Love it. Maybe some to consider is the very first contact in TNG where they say if they resist they will be punished. Kinda unique. And maybe the First Contact when they’re listening to the federation engage the Borg. That one sounds kinda unique too with the crisp audio and kinda echo and music.
I love that clip when the borg threaten species 8472 and after they said "resistance is futile" they just get blasted to pieces within seconds. Best scene ever
Yeah man, the borg have only one opening line and one opening move to all negotiations and and situations. Because they're a dumm.b autistic computer. True NPC.s
I was like shut the fuk up already that bullshit opening lying and somebody already did it for me blasting them to pieces I was laughing like the old lady in the movie Mars Attacks when she says they blew up Congress now that was a good laugh
We are the Bored. Lower your pants and shields. You will be inseminated. Your sexual preferences and fantasies will be added to our own. Relationship is irrelevant. Your species will be impregnated to service us. You have 10 seconds to cumply. 😆
"I am not just any ordinary Cardassian. I am Gul Dukat, commander of the Second Order!" "Your designation is irrelevant. Lower your shields and prepare to be assimilated."
Man, that just goes to show how quickly the Dominion, with all of their allies, would lose to the Borg, if they chose to initiate a full scale invasion of the Gamma Quadrant. The Dominion's biggest weakness was their hubris, which is why Wolf 359 was such a disaster. Now, imagine that battle, but scaled up for the entire Gamma Quadrant. Entire Star Systems are assimilated, Dominion warships, Distinctiveness, knowledge, experience and combat prowess are assimilated into the collective. The rest of the populated Galaxy wouldn't stand a chance.
I think whats so brilliant about the Borg is that they are so terrifying and they make you angry for the crimes they commit, but even in defeat they dont even seem to care. You dont even get the satisfaction of seeing them in defeat.
An adaptable and fearless foe bereft of ego... No wonder they were eventually humanized; merely attempting to comprehend them is horrifying in and of itself. In my opinion, the Borg should have been used three or maybe four times at the most. 1. Introduction. 2. Conflict. 3. Resolution (preferably a defeat that involves tricking them, as opposed to a victory obtained through raw firepower.) They would have retained their fearsome reputation.
If the borg need to be destroyed there is no need for satisfaction. They are a plague, you dont feel anything when killing vermin. Which to be fair might be the same logic behind their actions.
@@Anarchist86ed Yes, well, you see, that is what happens when you stagnate in technology while everyone else moves forward in technology. It is strongly alluded to that this is a cycle the borg have been through, assimilate, grow, gain terrifying reputation, grow more, because all they do is assimilate their tech stagnates, species around them continue to advance in tech to the point they can wipe the floor with the borg, borg get almost wiped out, cycle starts again.
It’s true. Borg drones are pretty much cybernetically enhanced zombies. This is why I found it perfectly plausible when Seven used nanoprobes to reanimate Neelix.
Enter Soviet and Japanese Forces. Soviets had "barrier troops" with machineguns and mortars to prevent the bolt-action equipped Infantry and Scouts from retreating or deserting. Japan had so thoroughly indoctrinated their Soldiers from birth, that Bushido Code was sown into their very being and consciousness. They would rather hug a grenade or jump from a cliff, than dishonor: themselves, their Families and the Emperor. The only way for them their Spirit to "climb Mount Suribachi" so that their Kami can join the God Emperors.
It's haunting, really. They're so single minded and determined that they won't even give you the satisfaction of defeat, of impermanence. You can die fighting if you really want, but don't think for a second that it'll spare you. We'll jump-start your corpse and reincarnate whatever's left of your consciousness as a part of our own. In life or in death, you WILL become Borg.
@@Darkblue4269 That's adding too much individuality and humanity to the collective. They don't care. They don't *need* to. Their memories and experiences are quite literally kept alive to the collective long after the physical bodies have died because it will provide useful information the collective it can use to improve their survival. Do you care, or even notice, when a few of your body's cells die? Or were removed?
So I used to always have to stop myself giggling at my grandparent's church when the congregation would recite verse in unison... sounded just like The Borg from Voyager
@@noeyes6151 The Borg Collective and The Hiss from Control are the only things I can compare an the creepy sound of an entire room full of people speaking in union and monotone LMAO
Best answer to their normal introduction was something I read in a fanfic. "We are Chaos. Raise your shields and give us a good fight. We will sacrifice your souls to our gods. Your culture will burn. Resistance is amusing."
What do the borg care? All it takes is one nano probe on a frozen asteroid somewhere found a thousand years later to begin again. 'Resistance is futile' isn't an intimidation tactic, or intended to make their victims squirm more, it's a statement of fact telling their victim to "STOP WASTING OUR TIME! Which will be your time soon enough. So we're saying this more for your sake than ours."
“I want to join the Collective.” “Resistance is fu- wait, you’re actually complying?? No ones ever done that before. 😢 Error, unable to assimilate this new datum.”
I freaking love the Borg POV scenes. There is a vessel approaching at sector 44 subsection 2 grid 4, activate... (zap). Then an incoming hail from a Starfleet ship. This is so cool.
Yes, I always like seeing those scenes. It's a pity we didn't get much of the Borg POV outside First Contact and Dark Frontier (and a few times with Seven of Nine). However, the nitpick in me always took issue with the one time they said "grid 03" when it should have been "grid 003", especially since it contradicted the Collective's statement in "Drone" with "grid 006", not "grid 06".
Gene roddenberry..was a visionary... I think he bought in the borg = thinking we could go the borg way rather than the federation way in future history.. the way tech is now = example = I am h.i.v. New tech = nano _probs injected into me once a year to control my viras instead of daily _ medication.. = maybe a beginning ?.
The writers behind TBOBW really understood the characterization of the Borg. Did you notice, in the original context, the phrase "Resistance is futile," was in response to Picard's statement "I will resist with you with my last strength." "Strength is irrelevant, resistance is futile." But in First Contact and Voyager, their dialogue with Picard is rewritten slightly and becomes their cliche catchphrase every time they show up...
Bingo, finally somebody who caught that. The borg communicated very differently in Q Who and TBOBW. After that, they were deflated into a Saturday cartoon villain.
I also noticed the line originally written as "Your culture will adapt to service *ours*" later got changed to "Your culture will adapt to service *us*", probably because the first one implies that the Borg have a culture.
