cody Wetherill as Rebi

Uncredited Co-Stars [ ]

• Patrick Barnitt as deactivated Borg drone
• Andrew English as operations officer
• Tarik Ergin as Ayala
• Tina Kotrich as operations officer
• Mark Major as deceased Borg drone
• Erin Price as Renlay Sharr
• Keith Rayve as deactivated Borg drone

Stand-ins [ ]

• Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
• Stuart Wong – stand-in for Garrett Wang

References [ ]

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External links [ ]

• "Collective" at StarTrek.com
• " Collective " at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• " Collective " at Wikipedia
• " Collective " at the Internet Movie Database
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One of Star Trek's Most Enduring Villains Was Created by a Paramount Exec

Resistance is futile.

The Big Picture

• One Paramount executive thought the Borg were boring, resulting in the creation of the Borg Queen as an iconic character.
• The Borg Queen appears in multiple Star Trek series, using manipulation and vulnerability to become a compelling villain.
• In the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard , the Borg Queen returns with manipulative tactics to assimilate humanity through Picard's son, Jack Crusher.

The Star Trek franchise has so many iconic villains that it might be difficult for some fans to choose their favorite. Starfleet's crews are constantly encountering both new and old enemies while exploring the galaxy and meeting new civilizations. The Next Generation 's Q ( John De Lancie ) is one of the biggest tricksters in the galaxy , while Deep Space Nine 's Cardassian war criminal Gul Dukat ( Marc Alaimo ) is constantly stirring up something, and Khan Noonien Singh ( Ricardo Maltabán ) simply wants to take over the world. Time and time again, the bad guys that always seem to pop up are the Borg. Although they seem like a simple hivemind collective, their recurring presence in the franchise reveals them to be so much more, and viewers have seen what can happen when they're given their individuality or how they react under pressure. During the filming of the Next Generation movie Star Trek: First Contact , however, one Paramount executive thought a particular change was needed to give the Borg a specific face — and it was a change that made an impact on the franchise moving forward.

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 reaching warp speed.

According to The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams , edited by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, Paramount's Jonathan Dolgen thought the Borg were boring and amounted to little more than zombie robots; they needed some kind of voice other than being mindless drones, and what's a hive without its Queen? So, screenwriter Brannon Braga did a substantial rewrite to include a character that would come to be known as the Borg Queen ( Alice Krige ). Dolgen, it's been reported, was a huge Star Trek fan and often put in his two cents about which episodes he liked, which apparently paid off big time. His suggestion spiraled into the creation of this iconic character who always has a habit of popping up when we least expect her.

Where Have We Seen the Borg Queen in Star Trek Before?

In First Contact , the Borg travel back in time to stop scientist Zefram Cochrane ( James Cromwell ) from discovering warp speed, which leads to humanity's first encounter with the Vulcans, which in turn allows for the deeper exploration of space and the eventual founding of the Federation. As a villain, the Borg Queen, played by Alice Krige in First Contact , is so different from other Borg introduced in The Next Generation ; she is sexual and emotional, making her prone to trickery and manipulation, even though she is a master at both herself. She brings a sense of vulnerability to the Borg, despite being a slinky, devious monster, which makes her the perfect foil for Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), first in First Contact and then later on when the character reappears in Star Trek: Picard . She toys with people around her and convinces them to join her Hive. She has this special fondness for Picard and will do anything to convince him to join the collective. He's like a trophy she needs to collect for her mantle. Even though we thought she perished at the end of First Contact , she has this nasty habit of popping up again and again.

She's also a notable villain in Star Trek: Voyager , after Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) is liberated from the Borg. As a power-hungry leader obsessed with finding perfection and evolving the Borg into the ultimate race, Queen can't stand that a Borg drone has escaped and been disconnected from the Hive and does everything in her power to manipulate and bring Seven of Nine back to the collective. After Voyager blasts some severe hits on the Borg, they also deliver a neurolytic pathogen they believe kills the Borg Queen — but that's proven wrong when she appears once again in Star Trek: Picard.

