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Nov 9, 2022 · Published Nov 9, 2022. GALLERY: Making First Contact with the Borg Across the Star Trek Universe. From TNG to Prodigy. The Borg, who faced off against Picard as Earth was close to making First Contact with the Vulcans , have been antagonists in multiple Star Trek shows throughout the franchise.
May 24, 2021 · Why Star Trek's Borg Queen Is Still So Controversial. Star Trek's Borg Queen has remained a controversial character since her introduction in Star Trek: First Contact. 1996's First Contact was the second of four films starring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the plot revolved around Captain Jean-Luc Picard and crew traveling ...
Nov 22, 1996 · With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton. The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
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The history of the Borg shows the gradual development of the Borg species.
The origin of the Borg is vague. What is known is by hearsay, brief contacts with Borg survivors, and even the Borg itself.
The Borg originated in the Delta Quadrant. (Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Dark Frontier", "Dragon's Teeth") According to the Borg Queen, the species known as the Borg started out as normal plain lifeforms; (Star Trek: First Contact) they had been developing for thousands of centuries before the 24th century, and over many years, they evolved into a mixture of organic and artificial life with cybernetic enhancements. (Star Trek: First Contact; TNG: "Q Who")
By 1484, the Borg had assimilated only a handful of star systems of the Quadrant and they had many encounters with the Vaadwaur (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth") but by 2373, the Borg had assimilated thousands of systems. (Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Unity", "Scorpion", "Scorpion, Part II") Their territory was intersected by a narrow corridor of space filled with gravimetric distortions, eventually nicknamed the "Northwest Passage" by the crew of the Federation starship USS Voyager during the Borg's conflict with Species 8472. (VOY: "Scorpion") The farthest border of the Borg realm within the Delta Quadrant seemed to be the Nekrit Expanse. (VOY: "Fair Trade", "Unity", "Distant Origin")
The Collective had their own territory and ventured out, beyond it, on exploration missions. (TNG: "Q Who"; VOY: "Dragon's Teeth", "Unity") At one time, Voyager was thrown 9,500 light years, beyond Borg territory and ten years closer to Earth. (VOY: "The Gift") Over the next four years, the starship still encountered Borg vessels. (VOY: "Collective", "Child's Play", "Unimatrix Zero", "Unimatrix Zero, Part II", "Endgame") Since the Borg had such extensive transwarp networks throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, they could effectively project their presence anywhere in a comparatively short amount of time. (TNG: "Descent", "Descent, Part II"; VOY: "Dark Frontier", "Inside Man", "Endgame") While the Borg did have a large expanse of their own territory, it was finite, and any forays elsewhere were simply invasions of other territories. (TNG: "Q Who", "The Best of Both Worlds"; Star Trek Generations; DS9: "Emissary"; VOY: "Blood Fever", "Hope and Fear", "The Raven")
Within the Delta Quadrant, the Borg had a vast structure called the Unicomplex. This structure was made up of thousands of sub-structures and housed many of their vessels. It was believed the Unicomplex was the Borg headquarters. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")
When the Borg started using transwarp hubs, (VOY: "Endgame") they could appear anywhere in the galaxy, giving them the ability to assimilate species with little or no warning at all and within very short periods of time. Their vessels were equipped with specially designed conduits to withstand the temporal stresses when traveling through transwarp conduits. Borg starships had the ability to travel through time. They once tried to assimilate a species by traveling back in time. (VOY: "Inside Man"; Star Trek: First Contact)
2024 incursion
In 2024, a Borg Queen from 2401 of an alternate timeline arrived aboard the CSS La Sirena, having helped the crew travel back in time in order to correct history. (PIC: "Assimilation") This Queen eventually began sharing a body with Dr. Agnes Jurati and sought to take the La Sirena to the Delta Quadrant and begin the Borg invasion of the Alpha Quadrant four centuries early. Jurati eventually convinced the Queen that the better solution was to take the ship and create a new, better Borg Collective made out of mercy and choice. After reassimilating Seven of Nine in order to save her life, the merged Borg Queen and Jurati departed in the La Sirena for the Delta Quadrant. (PIC: "Mercy")
First Contact incursion
