"Star Trek Borg Wars"

[hellsgate]

September 21 2383

Credit: Character Images by Wolfguard of The Omega Sector BBS

The U.S.S. Nairobi starship image is by unknown.

The Borg are back and more merciless than ever. An entire armada than a small battle-group or individual cube are sent to overwhelm the fractured Alpha Quadrant Alliance as many of its members have resumed pursuing old animosities.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard, his wife Beverly, & maturing step-son Wesley are among a small handful to herald the Borg's second coming.

Admiral Katherine Janeway, now a permanent casualty to The Collective, her memories live on to be exploited by the hive mind.

The Borg cut a wide swath across several sectors, coming directly toward Earth at the heart of the Federation via The Transwarp Hub. The Klingons are too late to do anything except fight a losing battle to save whatever Gothmara and the Hur'Q hadn't demolished in 2376 ("The Left Hand of Destiny".)

The Romulans, The Tholians, Cardassians, & others have closed their borders, concentrating on saving what little of their cultures remain.

The Federation believes The Dominion have ignored their pleas for help via The Wormhole. In reality, The Dominion are quickly losing ground near The Omarian Nebula & The Founder Homeworld, faster than their incubators can mature replacement Jem Hadar or produce ketracel white to control them.

"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and power down your weapons. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."

"Strength is irrelevant. Negotiation is irrelevant. You will be assimilated. Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant.
You must comply."

One ship survives the bloody conflagration to head-up the remaining Starfleet, from a heavily protected shipyards in Klingon Territory under a Pact of Non-Aggression with The Dominion and protected by an uneasy coalition of The Orion Syndicate and Nausicaan Mercenaries. The U.S.S. Nairobi, un-named-class, no registry as such things are meaningless in this time.

From Left to Right:

• Theda Pray, Captain of the U.S.S. Nairobi, formerly a functionary within the Cardassian Obsiddian Order Government, brought aboard the Detapa Council by Elim Garak before he was captured and assimilated right in front of her. Questions remain as to whether or not she betrayed him to the Collective so they'd ignore her.
  
• Commander Chaka, daughter of Worf's younger brother Kern & (Night Shift) Security Chief / Tactical Officer of the Nairobi.
  
• Subcommander T'Gaia, daughter of Tuvok. Cloaking Specialist & (Night Shift) Assistant Chief Engineer of the Nairobi.
  
  
  
  
  
• Lieutenant Commander Bree Sunna, of the Debrune. An ancient offshoot of the Romulans.
  
  (Day Shift) Tactical Officer / Security Chief - U.S.S. Nairobi.
  
  
  
  
  
• (Day Shift) Chief Engineer Creldan Francisco, of the Tenctonese or "Newcomers".
  
  
  
• Operations Officer Lieutenant Chyna Phelps.
  
  Adopted by Human God-parents at nine years old, and assumed their legal surname after her birth parents' cruiser (assigned to keep the dispute within the Neutral Zone & keep the Romulans out of The Klingon Empire's affairs,) was destroyed by Klingon warriors backing the Duras Family bid for leadership of the High Council. Has an affection for cats, dislikes dogs (especially Klingon targs,) can't get enough of chinese food and trashy Human harlequin romance holo-novels that she creates on her spare time.

 

[urbandk]

"Again with the Borg?"

nice pictures tho.

 

[hellsgate]

Yeah, it was just something I was toying with. The Borg have been knocked-back but not altogether defeated. They've had a few years to re-analyze their approach and try, try again. This takes place right before "A Singular Destiny" & "Full Circle". (VOY)

 

[Anthony]

Yeah, it was just

Please something I was toying with. The Borg have been knocked-back but not altogether defeated. They've had a few years to re-analyze their approach and try, try again. This takes place right before "A Singular Destiny" & "Full Circle". (VOY)

Borg no more.

 

[BillJ]

For the love of god, no more Borg...

 

[All Seeing Eye]

If you want to bring back the Borg, you do it this way.

 

[The Academic]

To quote The B-52's and their song Detour through your Mind... 'No! Please! No!'

 

[Admiral2]

The Borg are back and more merciless than ever.

Automatic "Hell No!" for using the "B" word.

 

[hellsgate]

I like the idea of "offshoot humans" that were abducted by the Skagarans (or another un-named race like the Yrridians / Orions,) that weren't considered a significant/genuine ongoing threat to their long term agenda while the Vulcans were keeping an eye on Pre-WW3 Earth.

But, I'm not thinking that the "Abductees" are specifically war-like, per se, but they're just determined to return to Earth & take out Earth's 'conquerors'. A follow-up, (a sort-of splinter group and quasi-related-to) The 37's.

In the intervening several centuries out-of-touch with everyone in the rest of the warp-faring galactic community, the abducted Humans have survived on the assumption that something like Orson Well's "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast had in-fact occured in the meantime & obviously, they're upset about it. The Abductees have encountered other races in the meantime and downloaded star charts from resulting message buoys jettisoned from enemy ships during battle, back to the Federation.

