Picard Writer Confirms Borgs Don't Retcon Earlier Star Trek Stories
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.
They’re an off-shoot from an alternate timeline that have stayed out of history’s way. They are not the the Borg. I’d imagine the real Borg are licking their wounds still in the Delta Quadrant after
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