'Star Trek: Picard' Introduces Another Side of the Borg Queen

The Borg Queen returns in Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (voiced by Krige and portrayed physically by Jane Edwina Seymour ) in an attempt to create a new collective after she cannibalizes her drones to sustain herself. While she's clearly become a more narcissistic, manipulative, and conniving villain with many puppets, she's especially good at getting under Picard's skin. In a new twist, she has been grooming Picard's only son, Jack Crusher ( Ed Speelers ) — who is connected to the Borg because of Picard's connection to the Hive during his brief time as Locutus — seducing him to help assimilate all humanity and become a weapon of mass destruction. Jack is the key to the Borg's evolution as an unintended consequence of what happened to Picard when he was briefly assimilated.

This looming threat to his son leads Picard on an emotional journey where he must figure out how to get Jack back before it's too late. By working with the Enterprise crewmates he's been reunited with, he also discovers what it means to be a father and how much of a connection he wants with his son. In Picard 's final season, the crew's mission becomes about rescuing Jack Crusher, who the Queen has assimilated as Vox of Borg , and finally thwarting her once and for all.

However, despite Starfleet's repeated attempts to eliminate her, the Borg Queen always returns. Her resilience and persistence are critical aspects of her character, making her a formidable and compelling antagonist. She embodies everything Starfleet opposes, presenting a constant threat and a significant element in the franchise. While her ability to endure, even after seemingly insurmountable setbacks, is a testament to her strength and tenacity, her relentless pursuit of perfection ultimately becomes her downfall as she plunders the galaxy, looking for the next race to add to her collective.

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Aboard the Delta Flyer, Janeway leads Tuvok, Paris and the Doctor on a rescue mission to retrieve Seven from the Borg Queen. whose treatment of Seven is markedly atypical. Aboard the Delta Flyer, Janeway leads Tuvok, Paris and the Doctor on a rescue mission to retrieve Seven from the Borg Queen. whose treatment of Seven is markedly atypical. Aboard the Delta Flyer, Janeway leads Tuvok, Paris and the Doctor on a rescue mission to retrieve Seven from the Borg Queen. whose treatment of Seven is markedly atypical.

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• Trivia "Dark Frontier" won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series. Star Trek nearly swept the category that year; also nominated for it were Thirty Days (1998) , Timeless (1998) , and What You Leave Behind (1999) .
• Goofs The Borg Queen says that Seven is the only Borg to return to a state of individuality. Either this is a deliberate or convenient deception, or she is unaware of the recurring characters 3rd-of-5 ("Hugh") and Locutus (Captain Picard's alter ego) from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and the colonists from Unity (1997) , although it is conceivable she was unaware of the latter.

[Janeway examines a spherical object]

Harry Kim : Captain! Don't touch that.

Captain Kathryn Janeway : What is it?

Harry Kim : I don't know, but a few minutes ago it was crawling around the floor.

• Alternate versions Some material was cut from the original feature-length episode when it was split in two parts for reruns, to make room for extra credit sequences and the "previously on" segment. In later airings of the two parts, the cut material was restored. One restored scene shows Seven getting angry after hearing Harry Kim and Tom Paris making anti-Borg remarks in the mess hall.
• Connections Featured in Star Trek: Voyager: The Voyager Conspiracy (1999)
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First introduced in Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg Queen's multiple incarnations have been played by several different actors across the Star Trek franchise. The Borg Queen is the name assigned to the Borg Collective's central nexus, and while they have had different faces across the Star Trek timeline , they appear to share the same memories and personality. The existence of a Queen draws a comparison between the Borg and bees, with the Borg Queen coordinating her drones via a hive mind.

Of all the Star Trek shows that feature the Borg , it was Star Trek: Voyager that revealed most about the Borg Queen. For example, Voyager revealed that the Borg Collective's central nexus was dubbed the Queen by Magnus and Erika Hansen , eminent experts on the Borg and parents to young Annika. The Hansens were eventually captured and assimilated by the Borg, with Annika becoming Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). Like Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) before her, Seven retained a complicated link back to the Borg Collective, and the many faces of the Borg Queen.

Star Trek: The Full History Of The Borg Queen Explained

Since her introduction to the Star Trek franchise, the Borg Queen has become a legendary villain with a long, complex, and fascinating history.

7 Alice Krige In Star Trek: First Contact

The original borg queen. (and the best).

