This might be long and overdetailed, sorry in advance and thanks so much for reading!!!
So in a scene in ST first contact: , we see the Enterprise crew getting captured and assimilated as they fail to fend off the Borg during the Borg take over of the ship while attempting to boost their numbers. After the crew members have been overpowered and forcibly injected with nanoprobes to start the assimilation, they are taken by the Borg to a new assimilation chamber for processing. Once a drone "guiding" a newly assimilated woman arrive at the assimilation chamber, the camera pans out so we can see other newly assimilated drones from the former Enterprise crew members, awaiting to undergo augmentation to finish the process of becoming drones.
During this scene, the new drones seem to already have cybernetic implants that have grown on their faces... Some more then others as assimilation has progressed. The woman who had just arrived with her escort drone still has "regular" human skin and only a few small facial implants (clearly still forming) similar to Seven of Nine (which of course had been removed). The next crewman to appear has progressed a lot, he now has the pale Borg skin and his implants are a lot bigger. Another part of the movie where Picard, Worf and Lt. Hawk are attacking and disabling rhe Borg modified deflector dish, Lt. Hawk is assimilated... He rather quickly forma implants however and seems to gain extra Borg stregnth. Moving on back to the assimilation chamber scene, the newly assimilated members get thier final modifications: arm amputation for robot arms, eye modifications adding a Borg lens to the basic implants that previously grew on the eye, and explating which completes the assimilation process. Tje Borg drone loses hair shortly after.
So after a VERY long and uncessaru detailed pointsz my question is what happens if a drone is only partially assimilated and how does this impact a potential drone?
From what I can tell due to the compiled evidence above, partially assimilated drones, if not taken to an assimilation chamber and augmented, will still form Borg implants as seen on the newly assimilated Enterprise crew and lt. Hawk. Of course the affected person will pass out first, but once he wakes up, he will be a drone because the implants will have gone through his body. The new drone likely has regular Borg stregnth (like Hawk?) and some sort of Borg functionality. In a Star Trek Online (using beta cannon sources also) mission called "Scorpion's Abyss", the player and BOffs form basic implants such as small eyepieces , tubes, and a "wrist probe" which enables assimilation and basic plasma weapons without full augmentation shortly after being assimilated. Would partially assimilated drones be like this?
AGAIN, SORRY FOR THE VERY LONG PARAGRAPH!!!
So in a scene in ST first contact: , we see the Enterprise crew getting captured and assimilated as they fail to fend off the Borg during the Borg take over of the ship while attempting to boost their numbers. After the crew members have been overpowered and forcibly injected with nanoprobes to start the assimilation, they are taken by the Borg to a new assimilation chamber for processing. Once a drone "guiding" a newly assimilated woman arrive at the assimilation chamber, the camera pans out so we can see other newly assimilated drones from the former Enterprise crew members, awaiting to undergo augmentation to finish the process of becoming drones.
During this scene, the new drones seem to already have cybernetic implants that have grown on their faces... Some more then others as assimilation has progressed. The woman who had just arrived with her escort drone still has "regular" human skin and only a few small facial implants (clearly still forming) similar to Seven of Nine (which of course had been removed). The next crewman to appear has progressed a lot, he now has the pale Borg skin and his implants are a lot bigger. Another part of the movie where Picard, Worf and Lt. Hawk are attacking and disabling rhe Borg modified deflector dish, Lt. Hawk is assimilated... He rather quickly forma implants however and seems to gain extra Borg stregnth. Moving on back to the assimilation chamber scene, the newly assimilated members get thier final modifications: arm amputation for robot arms, eye modifications adding a Borg lens to the basic implants that previously grew on the eye, and explating which completes the assimilation process. Tje Borg drone loses hair shortly after.
So after a VERY long and uncessaru detailed pointsz my question is what happens if a drone is only partially assimilated and how does this impact a potential drone?
From what I can tell due to the compiled evidence above, partially assimilated drones, if not taken to an assimilation chamber and augmented, will still form Borg implants as seen on the newly assimilated Enterprise crew and lt. Hawk. Of course the affected person will pass out first, but once he wakes up, he will be a drone because the implants will have gone through his body. The new drone likely has regular Borg stregnth (like Hawk?) and some sort of Borg functionality. In a Star Trek Online (using beta cannon sources also) mission called "Scorpion's Abyss", the player and BOffs form basic implants such as small eyepieces , tubes, and a "wrist probe" which enables assimilation and basic plasma weapons without full augmentation shortly after being assimilated. Would partially assimilated drones be like this?
AGAIN, SORRY FOR THE VERY LONG PARAGRAPH!!!
