Agnes Jurati

In "Maps and Legends", the second episode in season 1 of Star Trek: Picard, the Admiral noted to Dr. Jurati, who was inspecting his copy of one of Isaac Asimov's works, that he never liked science fiction. That's kinda ironic, given that Star Trek is a sci-fi franchise.

With the reformed Borg Collective and Starfleet's vessels harmonizing their respective deflector shields together to fend off the neutrino beam from the mysterious transwarp conduit, and Jurati's Borg Queen requesting provisional membership to monitor it, it kinda makes one wonder who's on its other side. While it was great to see The Next Generation crew reunite and work alongside both Seven of Nine and Raffi Musiker, a small part of me was kind of somewhat disappointed that season 3 didn't at all delve into the nature of the conduit and who built it. Because Borg Agnes believed the conduit to constitute a potential threat, it made me scratch my head wondering who or what it could be, and what its ramifications could be. If anything, I'd like to see the potential Star Trek: Legacy series delve into it since season 3 of Picard did not.

So I was re-watching some Lower Decks episodes when I remembered something. On August 20th 2020 Lower Decks episode 3 aired, and at the very end we get a look at the future and see a teacher teaching a class memorable Star Fleet individuals. The class itself isn’t what is interesting, but its students very much are.

Besides some humans there is an Andorian which makes sense as they were a founding member, a Caitian which also makes sense as they join the federation by 2286, two Ferengi which at first seems odd but by 2386 Ferengi business seems to be incorporated into some Federation locations, Nog is a Star Fleet officer, and as early as 2367 Riker’s ideal future included Ferengi in star fleet so it does not seem unreasonable that by the time of this clip the Ferengi had joined the Federation. What had been a shock to me at the time was what sat at the very front, a Borg child. I couldn’t think of any reason a seemingly intact Borg drone would attend let alone be accepted into a Federation class. That is, until May 5, 2022, the season 2 finally of Picard.

In the most current timeline there are now two separate species of the Borg, the Borg that absorbs data and leaves nothing behind, and the Borg who use their collective knowledge to help the galaxy. I doubt Star Trek Lower Decks knew this in advance, but now knowing there is a more kind Borg out there I now understand why in the far future a Borg child would be a part of a federation class.

Before you guys get confused, let me explain;

Star Trek takes place in the real world, and in the real world, Star Wars is fiction, so could Star Wars exist in Star Trek as a fictional franchise?

POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR "Farewell" (PIC 2x10) are in the post below.

If Doctor Anges Jurati becomes the Borg Queen in 2024, or at least starts her metamorphasis then, and is still Borg Queen in 2401, and has been continuously, does that change or negate the actions of the Borg and their Queen as we have seen prior, as portrayed by Alice Kirge & Susanna Thompson? Does it change the events we see in First Contact (TNG feature film), "Dark Frontier" (VOY 5x15 & 16), "Unimatrix Zero" (VOY 6x26 & 7x1), and "Endgame" (VOY 7x25 & 26)? What do you think?

What are your thoughts on this character?