The first Borg Queen was played by Alice Krige in the 1996 Star Trek: The Next Generation movie Star Trek: First Contact . Surprisingly, for the Queen of a race of emotionless drones, she had a distinct personality and even attempted to seduce Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner) with promises of the humanity he craved. The Borg Queen's use of manipulation and even sexuality has defined the character from her first appearance in First Contact to Star Trek: Picard season 2, which speaks to Alice Krige's lasting impact on the character.

In an interview with Star Trek 's official website , Brannon Braga explained why the Borg Queen was created for Star Trek: First Contact , saying: " the Borg aren't that interesting for a feature film for two hours because they don't say anything. "

It's heavily implied in Star Trek: First Contact that Captain Jean-Luc Picard's assimilation into the Borg Collective as Locutus was an attempt to provide the Queen with a mate - something that was foiled by Picard's resistance to his Borg conditioning during the Battle of Wolf 359 . Krige played the role of the Borg Queen as a cold and calculating manipulator, who could seamlessly shift from seduction to ordering the destruction of mankind. As such, despite being destroyed by Data (Brent Spiner) in the movie's climax, Krige's Borg Queen is still the most recognizable incarnation.

6 Susanna Thompson In Star Trek: Voyager

Susanna thompson got a second chance to be the borg queen..

Susanna Thompson had originally auditioned to play the role of the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact , but lost out to Alice Krige . However, she got her wish to play the role when the USS Voyager finally entered Borg space during their adventures in the Delta Quadrant. As Alice Krige was unavailable to reprise her role for Star Trek: Voyager season 5, episodes 15 and 16, "Dark Frontier", Thompson was cast instead. In "Dark Frontier", Captain Janeway launches a daring plan to acquire Borg technology that risks Seven of Nine's freedom.

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Susanna Thompson's Borg Queen expressed a preference for Seven, stating she was her favorite Borg drone and threatened to assimilate the entire Voyager crew if Seven did not rejoin the Collective. Thompson took Krige's portrayal as the basis for her own performance, and brought new depths to it, adding a twisted maternal fascination with Seven into the mix. This was a perfect counterpoint to Captain Janeway's own maternal relationship with Seven. Thompson reprised the role once more for Star Trek: Voyager "Unimatrix Zero", in which the Voyager crew inspire a group of Borg drones to revolt against their Queen.

2nd Borg Queen Susanna Thompson was a regular guest actor across all three of Star Trek's 90s shows, from TNG to Voyager via a controversial DS9 role.

5 Alice Krige In Star Trek: Voyager's Finale

Voyager finally secured alice krige for janeway's last battle with the borg queen..

Alice Krige reprised her role as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: Voyager 's finale "Endgame", in which she faced off against Starfleet's Admiral Janeway. The plot of "Endgame" centered on an older Admiral Janeway traveling back in time to get the USS Voyager home decades earlier than it had in her timeline. This plan required her to hijack the Borg Collective's transwarp corridors, and face down the Borg Queen one last time. Alice Krige told Star Trek Magazine that she was advised by a Voyager producer to bring the same sexually charged energy from Star Trek: First Contact , noting that the Borg Queen was omnisexual .

To prepare for her return, Alice Krige opted not to watch any of Susanna Thompson's previous episode but instead read the previous Star Trek: Voyager scripts in which the Borg Queen appeared.

Physically, this is a different Borg Queen from Star Trek: First Contact and the previous Star Trek: Voyager episodes. However, the Borg Queen always retains the same characteristics, so the final confrontation between the older Janeway and the Borg Queen is electric. The return of Alice Krige gave "Endgame" blockbuster energy, which must have fed into Garrett Wang's desire to release an extended version of Star Trek: Voyager' s finale in movie theaters .

4 Alice Krige In Star Trek: Lower Decks

Boimler fought a holographic borg queen in "i, excretus".

Alice Krige played the Borg Queen again in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, episode 8, "I, Excretus". The episode revolves around the crew of the USS Cerritos enduring a series of impossibly difficult hologram simulations as part of a rigorous officer assessment program. Ever the over-achiever, Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) became obsessed with getting a perfect score on the Borg Cube simulation, which pitted him against the Borg Queen .

