What is the Borg ?
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posted on January 25th, 2009, 1:06 am
Last edited by Phoenix on January 25th, 2009, 1:08 am, edited 1 time in total.
I read a theory a long time ago that Species 1 had just made the breakthrough of nanoprobe technology and were experimenting it's uses in medical science. At the time Species 1 was a highly developed race much like The Federation. In their search to improve the medical application of this new technology they sought to enlist terminally ill and severely injured people within the domain of Species 1.
One such patient was a woman from species 125. She was an orphan and outcast of her own species and suffering from a degenerative physical/neurological disease. She was mentally unstable and had no faith in other people. Regardless of this, she received a number of treatments with promising signs of improvement but with a growing unforeseen side effect. As time progressed and the probes healed her neural pathways, her brain began to adapt and eventually managed a rudementary "fusion" with the interlink frequency used to control the probes.
She began to explore this and in time she managed to hone her connection well enough to control the probes directly. When she went for her next appointment she assimilated the research staff and the central computer core used to control the probes. At this point, she was still relatively unknown to Species 1 and as she interfaced with the main computer she began to assimilate the entire knowledge pertaining to Species 1 and all known species to them. By the time Species one realised what was going she had already assimilated the knowledge relating to all their military technology. Whatever tactics they used: she adapted.
She destroyed anyone that tried to stop her, believing that it was now her turn to be a "winner". She killed everyone that had wronged her in the past and reveled in her new found power. This was not enough though. As time passed she began to lose site of herself. What started as merely a quest for vengeance resulted in her own loss of individuality as her mind took solace in the comfort of her small but ordered and perfectly controllable collective. She cast off her individuality believing that it had done her no good up until now: indeed she was at deaths door until her "salvation".
She took her collective and ventured out into the realm of Species 1 assimilating all that crossed her path. She never stopped... until Voyager stuck an unusually large thorn in her side and then kicked her while she was down... multiple times.
I'd hardly say it's cannon but it makes sense to me
. I think I read it in a fact file or something 
One such patient was a woman from species 125. She was an orphan and outcast of her own species and suffering from a degenerative physical/neurological disease. She was mentally unstable and had no faith in other people. Regardless of this, she received a number of treatments with promising signs of improvement but with a growing unforeseen side effect. As time progressed and the probes healed her neural pathways, her brain began to adapt and eventually managed a rudementary "fusion" with the interlink frequency used to control the probes.
She began to explore this and in time she managed to hone her connection well enough to control the probes directly. When she went for her next appointment she assimilated the research staff and the central computer core used to control the probes. At this point, she was still relatively unknown to Species 1 and as she interfaced with the main computer she began to assimilate the entire knowledge pertaining to Species 1 and all known species to them. By the time Species one realised what was going she had already assimilated the knowledge relating to all their military technology. Whatever tactics they used: she adapted.
She destroyed anyone that tried to stop her, believing that it was now her turn to be a "winner". She killed everyone that had wronged her in the past and reveled in her new found power. This was not enough though. As time passed she began to lose site of herself. What started as merely a quest for vengeance resulted in her own loss of individuality as her mind took solace in the comfort of her small but ordered and perfectly controllable collective. She cast off her individuality believing that it had done her no good up until now: indeed she was at deaths door until her "salvation".
She took her collective and ventured out into the realm of Species 1 assimilating all that crossed her path. She never stopped... until Voyager stuck an unusually large thorn in her side and then kicked her while she was down... multiple times.
I'd hardly say it's cannon but it makes sense to me
. I think I read it in a fact file or something 
posted on January 25th, 2009, 1:09 am
Last edited by Tyler on January 25th, 2009, 4:35 am, edited 1 time in total.
posted on January 25th, 2009, 4:28 am
posted on January 27th, 2009, 9:48 pm
Dircome wrote:some people think that episode (season one episode 25) was the start of the borg. But for some reason the directors changed it to be a cyborg spices instead of insect one.
Conspiracy (episode - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki)
They changed it for budget reasons.
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