BORG: Cultural Index
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- Опубліковано 24 жов 2018
- Happy Halloween species 5618!
These cyber-zombies are the scourge of the Delta Quadrant and thanks to their subspace tunnels and other advanced technology, they are expanding.
The irony is that their unity requires a high degree of assimilation of various cultures and species to keep them evolving towards their ultimate goal of perfection.
This is the Cultural Index a series aimed at exploring various Science-Fiction species.
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I believe that the "Queen" was nothing more then an avatar for the Collective. A way for the Collective to converse with an individual if such a need arises.
pepperVenge i must respectfully disagree.
The queen, were she an "avatar" shouldn't maintain any form of individuality, as that would be unessecary for sheer communication purposes.
Personally, I've always thought that her existence, is because the borg, not unlike us, (fucking terrifying statement there) have an insasible need for some kind of leadership. Someone to direct them, and lead them to where the borg should go. A collective interest shall we say. Were it no longer in the interest of the borg to have a leader, they might even revolt. We have seen, that a borg seperate from the hive mind, can indeed develop a personality. Which, in turn, means that theoretically, they nay be able to have personalities without any separation from their hive mind. Thst theoretically, they may actually, given enough time, develop personalities, entirely on their own. Since the potential is actually there. And, they might use the hive mind as a sort of internet instead of straight up total control.
In any case, the queen is sorta like the core processor. She determines what and where goes when with what. And i think, even the borg recognize the need for a leader. Anyway, that's just my opinion.
They are some scary mother fuckers though. xD
Read an article that when they filmed FIrst Contact they still planned to have the Borg to be computer base and have a computer like voice talking to Data. But the writers had a hard time coming up with dialogue for a computer voice. So they invented the Borg Queen.
@@uncletaylorify I heard similar to that, but it wasn't the writers who decided on the queen, it was Paramount who insisted because they wanted the film to have a villain with a face.
@@mr_h831 I wish UA-cam had notified me of this reply.
I disagree with you about the avatar/queen's individuality.
If the collective was presenting and expressing itself through an avatar, then it would still behave as though it was an individual because the collective is a single individual mind. Remember that the Borg is effectively a single lifeform who's mind is a collection of many.
So it's use of singular pronouns through an avatar makes sense.
@@pepperVenge But also remember that the borg have been proven to stay connected, but also maintain individuality. Voyager shows this with a single episode, where it isn't in the interest of a borg colony to impose their will onto other's. And therefore, each person maintains their personality to some extent, but they are still all connected.
Now that is of course an isolated case, where yet again the borg are separated from the main borg hive mind for some time. And thus have to develop separately to survive. And that is the one thing that even the borg cannot surpress, simple, basic need for survival. They try with all their fancy self sustaining machinery, but what happens when it starts to break? Where the self stutainable isn't so sustainable anymore?
I still personally think that the borg can develop and keep a personality on a massive scale if they wanted to.
But as it is, the hive mind as a majority operates as just that, a hive mind.
But even a hive mind needs a way to sort the chaos. That's like having no way to funnel the data streams of a computer to any one direction. So to me, her explanation of she is some sort of emissary, isn't really a bad one.
It makes sense from a mechanical perspective.
But hey, everyone's opinion will differ. Especially on something like the borg. Where it isn't fully explained. :)
And uh, no problem on the whole no notification thing.
UA-cam is like that sometimes. :)
Capt. Picard: "Impossible. My culture is based on freedom and self-determination."
The Borg: "Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You must comply."
Capt. Picard: "We would rather die."
The Borg: "Death is irrelevant. Your archaic cultures are authority-driven. To facilitate our introduction into your societies, it has been decided that a human voice will speak for us in all communications. You have been chosen to be that voice."
CYBERMEN: PREPARE TO BE UPGRADED!
The Borg: "wait, do i know you, you look familiar?"
The Doctor: "wow, what a rip off".
Hydrogen One I remember how that sent chills down my spine.
Maybe the Goa'uld from stargate, give them some love.
I just remember playing Birth of the Federation with a friend when cube appeared assimilating half of galaxy.. and we had last stand in Sol system with armada of 60+ heavy armored cruisers and sovereign class ships.. after we won we celebrated like we won Nobel prize or world cup.. thats was some epic shit
That’s why the romulans and klingons are really op. Having the first round as a free attack, with the enemy not being able to do jackshit, is just evil!
"What will you do about the second one Onoki?"
the last few times I played BotF with Random Events enabled the galaxy was attacked by 4-7 Cubes simultaneously. And since the PC is too stupid to defeat them, they destroyed everything but my territory. With time, this gets pretty boring and tiresome.
