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They were brilliantly created by Durinda in such a short amount of time, but I felt that we had used them over and over again and eventually you think, thereвЂ™s too much space in between all of the stuff.

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That was a conscious effort to make them look less like jumpsuits with things applied to them and more like full bodysuits. The Borg outfits remained pretty much the same for вЂњThe Best of Both WorldsвЂќ but were significantly reworked for the episode, вЂњI, Borg.вЂќ The next person to weigh in would be Robert Blackman, who replaced Wood as costume chief during the third season. My early take on the color was more of a silvery gray. My drawings had a number of implants and some kind of a suit for the actor to wear. He recalled that his sketches were a little different from WoodвЂ™s: ImprovementsД«ecause the Borg combined costumes, makeup and props, Illustrator Rick Sternbach was asked to give his input. In the end, nearly all the Borg actors were male, but one of WoodвЂ™s early drawings shows a female drone, years before the viewer was introduced to Seven of Nine and the Borg Queen. That was part of the scariness of them you couldnвЂ™t work out whether they were male or female. I remember somebody - I think it was Rick - saying they shouldnвЂ™t be totally male or female. The producers originally intended the Borg to be without recognizable genders. The Borg only acquired a more complex color scheme for Star Trek: First Contact, which had the advantage of a feature film budget. The realities of television production intervened and the finished drones were a uniform color. So overall there would be a feeling of inky, greeny black - a sort of a sewer black.

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In fact, in the first rendition of them the skin underneath was a dark, dark greeny black and the parts on top were black. I wanted them to be a little bit more greeny black. She also planned to give the Borg a complex color scheme that mixed different shades of black to create a dark, distinctly organic look. There were certain parts that were totally anatomical and then there would be a real leg that needed to have the tube. This helped to make it clear each drone was unique. Wood came up with the idea of running tubes connecting different parts of the Borg costume. For something that the world has never seen before, you need time to develop it and invent it! We just couldnвЂ™t do it in a week - we could have done it in three weeks. I wanted it to melt into the costume more, but they wanted the face to be bright white. One idea was to integrate the BorgвЂ™s face with the body, but time restraints made it hard to pull off: Giger drawing, who was known for his work on the film Alien movie. WoodвЂ™s first designs were inspired by a H.R. You know, when you get older one hip goes and that gets replaced and it happens differently for everyone. Their body parts would wear out and they would replace them with mechanical parts, so I wanted to make all of the mechanical parts different and unique for each person, thinking that their parts would wear out at different times. The idea was always that they would be half human and half mechanical. I was interested in more texture, the ugliness of humanity and the ugliness of nature. I was tired of the futuristic, clean, stainless steel imagery of the time. ThatвЂ™s what was going to be the scary thing about it. They wanted something that was cold and like an automaton, they all kind of looked alike and they didnвЂ™t have emotions. They wanted a new bad guy and they wanted it to be a cyborg. вЂњThey said to me, вЂThis is going to be the new bad guy of the universeвЂ™,вЂќ she recalled years later.

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Something uniqueДesigning the first Borg costumes presented Star TrekвЂs resident costume designer, Durinda Rice Wood, with a challenge: these half-machine, half-human creatures were supposed to look like nothing the TV viewer had ever seen before.

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Giger and the cybernetic, laser-eyed Lord Dread from the 1987 series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future - all contributed to the Borg ascending to the heights of Star TrekВ villainy, exactly as Hurley had intended. In addition, the BorgвЂ™s unique cube-shaped ship and their eerie appearance - reminiscent of both the biomechanism designs of H. But the hive concept he introduced survived to become the Borg Collective. Their presence had been hinted at in the final episode of the first season, вЂњThe Neutral Zone,вЂќ and later revelations in the series suggested they were responsible for the disappearance of Romulan outposts mentioned at the time.Д«udget restraints prevented the Borg from being depicted as insectoids, which is what Maurice Hurley, the writer of вЂњQ Who?вЂќ, originally had in mind. It introduced some of the nastiest villains in science fiction: the Borg.Дerived from the word вЂњcyborg,вЂќ the Borg were meant to give The Next Generation what the Ferengi could not: a deadly, remorseless enemy. вЂњQ Who?вЂќ turned out to be one of the most influential episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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