Borg Assimilation

The Assimilation process of the Borg is one that is both biological and technological. This video looks at the order at which the Borg undertake this alteration when assimilating a vessel or individual.

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This Video is for critical purposes with commentary.

[EdricLysharae]

You know your species sucks when The Borg say, "Thanks, but no thanks."

[Jawmax]

You skipped one situational step, when assimilating a child or even an infant they artificially aged in maturation chambers in for most is a fraction of the time of the normal life span. Those assimilated as babies would only have known the collective and while freeing them is possible it as we've seen with Seven leads to a much longer and hard road to recovery.

[occultatumquaestio]

The Borg assimilation process was and still is one of the most disturbing ways to go in Sci-Fi. To lose one's individual sense of self is a terrifying prospect worse even than death.
It is fortunate that in this form of assimilation, the process has known ways to be reversible. Not many others have that.

[edwardpate]

Voyager definitely got into some of the more gruesome aspects of the assimilation chamber showing amputated limbs and eyeballs removed.

[Unobtanium]

I gotta say there's one exceedingly important field where we PC gamers already outclass the Borg in, that sweet RGB lighting!

[quyquan]

I always wanted to know what would happen if the Borg assimilated a joined Trill.

[nobodyyouknow]

When Picard said “Don’t let them touch you!” in First Contact I started to wonder what it would be like if Borg tech was all covered in nanites.
Voyager sort of played with the idea at least with that futuristic drone One’s origin.

[Craznar]

"Persistence is futile" - underrated comment.

[occl]

"...microscopic shards of self-propelling metal surf your circulatory system." Mega magical mouthful mate.

[LoreReloaded]

I'm a simple man.. I see a Certifiably ingame upload.. I watch

[Numba]

The Borg, particularly in their earliest appearances, will always be one of the most ominous baddies in all of sci-fi, and videos like this one make it easy to see partly why lol. Excellent video as always!
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)

[cmdrtianyilin]

I did my master's thesis on leaderless management and eventually came into conclusion that, Borg style collective management would work to a certain degree.
Most Air Traffic Management system is the closest thing to a functional Borg Collective where ATC perform similar duty to a Borg Queen.

[arinanales]

I always hear people say that the Dominion is the strongest villain in Star Trek but I’ve always thought it was the borg. There’s just an existential horror with assimilation and an exponentially growth in their strength and tech

[Janoha]

You would think the Borg would want to keep their environments on the colder side to help increase their computing speeds and better preserve the organic components.

[BNuts]

The resemblance of Heisenberg's factory in _RE8_ to the interior of a Borg Cube was, I thought, uncanny and chilling. Even his soldiers resemble Borg.

[CharlieCookeActor]

I remember the first time I saw First Contact, I was four, and my grandad spent the whole time whispering that the Borg would come for me. I didn't sleep for three months.

[Malkiore]

You Know I realize that the writers did not have a Queen in mind and I understand Picard views his assimilation as a horror but when you look at what happen to him from this point in time and the fact the Queen chose him as her equal. I have come to see that out of all the people we have seen assimilated then when viewing Picards one sees that the Borg were very gentle when it came to adding him to the Collective. I mean they worked on him slowly and did not hack any limbs or remove his eye and he even had his own area where he was laid down and worked on. Even using the nano probes was injected at a later time changing his color. Indeed every time we saw Picard he changed more into a Borg but we have seen the Borg just decimate a body by slamming nano probes into the blood stream and hacking off an arm then removing an eye with devices holding the victim in place. Though I know the writers did not have a Queen in mind at the time of this 2 part episode the hints of her are very easy to work in. Like I said before that if a Queen did want Picard as her equal then treating his assimilation with a gentle hand can be seen by her. Also their is a scene where Data gains access to the Borgs collective conscience. He then begins to say "The Borg group conscience is divided into sub commands. Necessary to carry out all group functions. Communications, Defense, Navigations. They are all controlled by a route command implanted..." Then something snaps control of Locutus to awake and begin to fight back and stop Data from probing any further, . One can see with ease that this could have been the Queen stopping Data from learning of her or probing any further. This can also be scene as her first taking a real notice of Data and why she pursued him and not Picard when she got the chance to get up and close to him in First Contact. One would love to see this as fact but like I have mention. The writers obviously had no idea of even having a Queen by this point in the story. Still I have always found it interesting.

[timjerrom]

Nice one, now I want to replay the entire Borg Storyline in STO... Thank you x

[danieljackson]

In Star Trek Voyager: Dark Frontier part 2 it had seven of nine with the queen as a prisoner, watching helplessly as the Borg fought some random alien world's ships, beat them, and showed the subsequent assimilation process much more in-depth than had previously been seen.

That species had weapons that could penetrate the Borg shields but they adapted of course. Seven of nine was ordered to assist in the assimilation process but instead she helped four of the captured aliens escape in a small ship. The queen was going to have it destroyed but seven pleaded with her to let it go and she did.

[MagnanimousEntropy]

Even though Voyager somewhat diminished them, the Borg remain one of the most disturbing and frightening races in science fiction. I remember watching First Contact for the first time and being genuinely scared. Granted i was very young at the time but even to this day i still get chills watching that movie.