THE BORG

THE BORG
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These are the ever going assimilateings of the borg collective. It's on going mission to seek out new life, so they can be assimilated. To boldly do what no collective has tried before.

General Borg Overview:

The Borg are an immensely powerful civilization of cybernetically enhanced life forms originating deep within the Delta Quadrant of the Galaxy. The specific age and origins of the Borg race is unknown, but it is believed that the Borg Collective has been in existence on the order of thousands of centuries. It is also unclear as to how and why the Borg evolved to their partially cybernetic state, although it is speculated that the Borg were once completely organic lifeforms, much like the human race.

Each Borg member, or "Drone" is connected to a sophisticated subspace communications network, forming what is termed "The Borg Collective", also commonly referred to as the hive mind or collective consciousness. With this connection, the entire Borg species operates as one gigantic organism, as if the Borg Collective were one huge entity and the individual drones and ships merely components of the greater whole.

Within this shared consciousness, the ideas of individuality, freedom and self-determination are nearly meaningless concepts. For example, Borg Drones do not refer to themselves in the first person (i.e. "I" or "me"), rather in the plural, such as "we are Borg". Individual Drones do not have names in the common sense, rather they are designated into numerical groups, such as "Third of Five" or "Seven of Nine" and so forth. If a drone’s function is changed, it is given a new designation.

The Borg do not "seek out new life and new civilizations" in the ordinary sense. Rather than expending time and resources to communicate diplomatically with alien races they encounter, the Borg operate by conquering entire worlds through a process known as "assimilation". The process of assimilation involves capturing members of other races and turning them into Borg drones by grafting cybernetic devices on to them and linking them to the collective consciousness. This serves to strip the victim of their individuality. It is not clear if the Borg continue to procreate in a normal manner. Although there are "nurseries" aboard Borg vessels known as maturation chambers, it seems more likely that the Borg also assimilate infants.

Through the assimilation process, the Borg are able to absorb the knowledge and experience of a chosen civilization and its technology. It is important to note that the Borg select only those worlds which will augment their "perfection", simply destroying the inferior civilizations they encounter. Individual members of assimilated races are implanted with sophisticated cybernetic implants, permitting each individual to perform a specific task as required by the Collective. Thousands of species and thousands of worlds across the galaxy have been incorporated into the Collective in this fashion. Entire races have had their worlds devastated by Borg raids. Many species in the Delta Quadrant, like the Farn and the Sakari, have been depopulated almost to extinction. The Borg were also responsible for the near-extinction of the El-Aurian race in the Alpha Quadrant circa the late 23rd century.

All races that are assimilated are altered both physically and mentally when turned into a Borg drone. Generally humanoid in appearance, the Borg implant themselves with cybernetic devices and semi-organic units, or "implants", granting them superior technological and combat capabilities. These devices will serve to increase the density of muscle fiber and link the drone's mind to the collective consciousness. Borg drones are also equipped with various types of task specific hardware in order to perform their designated work tasks.

The Borg exhibit a high degree of intelligence, granting them vast adaptability in their tactics. Most means of defense or offense against them were found to work only once, almost immediately after which the Borg developed a countermeasure. This ability to adapt has made the Borg a tremendous threat to free societies and perhaps the most feared race in the known universe.

Further detailed information on the Borg can be obtained from the Technology Archives within this Borg section.

Overview of Borg Appearances in Star Trek:

The first known contact between the Borg and the Federation is believed to be in 2365, when the god-like entity known as Q transported the Enterprise-D out of Federation territory into the path of a Borg cube vessel heading toward the Alpha Quadrant. Following this first contact, Starfleet began advance planning for the inevitable Borg offensive against the Federation. Lieutenant Commander Shelby was placed in charge of this project to develop both defensive strategy and weaponry. One of the advanced weapons systems which was developed at this time was the starship U.S.S. Defiant, a heavily armored starship prototype.

The anticipated Borg invasion came in late 2366, when a Borg cube vessel entered Federation space, heading for Earth. Starfleet tactical planners had anticipated at least several more months before the Borg arrival, and were thus caught unprepared. This early arrival demonstrated that the Borg possesses vastly superior energy sources and means of faster than light travel. It was later learned that the Borg traverse the vast distances of space utilizing artificially created wormhole-like channels known as "transwarp conduits". Enterprise-D Captain Jean-Luc Picard was captured and assimilated by the Borg at the beginning of this offensive, and became an entity known as Locutus of Borg. Tied to the Collective consciousness, Locutus was able to provide crucial guidance in the Borg attack.