As Star Trek: Lower Decks is predominantly a comedy, and as the Borg Queen in "I, Excretus" is a holographic reconstruction, Krige gets to send up the character. Krige plays Lower Decks ' Borg Queen in a more heightened fashion , making her even more vampish. The scene in which the sexually confident Borg Queen has an incredibly awkward-looking Boimler strapped to a Borg conversion bed provides a great deal of laughs.

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3 Annie Wersching In Star Trek: Picard Season 2

An alternate reality borg queen who crossed over into the prime star trek timeline..

Not content with just having Q (John de Lancie) and Dr. Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) as antagonists, Star Trek: Picard season 2 also brought back the Borg Queen. Hailing from the alternate Confederacy of Earth reality, the parallel universe's Borg Queen was played by 24 's Annie Wersching . This alternate Borg Queen had different powers but retained the unifying trait of both Alice Krige and Susanna Thompson's incarnations - an inherent loneliness. It was that loneliness that drew Star Trek: First Contact 's Borg Queen to Locutus and Data, and it was a similar loneliness that drew Star Trek: Voyager 's Borg Queen to Seven.

In Star Trek: Picard season 2, the Borg Queen is rescued from public execution by Jean-Luc Picard's motley crew because she has the processing power to make the precise calculations that will allow them to travel back to 2024 and fix the timeline. As Picard confronted his childhood trauma and Seven was finally allowed to embrace her humanity, the Borg Queen sought companionship elsewhere. Using her famously manipulative techniques, the Borg Queen seduced Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill) . Annie Wersching was terrific at playing this version of the Borg Queen who was desperate to connect, providing a more haunting and melancholic take on the character.

2 Alison Pill In Star Trek: Picard Season 2

Agnes jurati showed the way to a better type of borg..

Alison Pill gave a nuanced performance of not one by two Borg Queens in Star Trek: Picard season 2 . The first was the infamously cold and ruthless version but housed in the body of cyberneticist Agnes Jurati. Pill's second Borg Queen performance was her more evolved form, combining Agnes' humanity and Borg technology to become something unique. Alison Pill performed both these versions well, and kept viewers guessing whether Agnes had fully gone over to the Collective. Instead, Agnes' new Borg Collective combined the technology of the Borg with the more utopian outlook of the Federation .

Agnes Jurati's new Borg Collective were granted provisional Federation membership in Star Trek: Picard season 2's finale.

Agnes' changes to the Borg could lead to some fascinating developments in future Star Trek shows . Jurati has spent centuries creating a new Collective, while the Borg have waged war elsewhere in the galaxy. Now that they've arrived to stand guard over the anomaly, offering the hand of friendship to the Federation. It creates a new dynamic that could completely change the fan-favorite Star Trek aliens, especially as the original Borg Collective were wiped out shortly after.

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1 Alice Krige & Jane Edwina Seymour In Star Trek: Picard Season 3

"the last generation" was the borg queen's last stand..

Alice Krige returned to give the Borg Queen her send-off in Star Trek: Picard season 3. However, this time Krige only voiced her lines. The woman in the Borg Queen make-up was Jane Edwina Seymour, credited as "Borg Queen Body Double" in Star Trek: Picard season 3's finale . With Picard's son Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers) under her influence as Võx of Borg, the Queen launched a devastating attack on Starfleet and the Federation by simultaneously assimilating every officer under the age of 25.

Voice actor Garth Kemp deserves an honorable mention for voicing The Face, the conduit by which the Borg Queen communicated with Captain Vadic (Amanda Plummer).

While viewers may be disappointed that it's not Patrick Stewart and Alice Krige face to face in the Star Trek: Picard finale, the combination of Krige's voice work, and Jane Edwina Seymour's horrifying movements make for a memorably disfigured Borg Queen . Now that the crew of the USS Enterprise-D have destroyed the Borg Collective once and for all, there will likely be no more Borg Queens besides the benevolent Agnes Jurati Queen. This means that Star Trek 's lineage of Borg Queens both starts and ends with Alice Krige.

Star Trek: First Contact is currently available to stream on Max.

Star Trek's 10 Best Monster Episodes

• Star Trek embraces peace but also explores monster movie elements for some thrilling episodes.
• Shows like Voyager & Next Generation weave classic monster movie themes with sci-fi twists.
• Even as monsters take center stage, empathy remains a core theme in the Star Trek universe.

