Do borgs take over planets?

[blockmaster2001]

I know they assimilate people but if they went to a planet and assimilated them would they transform the surface into a big grey , green mess like there cubes? Would they build mines , factories etc? just wanted to know plz

 

[Finn]

^ Species 8472 blew up one of them, so...


And there's this

 

[K'Toska]

I'm not sure about in the show but in the book "Vendetta" (TNG era book) by Peter David, the Borg assimilate entire planets. They use a beam to lift up parts of the planet, taking any technology they want and can use, and then use the rest such as the planet's crust, trees, etc. as fuel to power their cubes.

 

[Kilana2]

According to the Destiny novels, they simply destroy planets by laying waste to them. They didn't bother with assimilation anymore. They adapt whenever it is necessary.

 

[Finn]

Are you guys paying attention?

 

[Unimatrix Q]

Until First Contact Planet Scooping was the way of the Borg! They used their cutting- and their tractor beam to dissect and scoop up all the cities and technology of an interesting planet inside their cube. Wish we had seen it on tv or cinema!

 

[Green Shirt]

Are you guys paying attention?

To what?

 

[blockmaster2001]

thanks guys!

 

[BillJ]

^ Species 8472 blew up one of them, so...


And there's this

I'd imagine it just depends on the situation. Earth looked to be their beach head in the Alpha Quadrant. So it would make since to assimilate the entire planet. Would they do that with every planet? Who knows?

 

[Mojochi]

I'd think the plural of Borg is Borg, not Borgs.

As to the OP. I figure they do if need be, but as others have said, they probably don't always. They just consume the resources & move on

 

[K'Toska]

Yeah it does seem like they would turn some planets into hubs for various areas of each quadrant, but it's not as if they're that hard up for space considering the size of those frackin' cubes!

 

[Nebusj]

^ Species 8472 blew up one of them, so...


And there's this

So the Borg play Civilization II. Who doesn't?

 

[blockmaster2001]

Do they so anything with suns? Plz

 

[Kal]

Do they so anything with suns? Plz

If I read ye right, you are asking if they do anything with Suns?

I think they pretty much leave suns alone and deal with the surrounding planets as they are, thus adding to collective, not only in teck, but their ability opperate in various atmospheres. I.E, on hull of enterprise needing no bio suits in tng movie.

I feel its probable you may have meant summit else. Apologies if misinterpreted. I think I just wanted to talk and feel like I was adding summit

 

[blockmaster2001]

No u wer right thanks kal

 

[Kal]

And thank you too sir. But now you have mentioned it, I ponder, was there suumit between the Borg and a Sun. I think maybe in Voyager, but I mainly think, I forget more than I remember

I hope some of the better informed put us out of our misery

 

[topcat]

in the 8472 episodes, before planets are destroyed you can clearly see massive civilizations.
In first contact you see that a 100 years after the borg destroyed Cochrane and prevented first contact they had a massive society of structures on earth. Data even talked about the structures and population of borg on earth.

 

[Timo]

Besides commenting on unusual atmospheric pollution, Data said "Population... Approximately nine billion. All Borg." Not all that informative, but two lines of speculation present themselves:

1) Both halves of that statement were supposed to sound dramatic to the extreme - in essence, a population of nine billion sounded like a horrid surprise. Does that mean Earth's natural population at the time used to be three million in the regular timeline? Or that it used to be fifty billion?

2) Should we take the pollution (methane, carbon monoxide, fluoride) to be what the Borg Drones on the average like to breathe? Or just what their industries spew out, while breathing is not a concern?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[topcat]

in TBOBW we learn the cube atmosphere is perfectly fine for a normal human. In voyager every episode with borgs, they use the same safe atmosphere as in that episode. And throughout First Contact, the atmosphere merely had the temp and humidity increased, nothing more serious then that.
The structures point to borg settlement of earth after the pre first contact assimilation that was prevented. And in theory earth did not have a very large population after WW3 ended, it can only be assumed that the Borg brought in more colonists to the new world.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And there's this

So it would seem that the Borg do "take over" planets, as opposed to scooping or destroying them, when it suits their purpose to do so.

As for ships, when the Borg assimilate one, they gradually transform it into a cube. We see this happening with the Earth transport in "Regeneration" (ENT). It's halfway to being a cube by the time it's destroyed.