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  • @Lin.QiYuan
    @Lin.QiYuan Рік тому +1003

    "You may encounter Enterprise crew members who've already been assimilated. Don't hesitate to fire... believe me, you'll be doing them a favor."
    - Captain Jean-Luc Picard

    • @wephilips6651
      @wephilips6651 Рік тому +92

      Unless it’s me; definitely don’t shoot and try to rescue me
      Picard, probably 😂

    • @TurboNerdNews
      @TurboNerdNews Рік тому +16

      Quickly Mr. Data lock out the main computer!

    • @Krazy6ix
      @Krazy6ix Рік тому +6

      that scene was really fucking scary

    • @LoneTiger
      @LoneTiger Рік тому +21

      _"Halfway to Hell is still not a recommended destination."_
      - Jean-Luc Picard (Picard S2E3 "Assimilation" 2022)

    • @serverivy8371
      @serverivy8371 Рік тому +15

      Says Picard, a man who was rescued from the Borg and was fine. And 7 of 9. And those Borg kids from Voyager. And Hugh. Probably more I'm forgetting
      Seems like it's not too hard to undo assimilation lol

  • @SulliMike23
    @SulliMike23 Рік тому +1035

    “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.”

  • @AndrewJamesWilliams
    @AndrewJamesWilliams Рік тому +468

    The Borg are arguably one of the most chilling science fiction races ever conceived of. Especially as they cannot be reasoned with, cannot be bought of or convinced to leave you alone. If you have something they want they will come and take it and everything else that makes you, you making you like them.

    • @Nostripe361
      @Nostripe361 Рік тому +45

      They are the closet you can get to Eldritch abomination without going full Lovecraftian.
      Personal I am fan of them being a lot like the flood from Halo and the true existence of the borg is beyond space and time and the collective is only their physical connection on the physical plane. This would explain why their origin is so fragmented and gives them a true chance to appear again in the future. All it needs now is the right conditions for the collective to return.

    • @Damien_N
      @Damien_N Рік тому +32

      Utilitarianism pushed to the maximal extent. Everything has a purpose, nothing is wasted.
      The collective is an expression of cosmic horror without going into spiritualism. Purely technological. Their overall goals are inscrutable, unknowable and would shatter the mind of the individual if shown it as a whole.
      In a sense the Tyrannids of 40k, their Zerg copies in StarCraft, the Flood of Halo and the Necromorph Brethren Moons are perhaps some of the closest peers in other universes. Though those are all biological in origin, I’m not sure which is more terrifying.

    • @toddkes5890
      @toddkes5890 Рік тому +8

      And it might just be your resources are useful. You could be an already assimilated species sample, with your technology lower than what the Borg use, but your colony has useful resources and the residents of the colony can be gathered and assimilated, all to produce another Borg Cube.

    • @nomorerainbows
      @nomorerainbows Рік тому +1

      They're communists.

    • @mycrazylife1111
      @mycrazylife1111 Рік тому +9

      **Eagle screeches** What was that you said about Ame... the Borg? :)

  • @patsfreak
    @patsfreak Рік тому +328

    Q did humanity a solid by letting them know what was coming. It was clear they were moving towards the Federation since the message from the 22nd century. His second deft move was giving Voyager a shortcut home that just so happened to have them run across a Borg trans warp hub that would eventually get them home and also leave the Borg broken and reeling.

    • @thegreatboto
      @thegreatboto Рік тому +32

      Time paradoxes being what they are, Q also initiated the series of events leading to the Borg wreckage/drones ending up on 22nd century Earth to send the signal back to the collective. If Q hadn't made that introduction at all, it's possible that the Borg may not have come knocking on Starfleet's door. Though, it's more likely a matter of when given the Borg's expansionist attitude. The Federation also would have been even more ill-equipped to combat the Dominion without its experience gained from fighting the Borg. A solid by Q, yes, from a certain point of view considering that all the while he was also pestering various members of the species why humanity should be allowed to exist at all and not be snapped out.

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 Рік тому +23

      @@thegreatboto It's worth pointing out that those ships using the newer design paradigm that we first saw with the _Enterprise-E_ were Star Fleet's new construction designed to fight the Borg; the Federation might not have been able to survive the Dominion War without the weapons they built for the Borg.

    • @holy_crusaderoftheholyland4713
      @holy_crusaderoftheholyland4713 Рік тому +11

      Q: the destroyer of empires, and Mexican cosplayer.

    • @Nerobyrne
      @Nerobyrne Рік тому +3

      I love how he jsut quotes Q at the start ^^

    • @DeetexSeraphine
      @DeetexSeraphine Рік тому +2

      Mustn't forget that Q have junior a very stern warning...
      "Don't Provoke the Borg!"

  • @occultatumquaestio5226
    @occultatumquaestio5226 Рік тому +154

    Quite the comprehensive assessment of the Borg.
    Still, for as devastated as they are, they may be weakened, but not necessarily gone.
    Somewhere and sometime, they'll probably be back.
    But resistance it would seem, is not so futile.

    • @Nitram4392
      @Nitram4392 Рік тому +15

      They are quile literally like a disease: As long as 1 borg nanoprobe remains activ somewhere, they can come back.

    • @alextricoverload
      @alextricoverload Рік тому +7

      While not entirely canon (as far as I know), Star Trek Online does have the Borg return again in 2409.

