On a sci-fi geek scale, of 1-10, 10 being most, I’d say I’m about a 6.5 on the Star Trek fan meter. I’ve watched most of the shows, except DS9. I never cared for DS9. I’ve seen all the movies. I’ve never read any of the Trek books.
I was wondering, if in any of the Trek shows, or books…
If the Borg survive by perpetually assimliating other species, has it ever been theorized what the Borg were like, in their original form? (prior to assimilating anyone/anything)
Oh and by the way, “I am Keycutus of Borg. From this moment forth, you will service us. Resistance is futile.”
In the first episode in which the Borg appeared, a newborn was undergoing gradual transformation. Therefore, the victims of the Borg may not lose the capacity to sexually reproduce after transformation.
Bosda, thanks, but I wasn’t really asking about reproduction. I was asking what the species of Borg may have been like, in the beginning, before having ever assimilated any other species at all.
(Or to put this another way: What was the very FIRST Borg like? Was it still a cybernetic organism? Speculation - The first Borg may have been nothing but a microscopic “nanobot” or a highly advanced humanoid. See what I am driving for yet?)
I believe they were a huminoid race looking for a more efficient way to share knowledge, info, skills, etc., so they came up with basically a cybernetic internet. Got carried away, decided everyone ought to be in on it and started taking over. Kinda of like what would happen if Bill Gates had invented the internet.
But this is all speculation on my part.
The ST:Voyager episode “Blood Fever” features, as a side plot, the discovery of some pasty-faced primitives with an interest in technology. Since this was part of the build-up to meeting the Borg in their (presumably) home turf of the Delta Quadrant, the unspoken assumption (by me, at least) is that the aliens were primoridal, un-cybernetic Borg. (The episode concludes with the crew finding an un-disintegrated Borg corpse, revealed as the race that destroyed the civilization of the pasty-faces.)
Based on this information, the answer to your question would be that the original Borg looked like pale humanoids. Not very imaginative, I’m afraid.
Uh, that was pointless. I was going to say that they aren’t any less original than any other Star Trek humanoid-with-slightly-different-nose-ridges species