@@clearcutter74 according to seven the borg collect relevant information from every drone and that makes 'ours' and 'us' correct as in some way every individual memory still exists but are used in the collective altogether.
It's a nod to the Melian Dialogue in the Pelopennesian War by Thucydides. "The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must." Athens was the Borg of their day.
The borg should not have had a queen... thats what made them so cool and frightening. They had no centralized power hiërarchie. Their structure came from a collective consciousness functioning as a single being. They could have done so much more and far cooler things with them than what they did. To be fair, the borg was one of the most powerfull and scary enemies in the series. The thought of giving up individuality and free will has a terrifying effect on a person.
While I generally agree, I do understand why Frakes and Co. went the route of the Queen in First Contact, as it made dialogue between protagonist and antagonist more personal. Which of course, defeats the whole one collective consciousness idea, but they wanted to put the Borg in a film so...
@@darthplagueis4626 Well there might yet be a way that they can fix the whole queen concept. I'm interested to see what the next season of Picard will bring.
Even with the queen, the thought of giving up your individuality to her collective is still terrifying. The only reason the borg were so much more terrifying at the beginning was they were an extremely powerful unknown. The thing with unknowns is, once we start studying and understanding them they typically turn out to be at least a little less scary. Also we have seen that even with the destruction of the queens body she still "lives" as she is not a physical being but a living machine/program in a sense, and uses another similar looking female drone as her avatar.
I haven't seen all of Voyager yet so I don't know if there's anything that contradicts this, but from how the Queen was presented in First Contact I thought she was the entire Collective expressing itself as an individual, not an individual that controls the Collective.
To think that The Borg have no intent of malice is incredible. They simply don't get angry or happy. Their mood and intentions and purpose is constant. That in itself is crazy and scary... No concept of fear or feelings. Danf bro. What's worse being unlaived by the borg or assimilated?
So to make it even more chilling, in the old post-Nemesis novel timeline, the Borg decided that they had had enough and did a balls-to-the-wall invasion of the Alpha Quadrant and changed their introduction: "We are the Borg. You will be annihilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness have become irrelevant. Resistance is futile... but welcome."
They do intend malice. They exist to conquer and disregard the desires and lives of those they antagonize, all so their Queen can control more people. Drones don't understand what they're doing because they're brainwashed automatons, but their leader does.
To paraphrase Stargate: Something tells me that -Origin- assimilation would be a lot more appealing to the males of the galaxy if the Queen was used as the face/voice of the Collective more often. 😏
@@UGNAvalon from what I can understand its a battle on who owns the earth and its inhabitants..the ‘people’ who run the world or globe that is everything the infrastructure education medicine medical every aspect of politics that;s been happening over the centuries and to date..these families and their descendants that own the wheel had made some kind of deals in the 50’s maybe even before that during Eisenhower ‘s time the Majestic 12 went behind that president’s back and sold out humanity or traded it in for technology. So millions of people have been disappearing being used as experimentations and the humans that are pandering to these ET’s for their own benefits are also into other extreme horrific crimes against humanity...without going into to much as it’s complex and there are many rabbit holes...the virus was intented for the humans but was thwarted in 2017 and the tables have been turned against them..The virus now is a psychologist warfare for earthlings that are so stupid as to continue being conned despite bing told and given alternative information of the invalidity of the vaccine..it’s harder to unbrainwash someone once they have allowed themselves not to think for themselves....This will be like a big APRIL FOOLS JOKE on them...they will be told some time in the future don’t know when but I hope so soon...We are living a lie
I love how utterly clinical the Borg sound, especially in "The Best of Both Worlds." They're not posturing; they're not threatening; to do either of those things would be to imply that they care what you think; they do not. They're just telling you how things are going to be, and advising you not to waste too many future drones trying to resist them. And, more than that, on the few occasions when you can actually manage to talk to them face to "face," it's clear that there's no malice behind it. Indeed, they honestly think that they're doing what's best for you, and you're just too ignorant to understand until you've been added to the hivemind.
What I find most amazing here is the fine line the makeup people did with Ryan at 6:50 where she's basically a monster and yet manages to still be beautiful at the same time.
@@CranberryGraves Compared to who? Sisco(lol)? Dont act like Picard and Kirk didnt do tons of stuff that, were it not for plot armor, would have gotten both their ships destroyed, but didnt work that way for idealism and theme. Frankly, shes def not perfect, but imo shes as good if not a better captain than Picard, who was by far the best Starfleet captain with no one other than Janeway becoming close. Kirk was a joke by modern standards, but led the way. Sisco is a politician clown. Everyone else is basically... Not real star trek, and even worse. Picard and the enterprise crew, and Janeway and Voyager carried Star Trek.... AND STILL ARE.... Modern Star Trek wouldnt even be an idea if it wasnt for Voyager and TNG.... DS9 had some good characters and stuff, but Sisco sucks, Kira sucks, Bajor sucks. Bajorans suck. The Dominion is cool, the Cardassians are cool, the Founders are cool.... DS9 is cool, the doctor is cool, Obrien and the Ferengi are cool. Obv warf.... Odo, dax.... lotsa cool.... worm hole aliens had potential, but..... kinda lame af..... DS9 did bring some value, but 70% of Star Treks value is from Picard and Janeway, and its just about equal measures!
@@tandava-089 In some ways I think Janeway was a better Captain than Picard. Sure, Picard was a great diplomat, but you can't beat a bit of insanity when someone doesn't want to play nice. Would Picard have flown his ship into a binary star because aliens on the ship refused to leave?
I don't know why, but whenever I hear that Borg voice, most of the time, I keep lip syncing with what they're saying, like I was part of the collective. I just hope that I'm not being assimilated! lol😂
I love how fast the cubes move in Voyager. It makes them look incredibly powerful, like they could physically crash straight through any resistance they encounter.
Best of Both Worlds did the Borg the best...as they originally were. A force of nature, guided by a hive mind that had no analogue to anything we knew. Then they added the Borg Queen, and suddenly they were ants, or bees, or wasps. Not just a gestalt consciousness.
@@chrispekel5709 I know, but in one circumstance you only had an encounter with one Borg and efforts to De-Borgify him, and the other were Borg controlled by Lore.
Yes the queen removed the mystery. It was much scarier when it was a machine civilization roaming our galaxy for billions of years potentially. It was much more chilling and disturbing to have this cube entity roaming the galaxy. No explanations. Its better to not have any explanation about their origin. A completely out of control chat GPT. That makes it scarier.
