- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: gamertag xeros5
I don't know much about the borg. Actually I don't know anything about them. What are they?
They are a Star Trek-based, technologically outstanding collective similar to the Flood - except instead of biological infection they infect things through technology. Anything they come across that they deem useful they add to the Borg arsenal. Aside from some later Voyager episodes, the Born posed the most dangerous threat to the Federation because of several factors:
1) Their ships and personel were near impossible to damage. Everything borg has an adaption ability, and since most Star Trek weapons were energy-based they operated on specific frequencies. The borg were always able to quickly adapt to whatever frequency was being used and become totally immune.
2) They have the largest wealth of knowledge. Like the Covenant, they are not innovative but imitative. They are great at utilizing the technologies of species or race they encounter.
3) The Borg drones are decent combat soldiers, highly efficient workers, and individually intelligent.
4) The Borg are controlled by a hive mind, meaning they are more efficient and tactically are much more capable.
5) Like technology, any humanoid creature they come across they can assimilate into the collective. By inserting nanites into the victims they are made ready to have larger intrusive technologies integrated into their bodies. They lose their previous identities and become Borg.
Their classic ship is a large, black cube. It looks as if it was constructed at random because it has no definate hull, but rather an interwoven set of components. The ships are very large and very deadly.
/Trekkie