Borg history



The term Borg Collective is used to describe the collective consciousness that is the Borg. The Collective is controlled by the Borg Queen, who operates in much the same way as a queen bee, with the Drones functioning as worker bees.

Not all Borg have remained in the collective, there have been a number of Rogue Borg groups.

Creation
The creation of the Borg Collective is one of the turning points in the history of the galaxy, since their existence the Borg have grown into a force of nature but exactly how they came into being is a subject of much speculation. Evidence for a number of origin theories exists, and the theories would seem to contradict each other to a certain degree, but it is possible each one presents a different step in the very early development of the collective:

Forgotten Light
The species which gave rise to the Borg originated in the Delta Quadrant, however it would seem it was in fact a colony of this race in the Alpha or Beta Quadrants that created the Borg. This colony which settled on a planet named Havarrnus was technologically advanced, when a virulent disease had struck their world they were able to use cybernetic technology to repair damage to their bodies. Unfortunately Havarrnus was a doomed world, just a few hundred years after the colony settled the planet’s star was due to turn into a red giant and in the process make the world uninhabitable. In response to the predicted anarchy the destruction of their world would cause a political group, the technologists, proposed the Interlink act. After some political debate the act was passed with overwhelming support and those who volunteered would be implanted with a neuroprocessor and would join the harmonious ordered collective mind. Within two centuries of the act being past that collective had became the Borg and assimilated the rest of the planet. The Borg assumabley left Havarrnus before it was rendered uninhabitable and returned to their home in the Delta Quadrant where the collective grew. (TNG short story: Forgotten Light)

The Beginning
Alternatively: The Borg were initially created on an unidentified world where the inhabitants of that planet had been struck down by a deadly disease which was slowly killing them. The scientists on the planet developed bio-organic regenerators, a nanotechnology which would be injected into a subject's circulatory system, eradicate the disease and rebuild the patients crippled body. The first experiment was successful in eliminating the disease but also began to change the subject, making her stronger than ever before, replacing her broken body with technology and giving her drive and determination to share her gift with others and make them as perfect as her superior self had become. The experiment soon lost containment and in a short time the entire planet was assimilated, transformed into drones lead by the initial test subject. (SNW VI short story: "The Beginning")

Side Effects
In another continutiy: Long ago the people of a number of planets were struck down by a terrible disease for which no cure could be found. In an ingenious operation a scientist, Doctor Mynzek, placed the sufferers in suspended animation and established a research base near the event horizon of a black hole. He sent ships out via a series of wormholes to capture subjects and run experiments on them in the search for a cure. Using the gravitational time dilation effect of the blackhole he could coordinate centuries of research being conducted on the ships which for those on the base took only days. Mynzek's daughter Danzek was the guinea pig for these experiments on one ship, integrated with technology and biological components from numerous races Danzek became powerful and returned to the station, controlling a group of drone like test subjects. After a brief confrontation the station was destroyed, Danzek, queen of her subjects escaped through a wormhole, which thanks to the temporal distortion generated by the exploding station could have sent here anywhere in space and time. (TOS manga: Side Effects)
 * Amongst the Danzek's subjects was a Ferengi, this might explain why the Ferengi, Species 180, have such a low designation for an Alpha Quadrant species.

Early History
The Borg continued to enhance and improve and became true cyborgs, removing all emotions and creating a collective consciousness that focused solely on turning the chaotic universe into a structured whole. After completely assimilating their own homeworld the Borg began constructing starships, massive Cubes which mirrored their indestructible and ordered nature. They spread to nearby star systems assimilated those they encountered spreading the will of the Borg. (SNW VI short story: "The Beginning")


 * Exactly when the Borg were created, or in the case of "Side Effects" ended up, is unknown, however they have been in existence for at least a billion years or so as they are known to have encountered other species of this era.

The Borg soon encountered the powerful race later known as the Preservers. Although the Borg were only limited to a collection of planets, a medium sized fleet and was only just beginning to incorporate other beings and ships into their Collective, the Preservers could not easily defeat the collective consciousness of the Borg. The Preservers soon disappeared, but created two prototype Planet Killers, robotic killing machines that were composed of Neutronium, with the hoped that they could use their ability to destroy whole planets to wipe out the Borg. However, these devices were never activated by the Preservers but both were later activated through unknown means. (TNG novel: Vendetta).

Following the disappearance of the Preservers, the Borg began to slowly spread out across the Delta Quadrant. Approximately 128,000 years ago a large fleet of Borg ships attacked the Cetacean Probe in an attempt to assimilate it. The attempt failed but they did succeed in damaging the crystal memory core of the Probe. Because of the Collective's inability to assimilate the probe, the Borg extrapolated the Probe's course and tracked down its home world, hoping to assimilate its creators. Many millions were either killed but the Creators kept the Borg from assimilating the planet. Failing to assimilate the Creator's home world, the Borg then somehow reduced the power output of the local star, throwing the Creator's world into an ice age. In a bid to survive, the Creators then destroyed their planet's moon and constructed an evacuation fleet out of the debris left over from the moon. After building the fleet, the surviving Creators left for parts unknown. (TOS novel: Probe).

