What is the Borg ?

posted on July 15th, 2008, 12:08 am

like where are they from, how they where made, why where they made and why do they want to expand ?.

posted on July 15th, 2008, 12:34 am

They're from the Delta Quadrant of the galaxy, no-one really knows for sure how or why they were made (except possibly the Collective itself...) although there are various theories. They want to expand to achieve perfection by assimilating other cultures and technologies into the Collective. 

posted on July 15th, 2008, 1:36 am

OK thanks. [br]Posted on: July 15, 2008, 01:54:22 AM

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If anyone else knows or wants to say something then come and post.

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posted on July 15th, 2008, 6:43 am

1 of the theories is that the old human satalite probe "Voyager" had flown all the way to the delta quadrant when the next phase of the programming started, return home where you were made.

It's not sure how or why but some race must've stumbled across the probe (now V'ger due to the loss of paint) wich interpeted with return to the makers. Somehow the old earth tech got an AI and started to absorb and grow so that the makers would be proud of it when it returned home. Thats been said to be the start of the borg.

I dont know of any other theories tho, but I'd guess there are more...
Like a race tried to enhance their boddies with machinery and some queen biatch hijacked everyones brain and started to act like a biatch and wanted the entire place for em selves.

Anyway I guess there is a lot of theories possible

posted on July 15th, 2008, 10:09 am

I think it might have been similar to paul theory or you could even mix it up with the cybermen of Doctor Who, I mean they tried to encharnce there body's with technology and the AI went horribley wrong.

I like the idea's of Robot's but the instant that ai thinks for it's self it should be destroyed.

posted on July 18th, 2008, 12:11 am

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Borg

Borg.

posted on July 18th, 2008, 10:33 am

In the game Legacy iss a Movie about the Borg, you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anMOQ3vTy9k

posted on July 18th, 2008, 1:07 pm

This video is already in the Borg Ship Construction Thread.

Here: //www.fleetops.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,3/topic,3734.30/

posted on July 19th, 2008, 1:28 am

Yes! I posted it!  Good memory, Tyler.[br]Posted on: July 19, 2008, 02:23:33 AM

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This has alot of Info on the Borg.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hv4q-Ry6AE&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwHs-n0q_zA&feature=related[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZIaPZo6zyk&feature=related[/youtube]

posted on November 2nd, 2008, 10:34 pm

I always thought the Legacy version of the borg begining was weak.

posted on November 27th, 2008, 12:38 am

Judging from the fact that the Borg Queen was always the same species (a little money saver), the Species that she came from may have been obsessed with the Omega Particle, but could not handle its power, as they could not adapt. So, they created the Borg Queen, and sent her off into the galaxy.   

posted on November 27th, 2008, 2:59 am

its like a stock of bees. every drone fulfilling their orders, the queen coordinating and controlling. no free will, just the hive. or like the queen said.. "i am borg, the beginning, the end, the one who's many"
and the omega particle.. is "perfect",, as seven of nine stated in an episode of voyager. and the borg collective is all for perfecting themselves, so this would get them closer to it.

posted on January 24th, 2009, 11:32 pm

Gotta chime in here.  My personal favorite theory that I heard.

At one point in time, the Borg were basically the Delta Quadrant's humans.  While experimenting with medical vaccines, they accidentally created a plague so virulent, so horrific, that the only way to survive it was with massive cybernetics and medical nanites.  This many nanites mandated that they had to build a supremely powerful computer to keep up with the plagues mutations, and as time went on, they gave more and more of their free will to the computer, which was programmed to defeat the plague, and then use the nanites to repair the citizens.

However, shortly before the plague was cured, a ship got off world.  The computer could no longer ensure it's job was complete until every last living creature in the galaxy, and possibly beyond, were made part of it's treatment program.  It used the nanites to merge the minds of the citizens and set out to 'save the universe'.  As it met more and more hostile conditions and species, the decision was made that only after it had achieved a perfect whole would it be able to complete it's mission, but it still had the underlying parameter of 'then repair and restore civilization' which is what makes it assimilate at least a handful of every sentient life form it comes across, so that when it's all said and done, it can then put everyone back together, upload their cultural knowledge into them, and send them on their way.

V'ger was supposed to prepare it's makers for assimilation peacefully so that there would be no loss of life but that failed, and thus when the Borg arrived, they started by immediately opening fire on all resisters.  According to their files, the Alpha Quadrant should have had centuries to prepare for assimilation and be waiting for their saviors with open arms.

posted on January 24th, 2009, 11:42 pm

WRONG! THATS NOT CANON! V'GER WAS LAUNCHED IN THE 21ST CENTURY, WHILE THE BORG ALREADY EXISTED!!! THEY HAD A HANDFUL OF PLANETS TAKEN HOSTILY! Also, they were obsessed with perfection, NOT vaccinations. Also, how'd you dig this up? I've been looking and looking, but couldn't find it anywhere.

posted on January 24th, 2009, 11:50 pm

Remember, it's about theories, right?

And nothing I said stated that V'ger predated the Borg.  It stated that the modifications made, and it coming home, were meant to prepare humanity for assimiliation.

As for where I got it, I heard it about 7 years ago, I don't remember exactly where.  I personally like it, though.  'The road to Hell is paved with good intentions' after all, and that's about as perfect an example of that as you can get.  In a deranged fit of 'I'll save you all', they annihilate everything that doesn't cooperate, and run everything as statistics without concern for the 'humanity' of the situation.