Summary

The Borg Collective are one of the most fearsome enemies in theStar Trekfranchise , but a smattering of expansive Starfleet gang have manage to defeat them and defy assimilation . First introduced inStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 2,the Borg became the deadliest threat to Starfleet and the Federation in almost a hundred . The threats from the Borg Collective , andStar Trek : Deep Space Nine ’s Dominion meant that the mid twenty-fourth century was an extremely hard prison term for Starfleet .

The Borg and the Dominion would later pool their resourcefulness inStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , in a last - ditch attempt to eradicate their mortal foe . However , once again the Borg were defeat , thanks to the heroical effort of Admiral Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) and the bunch of the USS Enterprise - D. WhilePicard ’s batles with the Borg Collective are the most notable encounters inStar Trekhistory , he ’s far from the only one to have defeated Starfleet ’s most horrendous foeman .

One Borg Cube is enough to discover fear into the strongest Starfleet officeholder . Still , Star Trek has experimented with several unexampled Borg ship design .

Alice Krige as the Borg Queen and Deep Space Nine orbiting the open wormhole

9USS Enterprise-D Crew In Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 4, Episode 1, “The Best of Both Worlds, Part II”

thing were looking bleak for Starfleet and the bunch of the USS Enterprise - D inStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s game - changing season 3 cliffhanger " The Best of Both Worlds . “Assimilated by the Borg , Picard lead a devastating ravishment on the Federation ’s defenses in the Battle of Wolf 359 , which claimed around 11,000 lives . The Borg ’s next aim was the absorption of Earth , unless acting Captain William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) and the crew of the spaceship Enterprise could witness a solution .

Distracting Locutus ' Borg Cube with a surpriseEnterprise saucer separation , Riker sent Lt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) and Lt . Worf ( Michael Dorn ) to recover the assimilated Picard . Once Locutus was back aboard the endeavour , Data and Dr. Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) set about using Picard ’s connexion to the Collective to situate a weakness . With the help of a clew from the struggling Picard , Data connects to the Borg ’s regeneration sub everyday and effectively puts them to sleep . The resulting feedback closed circuit meant that the Borg Cube self - destruct , save the Earth .

Every Borg Encounter In Star Trek : TNG

Every Star Trek Difference In Picard Season 2 Confederation Reality

" Q Who "

Season 2 , Episode 16

" The Best of Both Worlds "

Scott Bakula as Captain Archer, Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway, and Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard

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Season 3 , Episode 26

" The respectable of Both Worlds , Part II "

Season 4 , Episode 1

Star Trek’s Borg Queen stands in front of two Borg space ships

Star Trek: The Next Generation follows Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D as they embark on interstellar explorations, seeking out new worlds and civilizations.

" I , Borg "

Season 5 , Episode 23

" declension "

Alice Krige as the Borg Queen in First Contact and Jane Edwina Seymour as the ravaged Borg Queen

Season 6 , Episode 26

" Descent , Part II "

Season 7 , Episode 1

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Star Trek: The Next Generation follows Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D as they embark on interstellar explorations, seeking out new worlds and civilizations.

8Captain Picard & Data In First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact (1996) dir. Jonathan Frakes

The Borg Collective ’s next major assault on Earth fall out inStar Trek : First Contact , in which they essay to change the course of human account . Pursuing the Borg back in time to 2063 , Picard and the gang of the endeavour - E were initially incognizant that the ship was being assimilated by the Borg . As Data was seduce by theBorg Queen(Alice Krige ) , andthe Borg organise to counteract the first - ever human buckle flight , things search dim for Picard and the future of mankind .

In the culmination ofStar Trek : First Contactit ’s revealed that Data has n’t been seduce by the Borg Queen , and has instead been betray her . datum programme the missiles to miss the Phoenix , before dragging the Borg Queen into toxic gas pedal that destroyed her organic components . This allowed Picard to deliver the slayer blow to the Borg Queen , severing her connection to the Collective and deactivating the remain Borg radio-controlled aircraft .