Exactly. The drones stopped looking disinterested and aloof and started to look intentionally threatening. They were bland with few colours, unlike the later primarily green--but also blue colour scheme. Their ship was also just a large cube of metal shit stuck together with no apparent rhyme or reason, yet it was highly threatening. However, in doing so, it lost the subtlety. Also, the introduction of the Queen and hierarchy created it's own problem. The notion that they see us as "archaic authority driven" cultures is a far more terrifying thing. They would have no leader. There was no one of them you could talk with. All you could do was destroy them.
What in Star trek or ever? Aliens get a bad rep anyway, they don't care about our arse! If they did, we would meet them. We're like the nobody's in school. That's probably why humans always make them look ugly, scary and place them in either harsh or dark environments. It's also the reason why that although one of them could literally squish us, humans always seem to win, 100% of the time.
@@yizzoManoloYou're referring to Agent Smith right? There is actually an Ultimate Matrix Collection print ad I saw, where it's that final fight from Revolutions, and there's text at the top that says 'Resistance is futile' and I IMMEDIATELY got the reference
What are you talking about? No politician are ever that straight forward, if anything the Borg are some of the most honest people you'd encounter. They state their intentions exactly and carry out what they tell you they'd do.
The Borg in the original TNG conception were totally chilling. It was great that they were used so sparingly in that series - they're the kind of villain that shouldn't show up unless the writers really have something good up their sleeves. Voyager gets a lot of flak for watering them down, which I tend to agree with. Can't say I was really a fan of Species 8472 as a creative contribution to the lore - I was much more of a fan of the Vidiians, which were much more complex and had a unique potential for visceral horror in Trek. But as far as the Borg go, I do love that one scene where the liberated Borg heal Chakotay, with their voices gradually merging into that of the Collective. It was actually really, really creepy, and it would have been even better if they had taken that into a much darker direction.
Were the vidiians the medic harvesters? If so they are one of tbe best si fi races ever to me, what kind of alien would i want to be, one of them, they were better than the borg as they were about taking the flesh, whereas the borg want you body and soul, having your soul left behind in less body is worse
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Credit where credit is due for the First Contact voice for making the Borg sound more robotic, But hands down I think the Best version of the Borg voice goes to their 2nd appearance in "Best of both Worlds" where they sound more like millions of voices speaking as one, feels like there is way more menace in their voice. Their first voice in QWho is ok, just felt like it could do with abit more work to bring its potential out and I think they did that with the 2nd voice! Actually voyager's is pretty close, it has a nice echo effect on it, feels like a close 2nd they settled on hence forth. It's still pretty good , more laid back like an ancient God that knows how Powerful it is so it doesn't need to put emphasis on its words, just makes statement of what it's gonna do to you. They are all great with different strengths, Thanks for putting the list together! ^^
Not all of it was an improvement. Look how detailed the original borg cube was, and how almost featureless the new ones are, just random bits of panels and glow.
the borg flat out lied to janeway saying it would take too much time to escort voyager out of borg territory, they had multiple nexus hubs according to 7 of 9. That makes them even more terrifying
What I need is a stand-alone Borg-only focused movie with their origin backstory and the explanation for how the queen came to misplace her body. That always struck me as surprisingly careless for such a powerful monarch. So many questions.
My current headcanon is that since she is supposed to be a personification of the Collective's consciousness, the bodies themselves are irrelevant and may even be a standard type of drone, ready to be used if the previous one is destroyed (not unlike the Imperious Leader in BSG or The Grand High Witch in The Witches).
@@darthplagueis4626 after having seen the 'queens' chambers in the cube from ST picard, i like to believe each cube may have atleast 1 inactive queen in case the current active one is destroyed, atleast, considering cubes are all near identical, its to assume each has a queens chamber as well.
@@darthplagueis4626 I figure the Borg Queen represents the personality of the first original Borg, whoever was responsible for the creation of the Collective. Whatever body she had in the beginning died a long time ago and she has since used the bodies of others as her avatars.
I don't like how they made the borg weaker. But if you look at it from another angle it makes sense, they assimilated a lot of federation, klingon and romulan officers, which then integrated their knowledge and way of working into the collective: that's why they had drones working consoles, and that's why they had ranks after a while, changing from a hive: one collective, to many seperate collectives that are interconnected
The thing that bugged me most about the Borg after their appearance in Best of Both Worlds, is that the writers seemed to care less and less about adhering to the whole "hive mind" "collective consciousness" thing. Introducing a queen was off-putting enough, but then in Voyager it's reduced all the way down to where a drone would have to acknowledge an "order" from "the collective" by saying out loud "we understand"? I mean... what? So being part of a collective consciousness just means you have a voice in your head giving you orders, and you feel really compelled to obey that voice? So many moments from that scene and onward just bothered the hell out of me lmao
This is a great compilation - nice work. However none of it gets anywhere near: "Brave words. I've heard them before; from thousands of species across thousands of worlds since long before you were created. But now, they are all Borg."
I love the almost-nerdy-voice borg from TNG, but I also love the vaguely-text-to-speech voice from early voyager (hope and fear is a good example) The others kinda just sound generic
5:24 With the way these scenes fit together, I like to imagine that Janway falls from that precarious gangway into "Grid 9-2 of subjunction 12" as the borg put it, with her hitting the ground as they say that, like a satnav recalibrating.
That was one of Janeway's biggest tactical mistakes. As Sunzi said: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Sunzi was right, Janeway should have worked with Species 8472. What are they actually learning in tactics at the Starfleet Academy? I'm not a brilliant strategist now, but if you've read The Art of War by Sunzi you should have some basic knowledge of warfare, as well as the game of chess.
To be fair, Species 8472 were practically an unknown quantity, they weren't the ones who controlled Borg Space, they had no way to consistently communicate with them and Voyager's resident telepath received a psychic impression that Species 8472 was out to destroy all life in the galaxy, not just the Borg.
Jane way wasn't at war with the Borg, though. It would be foolish to be in her situation. Plus, the Borg likely outnumber them, so once they adapt, which is likely, they're in big trouble. I think she rightly saw the Borg as a better partner and bigger threat. The borg could conquer the universe.
Doing so requires disabling the enemy's shields and at the time, Starfleet knew very little about Borg technology, so they weren't able to detect anything they would call shields.