@@janedoe4929 Love it Jane, he didn't expect the second asteroid did he.. :-D
I loved that game!
The Borg were an unstoppable faction. Resistance WAS futile. Until Starfleet resisted.
Tell that to 8472.
RRW;
1. Starfleet resisted first.
2. Species 5618 was able to beat Species 8472 on multiple occasions.
1. We have no idea how long 8472 was fighting the borg and the events of contact would have happened with or without Starfleet contact.
2. How many species in the Delta quadrant faced a single cube and survived? It isn't that uncommon. Also, have you heard the fan theory that the Borg didn't send the cubes to assimilate the Federation, just to assimilate whatever tactics they used against them so that they can better defend themselves from other's trying to use those same tactics?
1. Fair enough point.
2. Don't know how that response connects to mine. To your response, that doesn't seem like a waste of resources when all they have to do is send a sphere or smaller and just upload data from an Starfleet vessel. If the Borg were fighting 8472 before hand wouldn't the Borg need every ship they have as well as trying to learn tactics form civilizations with similar tactics and biology or ones made to directly oppose them instead of a civilization like the Federation who have little in common in terms of tactics and ideology with 8472.
The Borg are a joke
I think the fact they have no known origin helps make them more frightening, as they’re harder to relate to.
That's the problem nowadays the people who run fiction think they have to explain everything, lets look at that abortion of a movie Solo:
Lucasfilm: This is how he got the Millennium Falcon
Fan: Cool, this is what was alluded to in ESB
Lucasfilm: This is how he got the dice
Fans: What dice?
Lucasfilm: This is how he got his Blaster
Fans: What? we don't really care.
Lucasfilm: This is how he got his name
Fans: Wait, what? Solo wasn't his real name? are you people mental?.
@@snipedude4953
I agree; a lot of movie directors/writers these days seem to think they have to hold your hand through everything, explaining things too thoroughly instead of letting a scene explain itself, leaving details as simply details, or letting the viewers come to their own conclusions. It insults our intelligence, and just makes things more boring by dragging scenes out longer than they need to be.
The real world is full of tons of unexplained details that are simply atmospheric, and even in a setting like Star Wars, that casual amount of atmospheric filler makes it relatable. A perfect example would be Jabba’s palace in Return of the Jedi. As strange as the surroundings are, we didn’t need them to be explained to recognize a throne room with a band jazzing it up, or that Jabba was a demanding and powerful being, or that he was smoking a sci-fi Hooka. You could feel his influence over the crowd the moment Luke entered, as if you’d walked into a mafia scene. The guards were clearly guards, and you could see the difference between pets and vermin.
Disney can do better. They’ve done better in the past, and need to not turn key scenes into exposition central.
V'Ger
same, but if they have an origin, i like the STAR TREK DESTINY novels for it....i think i make the most sense
Whoever made the first Nanodrones, made them with fatal flaws.
That lead to geocidal tendency and no ability to imagine or invent anything.
The Borg are one of the most chilling of all sci-fi villains because of how they take everything that you are, everything you know and strip it away from you turning you into a mindless drone while using all the stolen information to improve themselves and assimilate more of your race or faction.
I know. Lilly in First Contact perfectly described the Borg as bionic zombies.
AndrewJamesWilliams
True the Borg are quite a scary group of species
It’s even more chilling when you hear that disembodied Legion-esque voice. Even better if it’s too indistinct to make out the words, like what Phlox starts hearing as he’s being assimilated
Spider mite spray explain that point it seems like anti fascism would be for freedom and individualism
@@wutntarnation yeah because disagree with you makes me a fascist all I said is that most antifa are anti fascist and I never called you fascist
That particularly-famous Borg photo used in the title card always reminds me of Dolph Lundgren in "Universal Soldier"...
I like how even a Borg probe ship is bigger than most Starfleet vessels.
Could the Collective be defeated by tech scammers? Probably not.
Tech scammer: "This is Microsoft Technical Support. It has come to our attention your vessel's central computer has a virus that is threatening the proper functioning of other computers in your neighborhood."
Collective: "Incorrect. Diagnostics reveal no such malfunctions."
Tech scammer: "Oh, you think you are smarter than us? Trust me, we know more than you. Now we need to gain remote access to your computer."
Collective: "Remote access is irrelevant. You will be assimilated, so that we may scam species into voluntarily adding their biological and technological distinctiveness to our own."
