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0:05 I wonder if the Borg Realized how repulsive this offer was. I would like to see a scene in "Lower Decks," where a race was like, "Sounds good. Shields down. Let's all get that neck stick."
Why did Piccard bother to have his engineering crew reverse-engineer that temporal vortex instead of return the same way Kirk did? Fortunately, I'm talking about the William Shatner one. And at least make a Shorts video explaining why none of the Federation seems to have bio-ships like 8472!
“I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service us”. The most chilling bit of dialogue I’ve ever heard.
@BAZZAAAAAAAAA There is a funny audio splice, if you are a Beavis and Butthead fan , of Locutus of Borg vs THE GREAT CORNHOLIO. It is drop dead funny 😁. Check it out.
I like the edit best: “I am Locutus SHUT UP WESLEY! of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service us SHUT UP WESLEY! ”
The scene right before, when the Borg is modifying his parts and a tear rolls down his face… that’s scary. Imagine being a human, now, lost in space somewhere in this huge Borg cube, being mutilated in such a way… eerie…
@@kenhammscousin4716 I don't know if you're trying to be funny or not but, Pasta with the ability of controlled flight is a serious concern. Unless it's AL Dente then there's no problem since its flexibility would be limited.
@@chewxieyang4677 oh man, you are so right, it's not that there's a barrier it's the civilization with no biological markers for us to see with our scanners assimilating other beings taking their knowledge and resources and moving on
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I watched enterprise then Discovery till that reached the Original series. Then continued to the films that's led to the next-generation I'm still on season 2 and watched Q who before wanted to learn more lolool
The weird part, if you lived on a Borg Cube as a Human, the Borg would never bother you as long as you don't makes waves. In fact, I think I'd rather be assimilated than ever work at Amazon ever again. Working there, now that's real torture!!! Pure mental and physical abuse. In fact, I believe the Borg Queen treats her drones better than Amazon treats it's workers...
No, see being a Borg would probably be about the same as being an Amazon employee, the only difference is now that you're a Borg you don't care that it's boring. That's probably what Bezos is planning, to 'assimilate' all his employees. That way once your shift is done, you can just wait in your recharge pod.
The original humanoids wanted the peoples of the galaxy to come together to form a galactic community and society to better one another and further advance our lives The borg... is that goal gone wrong
@@benbacon7654 The Borg are the future of the Federation traveling back in time. Apart from the Federation using soft force (you don't have to join but not joining will be bad for you because the enemies of the Federation will use force and not accept your cultural idiosyncrasies) and the Borg use hard force. Basically both say become part of our community or die.
I always assumed they had been developing for thousands of years contained on their homeworld. Perhaps even created their collective consciousness but lacked warp drive, and eventually a well meaning explorer ship found their world and landed to make first contact with this highly interesting social structure, but were immediately assimilated, giving the borg warp drive technology and allowing them to leave their world and they began assimilating nearby worlds. This was the point the Vaadwaur became aware of them.
Old style automatic rifles are effective at fighting borg drones. Yet no one thought about keep some in the ships armory in case the borg boarded the ship.
Ever played Xenonauts? You start with mid-late 20th century gunpowder weapons, and research your tech off of salvaged alien gear… starting from crude chunks of propelled metal and working your way up. You can get lasers, even plasma guns… The top tier? The top tier is fast moving chunks of metal again. Just gauss instead of gunpowder. Kinetic energy is HARD to argue with. XD
I kinda sorta agree. Their introduction was first rate actual sci fi. Unfortunately the Borg suffered from the 'too many cooks in the kitchen" problem. The franchise started going downhill went they started comparing the Borg to ants, bees, and other social insects and made a queen Borg to control the Hive. It doesn't work that way in nature. Or at least here on Earth. What really got me was that the Borg were basically Terminators. Yeah, from that movie of the same name. Just more squishier parts and harder to kill.
I seen something on TV earlier that reminded me of the Star Trek Borg... So I TH-cam it and I've watched a few videos telling the history of the Borg... This one was phenomenal, good job making your video
Of all the enemies the Federation has faced so far, I personally still find the Borg to be a real threat. Even Species 8472 can't really compete with the threat posed by the Borg. The Borg are the epitome of evil in the Star Trek universe. So lower your shields!