Star Trek has a message of peace and tolerance and seeing beyond the surface, but it's not above doing an all-out monster movie from time to time. From its inception in 1966, Star Trek has taught audiences not to judge alien species by appearances . For example, Star Trek: Voyager villains Species 8472 were terrifying, Alien -inspired creatures, who turned out to be benevolent aliens that had been driven to violence by the actions of the Borg Collective. Earlier episodes like Star Trek: The Original Series ' "Devil in the Dark" revealed hidden emotional depths to a creature that was ostensibly a disgusting rock monster.

Despite Star Trek 's message of empathy, sometimes the writers can't resist creating scary monsters and super creeps. Star Trek has always drawn on the history of science fiction, and the big monster movies popularized by studios like RKO are no exception . Over nearly six decades, Star Trek TV shows have drawn on classic monster movies like The Thing From Another World and King Kong , giving them a Gene Roddenberry-style twist.

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Star trek: voyager, season 2, episode 15, "threshold", story by michael de luca, teleplay by brannon braga.

Star Trek: Voyager 's notorious salamander episode , "Threshold" begins as an exploration of theoretical transwarp barriers and becomes something more akin to The Phantom of the Opera or King Kong . When Lt. Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) breaks the transwarp barrier, he begins experiencing some bizarre side effects. Breaking the transwarp barrier has triggered a strange evolution in Paris' body, which turns him into a salamander, who decides they need a mate in the form of Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew).

...the monster movie elements ensure that "Threshold" is never boring.

There are some obvious monster movie parallels in "Threshold", from the way that the reptilian Paris carries an unconscious Janeway like the Phantom of the Opera to the body horror of the Voyager helmsman's transformation. The climax of the notorious Star Trek: Voyager episode, in which the "monster" that is now Paris fights off the crew to take Janeway as his mate, is pure King Kong . It's a Voyager episode that is rightly panned for its lack of narrative cohesion, but the monster movie elements ensure that "Threshold" is never boring.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7, Episode 19, "Genesis"

Written by brannon braga.

Star Trek: The Next Generation season 7, episode 19, "Genesis" is essentially The Island of Dr. Moreau set aboard the USS Enterprise-D. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) return to the Enterprise to discover that the crew has devolved into various terrifying monsters. For example, Lt. Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz) is de-evolved into a spider-like creature, while Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn) devolves into a savage proto-Klingon that tries to kill Picard. The cause of these transformations is a mistake made by Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) while reactivating a cell that would have given Barclay immunity to the flu.

Gates McFadden injects what could have been a very silly story with genuine tension.

Although the science is just as dubious as Star Trek: Voyager 's "Threshold", Star Trek: The Next Generation season 7, episode 19, "Genesis" has the benefit of being much more atmospheric. Interestingly, "Genesis" was directed by Dr. Beverly Crusher actor Gates McFadden , who injects what could have been a very silly story with genuine tension. The climax, where Picard tries to fend off an attack from a prehistoric Worf, while Data tries to concoct a cure using the DNA of Nurse Ogawa's unborn baby, is well directed by McFadden, giving this daft TNG outing an exciting monster movie vibe.

"Genesis" was the only episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation to be directed by Gates McFadden.

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Star trek: the original series, season 1, episode 26, "the devil in the dark", written by gene l. coon.

"The Devil in the Dark" is a classic Star Trek monster episode , because it hinges on Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Lt. Commander Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Dr. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) learning to understand a creature beyond their understanding. Investigating a supposed monster that is attacking a mining operation on Janus IV, they soon discover that the titular " devil in the dark " is no monster, but a mother protecting their young. It's thanks to Kirk and Spock's open-mindedness that the miners manage to avert the destruction of the entire Horta race .

The scene in which Kirk has to reason with the baying mob invokes images of the villagers with torches and pitchforks in the climax of Universal's classic monster movie, Frankenstein .

