The destruction of the Borg Collective in Star Trek: Picard season 3 means that Star Trek: Discovery can avoid disaster in the 32nd century. After they were considerably weakened by Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) in the Star Trek: Voyager finale, Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D delivered the killer blow in the Picard finale. A desperate last ditch attempt to resurrect the Collective saw the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) assimilate the entire Starfleet armada, teaming up with the Changelings to turn the Federation's technology against it.
The Borg Queen's ingenious plan to use both the transporter system and Starfleet's controversial Fleet Formation mode to create her new Collective yielded terrifying results. Intending to use her new Collective to annihilate the unassimilated, Star Trek: Picard's Borg evolution could have had apocalyptic consequences for the universe. Thankfully, the worst case scenario was avoided, and the original Borg are now extinct, removing them as a future threat to Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the crew of the USS Discovery. This is a relief, as the Discovery contains technology that could have seen the Collective gain a terrifying new advantage.
