star trek - What are the known Borg failed assimilations? - Science ...
Oct 19, 2017 · @Sekhemty: If the Borg manage to successfully assimilate Voyager or Janeway's shuttle in "Endgame" and survive, then I would consider that a geopolitically destabilizing event. In of itself, it's not the end of the Federation, but it certainly changes the political calculus.
star trek - How do the Borg adapt and assimilate? - Science Fiction ...
Feb 2, 2021 · The probes maintain the Borg cybernetic systems and repair damage to the organic parts of a Borg. They generate new technology inside a Borg when needed and protect them from many forms of disease. Borg nanoprobes, each about the size of a human red blood cell, travel through the victim's bloodstream and attach to individual cells.
What would be the effect of a Borg assimilating a Q?
Sep 4, 2014 · The Borg could successfully assimilate an incorporeal being. We have no evidence either for or against 2, although it does seem unlikely. 1 is even more ambiguous, since we see Q interacting normally with the corporeal world (Q is even caught off-guard by Sisko and knocked on his butt in DS9), but we also see Q phasing through solid matter ...
star trek - Why do the Borg assimilate children? - Science Fiction ...
Oct 31, 2014 · Borg assimilate children because they see assimilation as a good thing. When the collective encounters a target they deem worthy of assimilation (which can be anything form a single individual to an entire planet), they fairly politely announce themselves and with as little hardship as practical progress the soon-to-be-born into their final ...
star trek - Why do the Borg need to assimilate entire species ...
Sep 12, 2012 · It would seem that the Borg won the battle, took what they wanted, and didn't care about the stragglers. Similarly, the Borg tried twice to assimilate the Federation (at the Battle of Wolf-359 and again at the Battle of Sector 001), but seem to …
star trek - Would the Borg assimilate a 20 century Earth? - Science ...
Jan 18, 2016 · The Borg would most likely skip over earth for assimilation based on our tech, and humans physical anatomy. The Borg have been shown to skip over races with Warp tech so a pre warp tech wont pique their radar. Species the Borg found unremarkable would be deemed unworthy of assimilation.
Why do the Borg want to assimilate every planet in the universe?
Feb 10, 2024 · So while the Borg want to do a lot of assimilation there's clear evidence that they don't "want to assimilate every planet in the universe". They could have attacked far more worlds, far more often than they actually were shown to, and they frequently ignore essentially helpless targets that are either categorized as non-threatening or unworthy.
star trek - Do the Borg really only assimilate civilisations, not ...
Jan 2, 2015 · A the end of the "I, Borg" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, La Forge wants to beam down to the moon together with Hugh, because he is sure that the Borg, who will eventually show up to pick up their lost drone, will pose no harm to him. Hugh confirms that by saying something like "the Borg assimilate entire civilisations, not ...
star trek - Do the Borg assimilate down to the last being? - Science ...
Feb 17, 2016 · Despite the fact that their planet sits at the entrance to a Borg transwarp conduit, when the Borg ravaged their civilization they clearly did not assimilate or kill all of the inhabitants. Indeed, the Brunali appear to get attacked quite frequently, and have taken extreme counter measures to try and make themselves unappealing for assimilation.
Why haven't the Borg tried to assimilate the Talosians from Talos IV?
Feb 29, 2020 · Further, the Borg, based on the examples of Hugh, Unimatrix Zero, and what (apparently) happened to the cube in Star Trek: Picard, respond to attempt to manipulate, infiltrate, or subvert by immediately cauterizing the wound. It's likely the Borg would detect that something was manipulating the minds of drones on a vessel approaching Talos IV ...