The Borg "from a certain point of view"

[DonIago]

Thank you.

I understand and didn't mean to merely reiterate myself.

I suspect you can already find synopses of the books elsewhere on the internets, so unless there's a pronounced curiosity about them, I'll leave it at that.

They are generally considered some of the best Trek novels though; so if you want to explore the litverse, you could do a lot worse.

 

[johnnybear]

No need to get personal/insulting about it.

You sound like Clint Eastwood pretending to be the delivery boy in The Eiger Sanction!
JB

 

[Herbert]

For the record, I don't come here to have the quality of my posts critiqued...

And you shouldn't have to. Everyone contributes in their own way. I think we all just need to let everyone be themselves and post what they want (within the forum guidelines of course) and not have to worry about someone getting annoyed about the way they do it. No one is forced to respond to anyone's posts.

 

[Timo]

It is just that this is not how "polite" works in the real world. There, if you annoy folks, folks beat you with blunt instruments till you cease and desist, until everybody learns to be shy, that is, polite. Adapting to a different world here takes... well, typically a lot of beating with blunt instruments, too.

The Borg origin story might be likened to that of the Cybermen in Dr Who. In that model, it is plain inevitable that cyborgs emerge, one way or another, and quite possibly a zillion ways in parallel. All seek perfection, so ultimately all merge into this unholy Collective that is essentially independent of origin stories - anything goes, and indeed everything goes.

Once merged, all lose identity and thus origin. Any number of stories may be true, but all are ultimately irrelevant. If something about origins threatens to become relevant, the whole shmoo just loops in on itself with time travel to ensure eternal emergence. Which is what happened in Destiny, sort of, but may also have happened a zillion other times in the eternal history of the Collective. And not even the Doctor can do anything to unravel that.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[SpyOne]

Ah. Doctor Who was good for that, like how the Daleks seemed to be inevitable: thwart one origin and they just find another.

Not super satisfying on an emotional level, ....
But I do kinda like the idea that the Borg have assimilated one or more other races that were similar enough to the Borg that it isn't clear who assimilated who.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Ehhh, I'm still okay with the Destiny explanation for their origins.

Canadians.