Borg Collective | Star Trek

In their collective state, the Borg are utterly without mercy; driven by one will alone: the will to conquer. They are beyond redemption, beyond reason.

00:00 | Introduction
2:00 | Overview
3:40 | Biology & Assimilation
6:16 | Borg Drones
8:32 | The Collective
10:40 | The Borg Queen
12:04 | Minor Borg Collectives
13:02 | Borg Philosophy
14:23 | Borg Military & Conquests
16:06 | Borg History
25:47 | Conclusion

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[Lin.QiYuan]

"You may encounter Enterprise crew members who've already been assimilated. Don't hesitate to fire... believe me, you'll be doing them a favor."
– Captain Jean-Luc Picard

[SulliMike]

“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”

[patsfreak]

Q did humanity a solid by letting them know what was coming. It was clear they were moving towards the Federation since the message from the 22nd century. His second deft move was giving Voyager a shortcut home that just so happened to have them run across a Borg trans warp hub that would eventually get them home and also leave the Borg broken and reeling.

[AndrewJamesWilliams]

The Borg are arguably one of the most chilling science fiction races ever conceived of. Especially as they cannot be reasoned with, cannot be bought of or convinced to leave you alone. If you have something they want they will come and take it and everything else that makes you, you making you like them.

[imperatortiago]

"In their collective state, the Borg are utterly without mercy; driven by one will alone: the will to conquer. They are beyond redemption, beyond reason."
– Jean-Luc Picard, unknown, quoted by Kathryn Janeway, 2373

[paradox]

"They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"

[occultatumquaestio]

Quite the comprehensive assessment of the Borg.
Still, for as devastated as they are, they may be weakened, but not necessarily gone.
Somewhere and sometime, they'll probably be back.
But resistance it would seem, is not so futile.

[generalnawaki]

The Borg are the dark forest. So long as even one drone, one nano probe exists the borg remain. Never shall our galaxy be safe.

[CommanderBohn]

Fact: Giving the Borg a Queen and making them somewhat reminiscent of bees was a horrible idea. If they are a collective then they don't need a Queen.
"Assimilation is futile." - Ensign Alexander Munro

[deltarno]

One twist I like to think about is an AU where the Borg do try diplomacy. After all, conquest by force only works for so long until you run into something stronger. Instead, imagine them as the slow, creeping horror of a hive mind that's kind, friendly, and slowly working it's way into every civilization. Someone struggling with depression or a critical injury? Go get assimilated, we assure you you'll be just the same person, even if instead it's the hive mind using the captured mind to put on a happy little act. Criminals, the outcast and the unwanted would be given to the Borg as a way of 'making use of bad rubbish'. Scientists and artists would want to join due to the illusion of keeping their own mind, where as instead they merely added to the collective.
And in the end, once the drones were everywhere and knew everything about the civilization? The conquest would take less than a day.

[dsutt]

Here's something that has taken 20+ years for me to notice... Borg written language is VERY reminiscent of Gallifreyan.

[lanceleader]

The Borg and The Flood from HALO would truly be the worst ways you could die. Fates worse than death. And with the Flood, you are still alive in there somewhere, in pain, forever…

[RockyX]

Ah the Borg. Once the scariest race in all of Star Trek. Rendered into comic villains that could be beaten every other episode in Voyager, much like the Daleks.

[Tarotb]

I always preferred the original TNG personal shield; more like a distortion of local space time, than a field, like we got post first contact.

[MrDinmaker]

I'm honestly amazed the institute hasn't done an investigation on the borg before now

[captnrobvious]

I absolutely love the narrator's voice here. He legitimately makes me scared of the Borg again in the Lovecraftien kind of way.

[supremefankai]

"Assimilate THIS!"
- Lieutenant Commander Worf

[voldugastur]

I was wondering when the Templin Institute would release a video detailing the Borg Collective yesterday, and to my surprise they have uploaded it today! Surely I'm being monitored...

[priest]

Ah the Borg. A masterclass in how to create a great villain and then water them down with every apperance until you go "ah it's just the Borg again, who's got the technobabble bullshit way of getting rid of them this week"?

[schiefer]

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.