- This article is about Hugh in the First Splinter timeline ended by the Devidian temporal apocalypse. You may be looking for Hugh in the prime timeline.
Hugh was a male 24th century Borg drone, an alternate version of Hugh in the First Splinter timeline.
Biography[]
The original divergence event that created the First Splinter was during the 2373 mission against the Borg following the Battle of Sector 001. Hugh's history prior to that point was identical to the prime timeline Hugh. (TNG movie, novelization & comic adaptation: Star Trek: First Contact; ST - Coda novel: Oblivion's Gate)
Independent Nation of Borg[]
Hugh helped form the Independent Nation of Borg consisting of all the Liberated individual Borg that were free from the hive mind. Due to his actions, he took on the title of Primary and thus became their leader. Hugh worked to ensure that his faction were recognized as being different from the Borg Collective but had little success in his goals. Thus, he led the Nation into retreating into the Delta Quadrant in order to avoid conflict as well as run a cover campaign to restore individuality to the other Borg drones that were enslaved to the Collective's will.
By circa 2374, he approached USS Voyager crewman and former Borg Seven of Nine and asked her to help him in his goal by her being the Nation's ambassador to the Federation as well as asking her to join his faction. Though she declined to join Hugh, she did agree to speak on his behalf when Voyager returned to Earth. (VOY short story: "Seventh Heaven")
Borg destiny[]
At some point in 2380, Hugh and the Nation were attacked by a variant breed of Borg that had assimilated the Einstein. They managed to repel the invaders who fled and whilst they were not connected to the ships Borg, they did learn of its intention to assimilate the NGC 6281 entity. Hugh along with the Zero Rebekah Grabowski took Liberator to combat this threat whereupon he made contact with the crew of the USS Enterprise-E where he once again met Captain Picard. Agreeing to help him in stopping the Einstein, Hugh also asked the Starfleet crew to aid the Nation's ability to reproduce thus making them a true civilization. During the course of the crisis, Hugh sacrificed his own life to destroy the divergent breed of Borg on the Einstein by using the Liberator as bait allowing him the opportunity to board the assimilated vessel and deliver to it the multivector pathogen. Despite his death, enough of his genetic material was salvaged allowing for Grabowski to bear his child thus giving the Liberated the chance to continue as a true race. (TNG novel: Greater Than the Sum)