Around the same time, the Borg suffered one of their first major set backs while attempting to assimilate the Trilex civilization. As a last resort to defeat the large Borg invasion force, the Trilex made their Star go Supernova, which sent out a massive Subspace Pulse and destroyed the Borg fleet. (TOS novel: The Return).

Despite these setbacks, the Borg continued to slowly spread across several sectors of the Delta Quadrant, assimilating many of the native species including millions of Hirogen and their homeworld around 110,000 years ago. (ST short story: The Hunted, from New Worlds, New Civilizations).

Despite many attempts to assimilate numerous cultures in the Delta Quadrant, by the 1470s, the Collective was still limited to a handful of systems in the Quadrant, this being a result of the Collectives inability to send ships across great distances in a short amount of time. This would change however once the Borg assimilated Transwarp Drive. Even so, at this time, the Vaadwaur considered the Borg to be a minor nuisance. (VGR episode: "Dragon's Teeth").

21st Century
In the 21st century the Borg still resided in the Delta Quadrant, however, on April 4th 2063, a Borg Sphere appeared in orbit around Earth after emergeing from a Temporal Vortex and began to fire on a position in central Montana in North America, hoping to prevent Zefram Cochrane's Warp flight and Earth's subsequent First Contact with the Vulcans. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E), which had also travelled back in time, quickly destroyed the Sphere, however a number of Borg Drones, including the Borg Queen, transported to the Enterprise before the Sphere's destruction and attempted to assimilate the Enterprise with the goal of continuing their original plan to prevent First Contact. Whilst on the Enterprise, the Borg attempted to contact their 21st century counterparts in the Delta Quadrant by building an interplexing beacon. However, this and the Borg’s original plan at large was prevented by the crew of the Enterprise, and First Contact went ahead unhindered. Some of the wreckage from the destroyed Sphere, including at least two Borg Drones, crashed into the Antarctic region of Earth. (Movie/Novelization: First Contact)

22nd century
Almost a century later in 2153, the wreckage of the Sphere was discovered on Earth. Starfleet deployed a research team to the site to excavate the remains where they discovered two Drones and began to thaw them out. But the Drones started to regenerate and shortly after they reactivated and proceeded to assimilate the team and their vessel.

The Borg quickly enhanced the vessels systems, including the Warp Drive and weaponry. They took the ship into deep space and attacked a Tarkalean freighter. The Enterprise (NX-01) intercepted the Borg, forcing them to break off their attack and retreat. The Borg later attempted to assimilate the Enterprise but eventually failed and were destroyed by the Enterprise. Before their destruction they successfully transmitted the coordinates of Earth to the Delta Quadrant. (ENT episode: "Regeneration")

Also in this century, the collective native to the timeframe assimilated the El-Aurian homeworld but not the entire race.

24th Century
With sketchy reports of early encounters and tales from Borg survivors such as the El-Aurians starting to appear over time, the Federation eventually developed a vague idea of the existence of the Borg. As a result, in the mid-24th century, Magnus and Erin Hansen, along with their daughter Annika Hansen, set out aboard the USS Raven to search for the Borg. They found a Cube and even followed it through a Transwarp Conduit to the Delta Quadrant. The Raven and the Hansen family were eventually assimilated when the Borg perceived them as a threat. (VOY episodes: "The Raven" and "Dark Frontier")

In the year 2362, the Borg had a vessel in Federation space or just outside of Federation space. This vessel encountered the USS Tombaugh, commanded by Captain Blackwood. The Borg assimilated the Tombaugh and its crew. (VOY episode: "Infinite Regress").

The first known Borg incursion into local space was in 2364 when a Borg cube assimilated a Romulan science outpost. A vessel commanded by Commander Moliok of the Imperial Romulan Fleet confronted the vessel and was promptly assimilated. This Borg Cube would go on to assimilate several Federation and Romulan outposts along the Neutral Zone. (Marvel comic: Operation: Assimilation; TNG episode: "The Neutral Zone").

