Borg animals
Posted by Kville2000@reddit | TNG | View on Reddit | 21 comments
What do you think happens to animals on planets fully assimilated by the Borg?
Posted by Kville2000@reddit | TNG | View on Reddit | 21 comments
What do you think happens to animals on planets fully assimilated by the Borg?
Wrong-Ad-4600@reddit
in STO there are assimilated tribbles. only animal worth to asimmilate asimmilate others are "food" or a waste of ressources
Darkling183@reddit
Borg Queen: "We too are on a quest to better ourselves, evolving toward a state of perfection."
The Borg have obviously decided that "bipedal humanoid" is the optimal body shape for their goals. Lots of animals don't even have thumbs or walk upright, for example. How would that help the Borg become more advanced? Now, if they encountered a bipedal species with four upper limbs, for example (like the pianist in Unification part 2), they might be interested.
Darkling183@reddit
Borg Queen: "We too are on a quest to better ourselves, evolving toward a state of perfection."
The Borg have obviously decided that "bipedal humanoid" is the optimal body shape for their goals. Lots of animals don't even have thumbs or walk upright, for example. How would that help the Borg become more advanced?
l008com@reddit
They are completely ignored. Unless they are gumming up the works, then they are eradicated.
Sea-Quality4726@reddit
The Shatnerverse had assimilated dogs IIRC.
One-Technology-9050@reddit
He will make an excellent dro...g
MrDeekhaed@reddit
Dorg
Kville2000@reddit (OP)
That’s what got me wondering what the canon”
Pa_Ja_Ba@reddit
I was just about to make this comment! I quite liked his pre-First Contact take on the Borg when the lore around them was still sketchy. The Borg dog and that other weird Borg monster gave me Resident Evil vibes.
Sea-Quality4726@reddit
”His" was ”Judith and Garfield Reeves Stevenson"'s, right?
I also really liked the DS9 game and novel trilogy they wrote with some novel aliens and actual gods being able to seduce Weyoun into worshipping them.
Pa_Ja_Ba@reddit
Yes - I keep meaning to read their other stuff as I do think they're great writers. I know I have Federation somewhere.
(strongly always suspected Bill's contribution to the novels was purely Teilani and how many love scenes to include..)
FerociouslyTed@reddit
I can’t stop imagining a Borg snake.
slobcat1337@reddit
No. They wouldn’t offer any biological or technological distinctiveness
Kaurifish@reddit
Really? Animals have all kinds of interesting genes. Heck, Terran corporations use bacteria genes for all kinds of things.
TripleStrikeDrive@reddit
That you said is true, but borg don't do their own research to advance, they steal the technology and biological assets from their victims. Borg wouldn't care about animals except where the animal hindered their plans.
EvaTheE@reddit
The Borg would greet ants and bees as their equals.
shatteredoctopus@reddit
Probably harvested to provide nutrition for the Borg. The conditions on the assimilated earth we briefly see in First Contact don't sound very hospitable, and the Borg don't seem like great environmentalists.
asomek@reddit
As if we needed another reason to dislike them... Sheesh!
Peas-Of-Wrath@reddit
Forced__Perspective@reddit
The early Borg assimilated horses and rode them into battle
mawkishdave@reddit
If the borg found a use for them then they would use them if not they would ignore them. Anything else wouldn't be efficent and that goes against the borg's key programing.