  • @imperatortiago
    @imperatortiago Рік тому +98

    "In their collective state, the Borg are utterly without mercy; driven by one will alone: the will to conquer. They are beyond redemption, beyond reason."
    - Jean-Luc Picard, unknown, quoted by Kathryn Janeway, 2373

  • @generalnawaki
    @generalnawaki Рік тому +224

    The Borg are the dark forest. So long as even one drone, one nano probe exists the borg remain. Never shall our galaxy be safe.

    • @GrandmasterDevo
      @GrandmasterDevo Рік тому +33

      Exactly. As long as any Borg technology still exists in the galaxy, there's the possibility that a new collective will rise.

    • @vex6633
      @vex6633 Рік тому +21

      With the rise of New Trek like Lower Decks, Picards S3 and especially Strange New Worlds, my hopes are up for a new, old school type series of a 5-year mission in the gamma-quadrant, set right after DS9. Who knows whats still kicking about there. Maybe we just severed a tiny arm of the Borg in the Delta Quadrant, and the true leviathan rests somewhere else.

    • @Corbomite_Meatballs
      @Corbomite_Meatballs Рік тому

      @@GrandmasterDevo You know some idiot scientist(s), government bureau, secret spy network, etc. has some Borg bits just laying around that they're waiting to use...until the Borg use them.

    • @Stealthwilde
      @Stealthwilde Рік тому +9

      As long as writers run out of new ideas, the borg will return.

    • @Gfish17
      @Gfish17 Рік тому +3

      ​@@Stealthwildeyou don't think the Borg can offer anything new?
      Because that could be said about other factions too.

  • @paradox7358
    @paradox7358 Рік тому +190

    "They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!"

    • @LoneTiger
      @LoneTiger Рік тому +16

      _"You broke your little ships... see you around, Ahab."_

    • @yrooxrksvi7142
      @yrooxrksvi7142 4 місяці тому +2

      "I......Will make them PAY for what they've done !!!"

  • @deltarno7502
    @deltarno7502 Рік тому +42

    One twist I like to think about is an AU where the Borg do try diplomacy. After all, conquest by force only works for so long until you run into something stronger. Instead, imagine them as the slow, creeping horror of a hive mind that's kind, friendly, and slowly working it's way into every civilization. Someone struggling with depression or a critical injury? Go get assimilated, we assure you you'll be just the same person, even if instead it's the hive mind using the captured mind to put on a happy little act. Criminals, the outcast and the unwanted would be given to the Borg as a way of 'making use of bad rubbish'. Scientists and artists would want to join due to the illusion of keeping their own mind, where as instead they merely added to the collective.
    And in the end, once the drones were everywhere and knew everything about the civilization? The conquest would take less than a day.

    • @ethanblair981
      @ethanblair981 10 місяців тому +4

      Read upon Genestealer Cults, you'd like that

    • @ambassador-classenjoyer6239
      @ambassador-classenjoyer6239 9 місяців тому +4

      An even closer parallel to the UFP, I love it! Michael Eddington would be rolling in his non-existent grave

    • @jeandeville807
      @jeandeville807 4 місяці тому

      This seems like the approach liberals have towards Islam.

  • @RockyX123
    @RockyX123 Рік тому +25

    Ah the Borg. Once the scariest race in all of Star Trek. Rendered into comic villains that could be beaten every other episode in Voyager, much like the Daleks.

  • @CommanderBohn
    @CommanderBohn Рік тому +384

    Fact: Giving the Borg a Queen and making them somewhat reminiscent of bees was a horrible idea. If they are a collective then they don't need a Queen.
    "Assimilation is futile." - Ensign Alexander Munro

    • @samk522
      @samk522 Рік тому +87

      I never thought of her (them?) as being a literal queen or leader; that's just the Federation drawing an analogy. I imagine the Borg Queen as being a short of living vinculum, a focal point where the Collective's many voices are drawn into one. Like the destruction of a Borg ship's vinculum, the death of the Queen disrupts at least a large portion of the Collective for a time, but it just produces another one. So I really don't think the "Queen" is anything more than a specialized drone at the end of the day.

    • @mho...
      @mho... Рік тому

      All the "Queen" was suppost to be, was an "oversight ai" bringing order to the chaos!
      not an individual, connected to the Hive!

    • @TheNN
      @TheNN Рік тому +7

      *Ahem* that's Lt. (jg) Alexander Munro.

    • @vepeu
      @vepeu Рік тому +8

      the borg we're portrayed as a Cult, not a colony

    • @Philip-ei8pu
      @Philip-ei8pu Рік тому +3

      They've a king in the mirror universe.

  • @dsutt777
    @dsutt777 Рік тому +70

    Here's something that has taken 20+ years for me to notice... Borg written language is VERY reminiscent of Gallifreyan.

    • @nickh8200
      @nickh8200 Рік тому +11

      That's because the Borg were created by them

  • @lanceleader163
    @lanceleader163 Рік тому +112

    The Borg and The Flood from HALO would truly be the worst ways you could die. Fates worse than death. And with the Flood, you are still alive in there somewhere, in pain, forever…

    • @SectorZeroOne
      @SectorZeroOne Рік тому +10

      Don't forget the tyranid horde from Warhammer 40k. They strip worlds down to nothing. Including plants and germs

    • @CollinBuckman
      @CollinBuckman Рік тому

      @@SectorZeroOne Tyranids just kill and eat you tho, the Borg and Flood enslave you while you're still alive

    • @Detson404
      @Detson404 Рік тому +28

      @@SectorZeroOneAt least the Tyranids just eat you. Honestly they’re merciful by 40k standards.

