Summary

Warning : stop likely spoilers for late issues ofStar Trek : Defiant !

AStar Trekicon is admit the Borg to imbibe them as a means of escaping something unsound . In the page ofStar Trek : Defiant , Worf and his crew are fighting an infestation of parasitic , intellect - controlling alien . In the forthcoming issue 15,one of theDefiant’screw comes under the alien ’ sway , and it settle on Hugh the Borg to save them .

IDW share a first look atStar Trek : Defiant#15 withLeague of Comic Geeks . The issue , which will be written by Christopher Cantwell and drawn by Angel Unzueta , is part four of “ Hell Is Only a Word . ” The parasitical aliens from “ Conspiracy ” ( a first seasonNext Generationepisode ) have read off over a starbase , and B’Elanna Torres is their latest victim .

Collage of Captain Sisko, Captain Picard, Captain Kirk, and Captain Janeway from the Star Trek franchise.

However , Torres has an improbable Christ in Hugh , the renegade Borg laggard who join theDefiant’screw , but in fiat to save her , Hugh must assimilate her into the Borg corporate .

The Aliens From “Conspiracy” Have Returned, And They Are Scarier Than Ever

They Do Far More Than Simply Control Their Victim

The mind - controlling , insect - like aliens from “ Conspiracy”are one of theStar Trekfranchise ’s crowing dangling plotlines , but now theDefiantcreative squad are bring them back , making the creatures more terrific than ever . The first part of “ Hell is Only a Word ” details the horror that the infected undergo , such as personnel casualty of identity element and nuisance so excruciating it can drive a person insane . The aliens were on the face of it defeated at the final stage of the episode , but manage to get a sign out to their brethren , clearing the room for an invasion .

The Borg were originally intended to be an insectoid mintage , but had to be redesigned due to budgetary reasons

Roughly a class after “ Conspiracy ” air , Star Trek : The Next Generationintroduced the Borg , and they would go on to become one of the best enemy races in the franchise ’s chronicle . The Borg ’s scariness derives from the absorption process , in which a being is forcibly tote up to the Collective , which erase all identity . The few subsister of the process , such as Captain Picard and Seven of Nine , have described absorption as a fate worse than decease . Star Trek : Defiantrecently reveal that in thewake of Picard ’s escape from the Borg , Starfleet begin research “ de - absorption ” technique , with limited succeeder .

Robin Curtis and Kirstie Alley as Lt. Saavik in Star Trek.

For B’Elanna Torres, Assimilation May Be the Only Way Forward

Can Torres Return From Being Assimilated?

And now B’Elanna Torres has been occupy over by the “ Conspiracy ” parasites , and only Borg technology can economize her . SeveralStar Trek : Voyagerepisodes instal that Borg nano - probes , when change , can have U.S.A. beyond absorption . These nano - probes may be Torres ’ write goodwill . The most late issue ofStar Trek : Defiantrevealed that the “ Conspiracy ” aliens can not take over Borg drone pipe , a foreshadowing of consequence to come in . Assimilation is the big circumstances anyone can experience in theStar Trekuniverse , but now it is all that stands between Starfleet and obliteration .

Source : League of Comic Geeks

Star Trek : Defiant#15 is on sales event May 22 from IDW Publishing !

Picard and Riker in season 1

NEW COMIC ISSUE # ( YEAR )

A composite image of Seven of Nine and a fleet of Borg drones from Star Trek

Star Trek: Defiant Cover, featuring Torres trying to escape from the Conspiracy aliens while Borg implants try to take her too.

B’Elanna Torres from Star Trek: Voyager.

Star Trek: Defiant 15 cover, featuring Sela standing over some bodies holding a phaser rifle