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The Borg also assimilate, interface, and reconfigure technology using these tubules and nanoprobes. However, in Q Who? Some species, for various stated reasons, are able to resist assimilation by nanoprobe. Species is the only race shown to be capable of completely rejecting assimilation attempts. Other species, such as the Hirogen , have demonstrated resistance to assimilation as well as Dr Phlox , who was able to partially resist the assimilation process in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Regeneration ". The Borg represented a new antagonist and regular enemy that was lacking during the first season of TNG ; the Klingons were allies and the Romulans mostly absent.
The Ferengi were originally intended as the new enemy for the United Federation of Planets, but their comical appearance and devotion to capitalist accumulation by free enterprise failed to portray them as a convincing threat. The Borg, however, with their frightening appearance, their immense power, and their sinister motive, became the signature villains for the TNG and Voyager eras of Star Trek. In Voyager episode " Q2 ", even Q tells his son "don't provoke the Borg.
Star Trek: The Next Generation TNG writers began to develop the idea of the Borg as early as the Season 1 episode, " Conspiracy ", which introduced a coercive, symbiotic life form that took over key Federation personnel. Plans to feature the Borg as an increasingly menacing threat were subsequently scrapped in favor of a more subtle introduction, beginning with the mystery of missing colonies on both sides of the Neutral Zone in " The Neutral Zone " and culminating in the encounter between Borg and the Enterprise crew in " Q Who?
Before the film Star Trek: First Contact , the Borg exhibited no hierarchical command structure. First Contact introduced the Borg Queen, who is not named as such in the film referring to herself with "I am the Borg.
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I am the Collective. The character also appeared in Voyager's two-part episodes " Dark Frontier " and " Unimatrix Zero " , but was portrayed by Susanna Thompson. The queen was killed in both First Contact and "Dark Frontier", so there may be a total of three queens throughout the series. In First Contact , the Borg Queen is heard during a flashback of Picard's former assimilation, implying that she was present during the events of "Best of Both Worlds". The Borg Queen is the focal point within the Borg collective consciousness and a unique drone within the Collective, who brings "order to chaos", referring to herself as "we" and "I" interchangeably.
In First Contact , the Queen's dialogue suggests she is an expression of the Borg Collective's overall intelligence, not a controller but the avatar of the entire Collective as an individual.
The collective consciousness not only gives them the ability to "share the same thoughts", but also to adapt with great speed to tactics used against them. FT is in particular responsible for the introduction and the conclusions. More widely, organizational innovation means the application of new and useful methods in undertaking practices of business, the organization of workplace or external relationships. Paris: OECD; Over time, the framework has evolved through hundreds of applications, from helping a pharmaceutical company develop a new product strategy to assisting a Canadian provincial government in its efforts to engage employees in policy making.
This sentiment is contradicted by Star Trek: Voyager , where she is seen explicitly directing, commanding, and in one instance even overriding the Collective. The introduction of the Queen radically changed the canonical understanding of the Borg function, with the authors of The Computers of Star Trek noting "It was a lot easier for viewers to focus on a villain rather than a hive-mind that made decisions based on the input of all its members.
Moore have defended the introduction of the Queen as a dramatic necessity, noting on the film's DVD audio commentary that they had initially written the film with drones, but then found that it was essential for the main characters to have someone to interact with beyond mindless drones.
The Enterprise crew is overwhelmed by the Borg, and Picard begs for and receives Q's help in returning the ship to its previous coordinates. Picard is abducted and assimilated by the Borg and transformed into Locutus , the Latin for "he who speaks".
Picard's knowledge of Starfleet's strengths and strategies is gained by the Collective, and the single cube destroys the entire Starfleet armada at Wolf The Enterprise crew manages to capture Locutus, gain information through him that allows them to destroy the cube, and then reverse the assimilation process. In the fifth-season episode " I, Borg ", the Enterprise crew rescues an adolescent Borg they name " Hugh ". The crew faces the moral decision of whether or not to use Hugh who begins to develop a sense of independence as a result of a severed link to the Collective as a means of delivering a devastating computer virus to the Borg, or return to the Borg with his individuality intact.
