La Forge Meets Hugh Again Star Trek the Next Generation

3rd of Five redirects here; for a Borg drone with a similar designation, delight see Three of Five.

For the USS Discovery physician, please encounter Hugh Culber.

"I will not."

–Hugh, displaying individuality, 2368 ("I Borg")

Hugh (pronounced "Hue"), formerly Third of Five, was a old Borg drone who was rescued by the USS Enterprise-D in 2368. Once again joining the Enterprise to fight against rogue Borg led past Lore in 2370, by 2399 he had come to serve a prominent position as a part of the Borg Antiquity Research Institute, identifying equally an xB like those aboard the Artifact.

Contents

• 1 Capture
• 2 Newfound individuality
• 3 Afterwards the Enterprise-D
• 4 Working with the Romulans
• five Appendices
  • 5.1 Appearances
  • 5.2 Background information
  • five.3 Apocrypha
  • five.four External links

Capture

The Borg sentinel send, where Hugh was found in 2368

Hugh was found in the Argolis Cluster at the crash site of a Borg scout ship.

Hugh himself was critically injured, and was brought back to the Enterprise-D for medical attention by Dr. Beverly Crusher under protest from Captain Picard. Upon arriving on the Enterprise-D, Hugh was placed in the brig and kept under guard at all times. He had trouble adapting to his new environment, having been cut off from the resources of the Collective for the start time in his life. Where at that place had been millions of voices in his head, in that location was at present simply his own. Dr. Crusher somewhen nursed him back to health, and Chief Engineer Geordi La Forge plant a mode to nourish the drone like to the regeneration alcoves on a Borg ship.

Captain Picard saw this as an opportunity to destroy the Borg once and for all. He ordered La Forge and Lieutenant Commander Data to devise a method to destroy the Collective through an implanted program or file in Hugh, much as Data had done to a Borg cube through Captain Picard (as Locutus) 2 years earlier. Dr. Crusher did not concur with this course of action, considering they were talking well-nigh exterminating an entire race – fifty-fifty if it was the Borg.

Newfound individuality

Hugh examines Livingston in Captain Picard'due south prepare room

As Hugh spent more time with the Enterprise-D crew, he learned many things. La Forge taught him that Humans did not desire to exist assimilated into the Collective, which contradicted what Hugh had been taught by the Collective. La Forge gave Hugh his proper name, through a mispronunciation of the word "you", and became Hugh's first e'er friend. Guinan, who originally wanted zilch to do with Hugh, taught him that resistance was not futile. Guinan'south homeworld had been destroyed long ago by the Borg, simply the fact that Guinan was nevertheless alive was proof of her lessons to Hugh.

Picard eventually confronted Hugh. Hugh immediately recognized Picard as Locutus, and Picard took the function of Locutus while talking to Hugh, to simulate the authority that Hugh was used to. Even so, La Forge, Guinan, Dr. Crusher, and other members of the Enterprise-D crew had had a profound effect on Hugh. When Picard reminded him that resistance was futile, Hugh replied that resistance was not futile. When Picard told Hugh that La Forge would be assimilated, Hugh stated that La Forge did not wish to be assimilated. When Picard said that this was irrelevant, Hugh specifically said that he (equally Hugh used the word "I" rather than "we"; his second use of a singular pronoun) would not help in the absorption of La Forge. Picard was stunned that a Borg drone would say such things.

Picard decided that he could not send Hugh back with the file that would destroy the Borg. He offered Hugh asylum on board the Enterprise-D, only Hugh said that the Collective would not cease looking for him until they constitute him. Hugh agreed to go back to the crash site, and to be taken back into the Collective, to protect the Enterprise-D from harm. (TNG: "I Borg")

After the Enterprise-D

Hugh's newfound sense of individuality proved to be well-nigh as deadly to the Collective equally any file stored in his memory could exist. His experiences on board the Enterprise-D were spread to other drones, and eventually Hugh's cube fell into a complete country of disarray. The Borg's sense of shared identity had been disrupted, and they were no longer able to function. The Collective disconnected Hugh'due south ship from the hive listen and left the cube drifting in space until 2370, when it was discovered by Lore, Data's brother. Lore took reward of the confused drones and causeless leadership of the group. He brought order to anarchy, and allowed the drones to maintain their individuality but was able to control them. Lore "promised" to create the Borg crew in his image, running tests on various drones, leaving them with awful injuries.

Hugh disapproved of Lore'south leadership, finally realizing that Lore had no inkling how to continue his promise to the drone crew, and while Lore had acquired a transport and had built a base on a remote planet, Hugh took a group of drones underground and became a leader himself. Hugh and the drones loyal to him assisted the Enterprise-D crew in rescuing Picard, La Forge, and Troi and recapturing Data from Lore. (TNG: "Descent", "Descent, Function 2")

Working with the Romulans

Hugh eventually became an "xB", every bit quondam Borg drones were chosen, with well-nigh of his implants removed; he also became a Federation denizen.