16:02 “Unforeseen Consequences” The same phrase that G-Man (a character strongly inspired by Star Trek's Q) said to Eli Vance before the Resonance Cascade, an accident that later caused the Earth invasion by The Combine (An Space Impire strongly inspired by Star Trek's Borg Collective) in Half-Life series. I'm as nerd as someone can be. 👁️
I like to believe the Borg originated in the same way the Cooperative operated, perhaps: - They wanted to share experiences, and eventually forced new members to join. - They wanted to improve themselves, and then saw increasing their number as the greater good for everyone. - They were trying to mitigate crime or improve order by sharing memories. - They were striving to be more efficient or have more conveniences in life.
The borg are by far the most interesting character ever created throughout all platforms of entertainment. The way they were ruthless, ambiguous, terrifying and brutal, complicated and simple. The way they could assimilate entire worlds in a flash if worthy or a threat, yet completely indifferent to the point you could literally beam on their ship and they would just completely ignore you. They also showed signs of emotion and curiosity with their fasccination and almost religious view of omega. The born Queen was the most fascinating since she to me seemed like the next step in borg evolution mixing humanoid wants and stifled emotion with cybernetic precision.
i've always hated the direction they took seven of nine. It feels to me like they did it soley to have fun action sequences, with little regard for lore and continuity. Seven was a scientist. She was recruited to the think tank, is the galaxy's foremost omega particle expert, explored the delta quadrant, served aboard a starfleet starship, is an expert in slipstream/transwarp tech, has time traveled, and of course, holds the scientific/historical knowledge of thousands of assimilated species and the borg. She could have been the greatest scientist the federation has ever had, a leading expert in weapons, nanoprobe medicine, warp physics, omega particles, history, or literally anything. She could easily be a chief engineer or officer aboard a starfleet ship with her experience, or at the very least a valued member of the borg reclamation project. Instead they decided to waste all of that on a corny action hero. All they saw in Seven was her muscle, and totally forgot about her mind, which was her greatest strength in voyager; being slightly stronger than the average human was nothing compared to how much was in her mind. It's such a waste of potential. And to think they did the same to Icheb just to give seven a lame action-hero backstory. So sad.
If you come into contact with the borg, you are screwed. All you can do is put that phaser to your chest and put it on maximum, because would you rather save your soul or your body. Since the borg take both, you have to sacrifice the body to save the soul.
Nah they take your body and subconscious mind but they leave your conscious mind in a matrix-like utopia within the hive mind, where you can live in bliss forever and steer the collective. Very democratic. Borg are kinda nice.
@@VarietyGamerChannel That's a defect not a feature of the Borg and the Queen was always hunting down and killing Borg drones who could enter that dream-world.
The entire concept of the Borg took a huge nose dive the second the "Queen" made an appearance. I don't think the smooth brained people who took over the writing of the scripts understood the concept of the Borg. All they seem to understand is "drone". A true collective needs no leader. They don't even have to force you to join. To truly be part of such a massive collective obliterates anyone's tiny sense of self. It's an opportunity to be a part of something God like. It's the closest any organic being can come to immortality. Your body is abandoned, merely becoming organic material. In the Borg's eyes this is a precious gift they are bestowing on species that have earned it. It's an ego death to evolve to a divine state. I don't think most people are smart enough to even remotely comprehend this sort of existence. All they can think is "bee hive".
I think the concept of the borg is pretty terrifying. There's the fear of machines mixed with the fear of inhumans / zombie-like enemies. The problem is it's in the Star Trek universe. So it's automatically dumb with too much science
I kinda miss your old video about the Borg. I understand completely that it had to be updated, but your voice really set the tone and mood before. Somehow it's changed. Either way, I really appreciate your work. Thanks for this!
Thanks for updating this video with info from Picard S01....and I wonder what new BORG secrets shall be unveiled with the culmination of Picard S03 to be aired on this very DAY!!! :)
Saying seven of nine "landed" the board cube is and interesting way to say that she got wrapped up in space flowers and crashed it into the side of the planet.
This video is awesome ! I have always been more of a Star Wars guy, but have watched a good deal of Star Trek also. My knowledge of Star Trek lore is pitiful compared to Star Wars. The Borg have always intrigued me though. Seeing all this information makes me want to watch every series end to end now. Thanks for putting this together !
