The Borg
The Borg are an extremely powerful and enhanced civilization of humanoids from the Delta Quadrant. The Borg implant themselves with cybernetic devices, giving themselves advanced technological and combat capabilities. Every Borg is part of the Borg Collective. The Borg Collective is a shared consciousness in which individuality is a meaningless concept. The Borg are intelligent and have a high degree of adaptability. Most attacks or weapons used against them are found to work only one time. The Borg get more drones by conquering worlds and assimilating the inhabitants and technology. Thousand of worlds across the galaxy have been assimilated by the Borg. Members of assimilated races are implanted with sophisticated cybernetic implants, allowing each individual to perform a specific job as required by the Collective. (Star Trek: First Contact) The first known contact with the Borg came in 2365 when the entity known as Q threw the Enterprise - D directly into the flight path of a Borg cube on its way to Federation space. (Q Who?) The Borg were responsible for the near extinction of the El - Aurian people. Following first contact with the Borg the Starfleet placed Lt. Commander Shelby in charge of a project to develop defense strategies against the Borg. The USS Defiant was one of the warships built for the Borg threat. The anticipated Borg attck came in 2366, when a Borg vessel entered Federation space and set a course directly toward Earth. Starfleet planners had expected the attack to come months later and were therefore unprepared. Captain Jean - Luc Picard was captured and assimilated by the Borg. He became known as Locutus of Borg. A Starfleet Armada of 40 ships engaged the Borg vessel at Wolf 359. The results were devastating. Thirty - nine starships were destroyed. Only one escaped. Eleven thousand lives were lost in the battle. One of them was Captain Benjamin Sisko's wife Jennifer. (Emissary) As Locutus, Picard explained that the Borg's purpose was to improve life in the galaxy by providing species the benefit of being part of the Collective. When the Borg cube reached orbit around Earth a destructive computer command program was placed in the Collective. Data and Worf rescued Picard and the cube was destroyed. (The Best of Both Worlds 1 and 2) The enterprise once found a crashed Borg scout ship. There was one surviving Borg. Dr. Crusher convinced Captain Picard to let her save it. When they brought it back to the Enterprise Geordi La Forge befriended the Borg, who he named Hugh. While this was going on the Enterprise - D personnel developed a destructive computer program. If it was sent back with Hugh the whole Collective would have been destroyed. Geordi told the Captain that he should not use it because it was a weapon of mass murder. Picard had a talk with Hugh. After the talk he found out that Hugh had become an individual and he couldn't send the program back with him despite Starfleet Command's orders. (I, Borg) When Hugh returned to the collective his individuality affected a small portion of the collective. Without their group identity the group of Borg couldn't function. The arrival of Data's android brother Lore changed all this. Lore appointed himself the leader of the Borg group. In 2369 Lore led the Borg in launching a major offensive against the Federation. Using transwarp conduits they entered Federation space in a starship of unknown design and attacked a Federation outpost. During the attack the Borg fought with anger which was later found out to be under the influence of Lore. The attack was halted when Data was able to deactivate Lore. In 2372 the Borg launched a second attack on Earth. Starfleet was successful in stopping the attack, but a single Borg sphere created a temporal vortex and went back in time to Earth's 21st century. The Borg tried to prevent Zefram Cochrane's invention of warp drive so the Federation wouldn't exist. The Enterprise - E followed the sphere back in time and successfully stopped the attack. The Borg Queen was killed in the process. (Star Trek: First Contact) On Stardate 50541 the Voyager crew found a Borg corpse on an alien planet. (Blood Fever) A few weeks later, in the Nekrit Expanse, Voyager discovered a planet full of former Borg drones that had somehow broken away from the Collective five years earlier. In their free society the former drones reverted to ethnic warfare. The survivors asked Janeway to activate an abandoned Borg cube so a new collective could restore harmony to the society. When Janeway says no the former drones temporarily linked Chakotay and forced him to activate the cube. (Unity) When the Borg were looking for perfection they entered a different reality than ours and tried to assimilate Species 8472. Species 8472 could not be assimilated and they started destroying the Collective. Countless numbers of cubes and drones were destroyed.Voyager's Doctor came up with a way to use Borg nanoprobes as a weapon against Species 8472. The Borg were forced to work with Voyager in order to save the Collective. With the Borg's nanoprobes and Voyager's torpedoes Species 8472 was defeated. (Scorpion Parts 1 and 2) The Borg have long tubes on their hands that they use to inject nanoprobes into other species so they can assimilate them. The tubes can penetrate any known substance or force field. (Scorpion Part 1) After Voyager defeated Species 8472 the Borg who was helping Janeway tried to take over Voyager. B'Elanna and the Doctor link Chakotay to Seven of Nine and they are successful in terminating Seven of Nine's link to the Collective. (Scorpion Part 2) A couple of days later The Doctor was forced to remove Seven of Nine's Borg technology. Seven of Nine is now human , but some Borg technology and nanoprobes remain. (The Gift)
In 2375, a transporter malfunction that involved Seven of Nine's nanoprobes and the Doctor's holoemitter created a 29th Century Borg. The Borg developed aboard Voyager before sacrificing itself to prevent the crew's assimilation.
Later, in mid - 2375, the new Borg Queen forced Seven of Nine to rejoin the Borg Collective. She told her that if she did not comply, the Borg would assimilate Voyager's crew. Seven reluctantly joined the Borg. Once she had done so, the Queen told her that the Borg had allowed Voyager to keep her onboard so she would develop into an individual. The Queen also informed Seven that her individual mind would help the Borg defeat the Federation. Seven resisted the Queen, and she later escaped from the Queen's Borg fortress with the help of Janeway and the Voyager crew.
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