This doesn’t explain why they became a collective conciousness. Of course that could have been part of the efficiency process.
Since Nemesis is the last Next Generation movie (supposedly), maybe the next one could be an explanation of the history of the Borg. It would be a great opportunity to break the odd-numbered spell and could set a precedent for ST movies to break out of the mold and do new things completely unaffiliated with the TV series.
Oh, yes, those guys. Just ignore them, otherwise the whole Seven of Nine regaining her Memory thing doesn’t work. In fact, when humans show up in the delta quadrent as former borg assimilated at Wolf 359, just ignore that there was only one ship then that was destroyed as well, so it is impossible for them to suddenly be in the Delta quadrent.
Absolutely. Before they were an unstoppable force. Now they’re just aliens with a bigger stick, but ships named Enterprise have been kicking the ass of folks like that for 100 years already.
–Cliffy
I’m starting to think the Borg should be dropped by Star Trek. The whole idea is going downhill. Berman and Braga should let it go while it’s still good.
Enlighten me, Oh Green One. There aren’t more Borg ships with trans-warp conduits?
There was just that one that came to earth in BOBW, with no mentions of others. All people who were assimilated should have been on that one ship. (and from the pounding the fleet got in Emissary, it looks like no one was assimilated). Maybe the borg ship had a sphere that flew out, beamed up some people from the lifeboats, and then flew back, without the Enterprise detecting it or Sisko seeing it, but why sent a ship to conquor a planet if there wasn’t room on the ship to handle converting 15 billion people to Borgness?
Because the planet becomes Borg. In the film Data detects a zillion life forms on Earth, “All Borg”.
I figured there were a bunch of ships zipping around in trans warp conduits assimilating humans from ships, colonies…Hey, they got a colony in one of the NG episodes; lifted the whole thing off the planet, if I recall.
Gad, I hate being a geek…
Wait, wolf 359 was in the series(Best of both worlds 2, and shown in the begining of DS9’s pilot), the borg earth was in first contact. The borg MO is one ship both times. They’d have to build transwarp stations, which would slow them down (but that would explain how the Enterprise-D caught up with them in Best of Both worlds…) Dang it!!! stupid inconsistancies that can be eliminated with a one line sentance!!!
Um, the Borg won at Wolf 359 - the Enterprise came upon all those destroyed starships, remember? So yes, there were assimilated humans from the conflict. And who’s to say there was only one cube? The Enterprise got there too late. Now, the one that made it to Earth, yes, they got that one, but there could have been others.
Esprix
And time changed in First Contact; humans became aware of the Borg in the 21st century. Hey, that means…uh oh.
That explains why 7 0f 9 parents knew about them.
I too, wouldn’t be completely surprised with the revelation of a V’Ger-Borg connection. But, with Jonathan Chance and Tars Tarkas’s thoughts: I think a cold, massive, faceless entity is much more scarier than an organization with a defined leader. Just think of SkyNet from the Terminator movies (which, FYI, scare me worse than Communists).
But I did have a question: You never see a non-humanoid Borg. If they’ve traveled all the way from the Delta Quadrant, wouldn’t you expect to see some more species assimilated?
Tripler
Just my $0.02
Species physically incapable of servicing the collective will not be assimilated. Their existence will be terminated by forcing them to watch I Love Lucy reruns.