I believe I know the EXACT origin of the Borg... (IMO) it's Doctor Who! An inspiration from mixing the Cybermen characters, with the Daleks! The Borg Queen is their Davros. For any fan/viewer of the first 7 Doctors, (William Hartnell - Sylvester McCoy) you see MANY things in Doctor Who that Star Trek TNG may have gotten MUCH of their material inspiration from. With the Borg, 1 example is the episode 'I, Borg' when Picard questioned does he have the right to wipe out all the Borg by inserting the geometric virus program into the Borg collective, through Hugh, (3 of 5), but ultimately deciding he didn't. Very similar to 'Genesis of the Daleks' series (Tom Baker's) Doctor: "If I just touch these 2 wires together and the Dalek's never existed... do I have the right to wipe out an entire species from existence?!" also deciding he didn't. Then again in "Descent" (TNG) when Picard get's a spanking from Adm. Necchayev for not destroying the Borg back when he had the chance with Hugh. But believe whatever you like!
@@caneyebus yeah, I get both... Borg look and act more like Cybermen, but think collectively more like Daleks, with "Exterminate" becoming "Assimilate". But to each their own. 👍
You don’t want to go down this road my friend,cuz Dr Who is a complete rip off of Rip Hunter. There where evil cyborgs in space before the cyber men,and honestly nothing is truly original in fiction,just different ways to present it.
@Michael Perez You can't claim "rip off" in one sentence, and rip offs don't exists in the next. Kinda defeating your own argument. Also Dr. Who started in '63, the Rip Hunter (comic book) came out in '65.
@Michael Perez Wait... now in another source it's saying Rip Hunter premired in '59. But it seems Rip is more HG Wells than Dr. Who. And I'm saying the episode material from TNG is a direct pull from Dr. Who, not which "timelord" vs "time traveler" came first.
I'm not a huge star trek fan, but I always enjoyed watching Next Generation. Either way, cool video. I actually really dig what the Borg are trying to do. I think it's pretty rad. I'd happily join the collective. I mean, it's just a matter of time anyway.
What's so scary about The Borg, is the fact that they kinda make sense. Of course they are devoid of the emotion we consider fundamentally important, but they are playing the long game. Being ruthless in the drive of knowledge.
What is the name of this piece playing in the background love this video love anything pertaining to the borg. Coming from an avionics and electronics major.
When Pickards enterprise first encountered the Borg, they made a big thing about telling us how indestructible the Borg cubes were made to be, no central power source (no engine room) instead Borg cubes have smaller power sources spread out throughout the ship, back up systems everywhere, and even if you can get past all of that, the Borg cubes were meant to be still able to fight at maximum capacity after being over 70% damaged, on top of that, nano bots that can repair any part of the cube that might be damaged, the ability to adapt, the laser cutter. What the hell happened? They went from being an unstoppable force, with just one cube being able to destroy an entire federation fleet, to exploding wrecks in just one shot, and then just one federation ship able to not only resist, but destroy. How? And why? I liked them much better when they were an unstoppable force. They would have made a much scarier opponents in the final episodes than the stupid dominion.
I liked where the writer that came up with the Borg, told how he hated Gene Roddenberry vision of the future. So he came up with the Borg to destroy it and have more dystopian future where people hated each other and technology was evil etc.
They should make a series of how the borg slowly became the borg. Like their civilzation before they set out to conquer. The ships they first had. Their motivations for assimilating other races. How their technology evolved. What was the main race that pushed them vastly ahead of most other races. How did they conquer the first race, etc. That would be cool
The Borg home world is called BorgBerg. The first Borg was created himself (added components to his person). His name is Steve. The next few Borg were volunteers as Steve couldn't assimilate...yet.
Wouldn’t Archer meeting the Borg cause a somewhat of an alternative timeline? Since they already knew about them or would it still happen? Cause in the Star Trek Enterprise series a lot of stuff happen that would change the future cause it to be different or am I wrong?
Archer and the Earth government didn't know they were Borg, they just knew them as mysterious, advanced aliens and kept the information classified. When Picard later met them they didn't realize it was the same aliens at first.
