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New Borg Origin Theory?

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Anti-Trekker has a new Borg Origin Theory that has some interesting ideas behind it.

What do you all think?
 
I'm not watching the video. I feel the same as everyone else. If he changed his avatar to something besides shit, then I might be more inclined. But anyway...

There's an episode of VOY, I can't remember the name, that mentioned the Borg existed 900 years earlier in the Delta Quadrant and it was only made up of four races. Let me look it up... "Dragon's Teeth".

That's the closest to the origin of the Borg we've had so far, unless Picard goes further with it. I'm willing to wait to see what they do. Or don't do.

And nothing in Discovery has led to or will lead to the Borg. DSC is taking after DS9 in more ways than one.
 
There's an episode of VOY, I can't remember the name, that mentioned the Borg existed 900 years earlier in the Delta Quadrant and it was only made up of four races. Let me look it up... "Dragon's Teeth".

The Vaadwaur there essentially provide the provincial view on the Borg.

Gedrin the Vaadwaur: "You're Borg."
Seven: "How do you know that?"
Gedrin: "Don't you recognise my people? The Vaadwaur?"
Seven: "The Collective's memory from 900 years ago is fragmentary."
Gedrin: I've had many encounters with your kind."
EMH: "And lived to tell about them? Impressive."
and
Gedrin: "That star cluster in grid fourteen twenty one? Nearly half the planets are inhabitable."
Seven: "Unfortunately they are already occupied. By the Borg."
Gedrin: "The Borg? In my century they'd only assimilated a handful of systems. It looks like they've spread through the quadrant like a plague. No offense."
Seven: "None taken."

I guess the thing here is, what would the Vaadwaur know? Humans up till the 24th century think the Borg have assimilated exactly zero systems. VOY portrays the Borg as secretive, but OTOH not really centered around planet Vaadwaur or anything. So the Vaadwaur view is not in direct contradiction of the Guinan statement that the Borg are "thousands of centuries" old. Although we of course also have to ask, what would Guinan know? (Her statement is not contradicted by Q, who otherwise loves to put a word in edgewise, FWIW.)

Timo Saloniemi
 
First, what do you think?
I think Anti-Trekker makes a good plausible theory as to the organic origins of the Borg before they become "The Borg". Or as Lily Sloane likes to state "They sound Sweedish" =D. And that there are a fragmentary divide of the organic parasitic jumping space ravioli looking creatures and what would eventually become "The Borg".

At some point down the line, the parasitic jumping space ravioli co-opted some species with advanced enough technology that they made the Borg Nanites and transferred some of their collective conciousness into "The Borg Collective". That eventually starts a split from their pure organic brethern to the hybrid Cyborg beings that "The Borg Collective" become.

None of the existing Borg canon contradicts that either given how old they potentially are.
 
I think Anti-Trekker makes a good plausible theory as to the organic origins of the Borg before they become "The Borg". Or as Lily Sloane likes to state "They sound Sweedish" =D. And that there are a fragmentary divide of the organic parasitic jumping space ravioli looking creatures and what would eventually become "The Borg".

At some point down the line, the parasitic jumping space ravioli co-opted some species with advanced enough technology that they made the Borg Nanites and transferred some of their collective conciousness into "The Borg Collective".

None of the existing Borg canon contradicts that either given how old they potentially are.

The Destiny trilogy from Pocket Books gives its own interesting take on Borg origins.
 
I guess the thing here is, what would the Vaadwaur know? Humans up till the 24th century think the Borg have assimilated exactly zero systems. VOY portrays the Borg as secretive, but OTOH not really centered around planet Vaadwaur or anything. So the Vaadwaur view is not in direct contradiction of the Guinan statement that the Borg are "thousands of centuries" old. Although we of course also have to ask, what would Guinan know? (Her statement is not contradicted by Q, who otherwise loves to put a word in edgewise, FWIW.)

Timo Saloniemi
But with information that Seven of Nine brought back to "The Federation/StarFleet". They now know how expansive Borg Space is within "The Delta Quadrant".

You have "The Dominion" in the Gamma Quadrant, you have "The Borg" in the Delta quadrant.

Boy if those two powers ever go to war, it'd be fascinating to see the outcome of it.
 
I doubt Seven really would be able to properly convey the whole truth about Borg existence even if she spent the whole four years trying to explain it to the best of her ability. In the very last episode of the show, a central and crucial Borg feature (the transwarp hubs) still comes as a surprise to our heroes! And that one is crucial to the very issue of "expansiveness of Borg space"...

Timo Saloniemi
 
YOU follow.........WE do not. SO include a synopsis or your thoughts or SOMETHING. I am not giving some random jerkoff ad money and watching a 19 minute video for you.
Wow, so hostile! [Content removed by moderator.]
 
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