New casting information has just been revealed and a notorious villain is returning to the Star Trek Universe in the upcoming second season of Star Trek: Picard!
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With Star Trek Day looming on the horizon we did not expect to get news before this day
but it has been announced that Annie Wersching will play the Borg Queen in Star Trek Picard season 2 as a recurring character.
But what does this mean for the story? We'll Delve into it in this video and also where you might have seen this actress before.
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What we know about Star Trek Picard season 2 already is that “time is broken” and it has something to do with the Magnificent Q who is returning being played by the ever great John De Lancie.
The crew of the La Sirena seem to be scattered across multiple alternate timelines,
with images of Jean-Luc Picard in a Starfleet Admiral uniform to Seven of Nine having not been assimilated by the Borg!
Well it seems like one of these alternate timelines or possibly several of them, as the Borg Queen is said to be a recurring character,
will include the Borg queen and in what fashion we do not know however we can speculate on how this will play out.
For those who don't know, let's start with who the Borg queen actually is!
The Borg queen was first introduced in the Star Trek movie ‘First Contact” played by Alice Krige and was the main antagonist of that movie,
, as the mind behind the Borg Collective as a whole and the one who wanted to stop Earth from having First Contact with the Vulcans.
This however was unsuccessful and the Borg Queen was defeated.
Later on, the Borg Queen returned in Star Trek Voyager at first being played by Susanna Thompson
and then in the final episode of Voyager being again reprised by the original actress, Alice Krige.
The Borg queen very much has a connection to Jean-Luc Picard
as she was there when Picard was assimilated into the drone known as Locutus.
Picard viewed this as the Borg Queen wanting an equal and not just another drone.
But when she reappeared in Star Trek first Contact Picard was surprised as the cube she was previously on was destroyed however he was chastised as thinking in such three-dimensional terms.
So it seems that the Borg queen can survive death and presumably they just transferred their conscience into another vessel in the Borg Collective.
We also do learn that Borg cubes had something referred to as the “Queen Cell” which contained a spatial Trajector.
A piece of Delta Quadrant technology which allowed someone to be transported up to 40 thousand light years away,
which is another way the queen might have been able to survive the destruction of her vessel,
and how she can appear on other Borg Cubes in good time.
But what does the reprisal of the Borg queen mean for Star Trek Picard season 2?
Well we know that the new showrunner, Terry Matalas, has worked on Trek before and the most interesting part of this is that he co-wrote a Star Trek comic about Picard and the Borg queen.
This comic was a 4-part series from IDW called ‘Hive’,
where the Borg had completely assimilated the Galaxy and had wiped out all resistance.
Resistance was truly futile. However Locutus did not see this as the perfection the Borg did strive towards and orchestrated a plan to change the past and stop the Borg from being successful,
by sending an assimilated Data back into the past, to stop the Federation from being wiped out.
I also have to say, the Borg Queen Design in that comic, is wild, and I do not want to see such a design in Picard.
There are multiple borg queen designs, from unused concept art, to the Borg Queen in Star Trek Online.
So hopefully they do something cool and interesting for her design.
We do know that Brent Spiner is returning for Season 2 of Star Trek Picard,
, but I personally do hope he doesn’t play another Data, since his send off in Season 1 was a highlight of that season.
We could see that Terry Matalas will adapt this concept into the series arc which was first put forward in the first trailer of Star Trek Picard
that ‘time is broken’ and that it has something to do with Q and alternate timelines.
Talking about Q for a moment, we could also see more story with the Qs perspective on the Borg.
It was Q who first introduced the crew of the USS Enterprise-D to the Borg, and introduced them as something they had never faced before.
What is interesting, is with Q Junior, the Son of John De Lancie’s Q.
When Q jr goes out of his way to mess with the USS Voyager, by sending them into the path of borg cubes.
Q senior says this: “If the continuum’s told you once, they’ve told you a thousand times,
DON'T PROVOKE THE BORG!” which is very interesting.
The fact that the continuum itself doesn’t want Q Jr, or any Q for that matter, to Provoke the Borg,
has to have a reason.
Do Q fear the borg? If so, why would a seemingly all powerful being be scared of the Borg?
This could be explored in Season 2 of Star TrekPicard.
We also have to consider Picard’s new connection to the Borg, or better yet,
Since now Picard inhabits a Golem body, he would not have remnant Borg tech left within his body, so he would not hear the Borg, like he did in Picard and First Contact.
This could provide some interesting discussions about Picard in his new Golem Body.
I know some fans still don’t like to think of this Picard as the Picard we grew up with, since he has a different body.
But a person is just the sum of their experiences.
But when those experiences leave physical scars, like being assimilated, how does that change who you are? Especially when that connection has been lost.
Now before we round this off, let's talk about the actor, Annie Wersching.
She has actually been in Trek before, in the Enterprise episode “Oasis” where the late Rene Auberjonois’s character, Ezral and his daughter, Liana who is played by Annie Wersching,
crashed on a planet and made a holographic crew for themselves to keep them company.
She does look quite similar to Susana Thompson, who played the Borg Queen in early Star Trek Voyager episodes,
so she could just be a Borg Queen after the death of Alice Krige’s Borg Queen at the end of Voyager.
And with that note, we could then see what happened to the collective after the damage they suffered in that voyager finale.
This is very interesting, as Terry Matalas was a producer on Star Trek: Enterprise, so it's nice that some Enterprise people are back,
so let's hope we can get some actors back, reprising their characters like Jonathan Archer.
We also know that Star Trek Picard Season 2 has now finished filming, however they are filming both season 2 and season 3 back to back,
so we might see Season 3 not too soon after the second season airs,
which could mean that the story continues between seasons?
If that means we get more Q, who is said to be in at least 6 episodes of Season 2, I am all the more for it!
And that is all we have about this news, what do you think about it? Let us know in the comments below and don’t forget to share your opinions as always! Because if you’re talking about Star Trek, then we want to hear about it!
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