Resistance is futile. For those that are not familiar with the Borg, they are part organic and part artificial beings. They assimilate almost everyone they come in contact with. In other words, they absorb them into the Borg which is a mass consciousness and they become efficient drones who do not even remember their old life.
For all you true Borg fans, I know this explanation is oversimplified, but it is so true that life as one knows it is over once assimilated. As part of the borg, you become a small part of a whole the collective , and lose all sense of individuality.
This once happened with a group of children left behind by the Borg, and it also happened with my favorite Star Trek character: 7 of 9 a Borg designation or name.
The Borg are un-emotional but efficient and can only grow in numbers by assimilation. You can learn all about the Borg by clicking here and reading this informative article on StarTrek.
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Search Submit. Star Trek: The Next Generation. BY Jordan Hoffman. By subscribing to the Star Trek newsletter, which may include personalized offers from our advertising partners, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data collection and usage practices outlined in our Privacy Policy. Science and Technology. Copy to Clipboard. Send Email. First Name. Last Name. Email Address. Year Helena St. Lucia St. Play Sound. Kathryn Janeway being assimilated " You may encounter Enterprise crew members who've already been assimilated.
Don't hesitate to fire Several episodes of Star Trek: Voyager suggested that the Borg cube at Wolf assimilated Starfleet personnel during the battle, and that these new drones were not aboard the cube during its eventual destruction. Stage 3: The nanoprobes form rudimentary implants in the victim's body. The victim becomes linked to the hive mind and falls under the Collective's control. At this stage, the victim's life signs appear erratic.
Stage 4: One of the victim's limbs, or other body parts, is amputated and replaced with a cybernetic implant while other technology is added as needed. Stage 5: One of the victim's eyes is augmented with an eyepiece , which can either grow due to the nanoprobes or be surgically added. Stage 6: Most of the victim's hair falls out, although this was not always the case. Stage 7: Exo-plating is added, usually directly over-top of the victim's clothing.
Stage 8: The new drone is given a designation according to its function in the Collective. By now the victim's life signs no longer read as their original species. The flashbacks in "Survival Instinct" represent the earliest chronological appearance of assimilation tubules, notwithstanding the temporally-displaced Borg in Star Trek: First Contact and " Regeneration ".
They were not seen being used in the assimilation of Captain Picard or the Hansen family, and it is possible the Borg did not develop this technology or assimilate it from someone else until after The Borg seen in " I Borg " and "Descent" show little interest in assimilation, so there is no way to know if they were equipped with tubules.
In fact, Picard appeared to undergo a type of surgery to be transformed into a Borg, with implants being added to his body, while some of his crew were first injected with nanoprobes as well as undergoing surgery.
However, in their appearance in "Star Trek: Borg", many of their arm prosthetics had syringe-like ends to inject a victim with nanoprobes and begin transforming them into Borg, though while the nanotechnology grew some of the implants, some were usually seen being added later on.
Borg implant progression. Don't let them touch you! They aren't human anymore. They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy, and I couldn't stop them! I should have been able to stop them! I tried. I tried so hard. But I wasn't strong enough! I wasn't good enough! I should have been able to stop them. Every time you talk about yourself, you use the word "we. You don't say, "I want this," or "I am Hugh. I am Geordi. I choose what I want to do with my life.
I make decisions for myself. For people like me, losing that individuality is almost worse than dying. There was no crime, no hunger, no health problems. We lived as one harmonious family. Copy to Clipboard. Send Email. First Name. Last Name. Email Address. Year Helena St. Lucia St.
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