Borg physiology

[Methos]

Wondering if you guys can help me out on this one...

i'm working on a fanfic where I have a borg character in 21st century earth... and looking to restore him to almost human status...

I'm just trying to run down what problems modern day tech would run into when dealing with Borg tech, specifically removing it... and what aspects of the Borg physiology would 'have' to stay with the character after most of the tech was removed...

Mostly i've been looking at early episodes of season 4 Voy for a bit of a headsup on how The Doctor dealt with Seven's physiology, but there isn't much explained there... so if anyone out there has better ideas on this, i'd love to hear them

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[T'Girl]

In order to prevent "organ rejection" of the Borg implants in/on the body and the nanite in the victim's blood, the immune system would have to be suppressed or simply switched off by the Borg.

The Borg would have to then replace the immune system with an artificial one.

So someone being removed from the collective might have no means of creating antibodies and white blood cells.

From a certain way of looking at it, leaving the collective gives you AIDS.

Some internal organs might have been replaced with "better" ones by the Borg, eyes and arms too. From the example of Captain Picard's heart, there are some things that Federation medical science can't do, can't replace. The Voyager's EMH doctor obviously replaced on of Seven's eyes with a artificial one, but could the Federation replace a person's entire arm?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

The Federation did replace Nog's leg.

 

[Timo]

...On the other hand, the Federation couldn't remove Garak's wire, or Picard's Borg hotline. They could do passable brain prosthetics in "Life Support", but clearly there are places inside the cranium where the doctors dare not go - whereas the Borg dare, and do.

One obvious thing pops to mind. The famous change in skin color associated with assimilation seems to turn the skin resilient to, among other things, prolonged exposure to vacuum. One would think the skin would in that process lose its ability to regulate heat by secreting sweat and associated waste materials; various machine components would take over these functions. Essentially, a de-assimilated person would be a 100% burn trauma patient, then... While both Jean-Luc Picard and Annika Hansen (and later Janeway, Tuvok et al. in "Unimatrix Zero") seemed to pull it off with 24th century medicine, our 21st century technologies might be unable to cope - and the Borg machines responsible for the functions previously handled by sweating would have to be retained, or replaced by 21st century human machines.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[T'Girl]

Biggest problem would likely be not be the physical removal of equipment, but the psychologicall problems, especially over time. Picard and Seven were examples of single individuals taken from the collective, what would happen if Starfleet freed an entire cube full of drone/slaves, all at the same time. Literally as they stood in the cube?

How would a ship, even one as large as the Enterprise, handle it?