What hard to know information can you give about the Star Trek Borg? What makes the Borg the ultimate villain?
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The Borg collective assimilates the best of every culture and species that they encounter in an attempt to achieve perfection. So the Borg does set out to kill, or obtain financial or political power; however they do end up having power over other species and also end up destroying every civilization they touch. Part of what makes Borg the ultimate villain is that the collective rapidly adapts to overcome every form of defense and repel every form of attack. In addition, I think that since they assimilate rather than destroy civilizations, they gain an unusual advantage as compared to a more conventional villain or evil being. If they actually killed every one they encountered then Borg would not grow stronger. By assimilating they take all the knowledge of every species and add it to their collective knowledge. They also have a strength because they only value technology, personal relationships are irrelevant, feelings are irrelevant, personalities are irrelevant, individual beings are irrelevant. Well, except of course for the Borg Queen, she seemed to have an individual personality and perhaps even feelings. I suppose one could argue that she was the evil power behind the entire collective, but I in my opinion, the collective power of the Borg as a whole had gone beyond her ability to control everything completely, and this helped lead to her eventual downfall.
Picard's time spent as a Borg drone gave a lot of insight into being a Borg. Picard later said that while he was Borg he still had a sense of self, but could no longer control his actions or act as an individual, the Borg collective controlled every aspect of his life. Of course he was unusual in that he had a name, Locutus of Borg. The Borg intended to use him somehow as a conduit for assimilating all humans,but they didn't count on the resistance and technical skills of the Enterprise crew, especially Data and Jordie, so of course their plot failed.
The greatest amount of information about the Borg however came from Seven (of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Univatrix 01). She didn't really understand emotions, and in fact was very Vulcan in her mannerisms. The difference being that Vulcans learn to control emotions from a strong sense of self and through self-control. Seven had had her emotions controlled by an outside force, the Borg collective.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Q Who? · The Best of Both Worlds · I, Borg · Descent · Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Emissary
Star Trek: Voyager
Blood Fever · Unity · Scorpion · The Raven · Hope and Fear · Drone · Dark Frontier · Survival Instinct · Collective · Unimatrix Zero · Endgame
Star Trek: Enterprise
Regeneration
and in Star Trek: First Contact.
Their origins are unclear, but there is a number of speculations in non-canonical material about a connection between the Borg and the V'ger probe from Star trek: The Motion Picture.
What makes them so dangerous is their hivemind mentality, and the fact that they assimilate, or add to, various worlds, races, and technology to their collective. Which adds to what the Borg are, know, and can do. Thanks to this hivemind a weapon used on one or two Borg is ineffective on the others, because they learn from it and adapt countermeasures.
Their home base was the Unicomplex, deep in the Delta Quadrant, but was destroyed by the Borg Queen after Admiral Kathryn Janeway introduced a virus to the Borg in 2378.
Worth noting that the Borg Queen from First Contact and the Voyager series are not the same, as the Queen in Voyager is part of the Borg's "The Royal Protocol" which can create a new Borg Queen from any female drone. "The Royal Protocol" is a Starfleet document outlining requirements when dealing with foreign royalty.
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The Borg ship is always a cube.
I don't recall the borg being strong in the Beta Quatrant, they were fighting the ... i forget the name... Odo's people, the shape changers.
The Borg time traveled in the movie First Contact. There are special conditions for time travel, that seemed to be fairly well known in an episode of Deep Space 9 where Quark time traveled to Earth in the 1960's.
Luctius (sp?) was Cpt. Picard's name when he was captured by the Borg in a very popular Next Generation series of episodes. He was meant to be an emissary for the Borg, sent to prepare planet Earth for assimilation.
Deep Space nine travel to the Beta Quadrant were the Borg seem to be strong.
Did the Borg have a sphere ship?
Can the Borg can time travel?
Who was Luctius?
Think about it, they even move like zombies, all the unnatural fears that humans have for zombies passover on to the Borg. Except now they are super smart as well as persistent. They want you for your brain, and if they touch you, you're pretty much a goner. Pale skin!
"Resistance is futile" against the zombie onslaught!
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One thing i see that hasn't been mentioned is how they assimilate people.
They use nano-technology, basically like a virus (see zombie reference). If they are able to wound you, their weapons are laced with a nano-virus type poison (for lack of a better word). When the robots enter your blood stream they multiply and take over your mind.
That's how Voyager captured/liberated 7of9, they injected her with a counter nano-technology to destroy the Borg "infection" inside her. They then injected it into the core of a "Cube" to in order to infect the entire Borg ... nation (they are all connected throughout the universe). That "cured" Borg ship was destroyed by the Borg before it could pollute the entire... race.
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i guess there could be some kind of parallel there, but it is the Romans who were best no for assimilating conquer nations, keeping the best of the conquered culture and its ideas. Before the Romans genocide was the thing to do. If you look at the old testament, people often criticize that God is a war monger because he keeps telling the Jews to slaughter opposing nations to a man and to destroy their belongings (like their art and religious artifacts). When the Jews failed to do this, God punished them. But it wasn't only the Jews who did this, everyone did. You don't want to leave any enemies behind to avenge you. Look at the conflict between the Jews and the rest of the Middle East. This has been going on for 1000's of years, if the Jews would've slaughtered everyone in Canaan like they were supposed too...
I am of course, not saying genocide is the way to go, nor am i a Zionist. I'm just relaying the facts.
Anyways, back to the original point, Romans were the first in history to assimilate people and grow their empire through knowledge. They would take the most educated from the conquered nations, and instead of killing them, bring them to Rome where they could meet with Roman scholars and learn from each other. They even assimilated their religions with their own, Poseidon vs. Neptune, etc.
So I would say Romans would be a better comparison than Muslims. Muslims would not tolerate the gods and scholarly of the infidels. Romans wanted your knowledge, Muslims wanted your soul.
Star trek takes topics and cultural morality and converts them into episodes
I think the question is valid
how many Shakespeare themes were explored by Rodenberry
how many political themes including the Vietnam war, revolutionary war, Nazi Germany, the Indians, and the constitution became episodes. The Klingon follewed a Japanese samuri belief system. The Klingon respected and admired power, but follow a spiritual path. His code was sincere and his weapons were virtue. Worf reveals the inner dynamic of the samuri. The empire was equivalent to the state. The klingon empire had a shogun type. Worfs family played a role in the rise to power of the supreme military leader of te Klingon empire.
I think I am on topic, in my opinion.
Uh...No.
Really Dave stay on topic.
The history of Islam assimilated many conquered nations, imposed a taxation, distributed wealth among it's officers, and imposed a a decentralized clerical order. One central purpose, one central bank, and a secular philosophy of power. Worship to Allah and Mohammad were forced upon the conquered people, a form of slavery. Do you see parallels between Islam and the Borg?