(This is from Lt Commander Kozuke during one of his years at Starfleet Academy.)
Due to various theories on how the Borg came to be, I have come up with a combined version made plausible to the best of my ability.
The Borg were either first made by the Caeliar, or by VGer.
Going with the VGer theory: VGer may have been built by the Caeliar to explore the universe and collect information on everything discovered after they found the Voyager 6 probe and used it to build VGer. VGer then created heralds to aid in the acquisition of knowledge. These would come to be known as the Borg, even if that was not their original name. The Caeliar knew of the existence of the Borg, likely from communicating with VGer.
After the loss of VGer, who merged with Captain Decker, the Borg were without a central guiding figure to unify them. Due to this, they created the Borg Queen from an ideal species that they and/or VGer had discovered. This, however, resulted in some deviation from VGers primary objective. It may have been due to a perverse view of how VGer ended, by merging with an organic being.
Although their primary goal was the acquisition of new technology, they eventually began assimilating various species they discovered. At some point during the 24th century, the primary goal of the Borg had changed; to assimilate other species into their collective and add not only their technological distinctiveness but also their biological distinctiveness to their collective as well.
Additionally, they may have started assimilating species when VGer began to commit discoveries to 'data patterns', both on a larger scale to collect information, and as a method of self-defense. This may be why the Borg tend to ignore other beings until they either prove themselves valuable, or a threat.
On the topic of temporal incursions, some of the Borg from the attack on Earth in the year 2063 may have survived the destruction of the Borg Sphere. If so, and they somehow managed to get even a small message out to the Collective of the past, they may have been directly responsible for their change in mindset through a bit of a time paradox.
The taking of ideal individuals to serve as envoys to the Borg may have started with VGer, with the most notable example being the abduction and assimilation of Lieutenant Ilia to aid in communications with the Enterprise. Also, the Borg may not have originally been smaller, more human sized units. Due to how VGer viewed the Enterprise, they may have originally themselves been starships, all linked collectively to VGer.
There is also a note of interest in the fact that both V'Ger and the Borg use plasma-based weaponry.
In a sense, the Borg could be pitied; losing their central, guiding consciousness, and then proceeding to carry out a perverse interpretation of their primary objective to the best of their ability due to how VGer ended. They may have become one of the most malevolent species in the galaxy, but when they were first created, they served a more noble purpose. To seek out new life, new civilizations, technology, and anything else deemed worthy of being recorded.
This is pure speculation, however, unless enough evidence to back this up is found.
(By the way, my flamesuit is "heart of the Sun" rated, and I am not claiming this theory or events to be fact.)
The Borg: Speculation Based An Encounter
By Captain Marie Aeon Ford, USS Gambler NX-9000-A
No species has posed as much of a threat to the galaxy as the Borg. Most Starfleet officers would rather face a lifetime of imprisonment in a Dominion Labor Camp or face down 12 angry Klingons than be assimilated by the Borg.
How did the Borg come to be?
Evidence is growing that the Borg actually came about by accident, due to malicious programming and flawed security procedures.
The crew of the Gambler while in the M159-B Galaxy encountered a similar life-form that had evolved from virus-corrupted mining nano-machines. This life-form consumed raw metal and constructed huge hive-vessels. The nanobots were further programmed to use organic life as a form of living circuitry in their hives.
Unlike the Borg though these nanobots were able to be reprogrammed to stop their destructive cycle.
Our science officer speculates something similar may have happened to the Origin Species that became the Borg. Fragments from Precursor and Preserver documents mention a peaceful interconnected cybernetic species of humanoid in the Delta Quadrant. The first mentions take place as long as 47,000 years ago.
Up until 900 years ago these beings controlled a small pocket of space near the center of the Delta Quadrant. Around this time references were found describing "cybernetic missionaries" traveling the stars in very large geometric vessels. Several of the older races in the Delta Quadrant used terms such as "harmless," "passive," and "friendly" to describe this race of "cybernetic missionaries." They would hail passing ships and visit planets, greeting all before them and offering them a chance to experience their way of life.
