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 in Star Trek movies and TV shows, they appear to share the same memories and personality. The existence of a Queen continues the parallels between the Borg and bees, with the Borg Queen coordinating her drones via a hive mind. It was revealed in Star Trek: Voyager that the Borg Collective's central nexus was dubbed the Queen by Magnus and Erika Hansen, eminent experts in the Borg and parents to Annika.
After years of researching the Collective, the Hansens were eventually captured and assimilated by the Borg, with Annika becoming Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). Seven was severed from the Borg Collective by the crew of the USS Voyager, and became a valuable member of the crew. Like Star Trek: The Next Generation's Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) before her, Seven maintained a complicated link back to the Borg Collective, and the many faces of the Borg Queen - here's every one of the Borg Queens encountered by Seven, Picard and beyond.
6 Alice Krige - Star Trek: First Contact
The first Borg Queen was played by Alice Krige (Thor: The Dark World) in the 1996 TNG 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 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.
It's heavily implied in First Contact that 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.
5 Susanna Thompson - Star Trek: Voyager
Susanna Thompson had originally auditioned to play the role of the Borg Queen in 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. When Voyager's Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) devised a risky plan to steal Borg technology, she caught the attention of the Borg Queen. As Alice Krige was unavailable to reprise her role for Voyager season 5, episodes 15 and 16, "Dark Frontier", Thompson was cast instead.
Like with Picard, Thompson's Borg Queen expressed a preference for Seven, stating she was her favorite Borg drone, threatening 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 added new depths to it, reprising the role once more for "Unimatrix Zero", which essentially explored the Borg Collective's capacity to dream and experience individuality through virtual reality.
4 Alice Krige - Star Trek: Voyager
Alice Krige reprized her role as Borg Queen in Voyager's finale "Endgame", in which she faced off against Starfleet's Admiral Janeway. Physically, this is presumably a different Queen from the one in First Contact and the one in previous Voyager episodes. In order to get Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant earlier, Janeway traveled back in time to use the Borg's transwarp network. Her plan worked, aborting the tragic timeline in which Chakotay and Seven had died, and returning everyone back to Earth unscathed. In the process, Admiral Janeway had seemingly destroyed the Borg once and for all, but Star Trek: Picard later proved this wasn't entirely correct.
3 Alice Krige - Star Trek: Lower Decks
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 hard hologram simulations. Ever the over-achiever, Brad Boimler becomes obsessed with getting a perfect score on the Borg Cube simulation, which pits him against the Borg Queen. As Lower Decks is predominantly a comedy, and as the Borg Queen in "I, Excretus" is a holographic reconstruction, Krige gets to send up her First Contact performance in a vampish way, providing a great deal of comedy.
2 Annie Wersching - Star Trek: Picard
Not content with just having Q (John de Lancie) and Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) as antagonists, Picard season 2 also brought back the Borg Queen. Played by 24's Annie Wersching, this was a different Borg Queen with new powers, however, she retained the unifying trait of both Krige and Thompson's incarnations - an inherent loneliness. It was that loneliness that drew First Contact's Borg Queen to Locutus and Data, and it was a similar loneliness that drew Voyager's Borg Queen to Seven.
In Picard season 2, the Borg Queen is from the dystopian timeline caused by Q's meddling. Picard and his crew rescue the Queen from public execution because she has the processing power to make the precise calculations that will allow them to travel back in time and fix what Q broke. As Picard confronts his childhood trauma and Seven is finally allowed to embrace her humanity, the Borg Queen sought companionship elsewhere. Using her famously manipulative techniques, the Borg Queen seduced Agnes (Alison Pill), so she could transfer her consciousness from her dying body and assimilate 21st Century Earth.
1 Alison Pill - Star Trek: Picard
Alison Pill essentially played two Borg Queens in Picard season 2. The first was the cold, ruthless version seen previously in First Contact and Voyager, but housed in the body of cyberneticist Agnes Jurati. The second Borg Queen was a more evolved form, combining Agnes' humanity and Borg technology to become something bigger, with the potential for greatly improving the lives of those elsewhere in the galaxy. Star Trek had introduced rogue Borg factions before, but this was something different. Where Borg like Hugh embraced their individuality, Agnes' Collective combined the technology of the Borg with the more utopian outlook of the Federation.
Agnes' changes to the Borg could lead to some fascinating developments in future Star Trek shows. She 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 suggests a new dynamic within the Borg Collective that could completely change the fan-favorite Star Trek aliens. Presumably there's another Borg Queen within the more hostile Collective, who could face off against Agnes Jurati further down the line.