    • @Detson404
      @Detson404 Рік тому +15

      The Borg wouldn’t be so bad. A drone isn’t in any particular pain and wouldn’t care if it was, and people de- assimilated often miss the collective.

    • @bendoddridge2059
      @bendoddridge2059 Рік тому +5

      ​@@Detson404The tyranids are merciful by most standards.

  • @MrDinmaker
    @MrDinmaker Рік тому +95

    I'm honestly amazed the institute hasn't done an investigation on the borg before now

    • @annonhym487
      @annonhym487 Рік тому +21

      They did, but previous Institute personnel were unfortunately assimilated.

  • @Tarotb
    @Tarotb Рік тому +79

    I always preferred the original TNG personal shield; more like a distortion of local space time, than a field, like we got post first contact.

  • @voldugastur
    @voldugastur Рік тому +8

    I was wondering when the Templin Institute would release a video detailing the Borg Collective yesterday, and to my surprise they have uploaded it today! Surely I'm being monitored...

  • @DCMarvelMultiverse
    @DCMarvelMultiverse Рік тому +34

    Question. Using in-story logic, why is their chosen name the "Borg?" Now we the audience knows it means cyborg. However, what does "Borg" mean to the Borg?

    • @GrandmasterDevo
      @GrandmasterDevo Рік тому +24

      Exactly that, if beta-canon is to be believed. Have you read the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy? The Borg's origins are explained in that one, they came about from a group of time-displaced humans who were infected by the catoms of a sole surviving Caeliar. As one of the humans was being infected and forced into the gestalt mind, his last free thought was that he would not become a cyborg. His mind joined the gestalt midway through that last word, so "borg" was the first word spoken by the new collective consciousness, and became their name.

    • @cmdraftbrn
      @cmdraftbrn Рік тому +7

      @@GrandmasterDevo sounds swedish

    • @piotrd.4850
      @piotrd.4850 Рік тому +5

      @@GrandmasterDevo Great read btw.

    • @JcoleMc
      @JcoleMc Рік тому

      @@GrandmasterDevo nah I refuse to accept this as canon

    • @GothicLightingQueen
      @GothicLightingQueen Рік тому

      ​@@cmdraftbrn It is actually a swedish word. It means fort (like fortress), I'll guess you could say castle but if you define castle as a nice building and a fort as a military instilation, then fort is the better word

  • @schiefer1103
    @schiefer1103 Рік тому +21

    A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

  • @deanlawson6880
    @deanlawson6880 Рік тому +17

    Wow! This is the best Templin Institute video I have ever seen! VERY thoroughly researched, and planned out to encompass the whole Borg history from the very old up through the latest most recent events and occurrences! Excellent!!
    Very nicely done! Thanks for this!

    • @ShEsHy
      @ShEsHy Рік тому +1

      My favourite is the Necron faction video, more existential dread ;). Same kind of unstoppable galactic force that is supposedly powerful enough to toy with the other factions combined, yet is continuously stymied by the protagonist faction's plot armour.
      Over the years, I've grown tired of David vs Goliath stories, because, as the protagonist is always a David, Goliaths always end up losing.

  • @captnrobvious47
    @captnrobvious47 Рік тому +8

    I absolutely love the narrator's voice here. He legitimately makes me scared of the Borg again in the Lovecraftien kind of way.

  • @supremefankai5480
    @supremefankai5480 Рік тому +20

    "Assimilate THIS!"
    - Lieutenant Commander Worf

  • @cavetendobiggles1841
    @cavetendobiggles1841 Рік тому +16

    Ah the Borg. I can still remember being a kid in the 90s watching when Q introduced them. Going to see First Connect. Good memories. And as a kid I did often wonder why they only kept sending one Cube to earth when they had such resource.

    • @CharlesUrban
      @CharlesUrban Рік тому +2

      Efficiency. During TNG, they figured that one Cube could overwhelm the Federation's defenses (and they were very nearly correct), so they didn't need to send any more. For First Contact, they only needed one Cube and one Sphere to make it to Earth and then time-paradox everything, so that's all they sent. The Borg don't like to waste resources.

    • @cavetendobiggles1841
      @cavetendobiggles1841 Рік тому +2

      @@CharlesUrban ah very true to be fair. Very Borg like. Appreciated :)

  • @j_fantajay
    @j_fantajay Рік тому +29

    What about doing the ADVENT Administration, I’d love to see you guys do that…

  • @alfredpeasant5980
    @alfredpeasant5980 Рік тому +13

    I didnt know i needed this, my resistance was futile

  • @priest2001
    @priest2001 Рік тому +50

    Ah the Borg. A masterclass in how to create a great villain and then water them down with every apperance until you go "ah it's just the Borg again, who's got the technobabble bullshit way of getting rid of them this week"?

    • @Corbomite_Meatballs
      @Corbomite_Meatballs Рік тому +2

      "Captain, I made an origami sculpture that will totally blow their collective minds, maaaaan..."

  • @johndildine
    @johndildine Рік тому +66

    I really wish you guys would tackle The Culture by Iain Banks' series of novels. I know there's not a ton of media for it but it's one of the most amazing fictional societies ever created.

    • @CaptainKwame1773
      @CaptainKwame1773 Рік тому +2

      I'll have to check this out. I haven't heard of it.

    • @williamhumes7332
      @williamhumes7332 Рік тому +1

      Funny that you mention the Culture. I read the books and they are amazing.

    • @supernukey419
      @supernukey419 Рік тому +2

      Not much in the way of visuals for it, though. I don't think they do books, do they?