Around 900 years ago a series of wars between the Vaadwaur and other species erupted throughout the Delta Quadrant. Records after this war are fragmentary at best, but one thing is clear, from that point on Borg Space spread practically overnight.
It is speculated that the "cybernetic missionaries" either willingly participated in the war and unleashed a dormant "aggressive" programming that continues to this day or that one of the parties in the Vaadwaur Wars captured a "missionary" and corrupted their programming for use in the war effort. This is supported by the supposition that the Queen is NOT an original part of the Borg makeup but was an attempt by parties unknown to take over and subvert the Borg for whatever reasons.
Analysis of Borg technology shows that the underlying technology is primarily geared twords the rapid collection and processing of information, and the construction of a shared "virtual reality" in which all users would exist and participate.
It is speculated that Unimatrix Zero is the last vestige of an old operating system/reality pocket that has been replaced by a newer expansion-and-acquisition based operating mode.
The above information is pure speculation by the crew of the USS Gambler NX-9000-A and not intended to replace current canon theories. The intent of this document is to foster debate and illuminate possible alternate avenues of research into the Borg.
I have always speculated that they Borg came about by engineered evolution. The concept behind the Borg network is not only sound, but entirely logical for hyper-efficiency.
Consider the basics behind the Borg. A wireless network that links individual minds and allows them to instantly process, share, and disseminate information throughout a group of individuals. The brain operates on an identical process by neurons using dendrites. An example of the infancy of this system is demonstrated in VOY: Unity prior to The Cooperative re-unifying.
However, once one concludes that the incorporation of a small piece of bio-compatible technology improves the overall condition of the species, it is a very small step to conclude that other enhancements can be also be beneficial. Once the network has been established and common use of synthetic organs and appendages becomes widespread it is another small step to increase the efficiency of this technology.
The network becomes wider and more inclusive, and the species becomes accustomed to ever increasing immersion in the "hive." However, like in any group, a leader must rise to direct collective intelligence and ambition. Leaders will always rise. This would be what develops into the "Queen." Eventually, the people become more utilitarian than aesthetic as they are slowly divorced from their sense of self as a individuals.
A modern equivalent to this same process is the invention of the computer, then the invention of the internet followed by the innovation of cloud computing on a technological level. On a social level this same process can be demonstrated by the figure of Christ who spoke of love and forgiveness, but later became the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Westboro Baptist Church.
Did no one see my link in that other place?
Borg came from Earth in an alternate universe where that happened, then transfered to this one just like when they went after the Undine. The Borg Queen is Lady Gaga because she has the most fans. :rolleyes:
Cadet Kozuke, good job good read...
but the confirmed here
but i give you an A for doing all this and such.
It's doesn't even fit into the Star Trek Timeline. The Voyager 6 probe was launched in the 90s and according to Star Trek: Voyager (Season 6 Episode 7 Dragon's Teeth) the borg had already been in the Delta Quadrant for well over 600 years when that probe was launched.
the borg used a lot of temporal stuff. they probably went into the past to assimilate species before they got warp, like first contact.
So, by that theory, they got the ability to travel through time before they got the ability to travel at warp speed. That is like claiming to have invented Lotus Elise GT before you invented the horse and buggy.
well the 2009 movie has nothing to do with the real time line.
but that is the true origin they are looking for the species that made VGer and are to arrogant to know that humans made it so they are really less to perfect then us.
I got from the first film that V'Ger was pretty much an omnipotent being. I don't think the Borg are nearly strong enough to be related to it. It was a one shot character, just to show that a humble human machine could become so powerful by exploring the unknown.
"You're just not thinking 4th dimensionally"
"Right, right. I have a real problem with that."
Actually this all makes PERFECT sense. Voyager DID create the Borg! The present (1977) altered the past (time when Borg were born), the effects of which grew silently in a quadrant far far away, until the past caught up with the future, the current Trek timeline.
