Designated Species 8472 by the Borg, and never given their true name on-screen following this, the Collective's desire to assimilate new life forms lead them to clash with these biological nightmares.

Ray Walston returns as the Species 8472 facsimile of Boothby, after playing the sagacious groundskeeper of Starfleet Academy in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Hirogen view themselves as the ...

After Captain Janeway traded safe passage through Borg space for helping the Borg defeat fluidic space aliens Species 8472 in Star Trek: Voyager season 4, Species 8472 recreated Starfleet Academy ...