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Do the Borg not wonder why everybody hates them?
A refusal to submit to assimilation is prima facie evidence that the individuals involved are acting like stupid, spoiled children. I've selectively quoted the Borg Queen to give an overview of their ...
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Why does Seven of Nine pronounce "Futile" differently than Locutus?
Jeri Ryan stated in an interview for the September 1999 issue of Playboy magazine (no, she does not appear nude) that she asked the producers of Voyager if she should pronounce it "few-tile" ...
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Why do the Borg care so much about Earth?
There may be a clue in the ST:TNG episode Hide and Q (S1 Ep10):
Q: Well if you'll stop interrupting me. This is hardly a time to be teaching you the true nature of the universe. However, at Farpoint ...
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Has the Borg's technology ever been shown to advance?
One example that comes to mind is the assimilation tubules. When the Borg are first shown to assimilate Captain Picard in the episode "The Best of Both Worlds", they have to take him over to ...
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Why are the Borg not entirely synthetic?
The conceit of the Star Trek universe is that there is something about 'life' that is special and simply can't be achieved artificially.
This premise is violated repeatedly, with:
the Soong-type ...
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How was Seven of Nine the seventh of nine people to be assimilated?
Seven of Nine was not assimilated with nine other people. She was assimilated along with her parents, Magnus and Erin Hansen.
At some point in the future, she was then assigned to a working group ...
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Did Picard violate Article 14, Section 31 of the Starfleet Charter?
As written, the article is permissive, not prescriptive- it allows someone to take 'extraordinary measures', but does not require them to.
Using Hugh to transmit the virus might have been legal, but ...
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Is there a link between the Vogon's "Resistance is Useless" and the Borg's "Resistance is Futile"?
It's possible, but it's equally likely both were inspired by some earlier work that used the phrase, with Doctor Who being a particular likely candidate. The Daleks and Cybermen on Doctor Who said "...
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Why does Seven of Nine pronounce "Futile" differently than Locutus?
In-universe, both Locutus and Seven were assimilated humans. Its not unreasonable that they may have retained small details of their native accents that are below the level of resolution considered ...
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Are the Borg aware of the Q?
As we know from DS9 there are directives in effect in starfleet since the Enterprise met Q.
This means that LATEST when the Borg assimilated even a single starfleet member they gained knowledge that ...
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Why didn't Captain Picard destroy the Borg ship encountered in the "Q-Who" episode?
This was the first encounter the Federation had with the Borg, so Picard had no idea this was a foe bent on assimilating all of humanity (and everyone else too). They are not a military organization ...
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Does Picard have his arm removed?
On AOL chat with Ronald D. Moore from 1997 he is talking about this
Ron, I was looking through some of the sketches from "Best of Both
Worlds." They mentioned something about Picard having to ...
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Why is there no Borg threat in the DS9 series?
DS9 is in a different quadrant to both Borg space and the main Federation worlds:
Most of the Federation is in the Alpha quadrant, including DS9. The rest of the Federation is in the Beta quadrant.
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Why do the Borg care so much about Earth?
1. Q himself answered your question in Season Two Episode 16 when he sent the Enterprise to encounter the Borg for the first time - "Q Who".
"The Borg are the ultimate user. They're ...
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Is Borg adaptation only temporary?
Because the borg adapt to a frequency
Star Trek shields work on a frequency, and once you know that frequency, you can alter your weapons to bypass those shields, which is why you'll often hear ...
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Does Picard have his arm removed?
He still has his original arm and hand.
At the end of Part 1, Picard's assimilation has already begun, but has not been completed yet. When the crew of the Enterprise first sees him in this state on ...
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Are the Borg a species?
No. The Borg are a space-faring society that consists of a wide variety of different species that have been assimilated into the Borg Collective. Whilst these assimilees (is that a word?) share some ...
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Are there examples of "liberated" Borg who, even after a long time away from the collective, wished to return?
The Voyager episode "Unity". They discover that some of the disconnected Borg (an accident separated them from the Collective) want to go back to a hive mind (in their case, called the Co-operative).
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Why aren't Earth humans considered Species 001?
Maybe they were known as Species 001 or 002 (as Caeliar should be 001) at that time (5th millennium BC) and we just do not know.
But you have to understand that this was the first iteration of the ...
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Why is there no Borg threat in the DS9 series?
TNG only has a few episodes involving Borg after the launch of DS9, and they never face another Borg invasion/attack until the First Contact movie. The First Contact attack is again a single Borg ...
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Why can't humans resist the Borg when they’re smart enough to design weapons against Species 8472?
I think the premise is flawed. Species 8472 turned out to be vulnerable to a blend of Borg technology (beyond our capacity to design, but not beyond our capacity to re-task) and highly experimental ...
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What does "The Best of Both Worlds" refer to?
In the episode, the Borg turn Picard into not another nameless, feature-less drone, but as a link between the Borg and humanity. The Borg's view of humanity is that they are a resillient bunch that ...
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How was Seven of Nine the seventh of nine people to be assimilated?
She wasn't!
Your question rests on a faulty premise. It is incorrect to assume that a designation refers to the number of individuals assimilated at the time. Rather, Memory Alpha explains that:
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Is Borg adaptation only temporary?
Because they value resources over drones.
While it's true that the Borg adapt to phaser frequency, they would rather lose a few drones than waste the energy and resources to constantly have defenses ...
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Has the Borg's technology ever been shown to advance?
Although there are various minor instances of the Borg adapting to various efforts made by Picard and Janeway to attack them, a really solid example of technological progress is the Borg's acquisition ...
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Are the Borg a species?
Using biological terms, no, the Borg are a collection of mechanized and technologically co-opted individuals who share a unique hive-mind consciousness composed of different organic components.
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What are the known Borg failed assimilations?
Humans.
Probably not the answer that you were expecting, but Humans, and to a broader extent, all the Federation species, proved to be a hard challenge for the Borg Collective, repeatedly inflicting ...
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What exactly happened to the 18 crew members who were reported as "missing" in "Q Who"?
It was revealed in the EU novel Greater than the Sum that the eighteen crew members were in fact assimilated by the Borg, rather than killed by exposure to space (or sliced in half by the Borg cutting ...
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What exactly happened to the 18 crew members who were reported as "missing" in "Q Who"?
The concept of assimilation was introduced in Best of Both Worlds, but later works develop the concept and even retcon it as the modus operandi of the Borg.
The Voyager episode Raven, in particular, ...
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Could you fit a Borg cube in the Voth city-ship?
No
This picture comparing the two, both at depicted at the same scale, 1 pixel to 10 meters, should help to answer:
And with the two overlaid:
These images are from the excellent Jeff Russells ...
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