Star Trek ’s Borg Queen control the Collective and possess an uncharacteristic individuality , however , this is n’t the only weird thing about her .

Star Trek Voyager Poster

The fifth entry in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Voyager, is a sci-fi series that sees the crew of the USS Voyager on a long journey back to their home after finding themselves stranded at the far ends of the Milky Way Galaxy. Led by Captain Kathryn Janeway, the series follows the crew as they embark through truly uncharted areas of space, with new species, friends, foes, and mysteries to solve as they wrestle with the politics of a crew in a situation they’ve never faced before.

7Species 8472 in Star Trek: Voyager

Season 3, Episode 26, “Scorpion, Part 1”

strand in the Borg ’s native galaxy , it was inevitable that Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) would come into tangency with the Collective . In theStar Trek : Voyagerseason 3 finale , " Scorpio the Scorpion " , the USS Voyager finally enter Borg space , only to notice that the Collective has been badly weakened by a mystic opposition know asSpecies 8472 . Having set in motion a Borg intrusion of fluidic place , the home dimension of Species 8472 , the Collective were unprepared for what they found there .

Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) state that Species 8472 were the first species to offer " lawful resistance " to the Borg Collective .

Species 8472 possess superior bio - technology to the Borg Collective , and used it to fleetly destroy multiple Borg Cubes . Species 8472 found their own invasion of Borg space , something that Janeway believed to be a major terror to the future of the Delta Quadrant . To counter the menace posed by Species 8472 , Janeway allied herself with the Borg Collective , to repel this ranking personnel from pose waste to the Delta Quadrant . However , it was a conclusion that Janeway would later come to rue .

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Star Trek: Enterprise acts as a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, detailing the voyages of the original crew of the Starship Enterprise in the 22nd century, a hundred years before Captain Kirk commanded the ship. Enterprise was the sixth series in the Star Trek franchise overall, and the final series before a twelve-year hiatus until the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery in 2017. The series stars Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer, with an ensemble cast that includes John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, and Connor Trinneer.

6Admiral Janeway In Star Trek: Voyager

Season 7, Episode 25/26, “Endgame”

Theending ofStar Trek : Voyagercentered on one concluding battle between Kathryn Janeway and the Borg Collective . An older Admiral Janeway , tortured by the losses receive in get the USS Voyager back to Earth , conceives a plan to utilise Borg technology to get everyone home much earlier . Admiral Janeway travels back in time to advise her young self to a web of wormhole that had antecedently been nullify . The wormholes are part of a transwarp hub that , if put down , could seriously countermine the Borg Collective , but would also cut off Voyager ’s mode home .

Notable Borg Encounters In Star Trek : Voyager

" Scorpio " & " Scorpion , Part II "

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 Official Poster

The animated comedy series Star Trek: Lower Decks follows the support crew on one of Starfleet’s least significant ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Boimler (Jack Quaid), Rutherford (Eugene Cordero), and Tendi (Noël Wells) have to keep up with their duties and their social lives often. At the same time, the ship is being rocked by a multitude of sci-fi anomalies.

Season 3 , Episode 26 & Season 4 , Episode 1

" Drone "

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Star Trek: Voyager

" Dark Frontier "

time of year 5 , Episodes 15 & 16

" Survival Instinct "

Star Trek: Picard

Season 6 , Episode 2

" Collective "

Season 6 , Episode 16

" Unimatrix Zero " & " Unimatrix Zero , Part II "

Season 6 , Episode 26 & Season 7 , Episode 1

" Endgame "

Season 7 , Episodes 25 & 26

It ’s a neat callback toStar Trek : Voyager ’s pilot , " Caretaker " , which move over Janeway a similar dilemma . This metre , both Janeways resolve to destroy the hub and discover a way home . Admiral Janeway allow herself to be catch by the Borg Queen , so that she can engraft a neurologic pathogen into the Collective . The pathogen cripple the Collective , destroying the Queen ’s ship , and allowing the USS Voyager to ride through the Borg ’s transwarp corridor back to Earth .