I wanted to watch this, but I decided it was better to rewatch all of the episodes first. So I watched all seasons of next generation, DS nine, and Voyager in order to properly enjoy the video.
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Cool.
When do you plan to update this with the new data from Picard Season Two?
0:05 I wonder if the Borg Realized how repulsive this offer was. I would like to see a scene in "Lower Decks," where a race was like, "Sounds good. Shields down. Let's all get that neck stick."
I read a series of Star Trek novels written by William Shatner that V'ger from the first motion picture film was assimilated by the Borg.
Why did Piccard bother to have his engineering crew reverse-engineer that temporal vortex instead of return the same way Kirk did? Fortunately, I'm talking about the William Shatner one. And at least make a Shorts video explaining why none of the Federation seems to have bio-ships like 8472!
At the conceptual and aesthetic levels, I think the Borg might be one of the best villains (threats?) ever conceived in science fiction.
Definitely. Such a great balance of concept and execution.
Not the sith empire under vitiate? It’s between them and the borg for sure. Empires of the Supervillains, both of them.
My favorite is the actual universe in the hitchhikers guide.
they are not good or evil. they are borg
Them, or the Goa'uld from Stargate... Specifically SG-1... The movie is decent.. But the show was amazing.
“I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service us”. The most chilling bit of dialogue I’ve ever heard.
Commander Riker: Mr. Worf, FIRE!
@@scottmahoney1230 TO BE CONTINUED
@BAZZAAAAAAAAA There is a funny audio splice, if you are a Beavis and Butthead fan , of Locutus of Borg vs THE GREAT CORNHOLIO. It is drop dead funny 😁. Check it out.
I like the edit best: “I am Locutus SHUT UP WESLEY! of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service us SHUT UP WESLEY! ”
The scene right before, when the Borg is modifying his parts and a tear rolls down his face… that’s scary. Imagine being a human, now, lost in space somewhere in this huge Borg cube, being mutilated in such a way… eerie…
The borg are one of the most interesting civilizations in all of fiction. As always your videos are amazing and remember resistance is futile
For sure. Data and the Borg are TNG. Without either of them it would be total trash.
The scariest part is, there could very well be a borg civilization somewhere out there, looking to assimilate civilizations they come across
There could also be a flying spaghetti monster so.. keep your forks handy
@@kenhammscousin4716 I don't know if you're trying to be funny or not but, Pasta with the ability of controlled flight is a serious concern. Unless it's AL Dente then there's no problem since its flexibility would be limited.
So china
Potentially one of the best possible answer to the Fermi Paradox
@@chewxieyang4677 oh man, you are so right, it's not that there's a barrier it's the civilization with no biological markers for us to see with our scanners assimilating other beings taking their knowledge and resources and moving on
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I watched enterprise then Discovery till that reached the Original series.
Then continued to the films that's led to the next-generation I'm still on season 2 and watched Q who before wanted to learn more lolool
Where does Lower Decks fit into all of this?
This is the Best borg Breakdown I ever saw
You outdone yourself👍
The weird part, if you lived on a Borg Cube as a Human, the Borg would never bother you as long as you don't makes waves. In fact, I think I'd rather be assimilated than ever work at Amazon ever again. Working there, now that's real torture!!! Pure mental and physical abuse. In fact, I believe the Borg Queen treats her drones better than Amazon treats it's workers...
hahaha! I also worked for them for almost 10 years and absolutely agree with you!
Maybe the Borg secretly own Amazon, and it's a testing facility for potential Borg recruiting.
Borg's goal is perfection.
Amazon's goal is profit.
Amazon is so much worse in so many ways...
No, see being a Borg would probably be about the same as being an Amazon employee, the only difference is now that you're a Borg you don't care that it's boring. That's probably what Bezos is planning, to 'assimilate' all his employees. That way once your shift is done, you can just wait in your recharge pod.
The original humanoids wanted the peoples of the galaxy to come together to form a galactic community and society to better one another and further advance our lives
The borg... is that goal gone wrong
I never thought of that before. I only thought that the Borg were the antithesis to the Federation.
@@benbacon7654 The Borg are the future of the Federation traveling back in time. Apart from the Federation using soft force (you don't have to join but not joining will be bad for you because the enemies of the Federation will use force and not accept your cultural idiosyncrasies) and the Borg use hard force. Basically both say become part of our community or die.
