Do borgs take over planets?
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the immortality of the borg is over rated. Sure if a drone is damaged they replace limbs. If the whole drone is unrepairable it gets recycled.
After generations, a star trek book by shatner had the borg steal kirks body from the crash site of ent D within a few days and bring him back via nanits and an alien technology. This book reintroduces Hugh as being part of a small sub group who became self aware but work in a borg planet facility where drones are beamed to from cubes that are being trashed in combat or say an ion storm. Its rather interesting concept. At the end of the story we have a battle where borg cubes break down into small sub piece that can form into copies of federation starships like a defiant, and so forth. Kirk pulls a plug in a borg planet complex that "disconnects borg communications" and has samples of all borg drones ever used. The oldest ones are described as garbage cans with legs to the most recent movie borg.
However the vinculum is supposed to save the memories of anyone assimilated until it is destroyed. Somewhat tricky thing to do. That was brought up in a voy episode where Tuvok had to dig through 7s brain via mind meld to keep 7 from going nuts.
After generations, a star trek book by shatner had the borg steal kirks body from the crash site of ent D within a few days and bring him back via nanits and an alien technology. This book reintroduces Hugh as being part of a small sub group who became self aware but work in a borg planet facility where drones are beamed to from cubes that are being trashed in combat or say an ion storm. Its rather interesting concept. At the end of the story we have a battle where borg cubes break down into small sub piece that can form into copies of federation starships like a defiant, and so forth. Kirk pulls a plug in a borg planet complex that "disconnects borg communications" and has samples of all borg drones ever used. The oldest ones are described as garbage cans with legs to the most recent movie borg.
However the vinculum is supposed to save the memories of anyone assimilated until it is destroyed. Somewhat tricky thing to do. That was brought up in a voy episode where Tuvok had to dig through 7s brain via mind meld to keep 7 from going nuts.
Yup, the immortality thing comes from VOY "infinite Regress". We only witness it through a malfunction where Seven gets to live the lives of others - we don't know how those ghosts of Drones would experience their own postmortal lives. But the implication is that a Borg never dies.
A different question is whether a Borg gets resurrected into flesh and machinery. The Queen certainly does, repeatedly (and for all we know, she exists in hundreds of bodies simultaneously). Do other Borg? Does Picard also live in the Vinculum, getting printed out in flesh every now and then? Does "Seven of Nine" in fact mean that there are nine physical Annika Hansens out there?
Timo Saloniemi
A different question is whether a Borg gets resurrected into flesh and machinery. The Queen certainly does, repeatedly (and for all we know, she exists in hundreds of bodies simultaneously). Do other Borg? Does Picard also live in the Vinculum, getting printed out in flesh every now and then? Does "Seven of Nine" in fact mean that there are nine physical Annika Hansens out there?
Timo Saloniemi
I think the closest on screen answer we get is in pre Borg lead up episodes of TNG such as The Neutral Zone, where Federation outposts were being completely torn from planets. There was one matte painting shot showing the devestation in one episode. Just every sign of technology scooped out of the surface. My take was that the Borg live largely in space, in their hives of you will. They go to planets to pull what resources they need. They don't typically live on planets or assimilate planets beyond what is needed to get the resources needed. The FC image of the Borged earth always felt at odds with the TV shows.
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