Tech scammer: "This is a very delicate process. We ask that you follow our instructions exactly."
Collective: "Irrelevant. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
Tech scammer: "You do not seem to taking this problem in a serious way. I'm hanging up the call."
LOL
Mr Borg? This is Mr John Johnson and can you just Do one thing.
Ha ha ha ha very funny man ha ha ha ha
Just install Windows and let them play solitaire all day
The videos where people ruin tech scammers are really cathartic
To this day the Borg is one of the most terrifying SciFi species ever. The standard greeting "We are the Borg, you will be assimilated, Resistance is Futile" was always so goosebump inducing. Someone described these as the undead of space.
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields, surrender your ship, and prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
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"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
I have always been of the mindset that death is much preferable than to becoming Borg. So were I captain of a Starfleet ship and the Borg were stating their list of ridiculousness I would open fire and fight till either or both of our ships were destroyed. Can't become a Borg if you're dead!
Adam Gray just ram the ship into the cube and trigger a warp core breach. Nothing survives a core breach
There is that too, @@Jaymac720. "Assimilate my atoms, bitches!". lol
I remember meeting the Borg. They scared the daylights out of me. It's a shame their pursuit of perfection did not include any notion of aesthetics, they could improve recruitment if they were better looking.
Resistance is futile only when it comes to Seven of Nine.
I'd have trouble resisting T'Pol as well. Especially with her longer hair and that bare-midriff Terran Empire uniform. Star Trek definitely has the hottest women in Sci-Fi by far! LOL
...or as I like to call her: 6 of 9 😏🤙
@@redpillsatori3020 Can't wait for the Borg stoner comedy: 4 of 20
Surrendering my free will never looked so tempting.
Well who wouldn't want to participate in single cell fertilization with 7 of 9?
I've always considered the Borg Queen to be physical manifestation of the Collective. As the Collective grew, the hive mind itself became more and more powerful gaining sentience and then deciding it needed a physical vessel to represent it's being.
Like an Avatar!
Like the Flood Graveminds?
The voice of any one borg IS the voice of the collective.
This could be a fascinating way to explore future Borg evolution; i.e., as they grow the collective becomes a single, self-aware entity that eventually transforms into another cosmic entity (on par with the Q, for example).
@@philiptite6254 A collective consciousness of multiple 4th dimensional beings? Resistance WOULD be futile..
The Borg nanos could have been started for damn near any reason.
Possibilities:
-as a spy device where infected individuals would broadcast information unwittingly to the enemy
-as something given to workers as a way to focus on tasks by giving them hyper focus and to communicate telepathically for efficiency
-as a way to help infected individuals achieve their goals. I could see a being being infected who was obsessed with adapting technology for use in their own systems. Maybe the infected came across a robot which the nanos adapted into the infected being making him/her/it part flesh, part machine
-sent to learn as much as possible about the universe
-as a programmable virus with multiple possible missions
-as multiple nanos with different missions from multiple races which integrated into this new thing
-as a simple repair and adapt feature for spaceships which malfunctioned
I rather like the Destiny books origin for the Borg: basically an advanced race used Omega reactors to power their "perfect" society, where man and machine have merged, basically all matter everywhere is made of programmable matter called catoms that they can reshape on a whim. Through an accident, some were cast back in time to a desolate world, badly injured, and their damaged catoms desperately struggled to keep them alive. When there wasn't enough biological matter, the catoms adapted by replacing failing segments with cruder mechanical components. By the time the natives found them, they were nearly brain-dead, with the catoms having but a few directives uncorrupted: adapt, survive, assimilate, seek perfection, obtain Omega power.
This also resulted in the most chilling incarnation of the Borg and their mantra, imo. The Federation was reaching the point where the Borg were no longer a threat, so they switched from assimilation to extermination, arriving in Federation space with this message:
"We are the Borg. You will be annihilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness have become irrelevant. Resistance is futile... but welcome."
Or worse. Computer program told to become ‘perfect’. Unguided AI with unlimited options and rough goals is scary. They have no feeling/fear and they want to complete their goal
I do love the bits of "borg talk" overlayed at the end.
I will admit, the Borg gave me nightmares as a young man. The idea of the Borg still haunts my dreams to an extent to this day.
Sending one cube to the federation when they had thousands was a bad collective decision
Well the big design flaw in the borg is that the more humans you get in one place the dumber we are overall. That's jus the law of averages.