But one will do the killing. And the other will help fight them alongside you*. With benefits lol@@GothamClive
That was the best most concise backstory on the board I've ever seen. Well done, well done!
I always assumed they had been developing for thousands of years contained on their homeworld. Perhaps even created their collective consciousness but lacked warp drive, and eventually a well meaning explorer ship found their world and landed to make first contact with this highly interesting social structure, but were immediately assimilated, giving the borg warp drive technology and allowing them to leave their world and they began assimilating nearby worlds. This was the point the Vaadwaur became aware of them.
Old style automatic rifles are effective at fighting borg drones. Yet no one thought about keep some in the ships armory in case the borg boarded the ship.
Ever played Xenonauts? You start with mid-late 20th century gunpowder weapons, and research your tech off of salvaged alien gear… starting from crude chunks of propelled metal and working your way up. You can get lasers, even plasma guns…
The top tier?
The top tier is fast moving chunks of metal again. Just gauss instead of gunpowder. Kinetic energy is HARD to argue with. XD
"Many Borg think they can adapt to my phaser... maybe... I've yet to meet a Borg who can adapt to *bullet* ."
@@listenherejack or liquid fire flesh and silicon burn at the same temp if you measure in thermal weapons
And ds9 shows that a transporter rifle exists
@@listenherejack Waaaaaaaa, uaaaaaaaaagh, AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!! CRY SOME MOOOOOOOOOORE!!
One of the greatest creations to ever come out of a sci fi series.
I kinda sorta agree. Their introduction was first rate actual sci fi. Unfortunately the Borg suffered from the 'too many cooks in the kitchen" problem. The franchise started going downhill went they started comparing the Borg to ants, bees, and other social insects and made a queen Borg to control the Hive. It doesn't work that way in nature. Or at least here on Earth.
What really got me was that the Borg were basically Terminators. Yeah, from that movie of the same name. Just more squishier parts and harder to kill.
I seen something on TV earlier that reminded me of the Star Trek Borg... So I TH-cam it and I've watched a few videos telling the history of the Borg... This one was phenomenal, good job making your video
Here is a one for ya Complete History of the Machines of The Matrix series.
Excellent work keep it up respect.
Of all the enemies the Federation has faced so far, I personally still find the Borg to be a real threat. Even Species 8472 can't really compete with the threat posed by the Borg. The Borg are the epitome of evil in the Star Trek universe.
So lower your shields!
That was cool how you and a Borg voice merged like that. Nice intro!
Wow, exceptional visual brief history of the Borg. I learned so much about Borg in this video than any other video. Loved it. 😊
I love your video! I've been saying this for 30 years: Q IS NOT ONLY HELPFUL, HE IS "GOOD GUY" albeit playful
16:02
“Unforeseen Consequences”
The same phrase that G-Man (a character strongly inspired by Star Trek's Q) said to Eli Vance before the Resonance Cascade, an accident that later caused the Earth invasion by The Combine (An Space Impire strongly inspired by Star Trek's Borg Collective) in Half-Life series.
I'm as nerd as someone can be. 👁️
I like to believe the Borg originated in the same way the Cooperative operated, perhaps:
- They wanted to share experiences, and eventually forced new members to join.
- They wanted to improve themselves, and then saw increasing their number as the greater good for everyone.
- They were trying to mitigate crime or improve order by sharing memories.
- They were striving to be more efficient or have more conveniences in life.
The borg are by far the most interesting character ever created throughout all platforms of entertainment.
The way they were ruthless, ambiguous, terrifying and brutal, complicated and simple.
The way they could assimilate entire worlds in a flash if worthy or a threat, yet completely indifferent to the point you could literally beam on their ship and they would just completely ignore you.
They also showed signs of emotion and curiosity with their fasccination and almost religious view of omega.
The born Queen was the most fascinating since she to me seemed like the next step in borg evolution mixing humanoid wants and stifled emotion with cybernetic precision.
The borge are nothing compared to anything Warhammer 40k
i've always hated the direction they took seven of nine. It feels to me like they did it soley to have fun action sequences, with little regard for lore and continuity.