As I said before The Borg were just an idea, not written in stone.

The U.S.S. Nairobi is the first Federation starship within range to feasibly intercept a threat to the Romulans until the Romulan Star Empire can rustle up sufficient reinforcements. The Titan's commanded to remain in orbit & protect Remus/Romulus in the event the Nairobi is incapacitated/destroyed before sufficient Romulan (and additional Starfleet) reinforcements can be diverted from the Klingon / Romulan border (or thrown back together / dispatched from The CoE "Mothball Fleet" on-the-cheap,) to tilt the balence in the Alpha Quadrant Alliance's favor.

 

[hellsgate]

I like the idea of "offshoot humans" that were abducted by the Skagarans (or another un-named race like the Yrridians / Orions,) that weren't considered a significant/genuine ongoing threat to their long term agenda while the Vulcans were keeping an eye on Pre-WW3 Earth.

But, I'm not thinking that the "Abductees" are specifically war-like, per se, but they're just determined to return to Earth & take out Earth's 'conquerors'. A follow-up, (a sort-of splinter group and quasi-related-to) The 37's.

In the intervening several centuries out-of-touch with everyone in the rest of the warp-faring galactic community, the abducted Humans have survived on the assumption that something like Orson Well's "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast had in-fact occured in the meantime & obviously, they're upset about it. The Abductees have encountered other races in the meantime and downloaded star charts from resulting message buoys jettisoned from enemy ships, back to the Federation.

As I said before The Borg were just an idea, not written in stone.

The U.S.S. Nairobi is the first Federation starship within range to feasibly intercept a threat to the Romulans until the Romulan Star Empire can rustle up sufficient reinforcements. The Titan's commanded to remain in orbit & protect Remus/Romulus in the event the Nairobi is incapacitated/destroyed before sufficient Romulan reinforcements can be diverted from the Klingon / Romulan border to tilt the balence in their favor.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The Borg would be okay to bring back, with the stipulations that:

1) they are almost impossible to beat (9 times out of ten at least, they will win)
2) assimilation is forever; no go-backs allowed

So sure, come up with a story where you can stick to those rules, and it should be fine. Trouble is, the more the Borg get used, the harder it is for writers not to wuss them up in order to give Starfleet half a chance against them.

To give the Borg some credibility, let them permanently assimilate a lead character or two that the audience gives a frak about. Or build up a new character into someone the audience gives a frak about, and then feed them to the Borg. No go-backs.

 

[hellsgate]

Temis: Of-course, I'd always agree to those terms. I'm not into uber-Kirk style 'last-second-possible' 180 reversals. The 'gimmick' of that sort of thing only tends to work in ENT/TOS-era fics, not "TNG Relaunch" era.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

Nice work on the concept but I can't say I want to see more Borg. Trek needs a new enemy badly. All the previous great ones have been pacified in some way, shape, or form over the years.

 

[urbandk]

Nice work on the concept but I can't say I want to see more Borg. Trek needs a new enemy badly. All the previous great ones have been pacified in some way, shape, or form over the years.

borg were watered down even in TNG and then became pathetic in VOY. i don't think there's any hope for the borg now.

 

[Admiral2]

As I said before The Borg were just an idea, not written in stone.

It's in the subject line of the thread. That's about as "set in stone" as you get on this BBS.

And just because it's there, I repeat: automatic "hell no."

 

[The Academic]

Future Star Trek doesn't need the Borg in any form... and it doesn't need the oh-so-noble-warrior Klingons* and the greedy-but-with-a-heart-of-gold Ferengi either, for that matter.

* Except as enemies in the classical TOS sense, of course.

 

[hellsgate]

Well, I'll see what I can do in-future.

The Phobos-Class U.S.S. Arafat investigates the radio silence of a Conostoga-Class Federation colony-vessel, after it fails to make its weekly check-in at Starbase 4 or make its scheduled rendezvous with the U.S.S. Exeter for shore leave transfers.

Soon, Starfleet Transport Command is begging for armed escorts after several of its manned and robot ships are violently raided or incapacitated, upon engaging their pre-programmed evasive manoevers.

Sensors are blinded, as the enemy ships are too quick and powerful, or the freighters/transports are litterally hollowed out. Everything of the remotest practical, material, or monetary value is removed and the crews forcefully abducted.

Until a survivor is found, a 4 year old girl is found near the impulse engines. She was squirreled away in a Jeffries Tube junction in a "body-heat-versus-engine-heat" blind-spot to tricorders. She tells the crew of "bald, stupid things with dumbo ears and guns."

 

[ambessalion]

i saw a promo poster for a gag 'Star Trek: Borg Wars' series somewhere...i can post here when i find it....

 

[hellsgate]

Sort-of on-topic. But not exactly.

The U.S.S. Mandela ends up caught-up in a Temporal Cold War incursion, returned to 2009 Earth, they find...

 

[InvisibleGT]

If you want to bring back the Borg, you do it this way.

Please don't post a link to the "fanwank" proposal from last year. It was a bad idea then, and a worse idea now.