As much as I love First Contact. I think Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga did a disservice to the Borg in the long run with that movie. The guys at Paramount were the one's forcing them to put the Borg Queen in there. They said "You gotta have a face for these Borg villains in this movie, otherwise they're just zombies!" Imagine if we had Star Trek: Voyager with the Borg with the TNG era costumes and a full on collective hive mind. XD
0:00 "Q Who" TNG S2E16
0:16 "The Best of Both Worlds" TNG S3E26
2:33 First Contact
2:48 "Scorpion" VOY S3E26
5:32 "Scorpion Part II" VOY S4E01
7:03 "The Raven" VOY S4E06
8:15 "One" VOY S4E25
8:52 "Hope and Fear" VOY S4E26
9:10 "Drone" VOY S5E02
10:50 "Dark Frontier" S5E15
13:14 "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" VOY S6E04
14:08 "Collective" VOY S6E16
16:06 "Child's Play" VOY S6E19
16:28 "Endgame" VOY S7E25
17:47 "Regeneration" ENT S2E23
18:08 "Broken Pieces" PIC S1E08
Love it. Maybe some to consider is the very first contact in TNG where they say if they resist they will be punished. Kinda unique. And maybe the First Contact when they’re listening to the federation engage the Borg. That one sounds kinda unique too with the crisp audio and kinda echo and music.
Great word well done 👏 ✔
If you’re trying to talk about all the Borg episodes, you left out Descent.
@@jasonirelan4487 Read the description.
2:00 Socialism
I love that clip when the borg threaten species 8472 and after they said "resistance is futile" they just get blasted to pieces within seconds. Best scene ever
It actually made me laugh.
@@paulohagan3309 It still makes me laugh whenever I watch it
Yeah man, the borg have only one opening line and one opening move to all negotiations and and situations. Because they're a dumm.b autistic computer. True NPC.s
I was like shut the fuk up already that bullshit opening lying and somebody already did it for me blasting them to pieces I was laughing like the old lady in the movie Mars Attacks when she says they blew up Congress now that was a good laugh
Same. It's badass. I wish they would come back in future trek, even though it's crap.
"We are bored, assistance is fertile, you will be stimulated".
if one borg parties THEN ALL BORG WILL PARTY!!!
We are the Bored. Lower your pants and shields. You will be inseminated. Your sexual preferences and fantasies will be added to our own. Relationship is irrelevant. Your species will be impregnated to service us. You have 10 seconds to cumply. 😆
Sounds like the hedonist planet in early Voyager
@@histguy101 or the one in early TNG.
Democrats!
"I am not just any ordinary Cardassian. I am Gul Dukat, commander of the Second Order!"
"Your designation is irrelevant. Lower your shields and prepare to be assimilated."
YES!!!!!!!
BURN! That gotta sting Dukats ego
To be honest Dukat is compare to Borg still more evil
Gul Dukat: "You have no idea what enemy you have made today!"
Borg: "ENEMIES ARE IRRELEVANT!...WAIT, WHY DO WE HEAR BOSS MUSIC???"
Man, that just goes to show how quickly the Dominion, with all of their allies, would lose to the Borg, if they chose to initiate a full scale invasion of the Gamma Quadrant.
The Dominion's biggest weakness was their hubris, which is why Wolf 359 was such a disaster. Now, imagine that battle, but scaled up for the entire Gamma Quadrant. Entire Star Systems are assimilated, Dominion warships, Distinctiveness, knowledge, experience and combat prowess are assimilated into the collective.
The rest of the populated Galaxy wouldn't stand a chance.
I think whats so brilliant about the Borg is that they are so terrifying and they make you angry for the crimes they commit, but even in defeat they dont even seem to care. You dont even get the satisfaction of seeing them in defeat.
An adaptable and fearless foe bereft of ego...
No wonder they were eventually humanized; merely attempting to comprehend them is horrifying in and of itself. In my opinion, the Borg should have been used three or maybe four times at the most.
1. Introduction.
2. Conflict.
3. Resolution (preferably a defeat that involves tricking them, as opposed to a victory obtained through raw firepower.)
They would have retained their fearsome reputation.
@@PR--un4ub Voyager destroyed the concept of the borg. They were no longer terrifying, they were always easily beaten.
If the borg need to be destroyed there is no need for satisfaction. They are a plague, you dont feel anything when killing vermin. Which to be fair might be the same logic behind their actions.
@@Anarchist86ed Yes, well, you see, that is what happens when you stagnate in technology while everyone else moves forward in technology. It is strongly alluded to that this is a cycle the borg have been through, assimilate, grow, gain terrifying reputation, grow more, because all they do is assimilate their tech stagnates, species around them continue to advance in tech to the point they can wipe the floor with the borg, borg get almost wiped out, cycle starts again.
@@Skyfire_The_Goth No, it's just bad writing.
You're screwed when your enemy considers death irrelevant
It’s true. Borg drones are pretty much cybernetically enhanced zombies. This is why I found it perfectly plausible when Seven used nanoprobes to reanimate Neelix.
Like religious fanatics.
Enter Soviet and Japanese Forces.
Soviets had "barrier troops" with machineguns and mortars to prevent the bolt-action equipped Infantry and Scouts from retreating or deserting.
Japan had so thoroughly indoctrinated their Soldiers from birth, that Bushido Code was sown into their very being and consciousness. They would rather hug a grenade or jump from a cliff, than dishonor: themselves, their Families and the Emperor.
The only way for them their Spirit to "climb Mount Suribachi" so that their Kami can join the God Emperors.
Definitely would keep the last bullet for myself. What they do with my body I can't control.
"Victory is life!"
"Life is irrelevant. Lower your shields and prepare to be assimilated."
"I will resist you with my last ounce of strength"
"Death is irrelevant"
Gr8 show!!!!
cool way to say great. never seen that before!
@@monkeydigs6696 L8ter Sk8ter
"The neural link is temporary. You will not be damaged"
Whatever you say Elon.
Strength, freedom,self determination and death is irrelevant... Resistance is futile..
the link is irrelevant. deth is irrelevant. you will be assimilated.
How it starts...😮
@@christopherleubner6633 Thought crime detected!
The impact of the line: "death is irrelevant" it made the borg so much more creepy
It's haunting, really. They're so single minded and determined that they won't even give you the satisfaction of defeat, of impermanence. You can die fighting if you really want, but don't think for a second that it'll spare you. We'll jump-start your corpse and reincarnate whatever's left of your consciousness as a part of our own. In life or in death, you WILL become Borg.