By 2399, he had been named executive manager of the Borg Reclamation Project based at "the Artifact", a derelict Borg cube controlled by the Romulan Gratis State. While serving the project, Hugh became disturbed by the dismissive treatment of his fellow xBs after they were severed from the Commonage. He antiseptic to Soji Asha that xBs had by at present become the most despised people in the galaxy, seen either as belongings to be exploited or hazards to be warehoused – or both, in the case of the Romulans. However, it was likewise Soji who impressed him with her empathy toward a recently severed Romulan xB, when she spoke to him in Romulan even though he was still unconscious. Soji stated that she was simply putting Hugh'due south own ideas on the treatment of xBs into practice. Soji's act of respect netted her Hugh's permission to interview the xB Ramdha, which he had previously denied her because of Ramdha's fragile state of mind. Although initially pleased with Soji's progress, Hugh'due south concerns were ultimately validated when the mentally disordered Ramdha became hysterical and attempted suicide, which was only narrowly averted thanks to Soji. (Motion picture: "The Stop is the Beginning", "The Incommunicable Box")

Jean-Luc Picard arrived at the Artifact sometime later looking for Soji, meeting Hugh once again for the first time in nearly thirty years. Hugh showed Picard the facilities in which he helped the xBs attempt to repossess their lives after the removal of their implants, believing that every bit an xB himself, Picard would exist an advocate for meliorate treatment for sometime Borg.

Hugh knew that a Romulan spy, Narek, had arrived at the Artifact two weeks earlier Picard, trying to detect out almost Soji, and offered Picard his help without hesitation. When Soji's android abilities were activated and she fled from Narek and the Zhat Vash, Hugh took Picard and Soji into the former cube's queencell and used its spatial trajector to teleport them to Nepenthe, while Picard's sworn protector, a young Romulan named Elnor, remained behind with Hugh to cover their escape. (Film: "The Impossible Box")

Hugh was interrogated past Narek's sister, Narissa, who coldly had the xBs executed when he refused to requite upward Picard's location; she only refrained from killing Hugh herself because of the treaty with the Federation. Hugh felt that he had failed the xBs, and ultimately decided to deny the Romulans the cube by activating the queencell. Even so, as this was a treaty violation as well as an act of insurrection, Narissa at present felt justified in killing him, and mortally wounded him with a knife thrown into his cervix.

Hugh'due south final words

Earlier he died, Hugh told Elnor that he needed an xB to activate the queencell, and thanked him for letting him briefly be a "hopeful fool" again. (Picture: "Nepenthe")

Appendices

Appearances

• TNG:
  • "I Borg"
  • "Descent" (on brandish)
  • "Descent, Role II"
• PIC:
  • "The End is the Beginning"
  • "The Impossible Box"
  • "Nepenthe"

Background data

Hugh was played by actor Jonathan Del Arco. Hugh'south designation used the ordinal "Tertiary," while the Star Trek: Voyager grapheme Vii of Ix used the primal "Seven." The concept backside Hugh was used by the creative staff of Voyager in the form of 1. He stated on Twitter that his species was Human. [i]

The name "Hugh" is a pun, equally information technology sounds like the English language word "you," carrying the message of individuality. In the original German language Boob tube frame, this pun was but partially transferred, as he was consistently chosen "Du" ("You" in English). In repeated airings, equally well every bit on the DVD, the name was changed to "Hugh." In the Italian version the pun was transferred: the Borg was called Thug, as it sounds similar the Italian word "tu" (you). In the Japanese version, the you/Hugh pun did not make sense and he is instead given the proper noun "Blue." In the Czech version, the pun was transferred by calling him "Tim" which is very similar in pronunciation to the Czech word "ty" meaning "you". In the French version, Hugh is called "Lou".

As Hugh's grapheme was written before the expanded data about the Borg revealed in Star Trek: Voyager, which states that all Borg are assimilated and do not reproduce equally suggested in the episode TNG: "Q Who", there is no canon mention of who Hugh was before he was assimilated, nor whatever attempts to reassert this identity after he was freed from the collective equally is seen in all Borg characters who are liberated from the hive mind. In keeping with this, he continues to be known simply as Hugh even as long after his liberation from the Collective equally of 2399.

Apocrypha

Hugh appears in the Shatnerverse novel Avenger, where his group of Borg are able to salvage the resurrected Captain James T. Kirk past removing the Borg nanites that were damaging his arrangement after his rebirth.

Hugh meets the coiffure of the USS Enterprise-E in the novel Greater than the Sum, where he sacrifices himself to help the Enterprise stop a new group of Borg created by the evolution of a Borg cube and the absorption of Admiral Kathryn Janeway.

Hugh appears in the Star Expedition Online (STO) expansion "Delta Rising" as a leader of the Cooperative. The Cooperative is a faction of liberated Borg drones whose mission is primarily to gratis more than drones from the Commonage. While the Cooperative shares the Collective's goal of achieving perfection, they do not force information technology upon anyone and whatsoever Borg they liberate is free to choose what they want to do later on, including returning to the Collective. As Icheb was removed from the game post-obit his death in Star Trek: Picard, information technology remains to exist seen if Hugh will be removed besides.

In Star Trek: Deep Infinite 9 - Millennium, it is mentioned in an alternate timeline that Hugh and Seven negotiated a treaty between the Borg and the Federation in 2390.

External links

• Hugh at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
• Hugh at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Hugh at The Star Trek Online Wiki

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