Borg Collective after Endgame

[adamisme]

So after the Borg Queen was infected with the virus by Admiral Janeway, did it spread through and wipe out the entire Borg Collective except for a few that took 23 years to put together the plan that took place in Star Trek Picard Season 3?

 

[fireproof78]

One would expect so. I would imagine several little cloisters would pop up like Hugh and his group, the group from Unity, etc.

 

[Akiraprise]

The Queen was quite bitter about it too. I prefer the novel version of events though. The Destiny trilogy adapted as a series of films could have put Trek movies on an Avengers like path with all the series heroes coming together to fight.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

The Queen was quite bitter about it too. I prefer the novel version of events though. The Destiny trilogy adapted as a series of films could have put Trek movies on an Avengers like path with all the series heroes coming together to fight.

Where Janeway gets killed off and Seven of Nine is magically cured of all her Borg implants? No thanks. The single biggest thing I appreciate about "Picard" is that it did away with that plot line and built its storyline off of what "Voyager" had done, instead of just retconning it.

 

[BCyphered]

I have a partial timeline of Borg activity. Here are the relevant parts between "Endgame" and Picard S03. Dates are from Memory Alpha.

2378 CE: 5 years after the Battle of Sector 001

• The Queen is injected with a neurolytic pathogen, wreaking havoc with the Collective. ("Endgame"
• The Borg transwarp network (or part of it, at least) is heavily damaged by Voyager, though parts of it survive. ("Endgame")

Prior to 2383-2835 CE

• A Borg Cube experiences submatrix collapses due to assimilating Romulans who've experienced the Admonition. The Cube is disconnected from the Collective. (Picard S01)
• Romulans locate and begin to study the Cube, nicknamed "the Artifact." (Picard S01)

2384 CE: Six years after "Endgame"

• "Crew" of the USS Protostar encounters and awakens a dormant Borg Cube. (Prodigy "Let Sleeping Borg Lie")
• The Infinity (with the Protostar's "crew") uses a transwarp conduit, which one cast member calls 'Abandoned Borg tech.' (Prodigy "The Fast and the Curious." Note: I don't know if the term "transwarp network" is used in the episode, or just "transwarp conduit." They don't seem to always have the same connotations.)

2387 CE: 2-4+ years after Romulan Empire begins studying the Artifact

• Romulan mining ship Narada (and other Romulan ships? Just mining ships?) has already been augmented with Borg tech. (Per Star Trek film behind the scenes; questionable canonicity.)

2399 CE:

• Hugh is in charge of the Federation's Borg Reclamation Project on the Artifact, working alongside the Romulan Free State to deassimilate drones and study Borg technology. (Picard S01. 31 years after Hugh's liberation from the Borg.)
• The former Borg transwarp network still exists. La Sirena navigates it (Picard "Broken Pieces", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1")

2401 CE: 36 years after Enterprise's first official contact with the Borg ("Q Who"). 23 years after neurolytic pathogen deployment.

• A separate Borg Collective controlled by a different Queen (an assimilated Agnes Jurati), originating from a branch in the timeline, assists the Federation. (Picard S02)
• The surviving Collective and Queen are apparently destroyed. (Picard "The Last Generation")

So, there's some data about what was up with the Borg between 2378 ("Endgame") and 2401 ("The Last Generation")... but not much. There's more "Borg-adjacent" information.