    • @johndildine
      @johndildine Рік тому +8

      ​@@supernukey419They do alternate worlds. There's little film media for Warhammer but plenty of videogame related content. There's tons of depth for The Culture, at one point it was the largest article on Wikipedia. Banks created an amazing world but it is so vast it'd be hard to do properly in film. Omniscient robots that treat organics as pets. Technology so advanced they scoff at living on planets. And perhaps my favorite line of all time "money implies poverty," I just think Templin could generate a lot of content on something not a lot of people are familiar with.

    • @KlaxontheImpailr
      @KlaxontheImpailr Рік тому

      @@johndildine it'd probably need a whole line of series' to do it justice.

  • @Noctazar
    @Noctazar Рік тому +49

    "My people encountered them a century ago. They destroyed our cities. Scattered my people across the galaxy.
    They're called the Borg.
    Protect yourself, Captain, or they'll destroy you."

    • @Aeon08897
      @Aeon08897 Рік тому +8

      But never mentioned them to the federation previously…..

    • @borg7529
      @borg7529 9 місяців тому +4

      @@Aeon08897 and if was not Q introducing them, she may not even tell until all federation were scattered like here people. That makes me think if Q was referring as Guinan being dangerous creature for her silence of upcoming threat.

  • @CreeperCraft73
    @CreeperCraft73 Рік тому +9

    You really gotta appreciate this amazing intro.

  • @SkashTheKitsune
    @SkashTheKitsune Рік тому +7

    "They told you once and I will tell you a thousand times Son, DON'T PROVOKE THE BORG!!!"

  • @nealsterling8151
    @nealsterling8151 Рік тому +12

    I am fully convinced that in our "modern" society countless people would happily join such a collective, giving up every kind of individuality or private thought, if it would be marketed to offer some sort of convenience, advantage, or if simply enough people would be already part of it.

    • @johnberry2877
      @johnberry2877 6 місяців тому +4

      Agreed ! If you work in Corporate America this is a reality !!

    • @moa5094
      @moa5094 2 місяці тому

      Buddy 100% in the entire western world, in Asia, Europe, Australia, these others would be forcibly assimilated as a bunch of times in history

    • @walesbkb
      @walesbkb Місяць тому

      ever geard of a place called asia?

  • @firosmedthememer
    @firosmedthememer Рік тому +39

    the borg are such an iconic villain faction, they rival the reapers

    • @camg6400
      @camg6400 Рік тому +5

      Listen. I hear you. But in all honesty, can you really compare the reapers to the Borg? The borg are easily S tier. Reapers? B tier tops

    • @darksaberwolf1175
      @darksaberwolf1175 Рік тому +1

      I'm sure the reapers would easily take over the borg and add them to their husk army shit I think even the flood can stop the borg if they have a grave mind that can infect the collective with that one virus it infected cortana with

    • @darksaberwolf1175
      @darksaberwolf1175 Рік тому +1

      Come to think of it I'm also sure the zerg infestation can also defeat the borg aswell since I think zerg can now take over mechanical units

    • @WarbossR0kt00fSant0s
      @WarbossR0kt00fSant0s Рік тому

      ​@@darksaberwolf1175They absolutely would body the Borg, but they'd have to hurry up or else the Borg would adapt

    • @ShEsHy
      @ShEsHy Рік тому

      Which Reapers? ME1 or the caricature that ME2, and especially ME3, Reapers were?

  • @Arbyfig
    @Arbyfig Рік тому +26

    I don't think the Borg is scary because its different, I think its because it is the fact that it is two sides of the same coin when it comes to the federation, its how similar they are. The Federation is about improving one's self and life for others, and the Borg is doing the same in the way they calculate it, the Borg embodies 'the needs of the many, outweighs the needs of the few'.

    • @TheOneWhoMightBe
      @TheOneWhoMightBe Рік тому +3

      “We are The Federation. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is acceptable; we can wait.”

    • @P2J3M4
      @P2J3M4 Рік тому +1

      They were the analogy for communism for a reason. The collective good before the individual.

    • @jamesstuart5877
      @jamesstuart5877 8 місяців тому

      @@TheOneWhoMightBe Klingons: We don't do that here.

  • @weldonwin
    @weldonwin Рік тому +199

    Remember when the Borg were the most terrifying thing in Star Trek? Remember when they were this faceless, Lovecraftian leviathan, baring down on the galaxy from out of the darkness, mysterious and utterly unstoppable except by the most profound effort and even then, they were just stalled rather than defeated? And the Voyager ran them into the ground and they became just another incompetent badguy, constantly failing every single time...

    • @jaylewis9876
      @jaylewis9876 Рік тому +28

      My impression is managers overruled writers because they have to feel useful

    • @BigHeadClan
      @BigHeadClan Рік тому +23

      Mmm Voyagers writing may have mishandled them at times and made them feel much less overpowered but Voyager was they made after the first major battle with the Borg Collective and was developed around the same time as the Defiant and much closer to a proper warship than the outgoing Enterprise D.
      So in universe it makes far more sense why the Borg threat isn’t as overwhelming.
      Despite that I think Voyager made the Borg far more interesting race as we actually get to learn more about them.

