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Questions tagged [borg]

For questions about "The Borg", a fictional pseudo-race of cybernetic organisms depicted in the Star Trek universe, first encountered when Q brings the Enterprise to meet them in 2365. Use this tag with the [star-trek] tag and any related more specific work tag, for example, [star-trek-tng].

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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Best of Both Worlds", Seeing as they now knew how to free people from the Borg, why couldn't the same technique be used on anyone who was ...
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The Borg famously appeared in both Star Trek the Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager. Is it known the range of species the Collective assimilated? In particular, did they assimilate three legged ...
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I know the Borg assimilate whatever they encounter and only engage in activate combat if they are attacked or the collective decides they pose too great a risk. But escape pods are at the very least ...
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I understand that the Borg travel vast distances via transwarp conduits. Do these have fixed endpoints near the Federation, similar to the Bajoran Wormhole for the Dominion? They seem to appear ...
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This is a question that I was wondering about since I was introduced to the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Why do the Borg want to assimilate every planet in the universe?
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We see in several episodes of several series that the Borg can adapt their shield frequencies and apparently become completely impervious to attack. However, I'm wondering if there is a limit to this ...
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In "Q Who?," the Borg are seen using a laser to cut out a section of several decks of the saucer section which they try to retrieve with a tractor beam. WORF: A type of laser beam is slicing ...
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The transporter technology in Star Trek has been used in many fantastic plot fixes. People are stored in some kind of pattern and rebuilt. This process has been used to cure diseases such as the aging ...
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With a few exceptions, Borg drones are usually named X of Y, where X and Y are numbers. But what does that mean? I am especially interested in understanding what the latter part implies. Does the &...
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The question is pretty much the title. As bad as season two was, at the end we have a Borg queen that was a former friend of Picard (from season one), who rescues the galaxy or something (plots so bad ...
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In the S3:E9 - "Vox" of Star Trek: Picard, it is revealed that the Borg are the bad guys... but in season two the Borg had a change of heart and (under the leadership of Doctor Jurati as the ...
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In Star Trek: First Contact (1996), during the battle with Starfleet which takes place very near to Earth, a Borg Sphere comes out of the damaged Borg Cube and then it uses time travel to go back in ...
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At the end of star trek picard season 2 we see
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How does the borg queen keep coming back to life? She is killed but always reappears later. When Picard asks her about this, she says Picard is thinking so 3-dimensionally.
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In Star Trek Picard season one Borg drones are ejected into space. Seven of Nine seems upset at this. But what's the big deal, as Star Trek First Contact has shown that Borg drones can survive in ...
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