And the way they said it, too.
Would it help to know the borg have a form of immortality?
The Borg just sees death as a missed opportunity to add more to their collective... nothing more.
@@Darkblue4269 That's adding too much individuality and humanity to the collective. They don't care. They don't *need* to. Their memories and experiences are quite literally kept alive to the collective long after the physical bodies have died because it will provide useful information the collective it can use to improve their survival. Do you care, or even notice, when a few of your body's cells die? Or were removed?
“We are the borg”
The doctor: “I know very well who you are” 😂😂😂
can't think of anybody else tooling around in big cubes.
Right.. Activate the Photonic Cannon!!
📡⚡
I am a doctor, not a door stop
That moment after the computer confirms that the photonic cannon is online and his eyes widen... lmfao, I absolutely love it. The Doctor rules.
So I used to always have to stop myself giggling at my grandparent's church when the congregation would recite verse in unison... sounded just like The Borg from Voyager
I've had a similar experience with a TV ad I saw, there were people all saying the company's slogan; kind of changes its intended impact. Lol
"As we forgive those who treapass against us....." yeah the old church dirge, always a good memory from school that😃
@@noeyes6151 The Borg Collective and The Hiss from Control are the only things I can compare an the creepy sound of an entire room full of people speaking in union and monotone LMAO
Lmao I'm not the only one 😂
Nerd emoji
Best answer to their normal introduction was something I read in a fanfic.
"We are Chaos. Raise your shields and give us a good fight. We will sacrifice your souls to our gods. Your culture will burn. Resistance is amusing."
That is a pretty sick response, too bad it would be wasted on the Borg. They wouldn't exactly _care._
What do the borg care? All it takes is one nano probe on a frozen asteroid somewhere found a thousand years later to begin again. 'Resistance is futile' isn't an intimidation tactic, or intended to make their victims squirm more, it's a statement of fact telling their victim to "STOP WASTING OUR TIME! Which will be your time soon enough. So we're saying this more for your sake than ours."
how fucking cringe, sounds like your fanfic was written by an angsty low IQ teen
Something tells me you're a Sonic fan.
@@zeph0shade haha no freak sounds like you are though
Me: I love the Borg...
The Borg: Love is irrelevant..
"We are the Borg. We loves the kittehs"
Me: I love the Borg..
The Borg: Love is... You do?? 😢
“I want to join the Collective.”
“Resistance is fu- wait, you’re actually complying?? No ones ever done that before. 😢 Error, unable to assimilate this new datum.”
Me: I love democracy...
Palpatine: YES... I KNOW YOU DOOOO
hahahaaha lol
I freaking love the Borg POV scenes.
There is a vessel approaching at sector 44 subsection 2 grid 4, activate... (zap).
Then an incoming hail from a Starfleet ship. This is so cool.
Yes, I always like seeing those scenes. It's a pity we didn't get much of the Borg POV outside First Contact and Dark Frontier (and a few times with Seven of Nine).
However, the nitpick in me always took issue with the one time they said "grid 03" when it should have been "grid 003", especially since it contradicted the Collective's statement in "Drone" with "grid 006", not "grid 06".
Your love for the borg is irrelevant, resistance is futile
Gene roddenberry..was a visionary... I think he bought in the borg = thinking we could go the borg way rather than the federation way in future history.. the way tech is now = example = I am h.i.v. New tech = nano _probs injected into me once a year to control my viras instead of daily _ medication.. = maybe a beginning ?.
Honestly, I think the Collective Voice from TBOBW is the most imposing.
Yeah, later Borg voices opted for sounding "badass", whereas this one more chilling in its utter lack of emotion.
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What does TBOBW stand for?
@@jaydee1024 The Best of Both Worlds.
@@Eric19877 Thanks!
The writers behind TBOBW really understood the characterization of the Borg. Did you notice, in the original context, the phrase "Resistance is futile," was in response to Picard's statement "I will resist with you with my last strength." "Strength is irrelevant, resistance is futile." But in First Contact and Voyager, their dialogue with Picard is rewritten slightly and becomes their cliche catchphrase every time they show up...
Yup.
Bingo, finally somebody who caught that. The borg communicated very differently in Q Who and TBOBW. After that, they were deflated into a Saturday cartoon villain.
I also noticed the line originally written as "Your culture will adapt to service *ours*" later got changed to "Your culture will adapt to service *us*", probably because the first one implies that the Borg have a culture.
@@clearcutter74 according to seven the borg collect relevant information from every drone and that makes 'ours' and 'us' correct as in some way every individual memory still exists but are used in the collective altogether.
It's a nod to the Melian Dialogue in the Pelopennesian War by Thucydides. "The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must." Athens was the Borg of their day.
Borg “you must comply”. Janeway. “ we must do nothing” such a bad ass 😂
when the unstoppable titan NEEDS YOU and you know it.
iremember that too ...she won me over as fan after that 1 ...
The borg should not have had a queen... thats what made them so cool and frightening. They had no centralized power hiërarchie. Their structure came from a collective consciousness functioning as a single being. They could have done so much more and far cooler things with them than what they did.
To be fair, the borg was one of the most powerfull and scary enemies in the series. The thought of giving up individuality and free will has a terrifying effect on a person.
While I generally agree, I do understand why Frakes and Co. went the route of the Queen in First Contact, as it made dialogue between protagonist and antagonist more personal. Which of course, defeats the whole one collective consciousness idea, but they wanted to put the Borg in a film so...
Yeah, it’s called being married
@@darthplagueis4626 Well there might yet be a way that they can fix the whole queen concept. I'm interested to see what the next season of Picard will bring.
Even with the queen, the thought of giving up your individuality to her collective is still terrifying. The only reason the borg were so much more terrifying at the beginning was they were an extremely powerful unknown. The thing with unknowns is, once we start studying and understanding them they typically turn out to be at least a little less scary. Also we have seen that even with the destruction of the queens body she still "lives" as she is not a physical being but a living machine/program in a sense, and uses another similar looking female drone as her avatar.
I haven't seen all of Voyager yet so I don't know if there's anything that contradicts this, but from how the Queen was presented in First Contact I thought she was the entire Collective expressing itself as an individual, not an individual that controls the Collective.