    • @Owl_Space
      @Owl_Space Рік тому +14

      I would argue that this is a case of infinitely adaptable (the Borg) meets an equally adaptable force with a side of stubborn (Starfleet, and humanity in particular). The Borg's weakness was always its lack of understanding of the individual, and even when creating the Queen, it was with the mindset of Loyalty to the Whole without a reason to be loyal. In other words, there was no Purpose.
      Starfleet has a Purpose. "To seek out new life and new civilizations." They go out to explore. Loyalty is built into being a part of Starfleet, they work as a team, but relying on diversity united voluntarily to accomplish a goal.
      Troi told that Romulan commander that to defeat an enemy, you must first understand them. It took Locutus, Wolf 359, Seven, and a lot of death to understand the Borg, but understand them they did. Thus, once Starfleet got its hands on Seven's Infinite Frequency Infinite Combination weapon, the Borg became something manageable. Dangerous to be sure, but they can be held in check.

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 Рік тому +3

      @@BigHeadClan Nah, the _Intrepid_ class wasn't one of the Federation's anti-Borg warship classes. _Those_ have a distinct look, as typified by the _Sovereign_ class ships, but others showed up for the later parts of the Dominion War.
      It's also worth noting that _Voyager_ is a relatively small ship, less than half the size of the _Enterprise-D._ By all rights it should have been less powerful... and, yes, it would have somewhat better tech than _Enterprise,_ but then, the Borg are getting new technology, too.

    • @BigHeadClan
      @BigHeadClan Рік тому

      @@boobah5643​​⁠​​⁠​⁠As I said it was constructed during the same period as the Defiant, while not specifically tailored for battle against the Borg the Intrepid was the result of a more combat focused design and laid the ground work for many of the key features later anti Borg ships would use as standard.
      The Intrepid was muuuch smaller than the enterprise yes, but the Enterprise D was effectively a cruise liner carrying large swaths of non combatants and families.
      StartFleet removed the civilian aspects allowing for a much smaller/maneuverable ship with a more advanced warp core, faster computing thanks to its neural gel packs, while sporting a similar number of phaser banks, advanced shielding and sensor arrays all of which was on par or more advanced than the Enterprise D.
      StarFleet effectively cut all the fat away from the Enterprise D, tossed in the newest tech they were working on as a field test for the Enterprise E.
      It may not seem like it but Voyager and the ships of her class are more capable than even the Galaxy class in a fight.
      It’s also worth keeping in mind a voyager in the show was constantly being improved as it was exposed to new technology, including notable improvements by the Borg themselves.

  • @Mitchz95
    @Mitchz95 Рік тому +3

    Great video! The writing and voice acting is always top notch, particularly the intros, and this one is no exception.

  • @Xankreigore
    @Xankreigore Рік тому +14

    Great video as far as technology and ships one of my favorite factions.

  • @mattbristerpostma3742
    @mattbristerpostma3742 Рік тому +2

    Excellent job. The description here really bought the terror back into what the Collective represents.

  • @danielnewton7500
    @danielnewton7500 Рік тому +8

    i'd love to see a video on the Q Continum

  • @storozhevoy75
    @storozhevoy75 Рік тому +13

    Based on what I've seen, the Collective appears to have some sort of compartmentalization where drones are directly connected to each other on their ships/installation and send/receive information through the central plexus. Without that, information is disseminated more directly, but not so much that the drone's brain is overwhelmed.

  • @nicholasmorsovillo2752
    @nicholasmorsovillo2752 Місяць тому +3

    It was in the Season 3 episode 'Blood Fever' where the crew of Voyager found the remains of a dead Borg drone that showed them that they were in the home territory of Starfleet's deadliest enemy.

  • @Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent

    This was great! Especially on the now supposedly dead collective.
    Just one small little detail that was pointed out but not made later.
    So long as a single drone exist a new collective can be born.
    As long as a Borg vessel, structure, or even nano bot is still functional or capable of function and still able to retain the primary purpose of the original collective. The threat of the BORG will remain.
    This is the horror of the collective now. Not knowing if it is dead or in some distant corner of the galaxy . After all that is the one ally the BORG has. Time. Like some ancient lovecraftian monster hiding in the dark in some ancient tomb in the void until someone one day opens the door.

  • @ericmorang3903
    @ericmorang3903 Рік тому +11

    I am the beginning. The end. The One Who Is Many. I am the Borg.

  • @floriangallus7760
    @floriangallus7760 Рік тому +5

    This reminded me how great the cinematography of Voyager could be. Thinking about which epsiode to rewatch.

  • @piotrd.4850
    @piotrd.4850 Рік тому +7

    _[..] You can't outrun them, you can't destroy them. If you damage them, *the essence of what they are remains*. They regenerate and keep coming.[..]_ - ah, the Cyber-Tyranids and their Servitors...

  • @danielbloomquist9810
    @danielbloomquist9810 Місяць тому +1

    "With treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it is NOT for the timid."
    I see you out here, Templin Institute, quoting our favorite puckish hyperdimensional collective of abstract genius.

  • @Andrews__YT
    @Andrews__YT Рік тому +5

    Very spooky. Great stuff, thank you

  • @duartevilelas9688
    @duartevilelas9688 Рік тому +6

    While on the subject of StarTrek, do you plan on exploring "The Orville" universe?

  • @PeacelordApropos
    @PeacelordApropos Рік тому +1

    This is a wonderful and beautiful look into the nature of the collective. Thank you

  • @thegreenmanofnorwich
    @thegreenmanofnorwich Рік тому +6

    "I am two thousand six hundred and thirty eight of three thousand one hundred and nine
    You will be assim.... oh, they've buggered off."

  • @Proiteus
    @Proiteus Рік тому +10

    Have you ever considered taking the most powerful race from each sci fi setting and ranking them?
    Be curious to see how the Borg would fair against the tyranids of 40K.