Although the Borg were normally not active in the Alpha Quadrant in 2063, a Borg sphere traveled back in time from 2373 to the Earth of that year. The craft's occupants had the sole purpose of preventing First Contact between Humans and Vulcans, thereby helping the Borg to assimilate the Human species. The sphere attempted to achieve their outcome by firing on Zefram Cochrane's launch base in Montana where he was developing the Phoenix, the spaceship that historically performed the first warp-powered flight, subsequently bringing Earth to the attention of a passing Vulcan vessel. (Star Trek: First Contact) A Federation starship also from 2373, the USS Enterprise-E, thwarted the Borg attempt by destroying the Borg sphere as it was firing against Cochrane, and a section of its broken hull landed in Earth's North Pole. (Star Trek: First Contact; ENT: "Regeneration") But at some point earlier, some Borg drones (including the Borg Queen) transported aboard the Enterprise and began to assimilate the ship and many crewmembers. They used the Enterprise as their base of operations in an attempt to continue their objective to alter history and also attempted to build an interplexing beacon on the Enterprise deflector dish to contact the Collective of the 21st century. Finally, they tried to prevent First Contact by firing against the Phoenix during its first flight, but were prevented and defeated by Captain Picard and Data. The Queen and all the remaining drones perished aboard the Enterprise; their organic components were dissolved by very corrosive plasma coolant and the Queen's artificial spinal cord was broken to ensure that she was dead. (Star Trek: First Contact) The next year, Zefram Cochrane, during his commencement address at Princeton, revealed his unusual experience. He mentioned cybernetic creatures from the future, whose ultimate goal was to enslave the Human race, who tried to stop his first warp flight, if it weren't for a group of Humans also from the future. No one seriously believed Cochrane, well known for his imaginative stories while intoxicated, and he recanted his claim a few years later; although a record of his speech still remained. (ENT: "Regeneration")
By 2145, and after assimilating thirteen species, they learned of the existence of the Omega molecule which they referred to as Particle 010. The Borg believed the Omega to exist in a flawless state and regarded it with near-reverence and all Borg were ordered to assimilate it at any cost. They managed to synthesize a relatively stable single molecule of Omega, which resulted to the destruction of 29 Borg vessels and 600,000 drones. They designed a harmonic resonance chamber that could theoretically stabilize the molecule, but never had enough Boronite to synthesize more Omega molecules. (VOY: "The Omega Directive")
In 2153, the remains of the Borg sphere that was destroyed in 2063 were discovered in Earth's Arctic Circle. The A-6 excavation team discovered the Arctic debris field where much of the Borg sphere remained, severely damaged and buried under a glacier. After traveling to the wreckage, the team also found two frozen drones in the ice, and allowed them to regenerate. The Borg drones assimilated the entire team of scientists and commandeered their transport Arctic One, continually enhancing its warp drive and installing a weapons system.
Three days later, the Borg left Earth. Although they managed to assimilate several Tarkaleans, who tried to do the same to Denobulan doctor Phlox, the crew of the Starfleet ship Enterprise NX-01, which included Phlox, was successful in preventing the Borg drones, of which there were more due to the original drones' assimilation of the Tarkaleans, from reaching their homeworld and resuming their attempt to enslave Humanity. Enterprise was responsible for the destruction of the assimilated arctic transport and every Borg drone aboard the craft.
However, the ship's captain, Jonathan Archer, having determined that the cybernetic aliens had probably been the same as in Zefram Cochrane's Princeton commencement address, also learned that the Borg had sent a subspace message before their destruction that contained spatial coordinates pinpointing Earth's location. Because Phlox had momentarily been a part of the Borg's hive mind, he had heard the message. However, the signal would take two hundred years to reach its destination, deep in the Delta Quadrant, alerting the Borg there.
In the mid-23rd century, the Borg assimilated the homeworld of the El-Aurians. Only a handful of survivors managed to escape and tried to find refuge on other worlds. (TNG: "Q Who"; Star Trek Generations)
In 2293, two starships, the SS Lakul and SS Robert Fox, were carrying El-Aurian refugees to Earth when they became caught in an energy ribbon that caused the destruction of both ships. (Star Trek Generations) However, 47 El-Aurians from the Lakul – including Guinan, who later served as Ten Forward's bartender aboard the USS Enterprise-D – were saved when they were beamed aboard the USS Enterprise-B by Montgomery Scott and took with them the story of their species' dealings with the Borg. (Star Trek Generations; TNG: "The Child", "Q Who")
•Borg history at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Six years have passed since Captain Jean-Luc Picard was captured and assimilated by the Borg. Now, the Borg make a second attempt to conquer the Federation. Starfleet believes that Picard's experience makes him an "unstable element to a critical situation" and orders him...
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