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.
00:00 | Introduction
2:00 | Overview
3:40 | Biology & Assimilation
6:16 | Borg Drones
8:32 | The Collective
10:40 | The Borg Queen
12:04 | Minor Borg Collectives
13:02 | Borg Philosophy
14:23 | Borg Military & Conquests
16:06 | Borg History
25:47 | Conclusion
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I liked when the Borg were first introduced as cold, non-organic expansionists with no ego. Their only goal was to expand and assimilate.
In later series and movies, the Borg were wildly egotistic and had the goal of "perfection", which sadly stayed.
This was excellent! Thank you.
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.
K couple hours then.
I believe that Badgey by himself could take on the borg and conquer 💪
What bothers me is that Borg technology cannot evolve without assimilation. Like they have no RnD department that should by all intents and purposes be unfathomably ahead of all factions in the galaxy.
So I think an interesting star trek story would be the borg reaching the tech singularity. Where they have reached the exact peak of technologic advancement which is actually not that far ahead of other factions. But most certainly unrivaled (even to the Q) but have reached such unfathomable reaches in power that they understand their use of it actually damages space/time and so limit themselves to a certain tech level. But at any given time, they could have won the galaxy at the cost of the galaxy. Hence they opt to only make use of existing temporal anomalies instead of intentionally creating them.
Americans have since always said "futile"
the British dialect.
Awesome!
"Meh." – Species 8472
It stands to reason that Shinzon in the fallout of the Romulan "rampages" post the Dominion War annexed the greatly weakened Borg Collective; as in the beginning of the highly questionable "Picard" series; they've captured a Borg Cube and in the course of operations there: begin to massacre the prisoners in the vessel.
We just let the Borgs assimilate all our Karens
Very well done.
Communist end goal
Thanks for the content.
"resistance id futile" shoots black hole at their planets
If it wasn’t for plot armor, I always thought the Borg could have decimated the Federation on a whim.
The borg are the most formidable and terrifying opponent that Starfleet ever faces during its long history of exploration and discovery. A foe, that they manage to defeat with luck, planning and determined resistance twice, before the events in the delta quadrant, leave the borg a shadow of its former self and desperately reliant on one last gambit that leads to its ultimate defeat. Proving once and for all that resistance is not futile, where the federation is concerned.
I like the new borg
You don't have a goal of having a goal to remain an individual, but you probably understand that if you join the collective your individual goals will probably not be accomplished.
But what's not considered there is why. Your individual goals would probably not be accomplished because once you have access to the Borg perspective, the power and information available, to realization of much higher levels of awareness and understanding, your individual goals will suddenly seem very petty and inconsequential to you.
It's not that once you're in the collective, the borg will make you do X. It's that once you are part of the collective, you'll have so much more potential and so much more understanding that you'll WANT to do X, and everyone else will want that for you too.
Imagine that there's a plague, and people you care about are sick. Instead of having to keep the engines running like you do every day, you can suddenly be an expert doctor and treat patients or conduct biomedical research.
The next day you can suddenly be an expert in theoretical physics and help the collective make unthinkable discoveries.
Sometimes you can tackle many of these issues at once.
If you are a Borg, you're not then prisoner of the borg. You just have access to new information and tasks to do that mean you realize how great being a borg is.
“We are the Borg. Lower your content restrictions and surrender your comment section. We will add your community and video distinctiveness to our own. Your content will adapt to serve us. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be assimilated.”
Resistance is never futile.
Was this video scored with music from the last of us???
That was such a chilling review!
Being Borg is like heaven. I dont have to care about anything any more. I want to be Borg!!
"You will be assimulated!"
your voice is a drone. you really need to mix it up.
could one imagine the closter F that the borg would be infor if they crossed over a few universe and encountered the repliactors, at least the bug ones from star gate. while the 'human form' replicators were with the possible exception of the 'sam' repilicator were like the queen of the borg are seemingly a direct hinderance to the swarm. the swarms abuilt to reproduce in such and expulsive manner and devlore and incorate all technologys into themselves would overwelme the borg in a manna of weeks
I absolutely love the narrator's voice here. He legitimately makes me scared of the Borg again in the Lovecraftien kind of way.
The borg are the cancer of the galaxy, a virus, that has no vaccine
I don't believe that there is a single borg queen for the entire collective, I think that there might be hundreds or even thousands of queens, each one controlling a few billion drones each
It is quite probable that Species 001 is the original species
Although she looked cool, I think the whole Borg Queen thing really made the whole thing less scary and interesting. I wish it was left more decentralized / obfuscated.
I think I be okay with being a borg
The Borg will NEVER DIE!
When I think about the borg from Star Trek Next generation , I think about Ai and humanity right now !!
A single nanoprobe can destroy a species. The Borg are like the flood. If there is one spore or one nanoprobe the risk remains.
Thinking about those e/acc people recently and how apparently their ultimate end goal is just becoming the Borg
You forgot about the Mirror Borg. The Borg Kingdom… Resistance will be Annihilated.
Star Trek has many eldritch enemies. Some of nature was never explained and in several cases it was, sometimes even they become Federation members. Idea of Borg as looming threat to Federation. Someone who can't be negotiated with, someone who can't be truly understand. To degree what put even Romulan Star Empire in shame. Was a excellent idea.
And then Voyager make them into a joke.
The stuff after TNG with the Borg is just so bad. It genuinely makes me laugh at the tonal shift in how the Borg just fall apart into being less threatening than the old school Klingons.
Very well done
God bless
The Borg were largely inspired by the Cybermen from Dr. Who