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Warning : contains spoilers forStar Trek : Defiant#9 !
There is a new , extremist - powerful anti - Borg weapon in theStar Trekuniverse , and it has ties to Captain Kirk . InStar Trek : Defiant#9 , Worf and his crew have been dispatched by Starfleet to bring in the ratter Borg Hugh . When Worf and theDefiantcatch - up to Hugh , they learn he has a powerful arm , familiar to lover of the Original Series , to expend against his former original .
Star Trek : Defiant#9 is written by Christopher Cantwell and draw by Mike Feehan . Boarding Hugh ’s vessel , B’Elanna Torres detects a case of propulsion method not used in centuries , one that Mister Spock has bump before . As the work party prepare their way to the emissions ’ source , they are appalled to learn that Hugh has allied himself with Nomad , a destructive investigation that had beendefeated a one C before by Captain Kirk .
Nomad has been repurposed to become a tool not to down the Borg , but to release them from the clutches of the Collective , allowing the drones to reclaim their personal identity .
Captain Kirk Sets the Stage for the Borg’s Liberation
longsighted timeStar Trekfans will recognize Nomad from the Original Series . Nomad first appear in the 2d season episode “ The Changeling . ” Nomad set out as an explorative investigation launched from Earth in the early 21st century . stray through blank space for years , it collide with another foreign probe . This investigation had been sent out to sterilise grease samples , but when it merged with Nomad , its directive became to “ sterilise ” biologic life sentence . Nomad destroys an entire civilisation before Captain Kirk the investigation by basically outthinking it . Now , Nomad has somehow returned , but with a new delegacy .
Star Trek : Defiant#9 wee it cleared that Nomad has change . While Nomad was highly destructive in its on - screen appearance , there was some equivocalness over the intentions of the exotic race that launch the dirt probe . In a text piece in this issue , resembling Spock ’s briefing to Starfleet on Nomad , Spock speculates its Godhead were benign – but he teach in this issue that it was anything but , and was launched on a missionary work of wipeout and settlement . Nomad has gone from a public ruiner to a tool of redemption and redemption .
In Star Trek comics , Spock excuse how Kirk ’s bequest define his path in life , head him to focus on " greater things " than the sea captain ’s chair .
Hugh’s AmazingStar TrekCharacter Arc Begins Here
Nomad was seen as a forerunner toStar Trek : The Motion Picture’sV’Ger
In many ways , Nomad and Hugh ’s track are very like . Nomad can surcharge a Borg cube ’s system of logic circuit and free the drones on board . In time of year one ofStar Trek : Picard , Hugh lead an initiative to “ domesticize ” former Borg drone pipe , and his metre with Nomad is the beginning of this arc . InDefiant#9 , Worf , after check Nomad in action , realizes that Hugh is a savior . Hugh does not require to kill Borg as he knows they are all victims themselves . Star Trek’snew anti - Borg weapon pass up to perpetuate the cycle of wretchedness with the Borg , instead choose to help them recover their man .
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