From a visual effects perspective, the actual Horta in Star Trek: The Original Series may look hokey by today's standards , but it tells a story about the need for empathy. TOS' cave monster isn't able to communicate with the miners, and so has to resort to violence. Similarly, the miners want violent recriminations from the "monster" that killed their colleagues. The scene in which Kirk has to reason with the baying mob invokes images of the villagers with torches and pitchforks in the climax of Universal's classic monster movie, Frankenstein . Thanks to Kirk, however, the Horta has a happier ending than Frankenstein's monster.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 2, Episode 12, "The Alternate"

Teleplay by bill dial, story by jim trombetti and bill dial.

In one of Constable Odo's best Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes , a mysterious monster stalks the corridors of DS9 late at night. It's believed to be the mysterious sample that Odo (Rene Auberjonois) and scientist Dr. Mora Pol (James Sloyan) brought back from the Gamma Quadrant. However, in reality, it's Odo, who is under the influence of mysterious alien toxins, and the stress of seeing his "father" again. "The Alternate" is a fun Star Trek spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde , that has some genuinely unnerving moments of horror.

Odo's monstrous alter-ego is less Mr. Hyde, and more like the titular Blob from the classic 1958 sci-fi monster movie.

Odo's transition into the monster toward the end of the episode is horrifying to watch as he rants and raves while struggling to remain in a solid state. Odo's monstrous alter-ego is less Mr. Hyde, and more like the titular Blob from the classic 1958 sci-fi monster movie. Interestingly, Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) doesn't categorically confirm it's the alien toxins that caused the transformation, suggesting another cause. As the gelatinous monster bears down on Dr. Mora Pol, it becomes clear that the real cause of the transformation is Odo's father issues.

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Star trek: voyager, season 3, episode 12, "macrocosm".

Star Trek: Voyager has many creepy episodes , but "Macrocosm" is the most overt monster episode. Like Star Trek: The Next Generation 's "Genesis", also written by Brannon Braga, "Macrocosm" has a silly concept that is realized like a survival horror movie. The monsters faced by Captain Janeway and the Doctor (Robert Picardo) are effectively giant viruses that become airborne, infecting those they come into contact with. To repel the viral infection of the USS Voyager, the Doctor created an antigen which Janeway eventually detonated inside the holodeck, killing the assembled macroviruses.

"Macrocosm" finally gave Captain Janeway her Ellen Ripley moment.

"Macrocosm" got a wryly funny sequel in Star Trek: Lower Decks ' season 4 premiere, "Twovixed", but the episode itself is a decent homage to the Alien franchise. As the Star Trek franchise's first female captain, it's great to see Janeway getting to be an action hero like Captain Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series , or Picard in Star Trek: First Contact . While the monsters themselves weren't anywhere near as terrifying as Alien 's Xenomorph, "Macrosm" finally gave Captain Janeway her Ellen Ripley moment.

Star Trek: Discovery, Season 1, Episode 3, "Context is for Kings"

Teleplay by gretchen j. berg, aaron harberts, and craig sweeny.

The disgraced Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) is given a second chance after her mutiny aboard the USS Shenzhou in a Star Trek: Discovery monster episode. "Context is for Kings" explores what happened to the USS Glenn, the second of Discovery 's crossfield-class starships . Following a catastrophic accident while experimenting with spore drive technology, the ship's entire crew were killed, save for the tartigrade creature they had captured and wired to the spore drive. Freed from its shackles by the accident, the creature rampaged through the Glenn, killing a Klingon boarding party and turning its attention to Burnham and her away team .

The true monster in Star Trek: Discovery season 1, episode 3, "Context is for Kings" is Starfleet themselves.

The true monster in Star Trek: Discovery season 1, episode 3, "Context is for Kings" is Starfleet themselves. The cruelty that the crew of the USS Glenn had shown to the tartigrade was unbecoming of Starfleet, and showed how far they were willing to diverge from their principles to defeat the Klingon Empire . Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) hammers this point home by having the tartigrade brought aboard the USS Discovery, taunting it as it tries to break free from the forcefield.

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Star trek: lower decks, season 4, episode 2, "i have no bones yet i must flee", written by aaron burdette.

Star Trek: Lower Decks introduced Moopsy into the canon in the season 4 episode, "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee". Visiting an alien menagerie, newly promoted Lt. junior grade Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O'Connell) had to conted with Moopsy, a soft fluffy creature that also happened to drink bones . Mariner and Ransom came up with a suitably irreverent Lower Decks solution to their problem, by punching out Ransom's teeth and using them as treats to lure the Moopsy back into its cage.

