Why didn’t Starfleet upload the sphere data to the federation database?
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That was the DC Comics line on the Joker for a long time. There was no definitive origin, because he was the ultimate unreliable narrator.
That's what the Coda trilogy implies about the Borg. Turns out the novelverse Borg may not have the same origin as the First Contact Borg and the Borg may just be an eventuality across all timelines.
Indeed. It is, of course, not how the word "data" is supposed to work at all, but we have to accept it within the parameters of Discovery's writing.
Also the Phantom Stranger had four different origins.
And that was before Kingdom...
You mean, because of time travel, the Borg have different origin points?
That could be the case, but the novelverse isn't canon compared to the TV shows and movies... so, lumping them together (or trying to) would be futile.
I treat the novelverse as alternate reality Trek (which started aligning at some point until it culminated into that trilogy with the Caeliar - so, that would work as a Borg origin story in the novelverse canon) whereas the movies/tv shows would be 'actual canon'... so the Borg likely have their own origin story here.
In case of time travel alterting the Borg's origin... well, usually, when heroes change something in the past, it ends up messing everything up and eradicating the existence of the Federation.
No reason the same can't be said about the Borg's existence. So in that sense, it would be very difficult to say that the Borg are somehow 'bound to happen' and would just have a different origin... the sets of circumstances leading to the creation of the Borg would have to be enormous and extremely repetitive to the point where their origin would be 'ensured'... that's a bit more difficult thing to swallow given how fragile the timeline can be.
