Where did the idea of the Borg come from?

Maurice Hurley did those in the second season in Q Who? Then they were just a cool, one shot alien race that you couldn�t beat.

They were just such a good villain, they had such a cool look and were the unstoppable foe. It seemed natural to bring them back at some point and the idea of turning Picard into a Borg and sending him over to the dark side was just a great idea. That�s how they started to come back.

When did you decide to create a species that could actually beat the Borg?

That was on Voyager, I wasn�t really involved with that. The trouble with the Borg is that they�re unstoppable and yet the Enterprise keeps stopping them week after week. That was the dilemma you kept running into as a writer. You say they�re unstoppable and that�s what makes them cool and mysterious, but every week you have to somehow defeat them over and over again.