The Borg and the Klingon Empire/Romulan Republic

goodscotch

We see in canon Trek the Borg's efforts to assimilate the Federation. Why would the Klingon Empire or the Romulan Republic be any less attractive to the Borg? Posting this in the Klingon Discussion area even though the Romulans are involved in the topic. In the ST:Voyager episode "Unity" we see visions of Klingon BoPs attacking a Borg cube, etc. We know little about the Borg's efforts vs. the Klingons and Romulans.

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nightken

study and efficient tech. and possiblity of harder then normal to kill drone do to extra organs. I don't see borg turning that down, maybe not on top of list, more so with the likelly higher lost of drone compared to a less aggressive but more "advanced" race. but it probably something they would plan on adding to the collective.

trennan

Well Klingons, as well as the other races of the KDF all have one thing in common. They'll fight to the death. That and with being trained in hand to hand combat, the borg have a hard time dealing with them. I mean it is hard to assimilate a ship of klingons if they ram said ship in to yours.

questerius

goodscotch wrote: »

We see in canon Trek the Borg's efforts to assimilate the Federation. Why would the Klingon Empire or the Romulan Republic be any less attractive to the Borg? Posting this in the Klingon Discussion area even though the Romulans are involved in the topic. In the ST:Voyager episode "Unity" we see visions of Klingon BoPs attacking a Borg cube, etc. We know little about the Borg's efforts vs. the Klingons and Romulans.

It makes sense to assimilate the biggest threat/militarily, economically and scientifically advanced entity first.
And it is not the Romulan republic or Klingon empire.

mustrumridcully0

questerius wrote: »

goodscotch wrote: »

We see in canon Trek the Borg's efforts to assimilate the Federation. Why would the Klingon Empire or the Romulan Republic be any less attractive to the Borg? Posting this in the Klingon Discussion area even though the Romulans are involved in the topic. In the ST:Voyager episode "Unity" we see visions of Klingon BoPs attacking a Borg cube, etc. We know little about the Borg's efforts vs. the Klingons and Romulans.

It makes sense to assimilate the biggest threat/militarily, economically and scientifically advanced entity first.
And it is not the Romulan republic or Klingon empire.

Possible. It was always a big of a question to me what exactly the Borg wanted from the Federation. What technology did we have they did not? It didn't seem i nthe realm of military technology. Maybe it was actually medicine (and exobiolgy)? After all, the Federation was able to remove Borg implants and they were the ones that could modify Borg nanites to counter the Undine, something the Borg couldn't do themself.

Or maybe it wasn't technology - maybe it was culture. The humans managed to build an Empire without force, by uniting countless of species to work together for their common benefit. An ability, that if the Borg would understand it, could benefit them greatly in their assimilation attemts. No longer forcing people to join the Collective, but convincing them to join? What a powerful force. Maybe the alternate universe where the Borg have assimilated Earth actually has a happy end - the Borg eventually assimilating the ablity to make people cooperate without forcing them to do so, no longer needing brutal assimilation processes, an inelegant and imperfect process.

Though it's odd that the Borg really never cared for cloaking technology. Didn't it fit their military doctrine? Did they know that any species dangerous enough to require them to work with stealth could look through any cloaking tech they could hope to assimilate?


Though in the realm of unrealized plots that never became part of the shows and are thus non-canonical, there was apparently some kind of idea to have the Romulan return be traced back to the alien parasites (actually a part of the Borg). They might have fought their own battles against the Borg (or at least parasite infected Romulans), and now return back their attention to the Federation. It is interesting that the first sign of the Borg was their assimilalation of a bunch of outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone.

r5e4w3q2

It may be that the Borg were looking for Q, not necessarily the Federation.

There are signs that the Romulans are having problems with the Borg in 2364, Q Who implies that the Borg are the ones that have been disappearing Romulan outposts(The Neutral Zone). We really don't know what the Borg thought of Q's intervention, but what happens during Q Who does seems to have triggered a change from the Borg's slower/stealthier movement though the beta quadrant into a full scale invasion.

With STO we learn that the Borg were working there way along borders of the Gorn space in 2390. Only attacking when they can wipe out an outpost/colony without a trace and being blamed on the KDF/Nausicaans pirates. Again we don't know what happened from the Borg's perspective, but the events during the mission Butterfly apparently re-prioritized the Romulans leading to another switch from stealth to full scale invasion.

Wild guessing time, but Q kicking you 7,000 light years in an instant and the Annorax erasing suns might be seen as "unique" to the Borg.

Edit to Add:
There is also the "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey" explanation, the Borg are focused on Earth because the Borg told them to.​​

schloopdoo

The Borg prioritized the Federation over the other two factions because Earth Girls Are Easy.

theraven2378

The Federation throughout it's history has been a tough and resilient survivor, every time the Federation has been threatened they've fought tooth and nail to protect what they have.

They are one of the few powers to successfully resist the Borg

legendarylycan

the borg DID assimilate klingons at some point during one of their incursions into the alpha and beta quadrants, because some of the borg freed from the collective via the unimatrix zero glitch were klingons​​