BORG ASSIMILATION process?
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Oooooo. Great question. I have no answer, but am curious to hear who does.
I'd guess (and as the others have said, nothing concrete has ever been revealed, so it's just a guess), that the Joining would remain intact but become largely meaningless. The host and symbiont would still be as one, but they'd also be linked to trillions of other brains and their personality/personalities would be suppressed anyway. So they're just another component in a whole web of linked nervous systems whose resident "souls" have been locked down. Yes, they're a component with a rather odd duality - perhaps it might even register as some sort of strange integrated subsystem-within-a-subsystem? I doubt it would affect the new drone's functioning either way, and given that the Joined mind is a tiny drop in an ocean, I assume the Borg wouldn't find it particularly notable?
I'm more interested in finding out if the Borg could assimilate a shape shifter....
We know from Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil that the Founders, at least, can resist assimilation; even the inexperienced ones.
Ah ha! I've only read the first Mission Gamma book so far. I've gotta get back to it!
But I wonder about other kinds of shape shifters?
But I wonder about other kinds of shape shifters?
If the Borg assimilated a Trill, they would probably get all the information they needed out of the joined Trill's mind, then allow the symbiont to die so the host body can be used as a drone.
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@timothy the creature you're thinking of is called a Horta, and yes I'm assuming that it would be possible to assimilate one without much effort.
I don't know about that. How well would Borg nanites fare bloodstreams filled with acid? It's possible Horta biochemistry makes them resistant to assimilation. Additionally, there were no remains of a Horta civilization on Janus VI aside from the tunnels. No technology for the Borg to assimilate. In such a case, the Borg would likely ignore or exterminate the Horta.
See "A Rolling Stone Gathers No Nanoprobes" by Andy Mangels & Mike Martin in Wildstorm Comics' Star Trek Special #1 (and only). The Borg attack a 24th-century mining colony with Horta members.
In the story, he Borg ignore the Hortas, not recognizing them as life forms, and when they later discover them and attempt assimilation, it is unsuccessful.
^Any opinion on the Trill assimilation question Chris?
No, not really.
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