The Federation's official First Contact with the Borg occurred in 2365 when Q threw the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) into System J25, 7000 Lightyears from Federation space. There they encountered a Borg Cube. The Cube attempted to assimilate the Enterprise and they only escaped with the assistance of Q. This incident propelled the Borg from mere rumour to an established and deadly threat and Starfleet immediately began to prepare for future Borg attacks. (TNG episode: "Q Who")

The Battle of Wolf 359 (2366-2367)
The first Borg attack came much earlier than Starfleet expected. In early 2367, a Borg Cube assimilated the Federation colony New Providence, the first step on its march towards Earth. The Enterprise was sent to intercept and hold off the Borg whilst Starfleet mustered its forces. The Enterprise eventually engaged the Borg Cube and this action resulted in the assimilation of Captain Jean-Luc Picard who became Locutus of Borg, the Collective's envoy to humanity.

On Stardate 44002.3 a fleet of 40 Federation starships were sent to intercept the Cube at Wolf 359 and prevent its progress towards Earth. (DS9 episode: "Emissary"). The attack was a failure and the armada was obliterated. The Enterprise later attacked the Cube as a distraction whilst the crew rescued Jean-Luc Picard. They then used Picard's link with the Collective to gain control of the Cube, putting the Drones into a regeneration state and causing the Cube to self destruct. Picard was freed from the Collective but retained a link. (TNG episode: "The Best of Both Worlds")

Unknown at the time, but one Federation vessel that did not originally survive the battle, was saved from destruction by the entity known as Q and a Starfleet officer that Q had brought with him from the year 2377. Together, the two saved the ship from destruction and in order to preserve the timeline, Q sent the ship to the year 2377 in order to avoid contaminating the timeline. The officer that Q had worked with to save the ship wanted the ship to survive since his father was aboard the ship. (game: Star Trek: Borg).

Vendetta (2367)
Later that year, the Collective retaliated by sending five Cubes into Federation space. Fortunately (but almost disasterously), for the Federation, one of the ancient Planet Killers designed to fight the Borg by the Preservers came into the possession of the mysterious woman known as Delcara. Delcara, who had a particularly intense vendetta against the Borg, fought alongside the USS Enterprise-D, the USS Chekov and the USS Repulse in facing down the Borg fleet. In the end, Delcara went insane, and almost proved to be as big of a threat as the Borg themselves. Delcara disappeared, never to return, after attempting to take her ancient vessel/weapon past the Warp 10 barrier in order to reach Borg space before she died from her injuries. (TNG novel: Vendetta).

Delta Quadrant Events (2367)
The year 2367 was the first year in which the Borg attacked the Brunali homeworld in the Delta Quadrant. (VOY episode: "Child's Play")

At another point in 2367, a Borg vessel crashed and its survivors, the drones with the designations Two of Nine, Three of Nine, Four of Nine and Seven of Nine, regained their individuality. Because Seven of Nine had been assimilated at a very young age, she could not cope with her individuality. So, she decided to create a small collective between the four of them when the other drones refused to await their rescue and to rejoin the Collective. This action created a collective within a collective. The four drones were soon recovered. (VOY episode: "Survival Instinct")

Incursion in the Gamma Quadrant (2369)
In 2369, a Borg Cube attempted to travel from the Gamma Quadrant end of the Bajoran Wormhole into the Bajor system, but the vessel was torn to shreds by the Wormhole as it was currently undergoing Subspace Compression. This would cause the Collective to steer clear of the Wormhole, thinking it dangerous. (DS9 novel: The Siege).

The USS Valkyrie (2369)
Also in 2369, a Borg vessel assimilated a rogue Cardassian artificial intelligence at the planet Uridi'si. The USS Valkyrie set off in pursuit with Starfleet Intelligence agent Commander Ruriko Tenmei, an A.I. and Nanoscience expert, charged with destroying the A.I. Though she accomplished this objective, she and the Valkryie were assimilated. (DS9 novel: Mission Gamma, Book Four: Lesser Evil)

Delta Quadrant Operations (2370-2371)
At some point during 2370, the Borg launched a second attack on the Brunali Homeworld. (VOY episode: "Child's Play")

In 2371, the Borg assimilated Species 6339, a humanoid warp-capable species located in grid 124, octant 22 theta of the Delta Quadrant. Species 6339 vessels tended to be well-armed but even with this being the case, eleven billion members of this race were assimilated, and only a handful managed to escape. (VOY episode: "Infinite Regress")

The Borg Cooperative (2373)
In 2373, a Borg Cube in the Delta Quadrant was traveling through the Nekrit Expanse when it was hit by an electrokinetic storm, killing most drones on board. The survivors lost their connection with the hive mind, which caused them to regain their individuality. They transported themselves to a nearby M-Class planet. Because they had found their individuality again, they also regained their hatred towards other species that they possessed before they were assimilated into the Borg Collective.

This resulted in fights between the different species. There was one group who tried to live in coexistence; they called themselves the Borg Cooperative. However, they were continously attacked by other former Borg drones, and to stop this they decided to send out a Federation distress call, hoping that someone would answer. The call was answered by a shuttle commanded by Commander Chakotay of the starship Voyager.

