Well, you know, I've got to give the Nazis this: Those uniforms were on point.
Borg Symbol
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Maybe more the Drakh. Have a hard time thnking of First Ones with logos.
If the Borg have a logo, it ought to be a representation of Omega, but yah that'd be a retcon.
I also have a hard time thinking of the Borg as having a logo. They have no art we can see, they don't have battle standards/flags, why this one thing? A logo represents unity of a kind, and can embody unity of purpose, and the Borg have that--it's just that I have a hard time thinking of the Borg as needeing representations of any kind. A logo is an abstraction and why would the Borg care about abstractions? Abstractions should be irrelevant. The thing that represents almost a religious devotion to them--the Omega molecule--is a real-universe thing and as far as we know they have no representations of it. Why would they bother with lesser stuff?
I really never noticed it myself outside of Descent and I don't like it.
I said the Shadows because the claw shape reminded me of the Shadow ships on B5.
This says in a serious manner what I was saying in both of my joke posts.
I'm totally fine with Starfleet, the Klingons, the Romulans, the Ferengi, and whomever else all having logos and emblems. But the Borg? No. They wouldn't care about that stuff. If there's ever a race that values function over form, it's the Borg.
I just think that the art department at TNG got carried away on this one.
Probably the other way around, since the logo first appears in 1989's "Q,Who".
'Twas a joke, not anything I meant literally. Hence the "looks like."
Might of course be it's not a symbol at all, but a ruthlessly efficient antenna design for maintaining communications within the Collective. Lore would mock the concept by turning it into a banner, but the Borg themselves never use it for symbolical purposes.
Timo Saloniemi
Timo Saloniemi
Perhaps it is a symbol from the *subconscious* of the Collective itself: a certain percentage of those assimilated are mentally strong enough that even though they are assimilated, some parts of their minds that aren't fully assimilated form a collective subconscious that causes the Collective to do things that it doesn't even quite understand sometimes. The Collective doesn't find the units that are causing this and eliminate them because the calculated overall effect actually appears to improve its efficiency and effectiveness - occasionally giving it the equivalent of an instinct. But maybe that subconscious is actually playing the long game trying to sabotage and break the Collective - and that symbol appearing in various places is a sign of internal resistance. It's the graffiti of rebellion. Which is why it was taken up as a banner by Lore's Borg.
You can skim through it in its entirety here. It's pretty crazy the level of detail they went into to ensure total conformity.I always thought the Nazis had great design sense, but i never knew they had a style guide!
There was a (not very good) series on Showtime called Happyish where the lead worked in advertising, and his boss (played by Bradley Whitford) pitched an ad campaign to Coca-Cola using the Nazi Style Guide as an example of sort of the Holy Grail of marketing.
Perhaps the symbol is just something that was used by the race from which the Borg originated from. It just kind of got stuck with them, it's absolutely necessary for them as is the search for perfection. It displays their origin.
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