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Borg (Star Trek) The Borg have become a symbol in popular culture for any juggernaut against which "resistance is futile".

Borg (Star Trek)

TV Guide named the Borg #4 in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.[1] A Borg prop on display at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum. "We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile. " The complete phrase used in Star Trek: First Contact, as performed by Jeff Coopwood[2] is: "We are the Borg. The phrase "Resistance is futile" became prevalent in popular culture from its use in the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation.[4][5][6][7] The Caeliar offer the remaining humans a merging of human and Caeliar, to allow both groups to survive.

First Contact. Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare about his Borg assimilation experience to an incoming message from Admiral Hayes.

First Contact

Hayes informs Picard that Deep Space Five reported that a colony has been destroyed. Completing the Admiral's sentence, Picard realizes who destroyed the colony — the Borg. Picard calls a meeting and informs his senior officers that their ship has been instructed to patrol the Neutral Zone. Their orders are to protect the area from any possible Romulan uprising during a Borg attack. Despite protests from his officers, Picard remains faithful to his orders and the U.S.S. Borg (Star Trek) Regeneration (episode) A scientific team in the Arctic discovers two mysterious cyborgs, similar to those described by Zefram Cochrane.

Regeneration (episode)

When they assimilate the scientists and move into space, Enterprise is called upon to find the cybernetic beings and stop them. Summary Edit Teaser Edit They break up, searching in different directions. It is the face of a frozen humanoid figure, unlike anything they have ever seen. Borg Documentary, Part 1. Borg Documentary, Part 2. Borg Documentary, Part 3. Voyager Borg Battles.

Star Trek Scorpion, Part I. THE ULTIMATE BORG BATTLE: STAR TREK VOYAGER. Star Trek Borg renegade ship. The Borg found a home. Star Trek Unity. Returning from a scouting mission, the shuttle manned by Chakotay and Ensign Kaplan picks up a Federation distress call from a planet.

Star Trek Unity

Launching a buoy to let Voyager know where they are, they land the craft, but are quickly attacked by a hostile group of humanoids. Kaplan is killed, and Chakotay injured before help arrives in the form of another group, led by a woman named Riley, who gets Chakotay to safety. Riley explains she's part of a cooperative of different species who were kidnapped by aliens and left to fend for themselves. However, not all of them are friendly. Star Trek nanoprobes. Star Trek Borg probe. Star Trek Borg. Origin: Delta Quadrant.

Star Trek Borg

A cybernetic life-form thousands of years old which is part organic, part artificial life. They have advanced well beyond Federation science, unknown prior to a confrontation with the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D arranged by the entity known as "Q" circa stardate 42761 ( 2365) some 7,000 light-years past explored Federation space in the Delta Quadrant. The Borg have a singular goal, namely the consumption of technology, rather than wealth or political expansion as most species seek.

Star Trek Borg Queen. The enigmatic Borg Queen is the central locus of the Borg Collective.

Star Trek Borg Queen

She brings order to the legions of voices within the Hive mind and provides a common direction — much like the queen of an insect colony. She resides primarily at Unimatrix One in the Delta Quadrant, but will often leave this home base to participate in assimilation efforts of a special nature. The Borg Queen has a unique personality and a sense of individuality that normal Borg drones are not allowed. She is usually the one who "speaks" for the Collective in situations where contact with outsiders is best conducted by an individual.

But for the Borg Queen the concepts "I" and "we" are interchangeable. The Queen spends much of her time in her "lair" with her head and spinal column residing in a special alcove. Information on this being is still very limited. Star Trek Drone. As his away team is beamed back to Voyager, some parts of the Doctor's mobile emitter fuse together, so Torres takes it to the science lab.

Star Trek Drone

Unseen, the emitter sprouts Borg implants. When Ensign Mulcahey enters the lab the next morning, he is attacked by extraction tubules. Meanwhile, Seven of Nine's proximity transceiver is activated, alerting her to a Borg presence on the ship. She finds Mulcahey in the lab, along with a Borg maturation chamber containing a fetal drone.

Seven determines that when she and the Doctor were transported, some of her nanoprobes infected his emitter. Because a neural link is too dangerous, the drone, who chooses "One" as his designation, uses Borg data nodes to assimilate information. When Voyager detects the approaching Borg, Seven discovers that One's cranial implants created a secondary transceiver to signal them. One hears the voice of the Collective, but he chooses to save Voyager from destruction. Star Trek Borg cube. Star Trek Borg scout ship. Star Trek Collective. Chakotay, Kim, Paris and Neelix are taken hostage when the Delta Flyer is captured by a Borg Cube.

Star Trek Collective

However, it is inhabited by a small group of Borg children who were left behind, unworthy of assimilation. The underdeveloped Drones attempt to assimilate their captives, while Captain Janeway sends Seven of Nine to negotiate. After the Delta Flyer is intercepted by a Borg Cube, Chakotay, Paris and Neelix find themselves placed in what appears to be an assimilation chamber. Star Trek Borg sphere.