Sending that 1 cube was a test and it nearly succeeded that's why they only sent 1 the 2nd time 1 cube is normally enough to assimilate a species
This is assuming they do think. The greatest weakness of the borg is the fact they process information. They are a giant race run on a single AI, which will make the same mistakes and is unable to think outside the box.
@@robh316 Why not test with 100 cubes
@@tinamoul because it's a waste of resources there going off past experiences with other species of a similar technological development 1 cube is normally enough.borg space is vast requires huge number of ships to occupy just sending hundreds of cubes is only ever done on rare occasions
Throwing in those Borg signatures hiding, and then the background words, you would be pretty good at making a horror movie.
When Species 8472 was introduced in Voyager, I had hoped that it served as the explanation why Borg send only single ships to assimilate other species; they are too busy and too focused contending with a larger threat from spreading throughout the galaxy and can’t spare the resources besides those brief lulls of conflict which they can send a single Cube. Then the rest of Scorpion played out and was massively disappointed :/ it would have added a great deal of weight to when Picard refused to give Hugh the ‘Logic Virus’ that may have fragmented and destroyed the Collective, that mercy did indeed save the greater galaxy at large. Also, maybe adding a bit of horrid necessity to the Borg existing at all.
Still though, Species 8472 doesn't want to eat your soul like other extra-dimensional invaders do in other sci-fi, why not let them conquer the galaxy if it means freedom from the impending threat of the Borg?
Becuase they tend to blow up planets with life forms on ‘em with a few ships.
They might not want to eat our souls, but they are a bit religious with their ‘the weak shall perish’. Nothing existential, but definitely dead is worse than being alive. Besides, they might try to straight up Sphere Builder the Delta Quadrant, and it’d only get waaay worse from there.
iona2225 I wouldn't call the Undine religious, more like racism taken up to eleven. we know nothing else was alive in their universe so its likely they destroyed everything that wasn't them and would have done the same thing to our galaxy.
8472 were not a problem, and wouldn't have become a problem if the Borg hadn't entered their part of space. Plus Janeway came to an understanding with 8472 as it happens in Voyager so the danger passed.
Voyager had horrible writing and a terrible plot ("We're lost"). Species 8472 was introduced because the writers wanted the Borg (biggest threat = more viewers), but knew there was no rational way they could justify Voyager surviving. Also, what other way to get fanboy viewers than "hot Borg chick?"
I remember when that episode started and I saw the Borg cube and I was excited. Then, the off-screen ship blew up the Borg in one shot. After dropping some f-bombs, I told my roommate, "Voyager's going to meet up with that ship and survive three shots." Sure enough, it happened. Exactly three, also. Voyager had ruined both Star Trek and the Borg.
I think we tried watching a few more episodes just to see Jeri Ryan, but the writing had become so horrible that we couldn't. From what I've seen, every time Voyager showcased the Borg, they kept nerfing them.
The Borg are my favorite
I was afraid of the Borg till about S5 of VGR. At that point familiarity bred contempt.
“Regeneration” made them scary again, though.
I loved the renegade Episode and think it is one of the best Borg Classic Episode ever.
At exactly that same point my contempt was bred as well-- by the godawful writing of branon braga and HIS complete contempt for the concept of the Borg that had been previously established in TNG
Would the Borg assimilate The Mighty Tribble Empire?
Shit. Most terrifying prospect.
Nah, they’d never be able to assimilate them fast enough before they bred so fast they choked all the ports on a cube
Nah they have to have enough technology, the tribbles aren't even intelligent, the borg are not interested.
@@tonebonebgky2 r/woooooooosh
Tribbles have valuble information on Klingons.
The Pakleds are explicitly on the Borg's 'do not assimilate' list, they literally think of them as not worth the nano-probes!
Don’t blame ‘em. They’re wastes of good carbon.
As are the Kazon
Kazon ships don’t even have shields. They’re a bit like Klingons: toon the tech of their oppressors. Unlike Klingons, they haven’t advanced much beyond that. No shields, replicators, or transporters
Artem Bentsionov Kazon have stolen those ships
We look for things.
You've done the Cyclons, you've done the Borg; I hope one day we might see the Cybermen, maybe?
Or the Reapers. Or the Prometheans. Now that makes me wonder who would win in a free for all between the Cyclons, Borg, Cybermen, Reapers, and Prometheans.
Cybermaybe
@Greppellio
I'm guessing you meant "Cylons". But "Cyclons" is actually a cool-sounding typo, lol.
Greppellio what about timelords??
