Sani-Leader – The Borg Queen
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After stealing all of Lt. Ste’fan’s stuff the Sani-Bots classified him as “Hostile Unsanitary Lifeform”. The Sani-Leader is all glitched out and decided to create an Organic Recycling Program and is repurposing “hostile” lifeforms into new Sani-Bots whether they want to be converted or not. Ste’fan doesn’t want to be assimilated like that and asks Your Wizard to head down the Delta Channel to take down the Sani-Boss.
“Halt, organic lifeform. We know you. You are hostile. You are untidy. You destroy our Sani-Bots and leave the pieces all over the ground. This cannot continue. When we saw the Shadow, we saw the truth. All life must become sanitary, must become Sani-bot. You will be assimilated. You will be clean like us.” Sani-Leader
Monstrology Tome Description
By virtue of the fact you’re reading this, you were not assimilated. Resistance was fruitful.
The Borg are an alien group native to the Delta Quadrant that appear as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek fictional universe. They are cybernetic organisms (cyborgs) linked in a hive mind called “The Collective”. The Borg co-opt the technology and knowledge of other alien species to the Collective through the process of “assimilation”: forcibly transforming individual beings into “drones” by injecting nanoprobes into their bodies and surgically augmenting them with cybernetic components. The Borg’s ultimate goal is “achieving perfection”.
Aside from being recurring antagonists in the Next Generation television series, they are depicted as the main threat in the film Star Trek: First Contact. In addition, they played major roles in the Voyager and Picard series.
The Borg have become a symbol in popular culture for any juggernaut against which “resistance is futile” – a common phrase uttered by the Borg.
The Borg are cyborgs, having outward appearances showing both mechanical and biological body parts. Individual Borg are referred to as drones and move in a robotic, purposeful style, ignoring most of their environment, including beings they do not consider an immediate threat. Borg commonly have one eye replaced with a sophisticated ocular implant. Borg usually have one arm replaced with a prosthesis, bearing one of a variety of multipurpose tools in place of a humanoid hand. Since different drones have different roles, the arm may be specialized for myriad purposes such as medical devices, scanners, and weapons. Borg have flat, grayish skin, giving them an almost zombie-like appearance.
The Borg Queen was the name of the entity that existed within and served as the queen of the Borg Collective. An ancient being, the Queen has existed for many hundreds of years. In the event of her body’s destruction, she would appear to be reincarnated with her personality and memories intact.
Two decades after suffering catastrophic defeat at the hands of Admiral Janeway, the Borg Queen collaborated with a rogue faction of Changelings to rebuild her collective and take revenge upon the Federation. Her final scheme was thwarted by her old enemy, Jean-Luc Picard, and she was killed once and for all by the USS Enterprise-D, bringing an end to the threat of the Borg.
The Queen defined herself as: “I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. I am the Borg.” As the queen of the Borg Collective and the lone individual within it, the Borg Queen provided direction and purpose for the hive mind.
The Borg Queen was played by Alice Krige in Star Trek: First Contact, VOY: “Endgame”, PIC: “Võx”, “The Last Generation” (voice only) and (as a holographic duplicate) LD: “I, Excretus”. The character was played by Susanna Thompson in the Star Trek: Voyager episodes “Dark Frontier”, “Unimatrix Zero”, and “Unimatrix Zero, Part II”. In Star Trek: Picard season 2, the Borg Queen was played by Annie Wersching. The Borg Queen’s Changeling simulacrum, identified in end credits as “The Face”, was voiced by Garth Kemp. The body of the Queen in season 3 of Picard was portrayed by Jane Edwina Seymour, credited as “Borg Queen Body Double”.
The appearance of the Borg Queen in First Contact was a controversial one in the Star Trek universe. Though the Borg provided for a threatening and intriguing alien enemy, their lack of a single villain presented a challenge for the writers. To counter this, and to expand some on the original notion of the Borg as an insect-hive type of race, they created the Borg Queen as a focal point for their story. Writer Brannon Braga has stated in this respect, “I think some people liked the Borg Queen and some didn’t, but to us the Borg Queen was the thing that made it all work. We realized very quickly that the Borg aren’t that interesting for a feature film for two hours because they don’t say anything. They’re robot zombies. So, to me, the Borg Queen was the coolest new thing about that movie.”
Later in First Contact, when asked by Picard how she had survived when the cube that was sent to Earth in 2367 was destroyed, the Queen only replied that Picard had become small, and thought in three-dimensional terms.
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