Where did the Borg come from?

[Jeff7181]

Yeah, I'm still watching Star Trek... it's a Borg episode where they capture one and want to release him back into the collective with a "virus."

I don't ever recall hearing any info about where the Borg came from... were they from a race of people who created cyborgs to use as slaves or something, and eventually the computers took over like in the Matrix?

 

[Chumpman]

I think you're overanalyzing the show.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Chumpman
I think you're overanalyzing the show.

So?

 

[PowerMacG5]

Go watch all the episodes of TNG, they tell you in one. Oh, and as Chumpman said, you are overanalyzing the show.

 

[JoeKing]

From your mom!!





sorry just had to say that

 

[Jeff7181]

They just named him Hugh... and he said "we are Hugh." They should have named him "flaming homosexuals who dance around naked and probe eachother."

 

[Ameesh]

they came from the delta quadrant

 

[Beau]

Delta Quadrant.

 

[K1052]

The Delta quadrant, duh.

Edit: now thats either impressive or sad, i can't decide

 

[AMCRambler]

I think the new Star Trek show called "Enterprise" kind of got into it a little in one of their episodes. They found a Borg on earth in Antarctica or something that had crash landed there a million years ago or something. He was all froze so they thawed him out and he woke up and went nuts. It was a cool episode. They still don't really tell you where they came from, but it kind of seems like it might be developed in later episodes.

 

[Jeff7181]

Duh... but who created the machines that started taking over races?

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Duh... but who created the machines that started taking over races?

perhaps it was a being similar to data, gone very awry (of course he wouldn't be related to Data, but you get the idea.)

I don't know that it's ever been fully explained, but I believe they hint on it in First Contact.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Beau

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Duh... but who created the machines that started taking over races?

perhaps it was a being similar to data, gone very awry (of course he wouldn't be related to Data, but you get the idea.)

I don't know that it's ever been fully explained, but I believe they hint on it in First Contact.

Downloading... I mean... renting... First Contact

 

[dexvx]

Watch Star Trek: Voyager

 

[Stealth1024]

they came from the leftover terminators after the machines became self-aware...

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Stealth1024
they came from the leftover terminators after the machines became self-aware...

Wouldn't the alpha quadrant have been assimilated first then? They came from the delta quadrant.

 

[thenerdguy]

Ummm
Vger was fixed by the borg if I remember correctly. Spock mind melded with vger and was added to the collective and captain kirk and picard did a dual mind meld with spock and was cleaned of the borgy programming.
Kirk also blew up the borg home world.

I need to reread The Returne. William shatner wrote it.

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: dexvx
Watch Star Trek: Voyager

Then st@b your ears everytime Janeway speak.

 

[Reliant]

Originally posted by: thenerdguy
Ummm
Vger was fixed by the borg if I remember correctly. Spock mind melded with vger and was added to the collective and captain kirk and picard did a dual mind meld with spock and was cleaned of the borgy programming.
Kirk also blew up the borg home world.

I need to reread The Returne. William shatner wrote it.

The power was out all yesterday for me, so I read that book again, kinda funny you mentioned it.

 

[samgau]

I kinda like Janeway.... I don't see why people don't like her.... maybe its the fact that its a woman as an authority figure....

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: samgau
I kinda like Janeway.... I don't see why people don't like her.... maybe its the fact that its a woman as an authority figure....

I don't like her cause she sucks as an actress. Her character looks very "forced," like she's trying too hard... unlike Picard who was a natural leader.

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: samgau
I kinda like Janeway.... I don't see why people don't like her.... maybe its the fact that its a woman as an authority figure....

I don't like her cause she sucks as an actress. Her character looks very "forced," like she's trying too hard... unlike Picard who was a natural leader.

Agreed. I don't dislike the Janeway character, but the actress playing the character. Patrick Stewart plays the Picard role well.

 

[bernse]

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: samgau
I kinda like Janeway.... I don't see why people don't like her.... maybe its the fact that its a woman as an authority figure....

I don't like her cause she sucks as an actress. Her character looks very "forced," like she's trying too hard... unlike Picard who was a natural leader.

Agreed. I don't dislike the Janeway character, but the actress playing the character. Patrick Stewart plays the Picard role well.

That's because Patrick Stewart > Kate Mulgrew for acting ability.

Patrick Stewart is great.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: bernse

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: samgau
I kinda like Janeway.... I don't see why people don't like her.... maybe its the fact that its a woman as an authority figure....

I don't like her cause she sucks as an actress. Her character looks very "forced," like she's trying too hard... unlike Picard who was a natural leader.

Agreed. I don't dislike the Janeway character, but the actress playing the character. Patrick Stewart plays the Picard role well.

That's because Patrick Stewart > Kate Mulgrew for acting ability.

Patrick Stewart is great.

He played a gay man on Frasier.

 

[Nitemare]

Since no one has said the obligatory Uranus, I feel compelled to do so now