@@occultatumquaestio5226 I feel like the cybermen and the borg would unify. Remember, just before the battle at Canary Wharf, the cybermen tried to co assimilate with the Daleks. They only didn't succeed because the Dalek's view themselves as the perfect being, and that everything else, including cybermen, must die. But if the cybermen met the Daleks, the cybermen would likely offer them the same thing, and since the borg nature is to assimilate, I feel the two would become one technologically based superthreat. At this point, the Cylons would be irrelevant, the reapers, while they would be able to put up some kind of threat, they'd end up losing, and the prometheans would likely be assimilated by force as well.
Nicely done! This is probably the best breakdown of the Borg on UA-cam. I love the explanation of the heirarchy here... If everything about the collective is decentralized and has a bajilion safeguards, I would be stupefied if the destruction of Unimatrix 01 caused the entire destruction of the Borg. In my mind, the system would’ve quickly disconnected the unimatrix from the collective and then destroyed it. And since absolutely everything is decentralized the collective would’ve survived and would’ve just replaced Unimatrix 01 with a new construct.
11:22 "The fear that this race introduces into the Star Trek mythos is undeniable" when even the q are afraid of the Borg yes I would agree. As Q told his son "Dont provoke the borg!" since that episode I have both wondered and feared the result of a Q being assimilated.
I don't think the Q are afraid per se of the Borg. John de Lancie Q looked and sounded more annoyed than scared when he told his son that. Its probably more likely that of all the races the Q encounter, the Borg are the most chaotic and difficult to control. So its more like a "Come on I JUST fixed that!" reaction than fear
@@Tenacitybrit difficult to control, yes.
Chaotic, no.
That's the problem; they are both annoying and boring.
@@tyrant-den884 They rush in, destroy everything that fights back and assimilate everything else. Sounds chaotic to me.
Plus I get why you'd think the Borg are boring, but thats just because they've been overused to the point of ridiculousness, so we're desensitized to just how horrifying they really are.
Same thing happened to the Xenomorphs from Alien, they've made so many pieces of media about it they've overexposed it. It just makes me laugh seeing a facehugger or Xeno now.
@@Tenacitybrit I specifically mean from the Q's point of view.
Imagine challenging the Borg to a Q shenanigan for the 3rd time.
@@tyrant-den884 OK maybe i'm just dumb but I don't get what you mean
I found it futile to resist liking this video👌
Sometimes the Queen was a processor or avatar of the Collective. Sometimes she was indeed an individual leader. You would see her do things like order drones to stand down, so they were not of one will.
yeah there was zero rhyme or reason or consistency to that absurd farce
Thank you for making this one. You should do one on all the races harmed by the Borg. Always love your show.
Finally! Somebody who understands that energy can be converted into matter! I believe this sort of thing can explain Riker's transporter duplicate.
Imm glad you understand how the transporters work ^.^
Except you are a copy/clone each time you transport, your matter was broken into energy and data
And that was sent
And a clone was assembled
Rikers accident made 2 clones
1 at each location
@@donovanulrich348 So you die every time you use the transporter? And someone else (exact copy) takes your place?
The Borg are my spirit animal
With the way the Borg Queen describes humans (in "Dark Frontier": "Physiology inefficient; below-average cranial capacity; minimal redundant systems; limited regenerative abilities), you'd think that humanity was unworthy of assimilation!
That's really a sort of meta joke; a kind of "take that" to human self-importance.
We are the Porg. You will be as... oh wrong species
We are the Blorg. Lower your shields and surrender your weapons. You will be befriended. Resistance is impolite.
Lmao 😂😂
We are the Bjorg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your interior decorations to our own. Your living spaces shall be furnished by us. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
@@StarboyXL9 SPACE CANADIANS!
@@mrbuttocks6772 EH??
"You will play tennis, and you will be defeated. Resistance is futile. We are the Borg."
Like so often you do a great job at delivering the knowledge you are gathered about a Star Trek universe.
borg? sounds Swedish XD
Definitely not Swedish
In Icelandic it means "City"
BORK BORK BORK #contryballs forever
Space Quest has the Bjorn instead, likely a jab at the tennis player Bjorn Borg. And instead of normal cubes they use M.C. Escher’s “impossible cube”
That would be the Börg
The Borg are obviously one of the most difficult villains to classify. They are at best described as pure evil.
A hive mind isn't evil by nature, just different. The problem with the Borg is that they are driven assimilators.
"They are like storm on horizon. You don't feel emotions toward it, you just struggle to avoid it".
