Who the Borg Queen is in STFC
The Borg Queen is an epic Command officer attached to the Borg faction in Star Trek Fleet Command. She is a specialist, not a general-purpose crew member, and her value shows up in two narrow places: Borg Solo Armadas and player-versus-player fights that involve Assimilate.
If you came looking for a captain who buffs your whole crew, she is the wrong officer. Her captain seat does nothing at all. What she offers instead is a bridge ability that builds critical hit chance during Borg Solo Armada battles, and a below-deck ability that sharpens your ship’s offense against enemies running Assimilate.
This guide walks through what she does, how her abilities scale with promotion, what it costs to rank her up, and the exact situations where she earns a slot on your ship.
Star Trek background
The Borg Queen is the entity that lives within and leads the Borg Collective. She is ancient, having existed for centuries, and when her body is destroyed she returns with her memories and personality intact. She described herself as “the beginning, the end, the one who is many,” the single individual who gives direction and purpose to the hive mind.
Föderation scientists compared her to the queen of an insect hive, coordinating the drones and overriding the Collective when she judged it necessary. She first confronted the crew of the Enterprise-E during the Borg attempt to stop humanity’s first contact with the Vulcans, where she tempted Data and renewed her long, personal history with Jean-Luc Picard following his time as Locutus. Decades after her defeat by Admiral Janeway, she allied with a rogue faction of Changelings to rebuild the Collective and take revenge on the Federation, before Picard and the Enterprise-D finally ended the threat for good.
That mix of menace and manipulation carries into her in-game flavor. She is presented as the leader of the Collective who exploits emotion and alliances to get what she wants, and she sits under the Unimatrix Zwölf group tag alongside the rest of the Borg officer roster.
Role in STFC
The Borg Queen is a niche combat officer with two jobs that rarely overlap. On the bridge, her ability only triggers inside Borg Solo Armada battles. Below decks, her ability only matters when you fight a ship that uses Assimilate. Outside those two windows she contributes nothing, which is exactly why she belongs in a purpose-built crew rather than a daily driver.
Her captain seat is the other thing to understand up front. Because it gives no bonus whatsoever, you only ever want her in a bridge officer slot (never the captain chair) or in a below-deck slot. Slotting her as captain is a wasted seat, and that single fact shapes every crew you build around her.
Think of her as a situational tool you bring out for specific content. When you are not running Borg Solo Armadas or fighting Assimilate crews, she stays on the bench, and that is the correct call rather than a knock against her.
Captain ability and officer ability
Captain ability: Not Perceived as a Threat
This is the unusual officer with no captain maneuver. Putting the Borg Queen in the captain’s chair gives your ship no benefit of any kind. Treat the captain slot as off-limits for her and build your captain bonus around a different officer who actually has a maneuver worth running.
Officer ability: Chaos Into Order
While your ship fights a Borg Solo Armada, every time it takes hull damage from an enemy shot, the Borg Queen raises your critical hit chance. The bonus is cumulative, so it stacks through the battle: the longer the fight runs and the more hull hits your ship absorbs, the higher your crit chance climbs. That makes her reward patient, drawn-out armada fights where your hull is taking punishment, rather than quick burst kills. The ability does nothing at all outside Borg Solo Armadas, so it is dead weight in any other content.
The per-rank bonus, current as of the latest game data, climbs steadily with each promotion:
| Rang | Critical hit chance added per hull hit |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2% |
| 2 | 3% |
| 3 | 4% |
| 4 | 5% |
| 5 | 7% |
Because the values are small per hit but stack every time you are struck, her real payoff comes in long Borg Solo Armada runs where dozens of hull hits can pile the bonus up over the course of the fight.
Below-deck ability: The One Who is Many
Assigned to a below-deck slot, the Borg Queen activates only against player ships that use Assimilate. In those fights she increases your ship’s armor piercing, shield piercing, and accuracy each round, and the bonus builds round over round as the battle continues. The size of that boost grows as you promote her, so a higher-rank Borg Queen swings those PvP fights harder than a freshly recruited one. Below-deck abilities run passively from the slot, so she does not need a bridge seat for this to fire, which is what lets her double as a quiet PvP enabler without taking a prime bridge position.