Presenting Voyager ’s close as a Star Trek movie in theaters would ’ve been a great cap to a 7 - twelvemonth running and a honorable sendoff for the USS Voyager work party .

5Enterprise NX-01 Crew In Star Trek: Enterprise

Season 2, Episode 23, “Regeneration”

one C before the first prescribed meeting with the Collective , Captain Jonathan Archer(Scott Bakula ) and the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 struggle the Borg inStar Trek : Enterpriseseason 2.“Assimilation " revealed that remnant Borg drones fromStar Trek : First Contacthad regenerated themselvesafter being discovered in the Arctic Circle . The regenerated Borg assimilate the scientists that break them and headed into outer space where they run across a Tarkaelian freighter and assimilated the crew .

The Enterprise NX-01 came to the merchantman ’s aid , only to notice themselves under attack from the Borg . Archer and Lt . Malcolm Reed ( Dominic Keating ) channelize to the Borg assimilated ship , hop-skip to deactivate the trailer by destroy their manifolds . Archer and Reed fought their way to the conduit , and detonated it , have an explosion that destroy the ship , containing all the drone . However , as Archer grimly noted at the terminal of the instalment , he had merely postponed a Borg invasion until the 24th century .

A Borg Queen ancestry story was pitch forStar Trek : endeavor ’s 5th season before the show was delete at the death of season 4 .

Despite being a Brobdingnagian part of Sisko ’s backstory , the Borg Collective never appeared in Star Trek : Deep Space Nine after Locutus ' cameo in the pilot light .

4Romulans In Star Trek: Picard

Season 1, Episode 3, “The End if the Beginning” and Episode 8, “Broken Pieces”

In the years before the events ofStar Trek : Picardseason 1 , a Borg Cube encountered two Romulan Tal Shiar vessels . When it assay to assimilate the crew of the scout ship Shaenor , the Borg Cube meet a substantial genial force out that overwhelmed the ship and unplug it from the Collective . The genial push that caused the Borg Cube ’s submatrix collapse was the distress of the take note Romulan scientist , Professor Ramdha ( Rebecca Wisocky ) .

As a learner of ancient Romulan myths , Ramdha was aware of the Admonition , a substance designed for synthetical life forms . The Admonition was misread as a prophecy for the end of all organic life , and it drive many who experienced it to rage and execution inStar Trek : Picardseason 1 . The knowledge of this message was so overpowering for the Borg that it caused a submatrix collapse , deactivate the Cube and leave it drift in Romulan blank space . This Cube became known as The Artifact , which was the home to the rehabilitation project for former Borg bourdon including Hugh ( Jonathan del Arco ) .

3Confederation of Earth in Star Trek: Picard

Season 2, Episode 2, “Penance”

InStar Trek : Picardseason 2 , Q ( John de Lancie ) create a non-white alternative timeline in which Jean - Luc Picard was a roughshod military loss leader that had shell many enemy . Picard even kept grisly trophies of the triumph he clocked up while in command of the CSS World Razer , the Confederation’sversion of the starship Enterprise . In this reality , the Confederation eradicated the Borg Collective , and kept the Borg Queen ( Annie Wersching ) as a political captive .

Picard ’s subject field inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 ’s Confederation reality carry the skulls of Gul Dukat ( Marc Alaimo ) , General Martok ( J.G. Hertzler ) , and Director Sarek ( Mark Lenard )

It ’s unreadable exactly how Picard and the crew of the CSS World Razer eradicated the Borg inStar Trek : Picardseason 2 . However , the magistrate does concede that the Borg were the most dangerous foes to bring " under heel " . On the day that Picard and his crew come in the Confederation realness , citizens are congregating for the one-year Eradication Ceremony , where the Borg Queen will be in public execute . Instead , Picard and the bunch of La Sirena rescue the Borg Queen so they can travel back in fourth dimension to 2024 and fix what Q ’s done to fourth dimension .

Star Trek : Picard season 2 rewrote Star Trek chronicle and introduced the dark realness of the Confederation . Here ’s every major change to the timeline .