Joel Gawne the wanted destruction of countless civilizations and individuals is evil in its purity.
id like to imagine the borg is millions of years old but cant remember all that time so only keeps the "important" parts (like the discoveries they have made or stolen) forgetting time place, and eventually their own origin all together, and that they aren't from the milky way but far outside it
I always saw the Queen as the Borg seeing the locutus idea and reworking it into a failsafe in the event that starfleet tried the "sleep" thing again. I know the queen said she was "there" at wolf 359, but she could easily explain that as her mind is no different to the collective Picard was forced into.
Unfortunately for the borg, Voyager found out the Queen became as much of a weakness as Locutus was for that single Cube.
It's also funny how the queen was replaced with a new body from first contact to mid-voyager, then after unimatrix zero she was scrapped for the original model again. I guess even the Borg want to forget Unimatrix zero.
Resistance is futile when Ohm < .1
I understood that reference.
I always subscribed to the theory involving the Borg and V'ger was that it was the other way around, that it was the machine planet that found Voyager 6 and modified it to reach its purpose, In that this machine planet, was an early precursor to the Borg. Thoughts?
I prefer the V'ger creating The Borg theory, either way it involves the probe going through a temporal wormhole of some sort, which is what one or more expanded universes books went with. Other sources mention that the Preservers created the Doomsday Machines(Not the name given by the Preservers) to eliminate Borg "infestations" and the Borg apparently have a long lasting rivalry with The Voth, to the point in at last one EU source(Star Trek Online) the Voth had to convert City Ships into Anti-Borg Super Ships and even attempted to use Omega Particles to prevent the Borg from reaching them.
Yep
This is a plot point in the Star Trek novel "The Return". Spock is captured by the Borg but is not assimilated because they think he already had been assimilated previously. It turns out that Voyager 6 had been modified by the Borg, and due to Spock's mind meld with V'ger leaving traces in his mind that the Borg detect, they think he is one of them.
@@zerocooler7 that sounds interesting im going to check it out
The whole idea of a relationship between V‘ger and the Borg comes from a Shatnerverse book. I read it, it‘s terrible, and should have never been published. The book also involves time-traveling to recover Kirk‘s body to make him a Romulan-controlled Zombie sent out to kill Picard, all done using Borg technology which the Romulans have gained through secret cooperation with the Borg. Only because of this, Kirk learns about the V‘ger-Borg relationship. It‘s frankly ridiculous fan fiction written by William Shatner, and should just be ignored. It adds nothing to the whole story, and just elevates a crappy beta canon book.
Great video & you really captured the tone of the Borg.
The Borg are absolutely terrifying as a villain. The idea of being assimilated is almost lovecraft like body horror. Having your body mutilated on the outside while microscopic things flow through your blood rapidly altering your body from the inside as your free will and mind are taken over. The Borg have to be one of the greatest villains ever written.
I vote for the Trill. Also, please do the WRATH from StarGate Atlantis.
I think you mean Wraith, who would be a great pick.
I've noticed a lot of Stargate suggestions tonight. Cool.
Easy answer on V'ger is wormhole that took it across the galaxy but due to spacial and temporal instability ended up in past Delta quadrant.
Your proof of this? This seems to be a bizzare theory!
Great information. The Borgs are something else.
I remember the first time we were introduced to the Borg Queen was in Star Trek:First Contact and she was seen again numerous times on Star Trek:Voyager the first time was in the 2 part episode 'Dark Journey' and then again in the 2 part episode 'Unimatrix Zero' and the last time was in the 2 part episode 'Endgame'.
When you have explosive diahrrea, resistance is FUTILE. :/
*Resistance Is Futile*
In brightest day
in blackest night
for those who worship evils might
beware my power green lanterns light
The klyntar response to you is your resistance is futile you will adapt to the will of the universe perpear for the power of LOVE/HATE|HOPE/FEAR|COMPASSION/GREED|INDEPENDENCE/RELIANCE|CHAOS\BALANCE/ORDER|{light|dark/good|evil}| take all this and become a force of understanding or become less then you are now
*No u*
Never
That was freakin' awesome!
Always wished they would connect borg cubes together when around each other like rubics cubes to make they’re size and strength much greater
No Jeri "Seven of Nine" Ryan clips? Sad 😥
With her, resistance is truly futile.
Who would win?
> star trek TNG:
Or
>War hammer 40k:
???
The Borg, obviously. They adapt. The Empire of Man is stagnant/declining.
Warhammer 40k is a bit insane. In terms of their scale of everything.
