Borg Queen Quotes in Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

[Picard asks the Borg Queen to exchange Data for himself]

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Let him go. He's not the one you want.

Borg Queen: Are you offering yourself to us?

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Offering myself...? That's it, I remember now! It wasn't enough that you assimilate me... I had to give myself freely to the Borg. To you!

Borg Queen: You flatter yourself! I've overseen the assimilition of countless millions. You were no different!

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You're lying. You wanted more than just another Borg drone. You wanted a human being with a mind of his own, who could bridge the gulf between humanity and the Borg! You wanted a counterpart! But I resisted. I fought you.

Borg Queen: You can't begin to imagine the life you denied yourself.

Borg Queen: [Data fires quantum torpedoes at Cochrane's ship and inexplicably misses his target, outraging the Borg Queen] DATA!

Lieutenant Commander Data: Resistance is futile!

[Smashes the warp coolant, flooding Engineering and destroying the Borg]

Borg Queen: Brave words. I've heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created. But, now they are all Borg.

Lieutenant Commander Data: I am unlike any lifeform you have encountered before. The codes stored in my neural net cannot be forcibly removed.

Borg Queen: You are an imperfect being, created by an imperfect being. Finding you weakness is only a matter of time.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's not too late. Locutus could still be with you. Just in the way you wanted: an equal. Let Data go, and I will take my place at your side. Willingly, without any resistance.

Borg Queen: Such a noble creature. A quality we sometimes lack. We will add your distinctiveness to our own. Welcome home... Locutus.

[a Borg scratches Data's flesh arm]

Lieutenant Commander Data: Ah!

Borg Queen: Is it becoming clear to you yet? Look at yourself, standing there, cradling the new flesh I've given you. If it means nothing to you, why protect it?

Lieutenant Commander Data: I... I am simply imitating the behavior of humans.

Borg Queen: You're becoming more human all the time, Data; now you're learning how to lie.

Lieutenant Commander Data: My programming was not designed to process these sensations.

Borg Queen: Then tear the skin from your limb as you would a defective circuit.

[Data hesitates]

Borg Queen: Go ahead, Data! We won't stop you!

[Data forces himself to try to tear off the skin]

Borg Queen: Do it! Don't be tempted by flesh!

[Data relents and leaves the skin alone]

Borg Queen: Are you familiar with physical forms of pleasure?

Lieutenant Commander Data: If you are referring to sexuality, I am... fully functional, programmed in... multiple techniques.

Borg Queen: How long since you've used them?

Lieutenant Commander Data: Eight years, seven months, sixteen days, four minutes, twenty-two...

Borg Queen: Far too long.

[they kiss passionately]

Borg Queen: You are in chaos, Data. You are the contradiction: a machine who wishes to be human.

Lieutenant Commander Data: Since you seem to know so much about me, you must be aware I am programmed to evolve. To better myself.

Borg Queen: We too are on a quest to better ourselves, evolving toward a state of perfection.

Lieutenant Commander Data: Forgive me: the Borg do not evolve, they conquer.

Borg Queen: Do you always talk this much?

Lieutenant Commander Data: Not always, but often.

Borg Queen: Why do you insist on utilizing this primitive linguistic communication? Your android brain is capable of so much more.

Lieutenant Commander Data: Have you forgotten? I'm endeavoring to become more human.

Borg Queen: Human! We used to be exactly like them. Flawed. Weak. Organic. But we evolved to include the synthetic. Now we use both to attain perfection. Your goal should be the same as ours.

Lieutenant Commander Data: Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind.

Borg Queen: Small words from a small being, trying to attack what it doesn't understand.

[first lines]

Borg Queen: Locutus...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.

Borg Queen: What's wrong, Locutus? Isn't this familiar? Organic minds are such fragile things. How could you forget me so quickly? We were very close, you and I. You can still hear our song.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, I... I remember you. You were there all the time. But... that ship... and all the Borg on it were destroyed...

Borg Queen: You think in such three-dimensional terms. How small you've become.

Borg Queen: I am the beginning. The end. The one who is many. I am the Borg.

Borg Queen: [to Picard] Watch your future's end.