But what if Voyager never fell into that black hole..........?
Ive been wanting to do a foundry mission story arc dealing with temporal mechanics and a new threat to fight, since the Borg are played out too much. But the Borg are all we have to use in The Foundry per say. Well, when I read this thread at work today, it got me thinking. Then on the drive home, my neurons were firing at warp speed and a lot of the holes in what I wanted to do just got filled a LOT, thanks to this thread, and still within the ability of the Foundry I believe.
Now, Im just going to wait till Foundry hits holodeck, so I have a full idea of where the boundries are, but Im about to run wild with this script concept!
MWAHAHAHAA
Id love to share what all Im thinking, but that would kill the suspense of the story arc.
As Q would say, "You'll find out. See you....out there!"
Cadet Kozuke, good job good read...
but the confirmed here
but i give you an A for doing all this and such.
It's such an amazing plot twist that Picard created his own nemesis in the Queen.
But does every single thing in Star Trek have to ultimately come down to a Predestined Paradox?
Also, I find it damned Ironic that a Probe named Voyager created the Borg, and the alternate future captain of a ship named Voyager dealt what appeared (in the show) to be the killing blow to the Borg.
Also, I find it damned Ironic that a Probe named Voyager created the Borg, and the alternate future captain of a ship named Voyager dealt what appeared (in the show) to be the killing blow to the Borg.
Nicely put. I can live with irony like that. Maybe I'll give a little nod to this line of yours in my story.
I think we saw a possible origin of the Borg in Dollhouse.
My preferred story is that of the Borg as a unique technological and evolutionary step. At some point, they might have been just like us, but they developed cybernetic technology and ways to interface their minds. Maybe that was just a gimmick at first, or more likely a military project (DARPA -> Internet). It become more public. Maybe they were a little different - privacy and the need for "alonetime" might not have been as desired as it is with many of us today.
And I imagine there wasn't some kind of violent revolution even. More and more people got "linked" (like we go online today). Some did it no more than a few minutes to check up with their parents on the other edge of the continent, others spend more hours. But at some point, the singularity occured, and people were constantly linked. Why not? There were so many advantages. You were never alone. You could share all the unique crazy ideas everyone had. And an emergent group conciousness formed, turning all these individuals into one.
If I were to write this as a novel, I might add some external factors for "drama". An alien species invading their world and starting to enslave it - and the cybernetic link being one of the ways the resistance cells coordinated each other. And at some point, they managed to "assimilate" their first alien, gaining understanding of their technology, and driving them out where they didn't assimilate the rest.
The original "Borg Queen" might have been a particular individual - maybe a catalysator in the evolution of the Hive Conciousness, something particularly able to organize all those minds into a cohesive hole and help it formulate its goals. But it's not the single controlling instance - she just enables the Collective to form decisions and multi-task.
The original "Borg Queen" might have been a particular individual - maybe a catalysator in the evolution of the Hive Conciousness, something particularly able to organize all those minds into a cohesive hole and help it formulate its goals. But it's not the single controlling instance - she just enables the Collective to form decisions and multi-task.
except the borg queen told Data in First Contact that she was from species 25 if I remember correctly. And by that time the Borg would have obviously had to be an interstallar species, that could at least make it to other inhabbited worlds, which means the collective would have had to have had the ability to coordinate its efforts and movements long before the assimilation of species 25. I think it far more likely the borg queen was one of the first to discover something like that dream realm where those borg went when they slept in voyager. Only she managed to to it in the waking world and was slowly over time able to influence and then master the collective.
Personally I hate the idea of V'Ger having anything to do with the borg, if he did then it was the fact that he assimilated a cube or something in his journeys. Maybe the borg think of him as some sort of diety if they even know of him, seeing as how he did their job but only a bajillion times better, by having traversed the entire universe learning all there was to know.
