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Adolescent Borg, designated Third of Five, rescued by the Enterprise-D crew from the wreck of a Borg scoutship in the Argolis Cluster in 2368. Aboard the Enterprise-D, Third of Five was restored to health and dubbed "Hugh" by Starfleet personnel. It was soon discovered that, removed from the Borg collective, Hugh began to exhibit signs of individuality. During Hugh's convalescence, a plan was developed to create an invasive computer program that would be introduced to the Borg collective through Hugh. The invasive programm would be designed to cause a fatal overload in the entire Borg collective. The plan was vetoed by Captain Picard, who felt it unethical to use Hugh as a weapon of mass destruction. Enterprise-D personnel later returned Hugh to the crash site, where he was reassimilated into the collective. Hugh's sense of individuality almost immediately permeated his local portion of the collective, resulting in a dramatic loss of group purpose. The Borg acted aimlessly until given a new sense of purpose by the android Lore, who promised to make the Borg into his ideal of artificial life-forms. To fulfill this promise, Lore conducted bizarre medical experiments on many Borg, leaving them horrible injured. Hugh soon realized that Lore had no idea how to fulfill his promise, and began to secretly care for the injured Borg individuals. Hugh later joined with Enterprise-D personnel to defeat Lore. Hugh was first seen in "I, Borg". |
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