Borg Collective
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- Appearance: Collective organism formed of trillions of individual assimilated beings
- Homeworld: Arehaz (Star Trek: Destiny)
- Cultural notes
- Operations directed by Borg Queen (Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Unity", "Dark Frontier", "Unimatrix Zero", "Endgame"; TNG Novel: Resistance)
- Presence of queen allows for direction of overall collective will towards particular ends, though Queen only necessary for especially large collections of drones (TNG Novel: Resistance, Greater Than the Sum)
- Construction tends towards massive geometric forms (Various)
- Operations directed by Borg Queen (Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Unity", "Dark Frontier", "Unimatrix Zero", "Endgame"; TNG Novel: Resistance)
- Technological notes
- Overall tactics involve leveraging of historical database to rapidly deploy various defensive systems against any encountered forms of attack, and various offensive systems against any encountered form of defense (TNG Novel: Greater Than the Sum)
- For newly-encountered forms of attack or defense, stochastically "evolves" those technologies proven most effective counters during adaptation phase in order to increase their capability, until effectiveness is maximized (TNG Novel: Greater Than the Sum)
- Prevents implementation of innovative forms of attack or defense, but capable of rapidly disseminating and integrating any captured novel forms of technology throughout the Collective
- For newly-encountered forms of attack or defense, stochastically "evolves" those technologies proven most effective counters during adaptation phase in order to increase their capability, until effectiveness is maximized (TNG Novel: Greater Than the Sum)
- Overall tactics involve leveraging of historical database to rapidly deploy various defensive systems against any encountered forms of attack, and various offensive systems against any encountered form of defense (TNG Novel: Greater Than the Sum)
History
- 4527 BCE: Formation of the Borg Collective (Novel: Lost Souls)
- c.early 2nd millennium: Extended war with unknown creators of the planet killer weapon (TNG Novel: Vendetta)
- Date presumptive as potential explanation of lowered presence c.15th century
- c.15th century: Minor presence in Delta Quadrant (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
- c. 18th to 20th century: Attack on Shgin homeworld (TNG Novel: Vendetta)
- 2260s: Attack on El-Auria (TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
- By c.2300s: Early rumors of Borg begin spreading through Federation space upon arrival of El-Aurian diaspora (VOY: "The Raven")
- By early 2350s: Borg advancement reaches deep Beta Quadrant
- 2354: First recorded assimilation of a Human (TNG Novel: Vendetta)
- 2364: Undetected scouts first reach near-Alpha Quadrant space, attacking and assimilating outposts in Romulan Neutral Zone (TNG: "The Neutral Zone")
- 2365: First identified by Romulan deep-Beta listening posts (TNG Short Story: "Suicide Note")
- 2365: First direct contact with Federation (TNG: "Q Who")
- Direct encounter between Borg Cube vessel, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) at system J-25 in deep Beta Quadrant (TNG: "Q Who")
- January 1-2, 2367: Attack against core Federation territory (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds")
- October 15-19, 2367: Attack against outlying Beta Quadrant Federation territories (TNG Novel: Vendetta)
- Near-destruction of Penzatti homeworld interrupted by destruction of Borg cube by Delcara's planet killer (TNG Novel: Vendetta)
- December 8, 2369: Starfleet encounter (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil)
- Uridi'si (DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil)
- October 1, 2373: Attack against Earth (Star Trek: First Contact)
- Near-Earth space (Star Trek: First Contact)