    • @mho...
      @mho... Рік тому +1

      They are both crippled by lore to be beatable, so its weird!

    • @thegreatboto
      @thegreatboto Рік тому +1

      I'd give it to the tyranids, partly due to everything in 40k being a little over the top. Tyranids fight with acids, psy energy, hardened biology and consume biomass. Not much there for the Borg to adapt against. They can try to assimilate, but a whole of of their drones are going to get chopped in half, melted, or driven mad in the process of trying and the dead drones would get tossed into the tyranids' reclamation pools.

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 Рік тому +2

      @@thegreatboto I figure it depends on how effective the Borg nanotech is against Tyranid biology.

    • @thegreatboto
      @thegreatboto Рік тому +1

      @@boobah5643, definitely. Difficult to say. Though, the nanoprobes are already disadvantaged since they usually need close contact and some level of restraint of the victim to apply them. I'm sure there are other methods of delivery (such as via transporters as seen in Picard S3, but Tyranids don't have/use transporters), but if it's limited to manual injections, drones need to survive a lot of being hacked to pieces, melting and not being driven mad in order for nanoprobes to have a chance.

    • @blackmondayy1
      @blackmondayy1 Рік тому +2

      @@thegreatboto I think you are massively underestimating the Borg. One successful assimilation and in an instance, the Borg would know all the Tyranid's strengths and weaknesses. Plus the technology in ST is far superior to 40K .... even though 40K is my favorite universe just because everything is so over the top.

  • @mycrazylife1111
    @mycrazylife1111 Рік тому +5

    I knew you guys would do this eventually :) What timing too, my day sucked worse than Wolf 359!

  • @widerchip7285
    @widerchip7285 Рік тому +3

    ive been really interested in star trek law recently and i love your videos on it

  • @CyberPrussian
    @CyberPrussian Рік тому

    Wow, great video. Sent shivers down my spine, and highlighted that the Borg are just a bit more than space undeads.

  • @aragos32727
    @aragos32727 Рік тому +11

    I will always assert that Q made the Enterprise meet the Borg on purpose, to better help them prepare and give them a head start. I will die on that hill.

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 Рік тому +6

      It's pretty clear even in that first episode that the encounter with the Borg was the point. An episode synopsis: Picard brags that they can handle anything, Q responds by throwing them at the Borg, and Picard cries uncle. The Borg were chosen because, unlike, say, the Founders, the Borg gave Picard a chance to see how out of his depth he was; a Jem'hadar fleet would have simply destroyed the _Enterprise_ and there wouldn't have been anyone left to learn the lesson.

    • @aragos32727
      @aragos32727 10 місяців тому +2

      @@boobah5643 well yeah, Q even stated that much. But I honestly think that Q favors Humanity and wanted to give us a head start and a fighting chance.

  • @dikdikmarzipan2819
    @dikdikmarzipan2819 Рік тому +5

    What ST:P failed to do in the 3rd season was make the Borg a bit more interesting with Agnes sending some of her own Borg troops to defend the Federation. She is after all the only person to beneficially change the Borg queen as a collective alliance.
    "We are Borg. We seek peace. Lower your shields and prepare for diplomacy."

  • @Captainkebbles1392
    @Captainkebbles1392 Рік тому +34

    Best sci fi race ever hands down
    Legit unbeatable. Legit only times they lose is when the writers back out in thr final seconds.
    Flood, Tyranids, Zerg. No mass sci fi force could beat them. They'd ever be assimilated adapted.
    Truly a worthy foe to the federation.
    One is cohesion by unity of choice
    The other, by mutilation and force

    • @blackmage665
      @blackmage665 Рік тому

      The flood are certainly able to beat the borg, they are every bit as intelligent if not more so, and can assimilate the borg in turn.
      The Zerg would be food
      Tyranids are...probably too boundless and dangerous to assimilate. The Borg would be eaten, but are not infectable like other races the Tyranids face.
      Necrons would probably run over the Borg, their whole thing is how powerful their tech is. You wouldn't even assimilate one of them. not one.

    • @boobah5643
      @boobah5643 Рік тому +5

      It's writer's fiat whether Borg nanotech can work on any of those; if it does, the Borg can walk all over them. If not, the Borg have problems, because their drones are just more biomass for their opponent.

    • @zacharybecker8228
      @zacharybecker8228 Рік тому +2

      The flood def have a shot cus of the logic plague

    • @caffetiel
      @caffetiel Рік тому +3

      What do 'mutilation' and 'force' mean to an organism that is to us what multicellular life is to the paramecium? Is it mutilation and force for humans to eat? To breathe?
      You're thinking too small.

  • @Acradius
    @Acradius Рік тому +1

    Cool video guys, although I think there was a major point that may have been missed. One of the most terrifying assets of the Borg Collective was its ability to rapidly adapt to any adversity. A weapon that was effective on one or two drones would suddenly become as useful as a flashlight as every single drone adusted their shields to completely nullify it.
    On a less critical note, I think my favorite Borg moment was when Seven assumed control of the derelict cube that the Romulans called The Artifact. I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

  • @BeamerMT1979
    @BeamerMT1979 Рік тому +7

    If it wasn’t for plot armor, I always thought the Borg could have decimated the Federation on a whim.