Chakotay was injured and Ensign Kaplan was killed after they landed their shuttle. Chakotay was cared for by Riley Frazier, a former drone and Starfleet Officer, who used the link shared by these former drones to heal Chakotay's wounds. The Cooperative then forced Chakotay to re-establish the link between all of the former drones in order to preserve their society after Captain Janeway of Voyager turned down their proposal to re-establish the link by activating the heavily damaged Borg Cube which was still near by. The former drones forced Chakotay to do this by using the residual link they had with Chakotay after healing him. After the Cooperative was established, they destroyed the Cube and carried on living on the planet in peace. (VOY episode: "Unity")

The Battle of the Typhon Sector and First Contact (2373)
A Borg Cube again entered Federation space on a course for Earth in 2373. A Federation fleet was gathered and provided much more resistant then in the previous battle at Wolf 359, however it was Jean-Luc Picard's lingering link with the collective that allowed him to locate a weakness in the Cube and direct the fleet to it, to destroy the Cube. As the Cube was destroyed, it launched a Sphere into a Temporal Vortex but was pursed by the Enterprise. The ship and its crew were instrumental in stopping the Borg. (TNG movie/novelization: First Contact)

During the running battle between the Federation and the Borg Cube from the Typhon Sector to Earth, the Borg assimilated a number of Starfleet officers and were able to extract information about the Dominion and their Founders. This information was transmitted back to the Collective before the destruction of the Cube. The assimilated Valkyrie was sent to the Gamma Quadrant as a scouting vessel to investigate Dominion space. In 2374, the ship was engaged by the Jem'Hadar and both ships were fatally damaged. Combined with the Cube lost in 2369 and the rising difficulties with the recently encountered Species 8472, expansion into the Gamma Quadrant apparently became a low priority for the Collective. (DS9 novel: Mission Gamma, Book Four: Lesser Evil)

The War with Species 8472 (2373-2374)
In 2373, the Borg discovered the realm known as Fluidic Space, a parallel universe that was home to Species 8472. The Borg considered Species 8472 the pinnacle of biological development and sought to assimilate the race to add to the Collective’s perfection. Unfortunately the species proved highly resistant and immune to assimilation due to their incredibly advanced biological development. Possibly the most biologically developed race encountered by the Collectivise, Species 8472 saw the Borg incursion into Fluidic Space as a prelude to invasion and sought to wipe out all life in the Milky Way, claiming that life in this galaxy was inferior and had to be purged. Species 8472 began incursions into the Milky Way Galaxy with the aim of eradicating all life, starting with the Borg. The war was costly for the Borg, billions of Drones on thousands of ships were destroyed as well as a number of Borg worlds. The Collectives neighbours saw Species 8472 as a blessing, halting the Collectives relentless march of assimilation and possibly the race to finally wipe out the Borg. (VOY episode: "Hope and Fear"). However, this opinion was not shared by Captain Janeway of the USS Voyager who, fortunately for the Borg, was on her way into Borg space. Janeway offered the Borg an alliance, in exchange for passage through Borg space she would help the Borg develop weapon to use against Species 8472. Janeway and her chief of security Tuvok, were beamed to a Borg Cube to begin work on the weapon. The Borg attempted to attach neural transceivers to link Janeway and Tuvok to the hive mind but the two resisted and instead a Drone, Seven of Nine, the former Annika Hansen, was chosen as an interface with the Collective. The Cube was destroyed by a Species 8472 Bioship and Tuvok, Seven of Nine, an injured Captain Janeway and a number of Drones transported to Voyager and escaped. Commander Chakotay, in temporary command of Voyager, decided to alter the agreement and eventually ejected all of the Drones except for Seven of Nine into space. Seven then took control of the Deflector dish and created a quantum singularity which pulled Voyager into Fluidic Space. There, they successfully tested the Nanoprobe weapon they had developed and left Fluidic Space after destroying a group of Species 8472. Realising that they were vulnerable, Species 8472 retreated back into Fluidic Space and the war came to an end. The crew of Voyager severed Seven of Nine’s link to the Collective and began the process of restoring her humanity. (VOY episode: "Scorpion")

Aftermath of the War with Species 8472 (2374)
In 2374, the Borg assimilated Species 116, after they had managed to elude the Borg for several centuries. This race was hoping that Species 8472 would destroy the Borg, as the Collective was getting closer to assimilating their whole race by the time of the war.