Seven was a scientist. She was recruited to the think tank, is the galaxy's foremost omega particle expert, explored the delta quadrant, served aboard a starfleet starship, is an expert in slipstream/transwarp tech, has time traveled, and of course, holds the scientific/historical knowledge of thousands of assimilated species and the borg.
She could have been the greatest scientist the federation has ever had, a leading expert in weapons, nanoprobe medicine, warp physics, omega particles, history, or literally anything. She could easily be a chief engineer or officer aboard a starfleet ship with her experience, or at the very least a valued member of the borg reclamation project.
Instead they decided to waste all of that on a corny action hero. All they saw in Seven was her muscle, and totally forgot about her mind, which was her greatest strength in voyager; being slightly stronger than the average human was nothing compared to how much was in her mind. It's such a waste of potential. And to think they did the same to Icheb just to give seven a lame action-hero backstory. So sad.
Turning her lesbian was for "modern audiences" ugh
Awesomeness! Thank you for your excellent work on this and your channel. Cheers
Anything you were doing becomes irrelevant when CivX uploads!
The borg is one of the few civilizations in star trek to actually catch my interest
If you come into contact with the borg, you are screwed. All you can do is put that phaser to your chest and put it on maximum, because would you rather save your soul or your body. Since the borg take both, you have to sacrifice the body to save the soul.
Nah they take your body and subconscious mind but they leave your conscious mind in a matrix-like utopia within the hive mind, where you can live in bliss forever and steer the collective. Very democratic. Borg are kinda nice.
@@VarietyGamerChannel I am guessing you are an assimilated drone pushing borg propaganda.
@@VarietyGamerChannel Only one in a million Borg can exist in that matrix dimension.
DEEP man
@@VarietyGamerChannel That's a defect not a feature of the Borg and the Queen was always hunting down and killing Borg drones who could enter that dream-world.
The entire concept of the Borg took a huge nose dive the second the "Queen" made an appearance. I don't think the smooth brained people who took over the writing of the scripts understood the concept of the Borg. All they seem to understand is "drone". A true collective needs no leader. They don't even have to force you to join. To truly be part of such a massive collective obliterates anyone's tiny sense of self. It's an opportunity to be a part of something God like. It's the closest any organic being can come to immortality. Your body is abandoned, merely becoming organic material. In the Borg's eyes this is a precious gift they are bestowing on species that have earned it. It's an ego death to evolve to a divine state. I don't think most people are smart enough to even remotely comprehend this sort of existence. All they can think is "bee hive".
I think the concept of the borg is pretty terrifying. There's the fear of machines mixed with the fear of inhumans / zombie-like enemies. The problem is it's in the Star Trek universe. So it's automatically dumb with too much science
Glad you included the Picard series. Great Borg material.!
I kinda miss your old video about the Borg. I understand completely that it had to be updated, but your voice really set the tone and mood before. Somehow it's changed. Either way, I really appreciate your work. Thanks for this!
If you ever want to see the old video, go to the Unlisted playlist on my channel page. It has all my old videos there.
@@CivilizationEx That's actually amazing man thank you so much! 🙏🏾
@@EXsoldier141 :)
Puberty?
Very good👍🔥🔥🔥
Great video! thank you for making!
Fantastic work amigo. :)
Picard season 3 just finished you should definitely update
I tried to avoid seeing this video but... my resistance was futile. 🙂
Man, excellent job. What an enormous history for a completely fictional civilization. Very cool.
Thanks for updating this video with info from Picard S01....and I wonder what new BORG secrets shall be unveiled with the culmination of Picard S03 to be aired on this very DAY!!! :)
Saying seven of nine "landed" the board cube is and interesting way to say that she got wrapped up in space flowers and crashed it into the side of the planet.
crash landing is still technically landing... as long as there is any land left afterwards, at least.
It's been theorized that the Borg only tried the time travel thing to resolve the paradox of their own history with the humans.
This video is awesome ! I have always been more of a Star Wars guy, but have watched a good deal of Star Trek also. My knowledge of Star Trek lore is pitiful compared to Star Wars. The Borg have always intrigued me though. Seeing all this information makes me want to watch every series end to end now. Thanks for putting this together !
These videos are amazing
The borg really seam like a really super powerful terrifying mega weapon............
That jams a lot.