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By Captain Marie Aeon Ford, USS Gambler NX-9000-A
No species has posed as much of a threat to the galaxy as the Borg. Most Starfleet officers would rather face a lifetime of imprisonment in a Dominion Labor Camp or face down 12 angry Klingons than be assimilated by the Borg.
How did the Borg come to be?
Evidence is growing that the Borg actually came about by accident, due to malicious programming and flawed security procedures.
The crew of the Gambler while in the M159-B Galaxy encountered a similar life-form that had evolved from virus-corrupted mining nano-machines. This life-form consumed raw metal and constructed huge hive-vessels. The nanobots were further programmed to use organic life as a form of living circuitry in their hives.
Unlike the Borg though these nanobots were able to be reprogrammed to stop their destructive cycle.
Our science officer speculates something similar may have happened to the Origin Species that became the Borg. Fragments from Precursor and Preserver documents mention a peaceful interconnected cybernetic species of humanoid in the Delta Quadrant. The first mentions take place as long as 47,000 years ago.
Up until 900 years ago these beings controlled a small pocket of space near the center of the Delta Quadrant. Around this time references were found describing "cybernetic missionaries" traveling the stars in very large geometric vessels. Several of the older races in the Delta Quadrant used terms such as "harmless," "passive," and "friendly" to describe this race of "cybernetic missionaries." They would hail passing ships and visit planets, greeting all before them and offering them a chance to experience their way of life.
Around 900 years ago a series of wars between the Vaadwaur and other species erupted throughout the Delta Quadrant. Records after this war are fragmentary at best, but one thing is clear, from that point on Borg Space spread practically overnight.
It is speculated that the "cybernetic missionaries" either willingly participated in the war and unleashed a dormant "aggressive" programming that continues to this day or that one of the parties in the Vaadwaur Wars captured a "missionary" and corrupted their programming for use in the war effort. This is supported by the supposition that the Queen is NOT an original part of the Borg makeup but was an attempt by parties unknown to take over and subvert the Borg for whatever reasons.
Analysis of Borg technology shows that the underlying technology is primarily geared twords the rapid collection and processing of information, and the construction of a shared "virtual reality" in which all users would exist and participate.
It is speculated that Unimatrix Zero is the last vestige of an old operating system/reality pocket that has been replaced by a newer expansion-and-acquisition based operating mode.
The above information is pure speculation by the crew of the USS Gambler NX-9000-A and not intended to replace current canon theories. The intent of this document is to foster debate and illuminate possible alternate avenues of research into the Borg.
Consider the basics behind the Borg. A wireless network that links individual minds and allows them to instantly process, share, and disseminate information throughout a group of individuals. The brain operates on an identical process by neurons using dendrites. An example of the infancy of this system is demonstrated in VOY: Unity prior to The Cooperative re-unifying.
However, once one concludes that the incorporation of a small piece of bio-compatible technology improves the overall condition of the species, it is a very small step to conclude that other enhancements can be also be beneficial. Once the network has been established and common use of synthetic organs and appendages becomes widespread it is another small step to increase the efficiency of this technology.
The network becomes wider and more inclusive, and the species becomes accustomed to ever increasing immersion in the "hive." However, like in any group, a leader must rise to direct collective intelligence and ambition. Leaders will always rise. This would be what develops into the "Queen." Eventually, the people become more utilitarian than aesthetic as they are slowly divorced from their sense of self as a individuals.
A modern equivalent to this same process is the invention of the computer, then the invention of the internet followed by the innovation of cloud computing on a technological level. On a social level this same process can be demonstrated by the figure of Christ who spoke of love and forgiveness, but later became the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Westboro Baptist Church.
but the confirmed here
but i give you an A for doing all this and such.
Borg came from Earth in an alternate universe where that happened, then transfered to this one just like when they went after the Undine. The Borg Queen is Lady Gaga because she has the most fans. :rolleyes:
It's doesn't even fit into the Star Trek Timeline. The Voyager 6 probe was launched in the 90s and according to Star Trek: Voyager (Season 6 Episode 7 Dragon's Teeth) the borg had already been in the Delta Quadrant for well over 600 years when that probe was launched.