23 outposts were assimilated in a matter of hours after which hundreds of Borg vessels attacked and assimilated the Species 116 home starsystem. About 20,000 were able to escape. A man known as Arturis was one of them. He blamed Captain Janeway for the destruction of his race, because the alliance between her and the Borg was what prevented the Borgs destruction. He attempted to lure the Voyager crew into Borg space but failed and was eventually assimilated himself along with his vessel. (VOY episode: "Hope and Fear")

Revenge (2375)
In 2375, a Borg Cube was destroyed in the Delta Quadrant. Its debris field was about 120 kilometers wide. This happened after they assimilated a vessel belonging to Species 6339, a race that had lost eleven billion members of its species to the Borg. The vinculum of the Cube was infected by a synthetic pathogenic virus which was carried by members of this vessels crew. Unknown to the Borg, this virus was specifically designed to attack them. Species 6339 hoped that another Cube would come to investigate, be destroyed by the virus within the vinculum, leading to more investigations, and ultimately, leading to the destruction of the Collective, however, this plan seemed to fail. (VOY episode: "Infinite Regress")

Voyager (2375-2377)
The Collective encountered Voyager several times during this period, the first encounter being when Voyager accidentally created a 29th century Borg Drone named One. The Collective sent a Sphere to try and assimilate One and Voyager but One was able to beam aboard the Sphere and pilot it into a Proto-Nebula. One died as a result of injures inflicted when the Sphere was destroyed. (VOY episode: "Drone") The second encounter came when Captain Janeway became tired of Voyager constantly altering course to avoid Borg ships, adding at least two years to their journey home. After a Borg Interceptor engaged Voyager, quickly being destroyed, Janeway decided that Voyager could benefit from steeling a Borg Transwarp Coil. The Coil left in the debris of the Probe was no longer functional but its Data Nodes were. Using the information stored within them, a damaged Sphere was located and an operation to steal one of its Transwarp Coils was planned. The crew successfully infiltrated the Sphere and stole the Transwarp Coil, but the Borg Queen convinced Seven of Nine to stay on the Sphere and rejoin the Collective, otherwise the Queen would have had Voyager assimilated. The Sphere escaped but was pursued by Voyager. Using the Multi-Adaptive Shielding used by the Hansens on the USS Raven, the crew used the Delta Flyer to infiltrate the Central Unicomplex, the main base of operations for the Queen and the entire Borg Collective, and recovered Seven of Nine before destroying the Queen's Diamond. Voyager then used their stolen Coil for as long as possible before it became useless and were able to travel a great distance across the Delta Quadrant towards Earth as a result. (VOY episode: "Dark Frontier")

The next time Voyager encountered the Collective was not specifically an encounter with the Collective at all, but rather with a group of Borg children who had been separated from the Collective and designated unfit for re-assimilation. The Cube on which these children were stranded had been disabled by a virus left in the body of one of the children, Icheb, when he had been assimilated. A group of Voyager crewmen were captured along with the Delta Flyer by the Cube and when Voyager arrived to retrieve them, Captain Janeway instead found herself making an alliance with these Borg children. Seven of Nine helped the Borg children repair their ship, hoping to re-establish contact with the Collective, all the time attempting to appeal to their humanity. Eventually, the Cube became unstable when they tried to steal Voyager's Deflector Dish and the Cube was destroyed. The children were saved, however, and began to be made back into individuals with the guidance of Seven of Nine. (VOY episode: "Collective")

The Collective next encountered Voyager above Icheb’s homeworld, the Brunali homeworld, a planet very close to a Borg Transwarp Conduit, meaning that it was constantly being attacked by the Borg. Voyager had learnt that Icheb, one of the Borg children, had been deliberately created and infected with a virus so that he could be captured, assimilated and infect the Borg ship with him onboard, saving the rest of his world. The Cube on which Icheb and the Borg children were found had been disabled by the virus within Icheb. When Icheb’s world was attacked by a Borg Sphere, Icheb was given the virus again and was forcefully sent by his people in a ship up to the Borg vessel in order to disable the Sphere. However, Voyager was able to rescue Icheb and place a Torpedo within his ship. As the ship was pulled into the Sphere, the Torpedo was detonated, causing heavy damage to the Sphere. (VOY episode: "Childs Play")

"Hazardous" Encounter
The next time Voyager encountered the Borg was after it had been transported into a starship graveyard by an alien entity known as the "Vorsoth". While attempting to escape the dampening field that was keeping Voyager and the other ships trapped in the region, the crew discovered that a rare element known as Isodesium could function within the field. After obtaining a number of canisters containing large quantities of Isodesium, a group of Borg drones from a nearby disabled Cube stole the Isodesium as well as a Lieutenant Les Foster of the Voyager crew. The Borg hoped that the elemment would increase their chances of escaping the dampening field.