  • @brayanfisk8769
    @brayanfisk8769 Рік тому +10

    Templin institute can you make this videos
    1 the ecclesiarchy from warhammer 40k
    2 the imperium of ninjago
    3 the ice hunters from chima
    4 the krang from 2012 tmnt
    5 planet bone from shadow raiders
    6 orcs and goblins from warhammer fantasy
    7 cities of sigmar from warhammer aos
    8 the atomicron alliance from atomicron
    9 the horde from warcraft
    10 the jennerit empire

  • @christophercassidy9962
    @christophercassidy9962 9 місяців тому +1

    Well put together...bravo

  • @eduardograystone4594
    @eduardograystone4594 7 місяців тому +1

    Moreover, it was amazing, top top, I love these themes of Star Trek from collective Borg, it was very good

  • @raptor050
    @raptor050 Рік тому +8

    RIP The Borg Collective in this Universe for now.

    • @niklasulrich4725
      @niklasulrich4725 Рік тому

      no, they are not dead. it just doesnt make any sense. we learn from lower decks that there are still cubes active after endgame. its unlikly there got killed. And Janeway would never have obliterated the complete collective with her virus

  • @mingchoi8369
    @mingchoi8369 Рік тому +32

    Been waiting for this one for a very long time. Now to wait for the Cybermen…
    The Borg might be the most horrifying enemy race encountered by the Federation…but they still got nothing compared to the Daleks. I can only imagine that an encounter between Borg and Dalek would go the same way as Dalek meets Cybermen. We all know how badly that went for the Cybermen…

    • @Janoha17
      @Janoha17 Рік тому +5

      We've also seen what happens when the Cybermen meet the Borg. The Borg are scared of the Cybermen.

    • @GrandmasterDevo
      @GrandmasterDevo Рік тому +10

      @@Janoha17 Ugh, I hated that crossover. The Borg should have overpowered the Cybermen, not the other way round.

    • @Janoha17
      @Janoha17 Рік тому +4

      @@GrandmasterDevo On the other hand, it could have been a calculated move to gain access to the TARDIS, which allowed them to study Time Lord technology and their temporal mechanics.

    • @armymatt83
      @armymatt83 Рік тому +1

      ​@@Janoha17fanfiction bullshit doesn't count

    • @STSGingie
      @STSGingie Рік тому

      ​@@armymatt83I'd hardly call IDW's creative minds fanfiction.

  • @eduardohernandez2368
    @eduardohernandez2368 Рік тому +16

    Resistance is Futile. 🤖

  • @AdamM3377
    @AdamM3377 Рік тому +8

    "Assimilate _this_ !"
    - Worf

  • @jasoncaldwell5627
    @jasoncaldwell5627 Рік тому +2

    It would be nice to see truly non-human Borg drones- like Xindi Insectoids.
    It would be cool to see (in the Picard era) Jem Hadar and Vorta drones as well.

  • @jorgefigueroa4712
    @jorgefigueroa4712 Рік тому +2

    I CAME HERE AS SOON AS IT POPED UP IN MY PHONE!

  • @Natedogg12345
    @Natedogg12345 Рік тому +1

    Finally these vids are y’all’s bread and butter 😃

  • @tsarfox3462
    @tsarfox3462 8 місяців тому +1

    You know you're a terrifying opponent when the Qs have a strict rule about not messing with you.

  • @mleadenham1
    @mleadenham1 Рік тому +2

    Borg offshoot factions such as Unimatrix Zero, The Borg Cooperative, and whatever Jurati/AltQueen are up to might pop up in the future.

  • @PathsUnwritten
    @PathsUnwritten Рік тому +11

    The Borg symbol has always looked like a bear paw to me 🧸

  • @Searly255
    @Searly255 Рік тому +2

    Do you think the first time the nanoprobes break the skin with implants (before the surgery), that those implants are antenna? I've always wondered how fresh drones communicate with the hive mind and that's my only head cannon

  • @TheRinzler2
    @TheRinzler2 Рік тому

    I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR YEARS

  • @himerosTheGod
    @himerosTheGod Рік тому +2

    Ahh the borg. Bring the galaxy closer, one assimilation at a time.

  • @randomaccount-dq1jq
    @randomaccount-dq1jq Місяць тому

    One of the best touches with The Borg for me is the sound before the message, that sort of an old TV being turned off and at the end the sound like a radio channel being tuned, I can never explain why its just something that takes things to such a higher level of internal threat.

  • @owenparris7490
    @owenparris7490 Рік тому +9

    "Hell, it's about time."
    Wait, sorry, wrong universe!

    • @TheCJUN
      @TheCJUN Рік тому +3

      In the pipe, five by five

    • @owenparris7490
      @owenparris7490 Рік тому +1

      @@TheCJUN "I got your Zerg right here."

  • @Banter07
    @Banter07 Рік тому +4

    How have you NOT done this yet

  • @joserubenrodriguezfuentes
    @joserubenrodriguezfuentes Рік тому +4

    Species 8472/The Borg are My Fav Villians...

  • @speciesto3065
    @speciesto3065 Рік тому +2

    My head cannon has always been that the Queen was a backstop to the collective consciousness, perhaps created as a response to cataclysmic failures of the past where the collective ran away with itself and advanced extreme risk/reward scenarios that backfired horribly. Perhaps originally she was created to stop them when they ran away from themselves, but overtime she herself became corrupted and intruded on more and more decisions, eventually approving and controlling everything. This was why she wanted another counterpart: to stop her as well.

  • @GrandmasterDevo
    @GrandmasterDevo Рік тому +1

    I've been waiting for this one.