Wish for video of the SWTOR Outlander AKA Alliance Commander soon
I don't know if I will cover the characters from SWTOR, I'll keep it in mind though.
Thank you for putting in the zone!
Thank you this was savage
Great video! I don’t envy how long it took to produce! 👍
You forgot to mention the queen said she allowed Voyager to take 7 of 9 from the collective
i doint consider her canon. injust tell myself shes a lucutus and only there to talk to voyager the federation etc.
@@flyingfoamtv2169 What the Hell are you trying to say?
Excellent! Thank you.
Great video. Time for an update ;)
Great Great video!
Awesome work
You had the perfect opportunity to say "But her resistance was not futile" and you squandered it! lmao
I think I remember reading that the Borg were conceived as the new big bad for the federation because the Ferengi were seen largely as a joke.
Nobody could take the Ferengi as a serious threat.
Resistance is futile. It's such a versatile statement.
But I'd actually be scared if said that during sex
The intro 👌the 1st 14 seconds
I believe I know the EXACT origin of the Borg... (IMO) it's Doctor Who!
An inspiration from mixing the Cybermen characters, with the Daleks! The Borg Queen is their Davros. For any fan/viewer of the first 7 Doctors, (William Hartnell - Sylvester McCoy) you see MANY things in Doctor Who that Star Trek TNG may have gotten MUCH of their material inspiration from.
With the Borg, 1 example is the episode 'I, Borg' when Picard questioned does he have the right to wipe out all the Borg by inserting the geometric virus program into the Borg collective, through Hugh, (3 of 5), but ultimately deciding he didn't. Very similar to 'Genesis of the Daleks' series (Tom Baker's) Doctor: "If I just touch these 2 wires together and the Dalek's never existed... do I have the right to wipe out an entire species from existence?!" also deciding he didn't. Then again in "Descent" (TNG) when Picard get's a spanking from Adm. Necchayev for not destroying the Borg back when he had the chance with Hugh.
But believe whatever you like!
I always got a Cybermen vibe from them, but much more scary vibe.
@@caneyebus yeah, I get both... Borg look and act more like Cybermen, but think collectively more like Daleks, with "Exterminate" becoming "Assimilate". But to each their own. 👍
You don’t want to go down this road my friend,cuz Dr Who is a complete rip off of Rip Hunter. There where evil cyborgs in space before the cyber men,and honestly nothing is truly original in fiction,just different ways to present it.
@Michael Perez You can't claim "rip off" in one sentence, and rip offs don't exists in the next. Kinda defeating your own argument. Also Dr. Who started in '63, the Rip Hunter (comic book) came out in '65.
@Michael Perez Wait... now in another source it's saying Rip Hunter premired in '59. But it seems Rip is more HG Wells than Dr. Who. And I'm saying the episode material from TNG is a direct pull from Dr. Who, not which "timelord" vs "time traveler" came first.
I would love to watch some videos of you narrating the history of the stargate universe.
I love Stargate and would love to cover that universe, I'm just not sure when I'll get to it.
We love 7, we want snu,snu.
I'm not a huge star trek fan, but I always enjoyed watching Next Generation. Either way, cool video. I actually really dig what the Borg are trying to do. I think it's pretty rad. I'd happily join the collective. I mean, it's just a matter of time anyway.
Species 8472 is terrifying. An intelligent telepathic Xenomorph like creature with an axe to grind.
Love your videos
What's so scary about The Borg, is the fact that they kinda make sense. Of course they are devoid of the emotion we consider fundamentally important, but they are playing the long game. Being ruthless in the drive of knowledge.
To add on something, the ship of the Hansen family that followed the Borg is, or was, the USS Raven.
Thank you
"Resistance is Futile" Literally - The Universe
Curious, why do you say the Borg "were" a species of cybernetic organisms. (Past tense) If Star Trek happens in the future?
I try to make all my videos in the past tense because they are history vids and so they are all uniform.
Really..... 🤣🤣
I'll always say it. Wesley's damn nanobots from season 3s opening episode 😂😂
Cant wait for the update based on Picard Season II
What is the name of this piece playing in the background love this video love anything pertaining to the borg. Coming from an avionics and electronics major.