Gross Concept Error
So, by that theory, they got the ability to travel through time before they got the ability to travel at warp speed. That is like claiming to have invented Lotus Elise GT before you invented the horse and buggy.
but that is the true origin they are looking for the species that made VGer and are to arrogant to know that humans made it so they are really less to perfect then us.
"Right, right. I have a real problem with that."
Actually this all makes PERFECT sense. Voyager DID create the Borg! The present (1977) altered the past (time when Borg were born), the effects of which grew silently in a quadrant far far away, until the past caught up with the future, the current Trek timeline.
But what if Voyager never fell into that black hole..........?
Ive been wanting to do a foundry mission story arc dealing with temporal mechanics and a new threat to fight, since the Borg are played out too much. But the Borg are all we have to use in The Foundry per say. Well, when I read this thread at work today, it got me thinking. Then on the drive home, my neurons were firing at warp speed and a lot of the holes in what I wanted to do just got filled a LOT, thanks to this thread, and still within the ability of the Foundry I believe.
Now, Im just going to wait till Foundry hits holodeck, so I have a full idea of where the boundries are, but Im about to run wild with this script concept!
MWAHAHAHAA
Id love to share what all Im thinking, but that would kill the suspense of the story arc.
As Q would say, "You'll find out. See you....out there!"
It's such an amazing plot twist that Picard created his own nemesis in the Queen.
But does every single thing in Star Trek have to ultimately come down to a Predestined Paradox?
Also, I find it damned Ironic that a Probe named Voyager created the Borg, and the alternate future captain of a ship named Voyager dealt what appeared (in the show) to be the killing blow to the Borg.
Nicely put. I can live with irony like that. Maybe I'll give a little nod to this line of yours in my story.
My preferred story is that of the Borg as a unique technological and evolutionary step. At some point, they might have been just like us, but they developed cybernetic technology and ways to interface their minds. Maybe that was just a gimmick at first, or more likely a military project (DARPA -> Internet). It become more public. Maybe they were a little different - privacy and the need for "alonetime" might not have been as desired as it is with many of us today.
And I imagine there wasn't some kind of violent revolution even. More and more people got "linked" (like we go online today). Some did it no more than a few minutes to check up with their parents on the other edge of the continent, others spend more hours. But at some point, the singularity occured, and people were constantly linked. Why not? There were so many advantages. You were never alone. You could share all the unique crazy ideas everyone had. And an emergent group conciousness formed, turning all these individuals into one.
If I were to write this as a novel, I might add some external factors for "drama". An alien species invading their world and starting to enslave it - and the cybernetic link being one of the ways the resistance cells coordinated each other. And at some point, they managed to "assimilate" their first alien, gaining understanding of their technology, and driving them out where they didn't assimilate the rest.
The original "Borg Queen" might have been a particular individual - maybe a catalysator in the evolution of the Hive Conciousness, something particularly able to organize all those minds into a cohesive hole and help it formulate its goals. But it's not the single controlling instance - she just enables the Collective to form decisions and multi-task.
except the borg queen told Data in First Contact that she was from species 25 if I remember correctly. And by that time the Borg would have obviously had to be an interstallar species, that could at least make it to other inhabbited worlds, which means the collective would have had to have had the ability to coordinate its efforts and movements long before the assimilation of species 25. I think it far more likely the borg queen was one of the first to discover something like that dream realm where those borg went when they slept in voyager. Only she managed to to it in the waking world and was slowly over time able to influence and then master the collective.
Personally I hate the idea of V'Ger having anything to do with the borg, if he did then it was the fact that he assimilated a cube or something in his journeys. Maybe the borg think of him as some sort of diety if they even know of him, seeing as how he did their job but only a bajillion times better, by having traversed the entire universe learning all there was to know.