Lore also corrupts Data through the use of an "emotion chip", simultaneously deactivating Data's ethical subroutines and only projecting negative emotions to it. Under this programming, Data participates in the capture of Picard, La Forge and Troi, but they are able to reactivate Data's ethical subroutines, allowing him to recognize that his current actions are wrong and leading to him deactivating Lore.
Data recovers the emotion chip and the surviving Borg fall under the leadership of Hugh. After again failing to assimilate Earth by a direct assault in the year , the Borg travel back in time to the year to try to stop Zefram Cochrane 's first contact with the Vulcans , change the timeline, and erase Starfleet from existence. The Enterprise -E crew follows the Borg back in time and restores the original timeline. The only screen appearance made on this series was in the premiere episode Emissary. The Saratoga is destroyed by the Borg, killing Sisko's wife, Jennifer.
During that episode, Sisko's meeting with Picard is tense as he blames Picard for the actions of Locutus. Throughout the remainder of the series, references to the Borg are made occasionally, including the design of their ship, USS Defiant , and the battle from Star Trek: First Contact being used as a plot point in Season 5 when Starfleet is spread too thin to deal with a Dominion incursion. The Borg are first seen by Voyager in the third-season episode " Blood Fever " in which Chakotay discovers the body of what the local humanoids refer to as "the Invaders"; which turns out to be the Borg.
In " Scorpion ", the Borg are engaged in a war of attrition against Species , whose biological defences are a match for the Borg's nanoprobes. In one of the few instances of the Borg negotiating, in exchange for safe passage through Borg space, the Voyager crew devises a way to destroy the otherwise invulnerable Species A Borg drone, Seven of Nine , is dispatched to Voyager to facilitate this arrangement. After successfully driving Species back into their fluidic space, Seven of Nine is severed from the Collective and becomes a member of Voyager ' s crew.
Seven of Nine's rediscovery of her individuality becomes a recurring theme throughout the series. The Hollywood Reporter ranked "Scorpion" as the 4th best episode of Voyager in , [13] and the 37th best Star Trek episode. In the fifth season, we see the Borg in " Drone ", where an advanced Borg drone is created when Seven of Nine's nanoprobes are fused with the Doctor 's mobile emitter in a transporter accident. The Borg play a peripheral role in " Infinite Regress ", when Seven of Nine is exposed to a weapon against the Borg that essentially causes her to suffer from MPD , reverting to the personas of various people she assimilated while in the Collective.
In " Dark Frontier ", Voyager steals and uses a transwarp coil to both rescue Seven of Nine from the Borg Queen and then knock another fifteen years off their journey home before the coil burns out. In the sixth season episode, " Collective ", the crew of Voyager encounter a damaged cube that is holding Tom Paris, Neelix, Harry Kim and Chakotay hostage. With all the adult drones dead, the ship is run by five Borg children who are saved by Voyager and deassimilated. The later episode "Child's Play" reveals that the cube was infected by a pathogen that Icheb, one of the children, had been engineered to act as a host for by his parents, but the crew rescue Icheb before he can be sent back to the Borg.
The crew encounter the Borg again in " Unimatrix Zero ", a two-part cliffhanger between seasons six and seven. In the seventh season we see the Borg in " Q2 ", where Q's son brings Borg onto Voyager and in the series finale, " Endgame ", where Admiral Janeway from the future tries to bring Voyager back to Earth using a Borg transwarp hub.
During this episode, Janeway infects the Borg with a neurolytic pathogen that infects the collective and kills the Queen. In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Regeneration ", the remnants of the destroyed sphere from Star Trek: First Contact are discovered in the Arctic along with two frozen drones. The Borg steal a research ship and send a transmission toward the Delta Quadrant before they are destroyed, creating a perpetual time loop. Though the Borg do not appear, in the Star Trek: Discovery episode "Perpetual Infinity", Captain Leland of Section 31 is infected with nanites by the time-traveling rogue artificial intelligence known as Control.
