The Truth about the Borg that should Horrify Fans

Trek Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Mad Titan's Virus
01:24 - Borg Evolution
03:37 - Plan B(org)
04:21 - Conclusion

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[RickySpanish]

I think it would be cool if a Star Fleet ship left the known galaxy to another one, and found that the Borg had assimilated the entire galaxy and that the Borg the Federation fought against was simply a Borg seed that had been sent to start the cycle in the Milky way

[Falstaff]

Brilliant! At their first appearance on TNG, I found the Borg the most terrifying enemy possible. Over the years, the writers gave them weaknesses that made them beatable, so . . . less terror. But you have just returned them to high terror level. The Borg victory seems inevitable.

[SandPenguinn]

I’m glad you posted this. My thoughts are that they Borg are the ultimate existential threat to all life in the galaxy save for beings like the Q and Species 8472. I always think about TNG Parallels when the alternate timeline Worf and Riker are desperate to not return to their timeline because, as Riker pleads, “the Borg are everywhere!”

[pyrioncelendil]

The idea of there being multiple queens not only makes a lot of sense, but given how each Borg unimatrix is sectioned off up to and including their own nomenclature (Borg designations aren't just "x of y, " but also include function and rank in a numbered unimatrix), it's reasonable to presume that each unimatrix has a queen, they operate semi-independently from each other but in tandem when the collective is threatened, and Janeway infecting that one particular queen couldn't have destroyed the entire collective, just that one unimatrix.

That said, the Borg having a plan B doesn't make a whole lot of sense, because the very phrase "your culture will adapt to service us" isn't so much a declaration of the Borg having a backup plan in case they get wiped out, it's a declaration that at that very point in time, the particular target species now has to figure out how to successfully resist assimilation or be assimilated. That's how the Borg evolve: they approach a species that has the potential to resist a single cube, test it with that single cube, and if it resists, great, it's worthy of continued poking and prodding and will remain so until that species inevitably falters and gets assimilated. It's why the Borg don't simply zergrush species worthy of assimilation with all the cubes.

The Borg altering the DNA of single members of a species that could conceivably be reintroduced into the greater population of that species doesn't strike me as a means of facilitating long-term covert assimilation as it does, say, tagging a species for future observation. Kinda like how we chip animals with RFID tags and radio transponders to track their movements. Now, the collective continually being aware of individual members of a species that've since been liberated from the collective makes sense at least in the regard that they expect species worthy of assimilation to figure out ways to reverse the process, but would they recognize DNA manipulation and moreover determine what the manipulated DNA does? For all of the Federation's scientific advances, they still got blindsided by this, so if there are multiple unimatrices with other operational Borg queens still out there and post-Picard Humanity has reversed the genetic manipulation tagging and attempt at assimilation (let's be honest with ourselves, this is the Rube Goldberg machine of Borg assimilation plots), great, it just makes them that much more worthy of assimilation in the distant future. After giving them time to develop even better technology, and optionally to get complacent once more. And this fits well with the notion that Jack Crusher-Picard has his own trial.

[OllamhDrab]

Though one flaw in this theory is that it's premised on the idea the Borg had always done what they do in Picard S3. This actually doesn't make sense, since they wouldn't have had to steal Picard's body and then hunt down his son if what they did to make a Locutus as a specially 'human-articulate' counterpart to the Queen as a go-between was like on file somewhere. They'd already have the codes anyway so why take the extra trouble, even if they figured out what Jack could do. Or, they could have grabbed up almost any drone or XB for the same purposes. So I think what they needed from Picard had to have been special, maybe unexpected.

I'm pretty sure we'll see that this particular scheme started and ended there, for the most part. At least more or less.

[jgr]

this theory explains really well the inconsistencies that we find in the Borg timeline. they do disappear, but they come back every time.

[Purple_Lilith]

Star Trek is a continuing franchise. Starfleet will always win.

[LoganBoyle]

i love how we had 3 seasons with the borg as major plot elements and we saw 2 drones

[RickySpanish]

The idea that the Borg could not bounce back from that virus is silly to me. They could literally just rebuild a new collective with different nanoprobes. The Queen's mindset is about the Borg winning at any cost. If that meant she, and the old Borg had to fade away, and leave it up for a new collective to take over, so be it.... One episode I really loved on Enterprise was the Borg episode. It showed just how terrifying the Borg were. Just a couple of drones were enough to get the cycle started. They took a weak ship, and with a handful of drones dramatically increased its speed, shields, and weapons. The entire Borg collective could be destroyed, and if just one cube survived, it could assimilate a single planet resulting in billions of new Borg drones, and thousands of ships. I'd also assume that the Borg, like the Changelings could master cloning technology and simply clone a huge number of drones.

[FutureDeep]

The way I saw it was that Picard's borg receiver genes were uniquely attributed to his function as the voice of the Borg. After he was freed the gene modification eventually killed him. The Borg only sought to take advantage of that gene modification after they were decimated by Janeway. Evolution in that way never seemed like their MO until they had no choice.

[Slavir_Nabru]

I think you're right they're not gone. Seven worried about becoming a queen in Picard S1, which supports the multiple queen theory and demonstrates a way for a new queen to emerge.
We also see in Lower Decks and Prodigy, both set after Janeways virus, that there are still Borg ships full of drones floating about other than what we see in Picard S3.

[Nimariel]

Valid, unless the modification was truly a unique part of Locutus alone, just as his role of “counterpart” to the queen and voice to the rest of the Federation seems to have been unique. The only possible explanation for this would be some type of long-term fixation of the Borg upon humanity, maybe stemming from the time loop transmission in “Regeneration, ” maybe from the trans-temporal awareness that the queen was said to have in PIC s2, or maybe due to some fear of humanity that is connected to the relationship we have to the Q.

[maisiesummers]

I always figured the best way to treat the Queen would be like a central controlling A.I.
That is, when you have a billion minds - a billion Borg - you need something to sort through all that knowledge, all those ideas. A central A.I. to "bring order to chaos".
Because the Borg have this view of needing flesh to be "perfect", they can download that A.I. software into a specially-adapted clone, giving us a physical Queen. This Queen can be created as necessary; e.g.: when a cube is in the Alpha quadrant and heavily isolated from Borg space. This allows for those occasional breakaway factions: it's a local Queen who makes local decisions.

[Prang]

That's actually brilliant. The Borg have always seen like either undefeatable or idiotically fragile, this kind of long term planning is would make such behaviour necessary.

[Crazy-Chicken-Media]

I like the shatnerverse Borg, They definitely operate in other dimensions.

[ajc-ffcm]

Its like what Q said: you can kill one, but the essence of who they are remains. Theyre relentless.

[thatguy]

I think what was stated when the Borg tried to assimilate Species 8472 should be referenced, when the Borg said that Species 8472's assimilation would bring the Borg to perfection. Picard season 3 very strongly echoes what the Borg could do had they succeeded in assimilating 8472, but what was done is just a shadow of what they would have been able to do, had they been successful.

[KuDastardly]

Funny thing is, that's how viruses sometimes work IRL and have changed the course of evolution throughout the ages.

[littleredpony]

Lore reloaded drops a video and I watch

[scottmahoney]

The voyager episode Drone was a scary premise if the Collective had fully assimilated the 29th century Drone "One" the Borg would've become unstoppable.