"Over my dead program"
I love the Doc
The Doctor: What about comfy chairs?
The Borg: Comfy chairs are irrelevant
The Doctor: I made them say comfy chairs
Now you made me want a cybermen vs Borg fight
@@julianozaur444 There is a comic with both villains joining forces
@@SamuelBlack84 I could see that. Borg would provide sufficient space advantage while Cybermen are glorified infantry in comparison to Borg
The Doctor just made me think Robert Picardo.
@@ChimpingBulldog bruh
When you hear "death is irrelevant" you know you're screwed.
Lol, caption at end: “We are bored.”
“We are Bored. Your technological & cultural distinctiveness will be used to service our entertainment. Resistance is futile.”
To think that The Borg have no intent of malice is incredible.
They simply don't get angry or happy.
Their mood and intentions and purpose is constant. That in itself is crazy and scary...
No concept of fear or feelings. Danf bro. What's worse being unlaived by the borg or assimilated?
So to make it even more chilling, in the old post-Nemesis novel timeline, the Borg decided that they had had enough and did a balls-to-the-wall invasion of the Alpha Quadrant and changed their introduction: "We are the Borg. You will be annihilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness have become irrelevant. Resistance is futile... but welcome."
"DEATH is irrelevant, we do not acknowledge the term unalived"
They do intend malice. They exist to conquer and disregard the desires and lives of those they antagonize, all so their Queen can control more people. Drones don't understand what they're doing because they're brainwashed automatons, but their leader does.
Assimilation is obviously a fate worse than death. Far worse.
*Someone says something*
Borg: "That is Irrelevant"
the Borg episodes are actually kind of horror movies.
@ 12:59 I love that bit where the Borg spoke then it cuts to the Queen who is actually the one saying it in unison with the Collective.
She is the Collective.
To paraphrase Stargate: Something tells me that -Origin- assimilation would be a lot more appealing to the males of the galaxy if the Queen was used as the face/voice of the Collective more often. 😏
it is said that Star Trek is based on what really is out there and what we are experiencing today with the covid is part of the Galactic war going on
@@carmelcorreale3211 Ok, and who's doing the saying?
Besides, isn't a little flu virus a bit tame for a galactic-scale war? ;P
@@UGNAvalon from what I can understand its a battle on who owns the earth and its inhabitants..the ‘people’ who run the world or globe that is everything the infrastructure education medicine medical every aspect of politics that;s been happening over the centuries and to date..these families and their descendants that own the wheel had made some kind of deals in the 50’s maybe even before that during Eisenhower ‘s time the Majestic 12 went behind that president’s back and sold out humanity or traded it in for technology. So millions of people have been disappearing being used as experimentations and the humans that are pandering to these ET’s for their own benefits are also into other extreme horrific crimes against humanity...without going into to much as it’s complex and there are many rabbit holes...the virus was intented for the humans but was thwarted in 2017 and the tables have been turned against them..The virus now is a psychologist warfare for earthlings that are so stupid as to continue being conned despite bing told and given alternative information of the invalidity of the vaccine..it’s harder to unbrainwash someone once they have allowed themselves not to think for themselves....This will be like a big APRIL FOOLS JOKE on them...they will be told some time in the future don’t know when but I hope so soon...We are living a lie
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I love how utterly clinical the Borg sound, especially in "The Best of Both Worlds." They're not posturing; they're not threatening; to do either of those things would be to imply that they care what you think; they do not. They're just telling you how things are going to be, and advising you not to waste too many future drones trying to resist them. And, more than that, on the few occasions when you can actually manage to talk to them face to "face," it's clear that there's no malice behind it. Indeed, they honestly think that they're doing what's best for you, and you're just too ignorant to understand until you've been added to the hivemind.
3:25 tuvok: they've locked on to us with a tractor beam
Everyone else: noooooo really? Thought they hit us with a pie Mr. Logic!
A pork pie !
Star Trek logic (if we don't say what we're doing, the audience won't understand) taken to the extreme.
Well, considering that this is Star Trek, it could very well be a gravimetric field or a temporal stasis array or something. Better to be specific. ;D
What I find most amazing here is the fine line the makeup people did with Ryan at 6:50 where she's basically a monster and yet manages to still be beautiful at the same time.
My ex-wife...
damn, I got insta chills when Worf says "you are being hailed" with that legendary music
Janeway was a tough cookie. And a damn fine Captain.
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Nonsense, Janeway was a terrible captain. She needlessly placed her fleet in danger countless times and acted purely on emotions. Terrible.
@@CranberryGraves Compared to who? Sisco(lol)? Dont act like Picard and Kirk didnt do tons of stuff that, were it not for plot armor, would have gotten both their ships destroyed, but didnt work that way for idealism and theme.
Frankly, shes def not perfect, but imo shes as good if not a better captain than Picard, who was by far the best Starfleet captain with no one other than Janeway becoming close.
Kirk was a joke by modern standards, but led the way. Sisco is a politician clown. Everyone else is basically... Not real star trek, and even worse.
Picard and the enterprise crew, and Janeway and Voyager carried Star Trek.... AND STILL ARE.... Modern Star Trek wouldnt even be an idea if it wasnt for Voyager and TNG.... DS9 had some good characters and stuff, but Sisco sucks, Kira sucks, Bajor sucks. Bajorans suck.
The Dominion is cool, the Cardassians are cool, the Founders are cool.... DS9 is cool, the doctor is cool, Obrien and the Ferengi are cool. Obv warf.... Odo, dax.... lotsa cool....
worm hole aliens had potential, but..... kinda lame af.....
DS9 did bring some value, but 70% of Star Treks value is from Picard and Janeway, and its just about equal measures!
@@tandava-089 In some ways I think Janeway was a better Captain than Picard. Sure, Picard was a great diplomat, but you can't beat a bit of insanity when someone doesn't want to play nice. Would Picard have flown his ship into a binary star because aliens on the ship refused to leave?
@@paradoxicalcat7173 XD Right?!
Brent is a really great actor.
I don't know why, but whenever I hear that Borg voice, most of the time, I keep lip syncing with what they're saying, like I was part of the collective. I just hope that I'm not being assimilated! lol😂
I love how fast the cubes move in Voyager. It makes them look incredibly powerful, like they could physically crash straight through any resistance they encounter.
Best of Both Worlds did the Borg the best...as they originally were. A force of nature, guided by a hive mind that had no analogue to anything we knew.
