The Borg Queen (Annie Wersching) had another desire besides assimilation, and Star Trek: Picard season 2 fulfilled it in an unexpected way. Star Trek: Picard season 2 introduced a version of the Borg Queen hailing from an alternate timeline created by Q (John de Lancie) where the galaxy was ruled by the malevolent Confederation of Earth. This Borg Queen saw her Borg Collective wiped out by the Confederation Starfleet led by General Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) of the CSS World Razer. But the Confederation reality’s Borg Queen got her heart’s desire that other versions of the Borg Queen did not.
Introduced in Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) was revealed to be the ruler of the Borg Collective, which was previously believed to be a central hive mind. The Borg Queen was retconned as the voice Captain Jean-Luc Picard heard when he was assimilated and turned into Locutus of Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Best of Both Worlds.” Moreso, Picard surmised in Star Trek: First Contact that the Borg Queen desired a partner or a counterpart. Indeed, the Borg Queen attempted to seduce and turn the android Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) before she was defeated by Picard. The Borg Queen returned many more times, but she never got what she wanted, unlike Star Trek: Picard season 2’s Borg Queen.
The Borg Queen Finally Got Her Greatest Wish In Star Trek: Picard Season 2
The Queen found her counterpart
Even broken and brought to heel in Star Trek: Picard season 2’s Confederation reality, the alternate timeline’s Borg Queen still desired a mate, just as she wanted to restore her Borg Collective. Unexpectedly, the Borg Queen found her perfect mate in Dr. Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill). A genius cyberneticist harboring dark secrets and deep regrets, Jurati was an easy mark for the Borg Queen. Agnes found herself manipulated by the Queen, and Jurati even voluntarily chose to let the Queen assimilate her.
The Borg Queen nestled in Dr. Agnes Jurati’s mind, but this was just the first step in her takeover of Agnes. Jurati was physically transformed by her assimilation. Soon, Agnes manifested the Borg Queen’s powers, allowing her to easily defeat Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) and Raffi Musiker (Michelle Hurd). The Queen’s plan involved helping Dr. Adam Soong (Brent Spiner) ensure the Confederation reality came to be. The Borg Queen even created a primitive version of the Borg Collective to be Soong’s army.
The Borg Queen fulfilling her greatest wish ended up changing her for the better.
However, a funny thing happened after the Borg Queen found her perfect mate; Dr. Agnes Jurati changed her. The hybrid Jurati Borg Queen benefited from Agnes’ humanity. After the Jurati Borg Queen fled Earth in 2024, she returned in 2401, emerging from a trans-dimensional rift with a new Borg Collective. Shockingly, upon revealing herself as Agnes Jurati to Admiral Picard, the Borg Queen fought alongside Starfleet to prevent an unnamed foe from entering Star Trek’s Prime timeline. The Borg Queen fulfilling her greatest wish ended up changing her for the better.
Why The Borg Queen Always Wanted A Mate But Was Denied By Picard
The Queen could not be allowed to win
The Borg Queen of Star Trek’s Prime Universe always desired a mate. The Borg Collective’s mission of assimilating lifeforms and adding their biological distinctiveness to their own was a pursuit of perfection. But ultimately, millions of assimilated beings only resulted in millions of drones. Essentially, the Borg Queen was lonely. She was a being with no equal in her eyes, and it’s understandable – even human – that the Borg Queen desired a mate to share the universe with.
The Borg Queen that Captain Picard in Star Trek: First Contact and Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) in Star Trek: Voyager fought and foiled never fulfilled her greatest desire and found the mate she wanted. The Queen made a few attempts with Picard/Locutus, Data, and Jean-Luc’s son, Jack Crusher (Ed Speelers), whom the Queen manipulated and groomed since childhood to become Vox of Borg in Star Trek: Picard season 3. But to protect the United Federation of Planets and the Alpha Quadrant, Picard could never allow the malevolent and genocidal Borg Queen to succeed in any fashion, including finding the mate she desired.
It’s interesting, however, that in Star Trek: Picard season 2, the Borg Queen found her perfect mate in a woman, not a man. Dr. Agnes Jurati bonded with the Borg Queen differently than how the Queen in Star Trek: First Contact pursued Data as a romantic partner, or how the Borg Queen tried to become an ersatz parent to Jack Crusher in Star Trek: Picard season 3. Jurati found the innate strength she felt she lacked in the Borg Queen, whereas the Queen found an idealism and a different kind of fortitude in Agnes that impressed her. It seems the right match for the Borg Queen was another queen in Agnes Jurati, and the result was a one-of-a-kind benevolent Borg Queen.
Will Star Trek’s Jurati Borg Queen Return?
Maybe if Star Trek: Legacy happens
Star Trek: Picard season 2’s finale was the last time the hybrid Agnes Jurati Borg Queen was seen, and this may be case for a long time. Jurati’s Borg Queen did not return in Star Trek: Picard season 3, which focused on the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation reuniting to defeat the Prime Universe’s Borg Queen once and for all, resolving decades of the Borg being Picard and the USS Enterprise-D’s greatest adversaries. While Jurati’s Borg Collective joining the fight on Picard’s side may have been logical, it would have complicated the story, diluted Jean-Luc’s triumph to have such help, and it also wasn’t financially feasible for Star Trek: Picard season 3’s budget.
Star Trek has no ready means for Agnes Jurati’s Borg Queen to return.
However, with Star Trek: Picard’s proposed 25th century-set spinoff, Star Trek: Legacy, not happening for the foreseeable future, if ever, Star Trek has no ready means for Agnes Jurati’s Borg Queen to return. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is set in the 23rd century, over a hundred years before Starfleet meets the Borg, and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is set in the 32nd century. Star Trek: Section 31 is set in the 24th century’s ‘lost era’ decades before the Federation learns of the Borg. Even animated series like Star Trek: Prodigy are a no-go, unless the 24th century-set Star Trek: Lower Decks’ final season contains an anachronistic surprise. Fans are simply left to wonder how well the union of the Borg Queen and Dr. Agnes Jurati is going.