Star Trek: Picard season 3 introduced the Fleet Museum, and one starship honors Annie Wersching, who played the Borg Queen in Picard season 2.
Star Trek: Picard season 3 introduced the Fleet Museum, and one of the starships on display is an Easter egg that honors the late Annie Wersching, who played the Borg Queen in Star Trek: Picard season 2. The original Borg Queen actress, Alice Krige, returned in Star Trek: Picard season 3 to voice her iconic cybernetic villain, although the Queen was played on set by Jane Edwina Seymour. Tragically, Wersching passed away from cancer in January 2023, just a few weeks before the premiere of Star Trek: Picard season 3.
Star Trek: Picard production designer Dave Blass shared a "brochure" of the Fleet Museum and the various starships on display curated by Commodore Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton). Blass is proud to unveil a "special treat," the USS Wersching, "a very, very special ship" named for the late Borg Queen actress who was beloved by the cast and crew of Star Trek: Picard.
Naming an Akira Class starship the USS Wersching and giving it a place of honor in Star Trek: Picard season 3's Fleet Museum is a lovely gesture towards Annie Wersching. Her loss was deeply felt by the cast and crew of Star Trek: Picard as well as by her fans.
Annie Wersching is one of five actresses to portray the Borg Queen in Star Trek, along with Alice Krige, Susanna Thompson, Allison Pill, and Jane Edwina Seymour. Wersching's Borg Queen hailed from an alternate reality created by Q (John de Lancie) where the evil Confederation of Planets rose up on Earth and wiped out the Borg, leaving only the damaged Queen as the humans' prisoner. The Borg Queen then assimilated Dr. Agnes Jurati (Allison Pill), but the pair ultimately formed a symbiotic relationship and emerged as a benevolent hybrid Borg Queen who became the ally of Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the United Federation of Planets.