Then they added the Borg Queen, and suddenly they were ants, or bees, or wasps. Not just a gestalt consciousness.
That was actually a few years later. There were a few Borg appearances before then
@@chrispekel5709 I know, but in one circumstance you only had an encounter with one Borg and efforts to De-Borgify him, and the other were Borg controlled by Lore.
@@Alamandorious good point
Yes the queen removed the mystery. It was much scarier when it was a machine civilization roaming our galaxy for billions of years potentially. It was much more chilling and disturbing to have this cube entity roaming the galaxy. No explanations. Its better to not have any explanation about their origin. A completely out of control chat GPT. That makes it scarier.
I love the emergency command hologram scene. The doctor is so smug!
The black and ash grey colour scheme for the borg was way more scary than the modern green mottled one
I understand that they had to change a little, laser pointers stopped seeming high-tech and scary :)
Exactly. The drones stopped looking disinterested and aloof and started to look intentionally threatening. They were bland with few colours, unlike the later primarily green--but also blue colour scheme. Their ship was also just a large cube of metal shit stuck together with no apparent rhyme or reason, yet it was highly threatening. However, in doing so, it lost the subtlety. Also, the introduction of the Queen and hierarchy created it's own problem. The notion that they see us as "archaic authority driven" cultures is a far more terrifying thing. They would have no leader. There was no one of them you could talk with. All you could do was destroy them.
Death is irrelevant. The Borg talking that smack.
Out of all the aliens the Borgs freaked me out the most
What in Star trek or ever?
Aliens get a bad rep anyway, they don't care about our arse! If they did, we would meet them. We're like the nobody's in school. That's probably why humans always make them look ugly, scary and place them in either harsh or dark environments. It's also the reason why that although one of them could literally squish us, humans always seem to win, 100% of the time.
The Borg and the Dominion with their Jem'Hadar
Thts a fact, the borg low key prepared us for the Matrix movies ...
@@yizzoManoloYou're referring to Agent Smith right? There is actually an Ultimate Matrix Collection print ad I saw, where it's that final fight from Revolutions, and there's text at the top that says 'Resistance is futile' and I IMMEDIATELY got the reference
@@ShadeATV u r my spirit bro happy 2024 and beyond !
How many people over the years came to the realization, I wonder, that this was a warning for the future....a future which is now the present.
I had the same thought.
@@ENXJ You shaw about that? What you say online has to be considered or your removed unless your saying the correct things.
@@owen368 what are you talking about? There are plenty of places online that comments aren’t censored.
@@empofxeno True but how many of them have the numbers of fb yt and like? Where you will be deleted for wrong think.
The metal particles in the vax is stage one of Borg assimilation.
Nothing give me more chills as old seven of nine brings on the unimatrix and say "WE ARE BORG". Most badass scene with her
they sound just like politicians
Exactly.
What are you talking about? No politician are ever that straight forward, if anything the Borg are some of the most honest people you'd encounter. They state their intentions exactly and carry out what they tell you they'd do.
Also politicians are loathe to cooperate. They’d be the ones saying “I’ll resist to the last strength of my life!”
@@realname4401- They are like open psychopaths, politicians are covert ones, yet the mechanism is the same.
The Borg in the original TNG conception were totally chilling. It was great that they were used so sparingly in that series - they're the kind of villain that shouldn't show up unless the writers really have something good up their sleeves.
Voyager gets a lot of flak for watering them down, which I tend to agree with. Can't say I was really a fan of Species 8472 as a creative contribution to the lore - I was much more of a fan of the Vidiians, which were much more complex and had a unique potential for visceral horror in Trek. But as far as the Borg go, I do love that one scene where the liberated Borg heal Chakotay, with their voices gradually merging into that of the Collective. It was actually really, really creepy, and it would have been even better if they had taken that into a much darker direction.
Were the vidiians the medic harvesters? If so they are one of tbe best si fi races ever to me, what kind of alien would i want to be, one of them, they were better than the borg as they were about taking the flesh, whereas the borg want you body and soul, having your soul left behind in less body is worse
That word is concept
17: 30. I just witnessed the Borg queen do a makeshift pole dance... I'm... I'm not sure how I feel about that...
Gets my nanites going
17:30
The Borg forced everyone to evolve while they stayed the same assimilating old technology.
Borg: lower your shields and prepare to be assimilated
Kirk: mr. Spock, prepare to assimilate the borg.
Borg: hol'up!
More like insemenated.
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Credit where credit is due for the First Contact voice for making the Borg sound more robotic,
But hands down I think the Best version of the Borg voice goes to their 2nd appearance in "Best of both Worlds" where they sound more like millions of voices speaking as one, feels like there is way more menace in their voice.
Their first voice in QWho is ok, just felt like it could do with abit more work to bring its potential out and I think they did that with the 2nd voice!
Actually voyager's is pretty close, it has a nice echo effect on it, feels like a close 2nd they settled on hence forth. It's still pretty good , more laid back like an ancient God that knows how Powerful it is so it doesn't need to put emphasis on its words, just makes statement of what it's gonna do to you.
They are all great with different strengths,
Thanks for putting the list together! ^^
My favorite is when we see it from their perspective when they're targeting voyager.
I remember the 1st time I heard them. When they said we are the borg resistance is futile.it sent shivers down my spine. Still does alittle
03:00 Resistance is fut....
Yeah we've heard that BS before.
Species 8472 stole the Dr's Photonic cannon.
I always love the scene at 6:38. The way the first Borg looks up and the music.
The Borg voice gets more menacingly terrifying with each iteration.
Borg: Resistance is Fut...
Species 8472: So anways, I started blasting
Species 8472-the munchkins of the Star Trek universe 🙂
It's funny seeing 1987 VFX (TNG) and 2001 VFX (Voyager) and how far along they came in just 14 years.
Not all of it was an improvement. Look how detailed the original borg cube was, and how almost featureless the new ones are, just random bits of panels and glow.
Good video, the translators were somewhat funny. Especially the last one "We are Bored"
This is excellent❤❤❤❤❤
Took a stroll down memory lane to confront the most feared alien beings, the Borg 👥👤👥
Oooooo... The very last clip. I STILL gets chills and a smile when I watch THAT one! :-)
the borg flat out lied to janeway saying it would take too much time to escort voyager out of borg territory, they had multiple nexus hubs according to 7 of 9. That makes them even more terrifying
What I need is a stand-alone Borg-only focused movie with their origin backstory and the explanation for how the queen came to misplace her body. That always struck me as surprisingly careless for such a powerful monarch. So many questions.