Leland displays characteristics similar to Borg drones, including black veins and a heightened ability to adapt in combat, leading some fans to speculate that Control is connected to the origin of the Borg or reverse engineered from recovered Borg tech. In addition, the Borg are known for their possession of transwarp technology, which allows them to travel to any section of the galaxy in an instant.
Some fans suggest the technology may have been derived from Discovery ' s spore drive though there is no evidence to support this as of yet. These theories are not confirmed as a Borg origin story in any episodes to date. The origin of the Borg is never made clear, though they are portrayed as having existed for hundreds of thousands of years as attested by Guinan and the Borg Queen.
In Star Trek: First Contact , the Borg Queen merely states that the Borg were once much like humanity, "flawed and weak", but gradually developed into a partially synthetic species in an ongoing attempt to evolve and perfect themselves. Now awake in the 24th century, he is amazed to see that the Borg control a vast area of the Delta Quadrant.
Seven of Nine comments that the Borg's collective memories of that time period are fragmentary, though it is never established why that is. This idea of a connection is advanced in William Shatner 's novel The Return. The connection was also suggested in a letter included in Starlog no. The letter writer, Christopher Haviland, also speculated that the original Borg drones were members of a race called "the Preservers", which Spock had suggested in the original series episode " The Paradise Syndrome " might be responsible for why so many humanoids populate the galaxy.
The extra section of the game Star Trek: Legacy contains the supposed "Origin of the Borg", which tells the story of V'ger being sucked into a black hole. V'ger was found by a race of living machines that gave it a form suitable to fulfilling its simplistic programming. Unable to determine who its creator could be, the probe declared all carbon-based life an infestation of the creator's universe, leading to assimilation.
From this, the Borg were created, as extensions of V'ger ' s purpose. Drones were made from those assimilated and merged into a collective consciousness. The Borg Queen was created out of the necessity for a single unifying voice. With thoughts and desires of her own, she was no longer bound to serve V'ger.
In the graphic novel Star Trek: The Manga , the Borg resulted from an experiment in medical nanotechnology gone wrong. An alien species under threat of extinction by an incurable disease created a repository satellite containing test subjects infused with body parts, organs, and DNA of multiple species along with cybernetic enhancements put in place by advanced medical technology. The satellite was maintained by nanomachines, which also maintained the medical equipment on board.
The medical facility is parked in orbit by a black hole, and along with the relativistic state of time around the black hole, allows long-term research to continue at an accelerated time scale rather than in real-time speed. As the medical facility deteriorates, so does the programming of the nanomachines. The nanomachines began infusing themselves into the patients, interpreting them as part of the satellite in need of repair.
Among the patients is the daughter of the head medical researcher of the satellite. The satellite eventually falls apart in an encounter with an away team from the Enterprise under the command of James T. In the final moments of the satellite's destruction and the escape of the crew members of the Enterprise with the patients, the subjects display qualities inherently resembling the Borg: injection of nanomachines in a fashion similar to assimilation, rapid adaptation to weaponry, and a hive mind consciousness, as all the subjects begin following the whim of the daughter.
As succumbing to the disease was inevitable, and the corrupt nanomachine programming infused itself into the bodies, the final image of the page of the manga Borg origin is left with the daughter turned Borg Queen, stating, "Resistance is futile. Thrown across the galaxy in the Delta Quadrant and back in time to about BC by the destruction of Erigol at the climax of Gods of Night , the first book in the trilogy, a group of human survivors from the starship Columbia NX and Caeliar scientists try to survive in a harsh arctic climate.
Most of the human survivors die of exposure, while several Caeliar are absorbed into their race's gestalt to give life to the others in their group mind. The Caeliar offer the remaining humans a merging of human and Caeliar, to allow both groups to survive. The human survivors are resistant and as time goes on, the Caeliar called Sedin becomes the sole survivor of her group, her mental processes and her form both degrading as time goes on.
When the humans return to Sedin for help, she forces them to merge with her, unwilling to allow herself to die when a union can save her life.
The forced merging of the humans and the mostly decayed Caeliar results in the creation of the first Borg.