Starfleet massed an armada of some 40 starships in the hopes of stopping the Borg cube vessel at Wolf 359, but the fleet was decimated with the loss of 39 starships and over 11,000 lives, including the U.S.S. Saratoga. As Locutus, Picard explained that the Borg purpose was to "raise the quality of life for all species" of the galaxy by providing other life-forms the benefit of being part of the Borg Collective. Following the rescue of Picard from the Borg ship, a last-ditch effort was made to implant a destructive computer command into the Borg Collective. This plan was successful in destroying the Borg cube vessel which had made it all the way to Earth orbit.

By 2368, at least two more Borg vessels were known to have reached Federation territory. A crashed Borg Scout Ship was discovered on the surface of a moon in the Argolis Cluster. The sole surviving Borg, designated Third of Five, was rescued from the crash site by the crew of the Enterprise-D. This Borg drone, named Hugh by Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge, was nursed back to health. During his convalescence, the crew developed what they termed an invasive program, which, when introduced into the Borg Collective consciousness, was designed to cause a fatal overload in the entire Collective. In the process, Hugh befriended Geordi LaForge, a friendship that provided an argument that this invasive program, in essence as weapon of mass murder, should not be used. Hugh was thus returned to the crash site where he was found, and eventually rescued by another Borg Scout Ship.

Following the return of Hugh to the Collective, Hugh's new sense of freedom and individuality began to permeate the portion of the Collective which he came in contact with. The results of this were dramatic: deprived of their group identity, individual Borg were unable to function as a unit. The unexpected arrival of the android Lore changed this chaos. Lore appointed himself the leader of those Borg, and promised them he would provide them with the means to become completely artificial life-forms, free of dependence on the organic portion of their bodies (it is important to note here that the Borg would consider an android as sophisticated as Lore, devoid of any of the flaws of organic tissue, to be the essence of the perfection they seek). In 2369, Lore led the Borg in launching a major new offensive against the Federation. Utilizing transwarp conduits, they penetrated Federation space and attacked the outpost at Ohinaka III. During this offensive, the Borg attacked with uncharacteristic anger, later found to be due to Lore's influence on them. During this attack, one of the renegade Borg, calling himself Crosis. The offensive was halted when Lore was dismantled by his brother, Data.

In 2373, the Borg launched a second invasion in an attempt to assimilate Earth. Although the Federation fleet was successful in thwarting the Borg attack, a single Borg Sphere escaped into a temporal vortex to Earth's 21st century. While in the past, the Borg attempted to thwart a pivotal moment in Earth history by preventing space pioneer Zefram Cochrane from making Earth's first faster-than-light spaceflight in 2063. The crew of the newly commissioned Enterprise-E, following the Borg Sphere through the temporal vortex into the past, ensured that Cochrane was able to make his legendary first warp flight. In doing so, the Enterprise-E crew destroyed the Borg Queen, an entity which was believed to be the central nexus of the Borg Collective (reference the Fan Fiction section of this website).

It was later learned that this Borg Queen was only one of many such entities existing within the Borg Collective. Some four years later, the Federation starship U.S.S. Endeavor discovered a crashed Borg Sphere on an M-Class planet in the Beta Quadrant, designated System M-24. The sole survivor of the crashed Borg vessel was another Borg Queen. This encounter proved the speculative hypothesis that more than one Borg Queen exists within the Collective and perhaps the most significant Borg discovery to this date. The surviving Queen was later revealed to be Valexia Tzoren'Fal, the very creator of the Borg Collective some 1.5 million years ago.

On stardate 50641.2, the crew of the starship U.S.S. Voyager discovered a Borg corpse on a planet in the Delta Quadrant while trading with the Sakari Colonists for the mineral gallicite. A few weeks later in a region of space known as the Nekrit Expanse, the starship Voyager discovered a planet inhabited with former Borg Drones that had somehow broken free of the Collective some five years earlier. Unfortunately, in a free society, the former Drones reverted to destructive ethnic warfare. The survivors asked the crew of Voyager to help them reactivate a derelict Borg Cube ship in order that a new "collective" could restore harmony to their society.