It's called Castle in the Darkness, here is the link th-cam.com/video/d55rZQBPalY/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=FreeDramaticScores
This is basically just the history of reddit
When Pickards enterprise first encountered the Borg, they made a big thing about telling us how indestructible the Borg cubes were made to be, no central power source (no engine room) instead Borg cubes have smaller power sources spread out throughout the ship, back up systems everywhere, and even if you can get past all of that, the Borg cubes were meant to be still able to fight at maximum capacity after being over 70% damaged, on top of that, nano bots that can repair any part of the cube that might be damaged, the ability to adapt, the laser cutter. What the hell happened? They went from being an unstoppable force, with just one cube being able to destroy an entire federation fleet, to exploding wrecks in just one shot, and then just one federation ship able to not only resist, but destroy. How? And why? I liked them much better when they were an unstoppable force. They would have made a much scarier opponents in the final episodes than the stupid dominion.
That's what always happens when an author writes themselves into a corner with an unstoppable threat. Asspulls.
I mean if you watched the show all those questions are answered.
I liked where the writer that came up with the Borg, told how he hated Gene Roddenberry vision of the future. So he came up with the Borg to destroy it and have more dystopian future where people hated each other and technology was evil etc.
Is there a transcript for that line explanation somewhere?
If that’s true, then the writer simply hated Star Trek.
@@ArmyJamesyou’re treating a fictional creation as a religious text
When the Borg became bees with a queen, they were ruined.
just pretend shes a locutus and it all still works
100%. They were scarier when there were no individuals, like an ultra advanced bacteria colony. Even locutus was a bad idea.
You should do something on the Matrix, youd be amazing
They should make a series of how the borg slowly became the borg. Like their civilzation before they set out to conquer. The ships they first had. Their motivations for assimilating other races. How their technology evolved. What was the main race that pushed them vastly ahead of most other races. How did they conquer the first race, etc. That would be cool
How to make an even stronger villain?
Romulans < Changelings < Borg
I wonder if anyone ever hearing that message was like, "OK, seems reasonable, let's get'er done!"
What about if the Borg were so old is because they never developed space travel until someone landed there cane they assimilated it
thats what the canon says.
The Borg home world is called BorgBerg.
The first Borg was created himself (added components to his person). His name is Steve.
The next few Borg were volunteers as Steve couldn't assimilate...yet.
LAME!
Hugh? My HERO.
The Borg did not scare me when I first saw them on TNG. But they gave me nightmares when I saw them on First Contact
The Borg are the creepiest villains in StarTrek. I'm glad they ran into a certain species in the space in between.
The Borg is what the Federation might turn into if they are not careful
The best that's ever been until...
Now that the Borg have been destroyed. I wonder if they will ever tell the story of the true origins of the Borg
Wouldn’t Archer meeting the Borg cause a somewhat of an alternative timeline? Since they already knew about them or would it still happen? Cause in the Star Trek Enterprise series a lot of stuff happen that would change the future cause it to be different or am I wrong?
Archer and the Earth government didn't know they were Borg, they just knew them as mysterious, advanced aliens and kept the information classified. When Picard later met them they didn't realize it was the same aliens at first.
@@CivilizationEx okay gotcha
Probably a minor omission was the episode where Janeway tuvok and Bellanna was assimilated in a plot to capture a working transwarp drive.
I wanted to watch this, but I decided it was better to rewatch all of the episodes first. So I watched all seasons of next generation, DS nine, and Voyager in order to properly enjoy the video.
Borg must of had some Precog technology at wolf 359, the ejection of the escaping sphere proves it.
Before The White Walkers, there was... The Borg.
I Dont no why but i like the borg . dang it .
picard gets assimilated and hes like right.. hail them... "ayy ear me noo!!!"
If the Borg were honest they would say, resistance is time consuming
I wonder if anybody was like "oh? resistance is futile? OK drop shields, lets get assimilated"
Janeway really was the Borgs' worse nightmare lol
There are 6 transwarp hub unicomplexes in the galaxy. That was revealed in voyagers last episode
As described they would be shapeshifting super cyborgs more in line with Cyborg from DC than the clunky robots they are represented as.
They were so clunky lol laughably so.
Seems like a lot of history takes place specifically in the years of the TV shows
Hiya, I think this will need updating now lol. 😂