You'd probably get done for treason, since they are classified as the enemy. It would be a defection.
What is someone wants to join the Borg collective?
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There is a lengthy application process to join the Collective. A form is involved. Bring a number two pencil.
Yes. God forbid if you don't fill it out efficiently.
I would imagine there would at least have to be some evaluation by the person's culture as to whether the Borg might gain sensitive tactical or scientific information by assimilating them.
There once was this online IQ test that endlessly popped up random questions from a large repository. The sooner you tried to click the test away ('this test isn't any good!') the higher the score it awarded you. Perhaps the Borg have a similar philosophy here, trying to see how long you put up with inefficiently filling in irrelevant data ?
One of my old (before the introduction of Species 8472) fanfic story ideas involved the Borg finding themselves under attack and partially disabled by a species of shapeshifting telepathic sadists called the D'Agla, who were also attacking the Federation at random. The Borg were partially disabled and sent out a distress signal. The Federation and the Borg made a treaty: For the Borg side, they were no longer to assimilate beings involuntarily, and anyone they assimilated, they had to allow to keep individual autonomy. For the Federation side, a group of Kohlinahr Masters volunteered to allow themselves to be assimilated, to instantly teach the collective mental defenses that would work against the D'Agla.
Fast-forward 20 years, and the Borg - once one of the most feared entities in the galaxy - are setting up booths in spaceports to recruit and teach people about the advantages of Collective Consciousness. And they're actually recruiting. Some, for the same reasons any religious sect manages to recruit new adherents. Some, for the sheer utility that joining the Collective brings. But mostly, because joining the Collective is a guaranteed way to immediately protect yourself (and those you care about, if you get them to join, too) from the terrorist D'Agla, who have become a growing threat that Starfleet seems at a loss to be able to do much about.
In answer to the original question, though: I think they would probably assimilate you IF it was convenient to do so based on their present resource needs and allocations. If not, they'd ignore you, and if you got pushy, they'd eliminate you.
Fast-forward 20 years, and the Borg - once one of the most feared entities in the galaxy - are setting up booths in spaceports to recruit and teach people about the advantages of Collective Consciousness. And they're actually recruiting. Some, for the same reasons any religious sect manages to recruit new adherents. Some, for the sheer utility that joining the Collective brings. But mostly, because joining the Collective is a guaranteed way to immediately protect yourself (and those you care about, if you get them to join, too) from the terrorist D'Agla, who have become a growing threat that Starfleet seems at a loss to be able to do much about.
In answer to the original question, though: I think they would probably assimilate you IF it was convenient to do so based on their present resource needs and allocations. If not, they'd ignore you, and if you got pushy, they'd eliminate you.
Sounds interesting. You should post tour story on fan fiction net
I expect it would depend if a cube had any positions vacant, so to speak. There would be a capacity of drones required to effectively run a cube plus an acceptable buffer of extra drones in reserve. If they required a top up then sure but they're not going to process extras for no good reason.
Whatever happened to the baby borgs? Is that a thing or do we just kind of gloss over the idea of them growing replacements? Surely growing cloned organics would be the easier option?
Whatever happened to the baby borgs? Is that a thing or do we just kind of gloss over the idea of them growing replacements? Surely growing cloned organics would be the easier option?
We get a sense of how they would react from the end of "scorpion part 1" when voyager flew into Borg space. The Borg would just be zombies about it and do the tractor beam and "you will be assimilated" script.
^After scanning the Destiny stories the above seems more likely considering who is pulling the Borg strings...
Hint - The solution to solving the Borg problem is time travel to the 22nd century
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Which really makes it seem like the events of the movie "First Contact" constituted the Borg Queen trying to commit suicide?
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