However, how the Warhammer 40k Universe absolutely hate Artificial Intelligence and that's basically what they would probably classify the Borg. "Purge the Heretic. The Xeno and the Mutant."'
Demonic Entities on a Cube would be hilarious though. lol
They would have to assimilate 1 Imperial Ship to fully adapt that technology.
The type 03 Borg ship was the exact same design used for the high yield warheads developed when Voyager teamed up with the Borg against Species 8472. If you look carefully during the episode it is sitting there on a display.
Awesome content on this channel!
The Nanites seemed to be a newer technology that didn't exist prior to First Contact. It may have been something assimilated from Humans, Romulans or another race between Wolf 359 and First Contact. Or a Retcon.
Yes to the Trill but also I'd like to see a cultural index on the Gorn and the Betazoids
The Gorn have a video which is quite cool. Check it out.
Nicely done
This is my favorite. It was terrifying.
The Trill
Oh, the Dark Mechanicicum of Warhammer 40k would LOVE this species!
"Resistance is futile!"
The Borg.
"You know, in some ways you're worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious. You assimilate people and they don't even know it."
The Borg originated with Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man.
"Austin Drone 3:16 says I just assimilated your ass."
@@toddkurzbard Sleep, sleep.
Great vid as always! I actually really liked the V’GER origin concept when it was introduced and feel it actually makes sense because the Voyager probe apparently entered a wormhole which may very well have sent it through time and to another dimension entirely. Based on its mass and accumulated knowledge, (having seen the entire universe and beyond), it’s possible that it’s been traveling for millions of years and that it left behind more than just the Borg. If future Star Trek writers decide that they’re finished with dumbed down reboots and politicized prequels that no one asked for, then perhaps they could get back to exploration and what V’GER may have left in its wake.
Very well done!
One pretty neat Borg Origin is in the first volume of the Star Trek manga, “Shinsei, Shinsei”. The story, “Side Effects”, is definitely worth a look.
without culture, do the borg actually innovate? or are stagnating with whatever knowledge its constituent races posess?
if they ever do reach what they consider to be the pinnacle of perfection...then what?
they innovate with assimilating and encountering new technology from other species ... as they do not consider it possible that individualist species could ever defeat them .. soo even if they get "beaten back" for them that just means they get better technology to feast on next time
Thing about perfection: it’s unreachable
Yes they can innovate, one of the most terryfing thing about borg is their efficiency. Think of the most developed planet of the federation, and now think how much of resources are used to create art, good living conditions, different people chose different carriers. Borg place you where you will be put to best use. Noo need for a hobby or free time. every single drone builds better future for the collective. They are like ants. Almost undeatable
to be clear, culture is irrelevant to progress
The Borg are... whatever the writer of that episode wanted them to be.
Wouldn't mind hearing more about the Trill
Wonderful
What the heck ship is that? Looks like the JJprise and the Sovereign had a Baby.
It's hideous
It's one of the star-cruisers from Star Trek Online. There are a lot better looking ships in that game, but these vessels are essentially a less-combat focused and more exploration-focused equivalent of the Sovereign class.
@@VestedUTuber Cool.
The Borg are a perfect direct democracy dude... they ‘vote’ on every action of each and every member. The federation calls them drones but they don’t call themselves drones - they are Borg. Every member is Borg. And all the members combined are Brog. A perfect, direct democracy.
I do not think they have a say . so no that is not a direct democracy.
even ants have more of a say.
More like democracy taken to an extreme, and anything taken to an extreme is dangerous.
They do have a say - watch the episodes with Borg in them. They speak in billions of voices but say the same thing. Also, when they freed seven of 9, Picard and others they all say they heated billions of voices when they were in the collective which drowned out the individual... so yeh they are a direct democracy.
They only have one mind.
Gaiadex Viller no, they express themselves as one but they have a hive mind made up of billions of voices and persons... that’s why they can still function when they are disconnected from the collective... it’s interesting but they are basically a perfect direct democracy. They all make collective decisions and everybody then follows those decisions without protest or moaning.
"We are the Borg, lower 👇 your shields 🛡 and surrender your ships, 🛳 we will add your biological ☣ and technological ⚙ distinctiveness to our own." "Your culture will adapt to service us." "Resistance is futile!"
The Borg.
Awesome.
Dominion vs Borg :)
they MUST have fought each other at some point. Assuming neither one of them knew about the other beforehand (which is unlikely considering that Word of God says the Dominion knew of the Federation even before the wormhole was found), the Borg MUST have assimilated someone who knew about them either at the battle of sector 001 or from Voyager. It would be hard for any changinings infiltrating Earth to NOT know about Wolf359 (especially when looking into Sisko's background).
