Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Alice Krige: Borg Queen

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• 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] 

• 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.

• 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.

• [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 assimilation 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 : 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.

• [first lines] 

  Borg Queen : Locutus...

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

• 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 am 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 he doesn't understand.

  Lieutenant Commander Data : I understand that you have no real interest in me, that your goal is to obtain the encryption codes for the Enterprise computer.

  Borg Queen : That is one of our goals, one of many. But in order to reach it, I am willing to help you reach yours.

• 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.

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

• Lieutenant Commander Data : Are you their leader?

  Borg Queen : I bring order to chaos.

  Lieutenant Commander Data : An interesting if cryptic response.

• Borg Queen : Data, you are free to go.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Data, go.

  Lieutenant Commander Data : No. I do not wish to go.

• Borg Queen : Do you know what this is, Data?

  Lieutenant Commander Data : It would appear you are attempting to graft organic skin onto my endoskeletal structure.

  Borg Queen : What a cold description for such a beautiful gift.

• Lieutenant Commander Data : Who are you?

  Borg Queen : I am the Borg.

  Lieutenant Commander Data : That is a contradiction. The Borg have a collective consciousness. There are no individuals.

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

  Lieutenant Commander Data : Greetings.

• Lieutenant Commander Data : I am curious. Do you control the Borg collective?

  Borg Queen : You imply a disparity where none exists. I am the collective.

• Borg Queen : By assimilating other beings into our collective, we are bringing them closer to perfection.

  Lieutenant Commander Data : Somehow, I question your motives.

  Borg Queen : That is because you haven't been properly - stimulated yet.

• Borg Queen : [blows on Data's endoskeleton and he responds ecstatically]  Was that good for you?