On Stardate 50984.3, the starship Voyager approached the heart of Borg territory in the Delta Quadrant. The crew witnessed the destruction of a Borg fleet by an unknown alien life form which appeared impervious to both Borg and Starfleet weaponry. An away team sent to investigate one of the heavily damaged Borg cube ships discovered and investigated one of the mysterious alien life form’s bio-ships, which was still attached to a hull fragment of the decimated Borg cube. The away team discovered that they were not alone aboard the crippled Borg ship, and moments before they could be transported out, Ensign Harry Kim was attacked by one of the mysterious organic looking aliens. As he lie in Sickbay, contaminated with alien cells and transforming him into one of the alien beings, Kes had a terrifying premonition about this new enemy and Captain Janeway realizes that it is no longer the Borg which is a threat to them. The Holographic Doctor soon learns that these unknown aliens possess an extremely potent immune system, and thus the Borg Nanoprobes are unable to assimilate them. The Doctor is successful in modifying the Borg nanotechnology, allowing the alien cells in Ensign Kim's body to be destroyed. Still in danger of assimilation, Captain Janeway is forced into making an unholy alliance with the Borg, offering them a way to defeat their new enemy in exchange for safe passage through Borg space. The Borg Collective agrees to this arrangement, and the two sides collaborate to create a biogenic weapon which could defeat the invading aliens, which the Borg designated Species 8472. The Borg selects one of their own, Seven of Nine, to work with the crew of Voyager on the weapon. Commander Chakotay and Captain Janeway struggle with opposing feelings about working with the Borg, as time runs out for the very survival of the Borg. The alliance proved successful, with the biogenic weapon serving its purpose as a deterrant against Species 8472 from further attacks on the Borg. With Species 8472 defeated and the alliance complete, Seven of Nine attempted to take control of Voyager, but her link to the Collective was severed by Commander Chakotay utilizing Borg Neural Link technology. Captain Janeway allows Seven of Nine to remain onboard Voyager, as they were responsible for severing her link to the Borg Collective.

On Stardate 51978.2, the Federation starship Voyager is nearly destroyed by in an elaborate ruse on the part of Arturis, and alien who assisted in translating a badly damaged message received from Starfleet Command. Arturis had planned to lure the Voyager crew back into Borg space where they would be assimilated into the Collective. Arturis sought revenge against Captain Janeway and her crew for orchestrating an alliance with the Borg to defeat Species 8472, which led to the survival of the Borg and assimilation of Arturis' people.

Several months later, the crew of Voyager launches an ambitious, high risk mission to invade a damaged Borg sphere to steal Borg transwarp technology. The Borg quickly detect the plan, and attempt to persuade Seven of Nine by threating the destruction of Voyager and the assimilation of her crew if Seven does not rejoin the Collective. Seven of Nine is captured and returned to Unimatrix Zero One, where the Borg Queen reveals that Seven was intentionally left aboard Voyager in a scheme to further understand the nature of human resistance. Seven does not comply with the wishes of the Borg Queen, and the crew of Voyager is successful in stealing a transwarp coil and escape assimilation.

Sometime later, the Federation Starship Voyager encounters a severly damaged Borg cube vessel with all adult drones aboard dead. The only surviving crew of the cube is a handful of Borg children who had been prematurely released from their maturation chambers. The Borg children attempt to steal Voyager's navigational deflector in order to repair their damaged cube and return to the Collective. The crew of Voyager discovers that a virus infected the cube, killing all adult drones aboard the vessel. They also make the startling discovery that the Borg has dispatched a vessel to intercept the damaged cube - not to repair it, but to destroy it in order to prevent the deadly virus from spreading to the rest of the Collective. Seven of Nine convinces the Borg children to come aboard Voyager in order to save them from certain death at the hands of the Borg. Aboard Voyager, the Doctor is successful in removing the Borg implants from the Children.

On Stardate 54014.4, Seven of Nine experiences what she believes to be a vivid dream, only to discover the existence of Unimatrix Zero - a virtual domain where Borg drones go during their regeneration cycles and can exist as individuals. Seeing this as an opportunity to destroy the Borg from within, Captain Janeway orders Seven of Nine to re-enter Unimatrix Zero to contact the drones there. Seven finds Axum, who informs her that Unimatrix Zero was created by a recessive mutation that began with the assimilation of a single drone and has since spread to thousands. He also explains that the Borg Queen is trying to find and destroy Unimatrix Zero. Axum asks Seven to help, and Captain Janeway agrees to assist the infected drones. The crew of Voyager develops a virus which will allow the infected drones to retain their individuality after awakening from their regeneration cycles. Captain Janeway, Tuvok and B'Elanna Torres transport aboard a Borg vessel in order to deliver the virus to the Central Plexus - the device which links all the drones aboard to the Collective. The away team appears to have failed and is assimilated, but the Borg Queen discovers their plan and attempts to convince Captain Janeway to coerce the occupants of Unimatrix Zero to surrender. Janeway orders the destruction of Unimatrix Zero in order to preserve the resistance. The away team is successfully rescued from the Borg and the newly liberated drones from Unimatrix Zero begin to gather their forces.

Chronological Overview of Borg Encounters:

Stardate 42761.3 (Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode "Q, Who?") - The first Federation encounter with the Borg. The starship U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D is transported some 7,000 light years off course, deep into the Delta Quadrant into the path of a Borg cube.