@RRW Good point.
How about Dominion Vs. Species 8472? The Founders and the Undine seem to share several similarities and viewpoints regarding other races, so it would be interesting to see how they'd fare against each other, at least I think so. :)
The problem being, the Founders have absolute control of their forms down to a cellular level. This would point to them being able to isolate or expell the assimilation nanites to keep from being assimilated. If you've been injected with nanites and you can just drop off that part of your body before it spreads and destroy the infected tissue, assimilation would be very difficult and perhaps not worth the effort in the Borg point of view.
The Borg would only win if they militarily converge in their entirety on the Dominions position in the Gamme quadrant, but The Borg simply do not wage war. If it's just a Borg incursion, then the Dominion would repel them. If the Federation can repel them, then the Dominion can.
I like the idea, that this sentence on resistance is actually an artifact from the past. Created from the last individual conscious mind that was assimilated into the hive mind.
"Resistance is never futile!"
And while the Nanites do their work.
"Resistance is ... never... futile!"
The mind of the soldier is slowly fading while trying to push a button that would destroy the fiend.
"Futile... is... resistance... never!"
The hand, once strong and bold, is slowly sinking.
For a short while in silence. Before his eyes, his complete race is slaughtered. One last tear rolls down his cheek, but it's not clear if that was his tear or simply a reaction of his body to the assimilation process.
"Resistance is futile!"
This sentence was burned into the hive mind. Born out of hatred against himself, for his failure.
If the Borg showed up, I'd volunteer to join them immediately.
Move to North Korea. They have group think over there that is very much like the Borg.
I don't care how many times they appear. The Borg never stop being scary to me.
Call me biased, but I think the Replicators managed to be better Borg than the Borg ever were.
you realize that the Replicators appeared after Voyager ENDED right?
Resistance is futile until a squad of terminators teleport onto the cube. xD
Adapt to energy all you want borg you can't adapt to .75 cal bolt rounds.
Purge the xenos
Adapt to the Pulse plasma rifle maybe but they can't assimilate terminators if they don't have any organic components
@@jetfire1153red he is refering to space marines terminators, not the movie ones
Maybe he was but The ones from the terminator film franchise are better because they're not organic beings are they.
jetfire1153red depends on the Terminator model i think
That borg use in your for the video you have...I've thought for years that it's Dolph Lundgren, but I've never been able to confirm it? good vid.
If I were to come up with an origin story for the Borg I'd say that much like the Founders had used genetics to control the Jem hadar, and the Vorta, another species had done something similar with technology. Like the Founders they were obsessed with order, and so they sent out the Borg as a way of creating order.
/V0tEs bEl0w.
Trill! Trill! Trill!
Be Woke with the Awoken.
After the Trill please do a video on the Zentradi from SDF Macross.
Awoken pls
Trill. I hope we are going to get more information about the Borg in the future
Zentradi from SDF Macross please.
I always saw the Borg similar to the Mongol Empire. They assimilated everything as they took it over.
Nice video. My vote is to cover the Ur-Quan Hierarchy from the Star Control series.
Ooh, I don't remember the process I used several years ago, but I was able to donload all the Ur-Quan Master music to my iPod.
not only was voyager space probe was "out-of-date" the tech of veger is more advanced then the borg
Audio is too quiet. Virtually impossible for me to listen to without earbuds.
I would like to see the borg mounting a war against the Dominion ^^
Could get interesting.
I wonder if a civilization like willing gave the borg their enhanced technology (like when a new thing is made they share it with the borg) do you think that the borg wouldn't destroy them then? Cause basically they'd be getting free upgrades without having to expend their own energy or resources or anything
I think the reason there's a Queen is because without one there's no sentient antagonist. I mean there would be (the collective) but that's impossible to write dialogue for. Anyway great vid.
I love the Borg. They are almost perfect
Could you do a video on the Locust or Chimera (from Gears of War and Resistance respectively) after your next cultural index video? You could even hold a vote between the 2.
You forgot the fearsome and deadly Borg Rubix Cube!!! :-P
last I checked, 2 queens died on camera. One in the season finale of voyager, and one in the movie First Contact. Both queens were killed. One dissolved in plasma coolant, the other infected with a virus.
I know this is an old reference, but in the game "Armada II" the Type 03 Borg vessel was call the assimilator.
I would love to see a battle royale between a cube and the planet killer.
I love the borg it’s exceptional idea