History of the Borg?

[Frisco Del Rosario]

Have any Trek novels offered an origin story for the Borg?

If not, which novel(s) go(es) back furthest in its history?

 

[Extrocomp]

The Borg have been given multiple contradictory origin stories in:

• "The Beginning" from Strange New Worlds VI
  
• "Forgotten Light" from Strange New Worlds VII
• "Side Effects" from Shinsei Shinsei
• Star Trek: Destiny
• Star Trek: Legacy

They've also been given multiple contradictory endings in:

• "Guardians" from Strange New Worlds VII
• "Echoes" from Strange New Worlds 10
  
• Star Trek: Destiny
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hive

 

[Smiley]

The Destiny trilogy is the one that comes to mind.

 

[Frisco Del Rosario]

Thank you most kindly, Destiny is my first stop!

 

[Mage]

• Star Trek: Legacy

Which novel is this?

 

[Extrocomp]

It's a video game for PC and Xbox 360.

 

[Christopher]

The Borg have been given multiple contradictory origin stories in:

• "The Beginning" from Strange New Worlds VI
  
• "Forgotten Light" from Strange New Worlds VII
• "Side Effects" from Shinsei Shinsei
• Star Trek: Destiny
• Star Trek: Legacy

I think it's possible to reconcile at least a couple of them. After all, since the Borg assimilate and homogenize different species and technologies, if two similar assimilating cyborg collectives from different origins met each other, they'd probably absorb each other and merge into one.

"The Beginning" can easily be reconciled with another Borg origin, simply by assuming that the nanoprobes are not a native invention of that planet, but something salvaged from a crashed Borg ship. Although that does kind of invalidate the title.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Wrote a fanfic with yet another, many years ago (I was in a Short Story Workshop class at a local junior college, at the time, and I also wrote a Captain Sulu adventure that was a sequel to "The Man Trap") I called it, "The Gray People." But I can say no more here, obviously.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I think it's possible to reconcile at least a couple of them. After all, since the Borg assimilate and homogenize different species and technologies, if two similar assimilating cyborg collectives from different origins met each other, they'd probably absorb each other and merge into one.

"The Beginning" can easily be reconciled with another Borg origin, simply by assuming that the nanoprobes are not a native invention of that planet, but something salvaged from a crashed Borg ship. Although that does kind of invalidate the title.

There's definitely some wibbly-wobblyness going on...

Spoiler: Coda

The Borg in Coda might not be the same Borg origin'd in Destiny.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

For all we know, maybe they are Swedish.