Stardate 43989.1 through 44001.4 (Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode "The Best of Both Worlds Parts I and II"), (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episode "Emissary") - The Borg invade Federation space, intent on assimilating the Federation into the Collective. The Borg attack starship U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D and kidnap Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Picard is assimilated into the Borg Collective and becomes the entity Locutus of Borg. Locutus provides necessary tactical information for the Borg attack on the Federation fleet at Wolf 359. The Borg destroys 39 Federation starships and kills over 11,000 people. After the battle of Wolf 359, the Enterprise boards the Borg cube and kidnaps Locutus. After Picard was disconnected from the Collective, the Borg cube destroyed itself.

Stardate 45854.2 (Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode "I, Borg") - Two Borg vessels are reported to be operating in Federation space. Wreckage of a small Borg scout craft was discovered on a moon in the Argolis Cluster by the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D. An injured Borg was rescued from the moon’s surface and brought aboard the Enterprise for medical treatment and study. Having been disconnected from the Borg collective, the Borg began to exhibit signs of individuality returning to him. This new-found individuality was encouraged by the crew, who affectionately named him Hugh.

Stardate 46982.1 through 47025.4 (Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode "Descent Parts I and II") - In response to a distress signal from outpost Ohniaka III, the U.S.S. Enterprise-NCC-1701-D engages an unidentified vessel orbiting the planet.

Stardate 50893.5 / April 4, 2063 (Motion Picture "Star Trek: First Contact") - During a Borg attack on the Federation, the crew of the newly commissioned U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E are forced to follow the Borg back through time to prevent the Borg from altering history.

Stardate 50614.2 (Star Trek: Voyager Episode "Unity") - In response to an alien distress signal, Commander Chakotay of the Federation starship U.S.S. Voyager lands his shuttlecraft on a planet's surface and is immediately attacked. He is swiftly rescued by a group of people which he soon discovers are formerly assimilated Borg. Meanwhile, Captain Kathryn Janeway and the crew of Voyager find a Borg cube disabled and adrift in space.

Stardate 50984.3 (Star Trek: Voyager Episode "Scorpion Parts I and II") - As the starship Voyager approaches the heart of Borg space, the crew witness the destruction of a Borg fleet by an unknown alien life form which is impervious to both Borg and Starfleet weaponry. The Voyager crew soon learns of the impending extinction of the Borg and establishes an alliance with the Borg against the malevolent Species 8472.

Stardate 51978.2 (Star Trek: Voyager Episode "Hope and Fear") - A badly damaged encoded message received from Starfleet Command five months earlier is finally translated by Arturis, an alien passenger recently invited onboard whose species has a great affinity for language. The directive brings the U.S.S. Voyager to a spacecraft, emitting a distinctive Starfleet warp signature, but totally unlike any Starfleet vessel known. With a propulsion system faster than warp speed, the ship is capable of bringing Voyager to Earth - crossing 60,000 light years - within just three months. The ship is discovered to be an elaborate ruse on the part of Arturis, who seeks revenge against Voyager and her crew for their part in assisting the Borg to defeat Species 8472. Arturis planned to use this ship to transport the Voyager crew back into Borg space to be assimilated.

Stardate Unknown (Star Trek: Voyager Episode "Dark Frontier") - The crew of the U.S.S. Voyager launches an ambitious, high risk mission to invade a Borg sphere to steal Borg transwarp technology. The Borg quickly detect their plan and swiftly accesses Seven's neutral transceiver to makes an offer she cannot refuse - rejoin the Borg hive and Voyager will be spared destruction. Meanwhile, Captain Janeway, mystified at Seven's apparent betrayal prepares an away team for a daring rescue. The rescue attempt leads to a vicious showdown with the Borg Queen. To refine their tactics for the dangerous heist, the crew reviews data found in the field records of Seven's parents, researchers Magnus and Erin Hansen, before they and their young daughter Annika (later Seven of Nine) were assimilated by the Borg.

Stardate Unknown (Star Trek: Voyager Episode "Collective") - The crew of the U.S.S. Voyager discover a badly damaged cube vessel whose sole occupants - a handful of drone children - attempt to steal Voyager's deflector in order to repair their ship and contact the Collective. It is learned that this cube was infected by a virus designed to kill adult drones and the Collective intends to destroy this ship rather than re-assimilate it back into the Collective.

Stardate 54014.4 (Star Trek: Voyager Episode "Unimatrix Zero") - The crew of the U.S.S. Voyager discovers the existence of Unimatrix Zero - a virtual construct where infected Borg drones go during regeneration. This discovery leads to an ambitious plan to use this place as a launching pad for a Borg resistance movement. The Borg Queen researches how to destroy Unimatrix Zero while the crew of Voyager attempts to deliver a virus into the Collective which will allow the infected drones to retain their individuality.

Stardate Unknown (Star Trek: Voyager Episode "Endgame") - With the help of Admiral Kathryn Janeway from the future, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager encounters a Borg Transwarp Hub and embarks on an ambitious plan to use it to return to the Alpha Quadrant and cripple the Borg in the process.

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