Alice Krige’s Borg Queen Transformation For Star Trek: First Contact Was A Nightmare
Alice Krige, who played one of the most formidable Star Trek villains as the Borg Queen, found her most challenging ordeal to be becoming the character herself. Making her debut in the second-best Star Trek film, “Star Trek: First Contact,” her outstanding performance required a meticulous and potentially uncomfortable transformation using peculiar substances. In an interview for “The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The Next 25 Years From The Next Generation To J.J. Abrams,” Krige confessed that during the character design process, they used a substance called Gafquat on her head. This material, resembling a concentrated hair spray, was applied with a spoon and hardened so much that it felt like she had a hot pan on her head.