2Ensign Brad Boimler In Star Trek: Lower Decks

Season 2, Episode 8, “I, Excretus”

Ensign Brad Boimler ( Jack Quaid)defeated the Borg multiple clock time inStar Trek : Lower Decks , time of year 2 , episode 8 , " I , Excretus " . Ever the over - winner , Boimler had record everything that was available about the Borg , making him fain for an confrontation with the Collective . Boimler got to put his cognition to the test in a holo - feigning in " I , Excretus " , but was unhappy with his initial score of 79 % .

Boimler became taken up with better his score , reprise the simulation again and again , seeking new slipway to beat the Borg . Notable ways that Boimler overcome the Collective inStar Trek : Lower Decksincluded beating the Borg Queen at cheat , saving Borg babies , and hijacking a Borg sphere . regrettably for Boimler , events elsewhere on the USS Cerritos force him to remain in the simulation , reducing his 100 % score with each passing minute .

1USS Enterprise-D Crew In Star Trek: Picard

Season 3, Episode 10, “The Last Generation”

Star Trek : Picardseason 3 featured the most elaborate Borg plot of ground in the Collective ’s long chronicle . Siding with theChangelings fromStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , they used the shapeshifters to pass through Starfleet and put in Borg DNA in the transporter code . This intend that each Starfleet officer who used the transporters was covertly assimilate by the Borg Collective . Full acculturation was trigger off by Jack Crusher ( Ed Speleers ) , who had inherited Borg DNA from his Fatherhood , Jean - Luc Picard , and became a pharos for the Borg Queen ’s signal .

The combination of a father ’s love , and some fancy flying from Data , result to the destruction of the Borg .

The Borg also took ascendancy of Starfleet ’s Fleet Formation modality , giving them complete use of the Federation armada . The only starship unaffected was the USS Enterprise - D , restore by Commodore Geordi La Forge(LeVar Burton ) . The Enterprise - five hundred gang headed into one last battle with the Borg , firing on the Queen ’s Cube while Picard tried to get through to his son . The combination of a father ’s love , and some fancy vaporize from Data , lead to the death ofStar Trek ’s Borg once and for all , discerp the connection to the sign , and returning everyone back to normal .

Every Borg episode of Star Trek : The Next Generation , Voyager , Enterprise , and Lower Decks is available to pour on Paramount+

Star Trek : First Contact is useable to stream on Max

Star Trek : The Next Generation follows Captain Jean - Luc Picard and his gang aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D as they embark on interstellar explorations , seek out new worlds and civilizations .

The 5th entry in the Star Trek enfranchisement , Star Trek : Voyager , is a sci - fi serial that sees the gang of the USS Voyager on a long journeying back to their dwelling house after finding themselves stranded at the far ends of the Milky Way Galaxy . Led by Captain Kathryn Janeway , the serial follows the crew as they enter through truly uncharted arena of space , with new metal money , friends , opposition , and whodunit to solve as they wrestle with the political science of a crowd in a situation they ’ve never face before .

Star Trek : Enterprise acts as a prequel to Star Trek : The Original Series , detailing the ocean trip of the original work party of the Starship Enterprise in the twenty-second hundred , a hundred years before Captain Kirk commanded the ship . enterprisingness was the 6th series in the Star Trek franchise overall , and the terminal series before a twelve - twelvemonth hiatus until the premiere of Star Trek : Discovery in 2017 . The series star Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer , with an ensemble cast that includes John Billingsley , Jolene Blalock , Dominic Keating , Anthony Montgomery , Linda Park , and Connor Trinneer .

The animated funniness series Star Trek : Lower Decks follow the bread and butter gang on one of Starfleet ’s least meaning ships , the U.S.S. Cerritos , in 2380 . Ensigns Mariner ( Tawny Newsome ) , Boimler ( Jack Quaid ) , Rutherford ( Eugene Cordero ) , and Tendi ( Noël Wells ) have to keep up with their duties and their societal lives often . At the same time , the ship is being sway by a multitude of sci - fi anomalies .