Moopsy is basically a monstrous Tribble, unable to control its base urges.

Moopsy was the sort of creation that could only feature in the irreverent world of Star Trek: Lower Decks , and yet it plays on existing creatures in the canon. Moopsy is basically a monstrous Tribble, unable to control its base urges. However, Mariner and Ransom don't kill the creature to save themselves, they find a humane - if slightly painful - solution to their situation. Not only that, but Mariner also unmasks the truly dangerous monsters - greedy humans seeking to bulk up their business portfolios , in this case by staging a hostile takeover of an alien menagerie.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 1, Episode 9, "All Those Who Wander"

Written by davy perez.

"All Those Who Wander" combines the classic Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Arena" with Alien to provide a terrifying episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . The vicious Gorn babies that are encountered by the Enterprise away team are relentless, rampaging through the ship and killing everything in their path. It's through the noble sacrifice of Lt. Hemmer (Bruce Horak) that the away team is able to get back to the safety of the USS Enterprise. However, the scars of the terrifying encounter between the Enterprise and the Gorn carry over into Strange New Worlds season 2 .

The Gorn infants move like raptors, drawing comparisons with the climax of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park

Because there's genuine dramatic stakes and a cost to life, Star Trek: Strange New World 's Gorn survival horror movie is the best version of the subgenre after the classic movie, Star Trek: First Contact . As an hour of television, it wears its genre influences on its sleeve, particularly the similarities between the icy crash site with the colony in Aliens . However, it's not just the Alien franchise that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds riffs on in "All Those Who Wander". The Gorn infants move like raptors, drawing comparisons with the climax of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park .

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Star trek: the next generation, season 1, episode 23, "skin of evil", teleplay by joseph stefano & hannah louise shearer.

Armus (Ron Gans) in Star Trek: The Next Generation , is a truly monstrous creation, and even refers to himself as " evil " . Unlike the Horta in Star Trek: The Original Series , Armus isn't attacking the Enterprise away team to protect its children, he's doing it because he's a monster. A black, oily mass of everything impure and evil rejected by a " race of Titans ", Armus was abandoned on the planet Vagra II . There, he fantasized about torturing any visitors to the planet, but he quickly got bored after killing Lt. Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby).

Tasha Yar was no red shirt, and her death at the hands of the monster of the week makes "Skin of Evil" an impactful entry in the TNG canon.

"Skin of Evil" is one of Star Trek 's best monster episodes because, like "All Those Who Wander", it takes a toll on the characters. Star Trek: The Next Generation loses Tasha Yar to this monster, which proved that it would be a very different show to Star Trek: The Original Series . A TOS version of "Skin of Evil" would have played out in a similar fashion, but with the deaths of some disposable red shirts thrown in . Tasha Yar was no red shirt, and her death at the hands of the monster of the week makes "Skin of Evil" an impactful entry in the TNG canon.

Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 5, "The Man Trap"

Written by george clayton johnson.

Star Trek 's best monster episode is also its very first, setting the tone for those that would follow . Star Trek: The Original Series , season 1, episode 5, "The Man Trap", features a Salt Vampire that feeds on salt, which can also shapeshift to take the form of anyone that can help it achieve its goals. In essence, "The Man Trap" is Star Trek 's take on the 1951 movie The Thing From Another World , later remade by John Carpenter as The Thing . Both the Star Trek episode and the Thing movies center on a shapeshifting creature that feeds on the human characters.

"The Man Trap" was chosen by the network as the first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series to air due, in part, to its strong monster-of-the-week.

Both iterations of The Thing and Star Trek: TOS season 1, episode 5, "The Man Trap" also play on paranoia and being unable to trust your own eyes . In "The Man Trap", the Salt Vampire has the ability to take the form of the woman most desirable to each of the male characters. For example, Dr. McCoy believes it to be his former lover, Nancy, driving a wedge between him, Kirk and Spock. "The Man Trap" was chosen as the first episode of Star Trek: TOS to air in 1966, and its influence can be felt in Star Trek 's monster episodes nearly 60 years later.

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