Where the Borg Queen shines
Two situations make her worth fielding:
- Borg Solo Armadas. Slot her on the bridge so Chaos Into Order can ramp your critical hit chance as the fight drags on. Longer armadas, where your ship soaks more hull damage, squeeze the most out of her, so she pairs well with a survivable hull tank build that can stay in the fight.
- Assimilate PvP. Drop her below decks in a crew built to fight ships running Assimilate. Her armor piercing, shield piercing, and accuracy boost helps your weapons connect and punch through enemy defenses, and it grows each round, so the value rises the longer the duel lasts.
For everything else, mining, hostile grinding, faction reputation farming, or armada types outside Borg Solo content, she brings no benefit. Leave her benched for those activities and bring the Offiziere built for them instead.
How to get the Borg Queen
The Borg Queen is an epic officer, so her shards typically come through Borg-themed events and store rotations rather than a fixed, always-on source. Availability shifts over time as Scopely cycles events, so check the current event calendar and store offers inside your game to see where her shards are showing up right now.
Ranking her from recruitment through her maximum rank takes 1,800 shards in total. The cost is front-loaded toward the final promotion:
| Rang | Shards to promote into this rank |
|---|---|
| 1 | 120 |
| 2 | 120 |
| 3 | 240 |
| 4 | 360 |
| 5 | 960 |
The jump to rank 5 is the painful one at 960 shards, which is more than half of the full 1,800. If you want her maxed for the rank-5 ability values, plan your shard collection around that final push rather than expecting the last rank to come cheap.
Synergies
The Borg Queen carries no class synergy bonus. Her Command, Technik, and Science synergy values all read 0%, so pairing her by class will not hand your crew a stat boost the way many other officers do.
She does sit in a synergy group with the rest of the Borg roster: the eleven drones (Einer von elf through Eleven of Eleven), Hugh, Ghalenar, Dezoc, and Gossa. The listed synergy percentage for that group currently reads 0%, so the connection is thematic rather than a numeric crew bonus. In practice that means you should build her crews around what her abilities actually need, a Borg Solo Armada bridge or an Assimilate-focused below-deck lineup, instead of chasing a synergy figure that is not there. Pair her bridge ability with officers and a ship that keep you alive through long armada fights, and pair her below-deck ability with a PvP crew that already wants more armor piercing, shield piercing, and accuracy.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Borg Queen any good?
She is good at two narrow jobs and offers nothing outside them. For Borg Solo Armadas and Assimilate PvP she earns a place in the right crew. As a general-purpose officer she does not, so judge her by whether you actually run that content.
Should I ever make the Borg Queen my captain?
No. Her captain ability provides no benefit at all, so the captain chair is wasted on her. Use her as a bridge officer or below decks, and give the captain seat to an officer with a real maneuver.
Where do you get Borg Queen shards?
Through Borg-themed events and store rotations. The exact source changes with the event calendar, so check what your game is currently offering rather than relying on an old list.
What is the Borg Queen best used for?
Her bridge ability is built for Borg Solo Armadas, and her below-deck ability is built for fighting player ships that use Assimilate. Those two uses are where she belongs.
Is the Borg Queen worth ranking up?
If you run Borg Solo Armadas often or fight Assimilate crews in PvP, ranking her up improves the abilities you actually use, and the rank-5 values are a clear step above rank 1. If you do neither, save your shards for an officer with broader value across your daily activities.
Bottom line
The Borg Queen is a tool for two specific fights. Bring her for Borg Solo Armadas and Assimilate PvP, keep her out of the captain’s chair, and do not expect her to pull weight outside her lane. For players deep into Borg content she is worth the shards; for everyone else she can sit on the bench until the right fight comes along.
