The Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) had another desire besides assimilation, andStar Trek: Picardseason 2 fulfilled it in an unexpected way.Star Trek: Picardseason 2 introduced a version of the Borg Queen hailing from an alternate timeline created by Q (John de Lancie) where the galaxy was ruled by the malevolent Confederation of Earth. This Borg Queen saw her Borg Collective wiped out by the Confederation Starfleet led by General Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) of the CSS World Razer. Butthe Confederation reality’s Borg Queen got her heart’s desire that other versions of the Borg Queen did not.
Introduced inStar Trek: First Contact,the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) was revealed to be the ruler of the Borg Collective, which was previously believed to be a central hive mind. The Borg Queen was retconned as the voice Captain Jean-Luc Picard heard when he was assimilated and turned into Locutus of Borg inStar Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Best of Both Worlds.” Moreso, Picard surmised inStar Trek: First Contactthatthe Borg Queen desired a partner or a counterpart.Indeed, the Borg Queen attempted toseduce and turn the android Lt. Commander Data(Brent Spiner) before she was defeated by Picard. The Borg Queen returned many more times, but she never got what she wanted, unlikeStar Trek: Picardseason 2’s Borg Queen.
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The Borg Queen Finally Got Her Greatest Wish In Star Trek: Picard Season 2
The Queen found her counterpart
Even broken and brought to heel inStar Trek: Picardseason 2’s Confederation reality, the alternate timeline’s Borg Queen still desired a mate, just as she wanted to restore her Borg Collective. Unexpectedly,the Borg Queen found her perfect mate in Dr. Agnes Jurati(Alison Pill). A genius cyberneticist harboring dark secrets and deep regrets, Jurati was an easy mark for the Borg Queen. Agnes found herself manipulated by the Queen, and Jurati even voluntarily chose to let the Queen assimilate her.
The Borg Queen took advantage of Admiral Picard and his friends being stranded in 2024 to prey upon Agnes Jurati.
The Borg Queen nestled in Dr. Agnes Jurati’s mind, but this was just the first step in her takeover of Agnes.Jurati was physically transformed by her assimilation. Soon, Agnes manifested theBorg Queen’s powers, allowing her to easily defeat Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) and Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd). The Queen’s plan involved helping Dr. Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) ensure the Confederation reality came to be. The Borg Queen even created a primitive version of the Borg Collective to be Soong’s army.
The Borg Queen fulfilling her greatest wish ended up changing her for the better.
However, a funny thing happened after the Borg Queen found her perfect mate;Dr. Agnes Jurati changed her.The hybrid Jurati Borg Queen benefited from Agnes' humanity. After the Jurati Borg Queen fled Earth in 2024, she returned in 2401, emerging from a trans-dimensional rift with a new Borg Collective. Shockingly, upon revealing herself as Agnes Jurati to Admiral Picard, the Borg Queen fought alongside Starfleet to prevent an unnamed foe from enteringStar Trek’s Prime timeline. The Borg Queen fulfilling her greatest wish ended up changing her for the better.
Why The Borg Queen Always Wanted A Mate But Was Denied By Picard
The Queen could not be allowed to win
TheBorg Queen ofStar Trek’s Prime Universealways desired a mate. The Borg Collective’s mission of assimilating lifeforms and adding their biological distinctiveness to their own was a pursuit of perfection. But ultimately, millions of assimilated beings only resulted in millions of drones.Essentially, the Borg Queen was lonely. She was a being with no equal in her eyes, and it’s understandable - even human - that the Borg Queen desired a mate to share the universe with.
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The Borg Queen that Captain Picard inStar Trek: First Contactand Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) inStar Trek: Voyagerfought and foilednever fulfilled her greatest desire and found the mate she wanted. The Queen made a few attempts with Picard/Locutus, Data, and Jean-Luc’s son, Jack Crusher (Ed Speelers), whom the Queen manipulated and groomed since childhood to becomeVox of BorginStar Trek: Picardseason 3. But to protect the United Federation of Planets and the Alpha Quadrant, Picard could never allow the malevolent and genocidal Borg Queen to succeed in any fashion, including finding the mate she desired.
Admiral Picard and the USS Enterprise-D destroyed the Prime Universe’s Borg Queen and her Collective once and for all in Star Trek: Picard season 3.
It’s interesting, however, that inStar Trek: Picardseason 2, theBorg Queen found her perfect mate in a woman, not a man. Dr. Agnes Jurati bonded with the Borg Queen differently than how the Queen inStar Trek: First Contactpursued Data as a romantic partner, or how the Borg Queen tried to become an ersatz parent to Jack Crusher inStar Trek: Picardseason 3. Jurati found the innate strength she felt she lacked in the Borg Queen, whereas the Queen found an idealism and a different kind of fortitude in Agnes that impressed her. It seems the right match for the Borg Queen was another queen in Agnes Jurati, and the result was a one-of-a-kind benevolent Borg Queen.
Will Star Trek’s Jurati Borg Queen Return?
Maybe if Star Trek: Legacy happens
Star Trek: Picardseason 2’s finale was the last time the hybrid Agnes Jurati Borg Queen was seen, and this may be case for a long time.Jurati’s Borg Queen did not return inStar Trek: Picardseason 3, which focused on thecast ofStar Trek: The Next Generationreuniting to defeat the Prime Universe’s Borg Queen once and for all, resolving decades of the Borg being Picard and the USS Enterprise-D’s greatest adversaries. While Jurati’s Borg Collective joining the fight on Picard’s side may have been logical, it would have complicated the story, diluted Jean-Luc’s triumph to have such help, and it also wasn’t financially feasible forStar Trek: Picardseason 3’s budget.
Star Trek has no ready means for Agnes Jurati’s Borg Queen to return.
However, withStar Trek: Picard’s proposed 25th century-set spinoff,Star Trek: Legacy,not happening for the foreseeable future, if ever,Star Trekhas no ready means for Agnes Jurati’s Borg Queen to return.Star Trek: Strange New Worldsis set in the 23rd century, over a hundred years before Starfleet meets the Borg, andStar Trek: Starfleet Academyis set in the 32nd century.Star Trek: Section 31is set in the24th century’s’lost era' decades before the Federation learns of the Borg. Even animated series likeStar Trek: Prodigyare a no-go, unless the 24th century-setStar Trek: Lower Decks' final season contains an anachronistic surprise.Fans are simply left to wonder how well the union of the Borg Queen and Dr. Agnes Jurati is going.
