This put her in the unique position of being one of the few Star Trek villains (Q is another) who have tangoed with both Captain Picard and Captain Janeway. When the Borg Queen initially crashed the Voyager party for the episode “Dark Frontier,” she was not played by Krige, but instead by Susanna Thompson (perhaps more famous for her role as Lenara Kahn in the DS9 episode “Rejoined.) But when it was time for Voyager’s big finale, Krige was asked once again to don her Borg leather.

This isn’t the first time since First Contact that Krige has returned to her famous Star Trek role. It’s so full of clothing, plenty of insulation.”īoimler (Jack Quaid) prepares to be assimilated by the Borg Queen (Alice Krige). It was great fun,” Krige says, revealing she recorded most of her dialogue in her husband’s closet. “They just, they just called and asked if I would do it. The original Borg Queen tells Inverse she never expected to return to Star Trek, especially not like this. It’s a hilarious scene, and all-to-brief, but there’s a degree of Trekkie legitimacy brought to it because it really is the voice of Alice Krige. The Borg Queen blows gently on Boimler’s skin, referencing something similar she did to Data when his android skin was briefly grafted with human skin. In Lower Decks, Season 2, Episode 8, “I, Excretus,” Boimler ( Jack Quaid) finds himself in a holographic drill where he has to do everything he can to “resit the Borg.” After obsessively running the drill over and over, Boimler meets a holographic recreation of the Borg Queen. Ortega/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images

Alice Krige at the 11th Annual Official Star Trek Convention in 2021.

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