  • @GamePlayShare
    @GamePlayShare 9 місяців тому +1

    Assimilation is probably the best thing that could happen to humankind. Its like the next step in evolution

  • @Jeremy-83
    @Jeremy-83 2 місяці тому

    2:29 The Borg definitely has a religion which is described by Seven of Nine herself. In the episode entitled "The Omega Directive," Seven describes the Borg's search for perfection, leading them to information about the Omega particle from many different civilizations. She even describes the Borg's pursuit of this particle as a kin to the search for the "Holy Grail" despite never actually stating this fact. The Borg has standing orders to pursue and assimilate anything to do with the Omega particle as it is considered "perfection." So yes, the Borg does, in fact, have a religion and does describe in great detail what perfection is to them thus have a defined pursuit and purpose.

  • @CHASEMARC
    @CHASEMARC 6 місяців тому

    16:06 i don't think they started in the Delta Quad - one of the Borg "sectors" was Galactic Cluster 3 and Galactic Cluster 8 meaning they assimilated GALAXIES

  • @Human_01
    @Human_01 Рік тому +1

    The Borg are fascinating.💙

  • @w41duvernay
    @w41duvernay 4 місяці тому +2

    Still would like to know how all this horror started,was it an accident gone wrong on a world, or was it intentional?

  • @ShangaelThunda222
    @ShangaelThunda222 Рік тому +33

    The Borg is a documentary of humanity's transhumanist future. The story of the Borg is a Dark Omen.

    • @DetectiveLance
      @DetectiveLance Рік тому +9

      The Borg meeting the Adeptus Mechanicus would be a weird kind of waking nightmare.

    • @blackmage665
      @blackmage665 Рік тому +2

      @@DetectiveLance There's a solid chance that the mechanicus turns traitor on that day.

    • @Groza_Dallocort
      @Groza_Dallocort Рік тому

      @@blackmage665 Again

    • @blackmage665
      @blackmage665 Рік тому

      @@Groza_Dallocort indeed! those toaster fuckers...

    • @clovernacknime6984
      @clovernacknime6984 Рік тому +2

      What makes individuals separate is that it's impossible to share every thought immediately with the whole society. But we're working hard to change that. If there's a hive mind in our future, it will rise from social media and be too crippled by advertising and algorithmically manufactured outrage and narcissism to drive "engagement" to pose much of a threat to anyone else.
      "We are the Karen. We will talk with your manager. Resistance is futile."

  • @augustusclaudiusvenorius6292

    This video is simply brilliant.

  • @deanverstraeten3850
    @deanverstraeten3850 Рік тому +2

    people may see Q as a menace, but he did the federation a solid by warning them of the borg, and people would have only believed him if he did it in the way that he did.

  • @misaelcarmonaladouceur6558
    @misaelcarmonaladouceur6558 Рік тому

    La *falla cronológica estuvo muy presente* en muchas de las acontecimientos relatados.
    Pero aún así es un relato digno de escuchar de *the templin institute* .

  • @martinhennigan1113
    @martinhennigan1113 10 місяців тому +1

    The Borg Queen may be controversial but love her or hate her she sure knows how to make a entrance.

  • @Bread-nx9fo
    @Bread-nx9fo Рік тому +3

    "We are Borg, resistance is futile."

  • @bluegold1026
    @bluegold1026 Рік тому

    Thank you for doing a vid on the Borg! A fascinating deep dive!
    I wonder what would happen if the Borg encountered the Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise. My guess: the aliens would be successful resisting in the short term but eventually the Borg would gain the upper hand, adapt to their defenses and ultimately assimilate a Xenomorph into the collective.

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 Рік тому +21

    The Borg? Sounds Swedish

  • @Jazkal-V420
    @Jazkal-V420 Рік тому +1

    An enemy I've heard before, thank you for providing us with this Intel.

  • @housecoatgaming
    @housecoatgaming Рік тому +1

    Picard Season 3 may represent something more terrifying.
    A _cycle._
    The Borg have existed for thousands of centuries. They rise. They fall. They rise again.
    The Borg had hundreds of thousands, if not _millions,_ of starships.
    All that has to happen is someone to get greedy, to emulate Weyland-Yutani's USCSS Nostromo, to start the whole cycle over again.
    It was said once that the Borg are eternal.
    Perhaps, terrifyingly, it is _true._

  • @chacaf22
    @chacaf22 Рік тому

    Why I have chills on my back?

  • @eduardograystone4594
    @eduardograystone4594 7 місяців тому

    de mais, ficou incrivel, top top, adoro esses temas de star trek do Coletivo Borg, ficou muito bom

  • @isaacm1332
    @isaacm1332 Рік тому +1

    fun fact when i was watching TNG i stop for some weeks when it was time for best of both worlds. eventually i watch it and i couldn't sleep for two days. The borg are the most scary and hounting thing ever thout of. PS good vid.

  • @TheCool_Guy23
    @TheCool_Guy23 Рік тому

    I'm not a hardcore Star Trek fan, but I knew the basics about the Borg. I had no idea that they had been destroyed though!

  • @DoctorX17
    @DoctorX17 Рік тому

    That was such a chilling review!

  • @tristankawatsuma8962
    @tristankawatsuma8962 Рік тому +2

    With the Borg gone, the Klingons as allies, and both the Romulans and Cardassians crippled, who is there for antagonists to the Federation? According to lore, there are only a few centuries before the Mirror and Prime Universes drift too far apart, so maybe a faction from that universe learns of this and makes a last minute play against the Prime Universe. Or maybe Odo and any allies he makes in the Dominion are overthrown by those wanting to wage a second war against the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Or perhaps a threat from outside the galaxy tries to invade, forcing Starfleet to get every species to unite against a galaxy-scale threat.