However, this Cube was engaged with a Species 8472 vessel upon its transportation into the graveyard and several members of the Species 8472, who had boarded the Cube, were transported to the graveyard as well. These invaders stole the Isodesium and had to be wiped out by Voyager's Hazard Team, in hopes that the team could barter the elemnt away from the Borg. However, the Borg then tried to assimilate the team, but the Cube was heavily damaged when Austin Chang detonated an explosive charge that destroyed the Cube's Vinculum. This allowed the Hazard Team to escape with the Isodesium, as well as Lieutenant Foster, as the drones were plunged into chaos. (game: "Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force")

The Borg Queen later learned of an underground resistance movement forming within the Collective known as Unimatrix Zero, a place where Borg Drones could go when they were regenerating and be individuals. Seven of Nine convinced Captain Janeway to assist in saving Unimatrix Zero from the Queen's attempts to destroy it. Voyager attacked a Borg Tactical Cube and Captain Janeway, Lt. Commander Tuvok and Lt. Torres beamed over to the Cube hoping to reach its Central Plexus and introduce a virus that would allow Drones who visit Unimatrix Zero to retain their individuality while they are not regenerating. The trio was assimilated but this was part of their plan. They were eventually able to allow Drones all over the Collective to retain their individuality after altering the plan slightly. The Tactical Cube was destroyed and the away team recovered, but Unimatrix Zero was destroyed. This was necessary if its Drones were to remain as individuals. The Queen then had to deal with the fact that hundreds of Drones within the Collective were now operating to sabotage the Collective from within. (VOY episode: "Unimatrix Zero")

The First Invasion (2376)
In mid 2376, the Borg decided to launch a massive invasion into the Alpha Quadrant, with Earth being a priority target. The Borg Queen decided that the invasion needed to be led by an individual that would know how humans operate and decided to recreate Locutus of Borg. This was achieved by assimilating a Dominion cloning facility left in the Alpha Quadrant and creating and assimilating a clone of Jean-Luc Picard.

Although the Borg had the element of surprise, the Federation had been warned by the USS Premonition, a starship from an alternate future in which the Borg invasion had resulted in the assimilation of the entire Alpha Quadrant. Despite this, the Borg invasion began near Starbase 76, where they almost succeeded in assimilating the outpost. However, the Enterprise came to the stations aid and drove back the Borg forces. Despite this minor set back, the Borg began attacks on the Federation, the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire, eventually weakening their forces.

The Borg became aware of an Omega Molecule that was in the possession of the Romulans during this invasion and tried to steel it from them but failed. The Borg were then approached by Admiral Sela of the Romulan Empire who tricked the Borg into thinking the Romulans would give them the Omega Molecule in exchange for forming an alliance to wipe out a force of Klingons who attacking the Romulan Empire. However, the Romulans had hidden a large fleet of cloaked ships near by and wiped out the Borg forces the Romulans had allied with after those Borg destroyed the near by Klingon forces. However, soon after this defeat, Locutus led the Borg against the Romulans and not only succeeded in capturing the Omega Molecule, but also in moving it to the Delta Quadrant to the staging ground for the invasion via a Transwarp Gate.

In order to stop an alliance being forged between the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans, the Borg attempted to assimilate Ambassador Spock, but the attempt was thwarted by the Enterprise. This Enterprise had come from another alternate future in which the efforts of the USS Premonition failed and Spock was assimilated, preventing the peace conference from taking place. However, with Spock remaining un-assimilated, the peace conference went ahead as planned and succeeded. The combined Federation, Klingon and Romulan fleets then travelled to Earth where they wiped out a large Borg fleet which was poised to attack Earth. During the battle, this timelines original Enterprise travelled back in time to the peace conference as well in order to complete the temporal loop.

The allied forces then began to drive forward, retaking most of the sectors captured by the Collective in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. The allied fleet soon arrived in the system containing the Transwarp Gate used by the Collective to transport the Omega Particle to the Delta Quadrant staging ground from which the invasion had originated. The allied fleet then re-took this sector, captured the Transwarp Gate and invaded Unimatrix 001 in the Delta Quadrant. The fleet went on to attack and destroyed Unimatrix 001, Locutus’ Cube and the Borg's Omega containment facility wiping out the rest of the Borg forces in the area in the process. With the Borg invasion repelled, the allied fleet returned to the Alpha Quadrant, leaving the Collective in a ruined state.

Unknown to the allied forces, as Locutus’ Cube was destroyed, it launched a Sphere into a Temporal Vortex, sending it back to the year 2364, just after the Enterprise-D had left Farpoint Station. This was in the hopes that destroying the Enterprise at this point in time would enable the Collective to assimilate the Federation in the future. The Sphere was destroyed however by the USS Premonition which had followed the Sphere back in time. With the Borg threat dealt with, the Premonition returned to its own time. (game: Star Trek: Armada).