My current headcanon is that since she is supposed to be a personification of the Collective's consciousness, the bodies themselves are irrelevant and may even be a standard type of drone, ready to be used if the previous one is destroyed (not unlike the Imperious Leader in BSG or The Grand High Witch in The Witches).
@@darthplagueis4626 after having seen the 'queens' chambers in the cube from ST picard, i like to believe each cube may have atleast 1 inactive queen in case the current active one is destroyed, atleast, considering cubes are all near identical, its to assume each has a queens chamber as well.
@@darthplagueis4626 I figure the Borg Queen represents the personality of the first original Borg, whoever was responsible for the creation of the Collective. Whatever body she had in the beginning died a long time ago and she has since used the bodies of others as her avatars.
@@GrandmasterDevo I like the idea. Would the Queen in "Dark Frontier" be referring to her body as being from Species 125, then?
The third Borg Queen will be featured in the new season of “Picard”.
We are Björn Borgs and we like to play tennis.
Sounds Swedish.
I thought the Borg in “First Contact” sounded more menacing. Then you hear all the other federation ships over comm trying to fight off the Borg.
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!! I ENJOYED THIS
The Borg was meant as a sci-fi warning not as a how-to guide! I aim this comment at the World Economic Forum Klaus Shultz
Now Elon Musk is pushing his Nuero Link.
predictive programming.
Definitely headed that way.
Borg Cube = Black Cube of Saturn!!!
10:15 that dude has 25% assimilation from his previous assimilation,so why do the borg collective forget him.
Species 8472 said “the Borg who”
“YOUR CULTURE WILL BE ADAPTED TO SERVICE OURS”
We would rather die
*DEATH IS IRRELEVANT”
Goddamn what a line
'You command the strongest ship in the Federation fleet...' Exactly.
13:15 .. best part. Makes me laugh everytime. lol
Alllah loves this stuff
I don't like how they made the borg weaker. But if you look at it from another angle it makes sense, they assimilated a lot of federation, klingon and romulan officers, which then integrated their knowledge and way of working into the collective: that's why they had drones working consoles, and that's why they had ranks after a while, changing from a hive: one collective, to many seperate collectives that are interconnected
"Death is irrelevant." For some reason, that line always gives me chills...
Waking up a borg and make it walk far to the console inefficient. Couldn’t wake up the borg standing right in front?
if this was real life the borg would probably have an augmented reality console in their prosthetics, alas, TV needs something to show.
@@nemou4985 That’s a good thought. Perhaps the queen hasn’t absorbed the species yet.
I love that Hugh gives the matrix exactly what it wants and it tells him to unplug
The thing that bugged me most about the Borg after their appearance in Best of Both Worlds, is that the writers seemed to care less and less about adhering to the whole "hive mind" "collective consciousness" thing. Introducing a queen was off-putting enough, but then in Voyager it's reduced all the way down to where a drone would have to acknowledge an "order" from "the collective" by saying out loud "we understand"? I mean... what? So being part of a collective consciousness just means you have a voice in your head giving you orders, and you feel really compelled to obey that voice? So many moments from that scene and onward just bothered the hell out of me lmao
'My culture is based on freedom.'
Best writing ever for a species
0:42 I love how they’re like “WE DON’T CARE, SURRENDER YOURSELF”
This is a great compilation - nice work.
However none of it gets anywhere near:
"Brave words. I've heard them before; from thousands of species across thousands of worlds since long before you were created. But now, they are all Borg."
Gotta love the Borg lipstick in that final clip.
DESIGNATION:Leftenant Colonel. Press-ganged.
They don't give up easy lol
I love the almost-nerdy-voice borg from TNG, but I also love the vaguely-text-to-speech voice from early voyager (hope and fear is a good example)
The others kinda just sound generic
1:40 straight out of the Melian Dialogue from the Pelopannesian War by Thucydides. "The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must."
They're real. Along with species 8472. These events just won't happen until the 24th century.
5:24 With the way these scenes fit together, I like to imagine that Janway falls from that precarious gangway into "Grid 9-2 of subjunction 12" as the borg put it, with her hitting the ground as they say that, like a satnav recalibrating.
That was one of Janeway's biggest tactical mistakes. As Sunzi said: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Sunzi was right, Janeway should have worked with Species 8472. What are they actually learning in tactics at the Starfleet Academy? I'm not a brilliant strategist now, but if you've read The Art of War by Sunzi you should have some basic knowledge of warfare, as well as the game of chess.
To be fair, Species 8472 were practically an unknown quantity, they weren't the ones who controlled Borg Space, they had no way to consistently communicate with them and Voyager's resident telepath received a psychic impression that Species 8472 was out to destroy all life in the galaxy, not just the Borg.
Jane way wasn't at war with the Borg, though. It would be foolish to be in her situation. Plus, the Borg likely outnumber them, so once they adapt, which is likely, they're in big trouble. I think she rightly saw the Borg as a better partner and bigger threat. The borg could conquer the universe.
TZU! TZU! The Chinese prince Machiavelli. Tony turned me on to him
@@histguy101 his western name is Simon Terrence.
"Divide and conquer"
- Simon Terrence
The name is Sun Tzu.
Thank God they released Whoopi.
The Borg was probably the toughest enemy.
The Borg Still Scares the Hell out of Me !😮
The Borg is very kind to people
Such gr8 acting!!!
11:52 Nobody thought to do this at Wolf 359? Beaming a torpedo through their shields, that is....
Doing so requires disabling the enemy's shields and at the time, Starfleet knew very little about Borg technology, so they weren't able to detect anything they would call shields.
Depending on who you ask, teleporting antimatter is not supposed to be possible.
As much as I love First Contact. I think Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga did a disservice to the Borg in the long run with that movie. The guys at Paramount were the one's forcing them to put the Borg Queen in there. They said "You gotta have a face for these Borg villains in this movie, otherwise they're just zombies!" Imagine if we had Star Trek: Voyager with the Borg with the TNG era costumes and a full on collective hive mind. XD
I like the one scene where the Borg tries to assimilate them
Borg::: “resistance is futile”
Species 8472::”hold my beer”