Terry Matalas, a writer for the Star Trek series Picard, recently confirmed that the new version of the Borg does not retcon earlier Star Trek stories. The science-fiction series sees Sir Patrick Stewart return to one of his most famous roles as Jean-Luc Picard, the former Captain of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Season 2 focused on Picard and his rag-tag crew as they traveled through space and time to correct a doomed past to save the future.

The end of Picard season 2 revealed that the new Borg Queen, which appeared at a deep space anomaly in episode 1, was actually Agnes Jurati (Allison Pill). After being transported back in time, Picard and his crew cross paths with an alternate version of the Borg Queen while attempting to return to the future. During this journey, the Borg Queen's mind fuses with Jurati's, and the two become a revised version of the Borg that strives for acceptance by giving their converts a choice. Many thought the new Borg retconned their original timeline appearances, but now Matalas has revealed that this is not the case.

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In a recent series of tweets, Matalas explained that the new Borg created by Jurati and the original Borg Queen does not retcon the original Borg timelines. The writer further detailed that Jurati's Borg existed concurrently during Star Trek's Prime Timeline but stayed away from major events until after the anomaly that sent Picard back in time. Read the series of tweets below.

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Matalas' tweets clear up much potential confusion following season 2's finale. With Rios staying back in the 21st century and many elements of the past seemingly changed, it would appear that the actions of Picard and his crew changed the main timeline, or at least created a new one. However, Matalas' comments revealed that their actions already occurred in the past and that Picard's future and past were already intertwined in the Prime Timeline. Matalas explained that during the events of Picard, the original version of the Borg is most likely still reeling after the alternate Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) infected the Collective with a pathogen that killed the Queen, as seen in the Star Trek: Voyager series finale.

Although Matalas' tweets confirm the preservation of the Prime Timeline, the writer's revelations create many more questions. With Jurati's Borg in another corner of the galaxy, it begs the question of where they went and how they managed to stay out of contact with the Federation and other established interstellar civilizations for so long? With Allison Pill confirmed as not returning to the cast for Picard season 3, those nagging questions may not receive an answer any time soon.

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Source: Terry Matalas