The Second Invasion (2377)
A year later the Borg tried to invade the Alpha Quadrant once again, once more they constructing Transwarp Portals, one in the Delta Quadrant and another in the Alpha Quadrant to allow them to quickly move starships into the Alpha Quadrant. The Borg also utilised this invasion to deploy a new planetary assimilation weapon they had developed, which was capable of assimilating an entire planet and its population in the space of a few minutes. With their fleet and technology rebuilt and redeveloped, the Borg began their invasion by occupying the Badlands, a move which would enable them to strike any target within the Alpha Quadrant with little or no warning. However, the Borg were beaten back by Starfleet vessels responding to this new threat led by the Enterprise. The Borg would not stop there though, attacking near by targets and slowly disrupting the efforts of the Federation to stop the spread of the Collective.

Only a short while after the invasion had begun, the Federation captured the Transwarp Portal in the Alpha Quadrant and used it to launch a full scale invasion into the Delta Quadrant, hoping to locate the new staging area for this attack and destroy it, preventing any further Borg incursions into the Alpha Quadrant for some time. Shortly after the Federation entered the Delta Quadrant and captured the Delta Quadrant Transwarp Portal, Species 8472 began to appear in the Delta Quadrant, attacking both the Borg and the Federation. This, coupled with the devastating Federation assault on the staging area resulting in the totally destruction of the Borg base there, left the Borg Collective unable to continue its invasion into the Alpha Quadrant.

The Borg Queen who was leading this invasion herself and spent most of it in the Alpha Quadrant. As the Federation fleet returned to the Alpha Quadrant through the Transwarp Portals following their victory over the Borg, the overuse of the Portals caused them both to explode, trapping the Borg Queen in the Alpha Quadrant. As she gathered the Borg that had been trapped with her, Species 8472 launched a massive invasion into all four Quadrants of the galaxy. Trying to avoid the Federation and Species 8472, the Queen tried to assimilate any information she could on Tachyon Nebulas, the properties of which were needed to build a new Transwarp Portal. Two Federation ships were assimilated by the Queen and her fleet, giving the Queen the location of a Tachyon Nebula. After eliminating a large number of Species 8472 vessels located around the Nebula, a new Transwarp Portal was built and this allowed the Queen to bring the Enterprise and the other Federation vessels trapped in the Delta Quadrant back to the Alpha Quadrant.

The Queen did this so that she could join forces with the Federation, invade Fluidic Space and destroy the lifeform keeping the rifts between Fluidic Space and Normal Space open. The Queens plan worked. Using data transmitted to Starfleet by the USS Voyager, the combined Federation and Borg fleets decimated the Species 8472 base and destroyed the creature holding the rifts open. The fleets escaped and the Borg were sent back to the Delta Quadrant through the Transwarp Portal. The invasion of the Alpha Quadrant had failed, but the Collective was safe from Species 8472 once again. (game: Star Trek: Armada 2).

The Wardens (2377)
In 2377, a group of Vulcans attempted to cure their master N'Kal, a sufferer of Bendii Syndrome from his ailment by using modified Borg nanoprobes. However, they lost control of the experiment and the Borg technology combined with the Vulcan's passion for logic to create the Wardens, a fanatical group led by N'Kal. He quickly began spreading his modified nanites across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, turning millions of people into Wardens. N'Kal began to lead his armies of converted followers on a quest to instil pure logic upon the galaxy and wipe out all those who resisted.

The Borg Collective had a Cube in the Alpha Quadrant during this crisis and some of its Drones became infected with the Warden nanites. This led to the Hive Mind beginning to collapse into a civil war between the Warden Drones and those still loyal to the Collective. The Borg found the USS Incursion and captured a Warden controlled engineer and a Warden device used to infected people with their nanites, hoping to assimilate information on the Nanites. They developed a serum capable of curing people of the Nanites but were unable to use it on themselves because it would destroy their own Borg implants. As more and more drones fell under Warden control those still loyal to the collective continued to fight the Wardens, taking the Cube to Romulus to destroy Warden facilities and assimilating the Warden controlled USS Monitor.

The Warden controlled Drones eventually began to research a way to counteract the Borg serum and the Collective controlled Drones on the Cube asked for the crew of the Incursion to destroy the Cube before the Wardens could take over the Collective. The Cube was eventually destroyed by the crew of the Incursion and the Collective was cleansed of the Warden Drones. Assimilated intelligence obtained from the Cube by the Incursion crew allowed them to continue to Warden headquarters and destroy the Warden threat. (ST game: Away Team).

The Final Strike (2377)
In 2377, the Borg sent a pair of Cubes to the Alpha Quadrant on a direct course for Earth. Starfleet began to prepare defences and expected to stop this latest Borg incursion. As word of the Borg threat spread, one Starfleet officer was hoping to join the battle against the Borg in the hope of avenging his father who died at the Battle of Wolf 359. However, he was not allowed to take part in the battle. Then, Q appeared to the officer and took him back in time to the Battle of Wolf 359 where he and Q were able to save his fathers ship from destrcution. In order to preserve the timeline, Q sent the ship to Wolf 359 in the year 2377 where the ship joined the Starfleet armada in eventually destroying the two Cubes. (game: Star Trek: Borg).

A Crippling Blow (2378)
As the USS Voyager was crossing the Delta Quadrant on its journey back home to the Alpha Quadrant, it found a Nebula filled with what appeared to be a large number of Wormholes at its center. Voyager entered the Nebula only to barely avoid a collision with a Borg Cube. Voyager quickly left the Nebula, unaware that the Borg Queen had detected them and decided not to assimilate them. As Voyager moved on, it encountered a Temporal Rift from which a Federation Shuttle from the year 2404 appeared. The Shuttles pilot was Admiral Janeway and she quickly had Voyager seal the Temporal Rift. Meanwhile, the Borg Queen watched the entire event unfold, monitoring Voyager. The Admiral then told Voyager to turn around and enter the Nebula. Voyager was upgraded with Ablative Hull Armor and Transphasic Torpedoes and planned to entered the Nebula. As Voyager was preparing, the Queen warned Seven of Nine that if Voyager tired to enter the Nebula again, she would assimilate Voyager. Knowing this, Voyager still headed towards the Nebula.

The Queen sent three Cubes to intercept Voyager as it entered the Nebula but using its new defences and weaponry, Voyager destroyed two of the Cubes and forced the Queen to have the third one retreat. As Voyager reached the center of the Nebula, it found one of the Borg's six Transwarp Hubs, huge stations that allowed the Collective to send ships to any location in the galaxy within a matter of seconds. Forming the bases of the Transwarp Network established by the Collective that had long been the key to the Collective's power, Captain Janeway immediately realised that if this Hub could be destroyed, it would deal a crippling blow to the Borg. Voyager then left the Nebula and after a little while, the crew developed a plan that would not only get Voyager home, but destroy the Transwarp Hub.

Admiral Janeway then piloted her Shuttle away from Voyager, back into the Nebula and into the Transwarp Hub, scanned by several Borg vessels but not approached by them. Voyager then re-entered the Nebula and entered the Transwarp Conduit heading for the Alpha Quadrant. As the Queen monitored the situation from the Central Unicomplex, she was contacted by Admiral Janeway, who was using a device to speak to the Queen through her mind. However, after a brief discussion, the Queen realised that the Admiral piloted her Shuttle through the Transwarp Hub and right into the heart of the Unicomplex, managing to remain undetected the whole time. The Admiral was then beamed into the Queens chamber and the Queen injected the Admiral with Nanoprobes. However, the Admiral was carrying a Neurolytic Pathogen which began to affect the Queen, causing her to lose contact with most of the collective.

As the Queen began to be ravaged along with the rest of the Collective, the shielding for a group of conduits within the Transwarp Hub began to destabilise and Voyager destroyed them, causing a chain reaction which began to destroy the entire Hub. As the Queen’s body began to fall apart and her chamber began to become unstable, she realised that she could still hear the thoughts of the Drones within Sphere 634, a Sphere which had not only assimilated the pathogen but Voyagers Armor technology as well. The Queen then ordered it to pursue and destroy Voyager. It began to damage Voyager and eventually pulled Voyager inside it with a Tractor Beam. As this happened, the Queen died and the Transwarp Hub and the Central Unicomplex both exploded, killing Admiral Janeway, destroying her Shuttle and presumably, destroying a large number of Borg Drones, ships and stations.

Inside the Sphere, Voyager was trapped. However, an away team was sent aboard the Sphere to disable to generators that were creating a dampening field that was preventing Voyager from escaping. After destroying the generators and killing an Advanced Borg Drone, the away team returned to Voyager which was now preparing to escape.

The Sphere itself appeared in the Alpha Quadrant less than a Lightyear from Earth as the Transwarp Network was obliterated, potentially indicating that the other five Transwarp Hubs had also been destroyed along with the entire Borg Transwarp Network. A Federation fleet had been preparing for the Sphere's arrival but did little damage to the Sphere before it began to explode from within. Out of the debris emerged Voyager. (VOY episode: "Endgame") and (game: Star Trek: Elite Force 2).

This marks the last appearance chronologically of the Borg Collective and it is unknown whether or not they will recover from this major defeat.


 * The Borg will be featured prominently in the upcoming (2007) novels Resistance by J.M. Dillard and an as-yet unnamed novel by Peter David

Connections

 * Borg article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
 * Borg article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
 * Borg article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.