The Borg

The Borg have a singular goal, namely the consumption of technology, rather than wealth or political expansion as most species seek. According to their spokesman, in the form of an assimilated Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the Borg only want to "raise the quality of life" of the species they "assimilate." Androids, for example, they view as primitive and obsolete. Born humanoid, they are almost immediately implanted with bio-chips that link their brains to a collective consciousness via a unique subspace frequency emitted by each drone. This collective consciousness is experienced by the Borg as "thousands" of voices — they are collectively aware, but not aware of themselves as separate individuals. Consequently, they never speak in singular pronouns, referring to themselves when required as merely "Third of Five," for instance. The Borg ingest only energy to drive their technological system via an energy conduit port. Their bio-chips synthesize any organic nutrients needed. Among the many advantages their collective consciousness affords them, the Borg hive-mind allows for instantaneous adaptations to shield and phaser frequency modulations in combat; they are also able to

History:
The Borgs first contact with humans occured in 2357 when a lone craft, flying through what is known as Botha Space attracted the attention of the Borg. The ship, a small research vessel called The Raven was assimilated, as were the three passengers, the Hansons and their daughter Onika. It was at this point that the Borg-Collective became aware of an advanced space dwelling people in the Alpha Quadrant. Borg ships were immediately dispatched.

In 2365, one of these ships encountered a unknown vessel, in system J25, after the Borg had already assimilated the system.. The vessel identified itself as the United Federation of Planets starship, U.S.S.
Enterprise, (NCC-1701-D) The commanding officer, Jean-Luc Picard sent a landing party over to the ship after a minor battle, but they soon withdrew. Somehow, through a method that the Borg are still unable to understand, the ship managed to escape.

The Borg finally arrived in Federation space in 2366, after destroying the outlying Federation colony of New Providence, on Planet Jouret IV. The Federation starship Enterprise was sent to prevent the Borg advancing further into Federation territory.

During this attack, The Borg abducted the captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard and assimilated him into the Collective. They used his extensive knowledge of Starfleet tactics and defences to assault a fleet of 40 Federation starships at Wolf 359. This would later be known as the "Massacre at Wolf 359", when 39 of the 40 ships were destroyed, with the loss of over 11,000 lives. The Borg pushed on to Earth.

For the first time in known Borg history, they were defeated, when the Enterprise managed to retake Picard, now known as Locutus of Borg and used his subspace link to trigger a malfunction in the Borg ship. It was destroyed in orbit of Earth.

There have been three further incursions into Federation space, as well as incursions into the fringe areas of both Klingon and Romulan space. The Borg were responsible for the destruction of outlying Romulan and Federation outpost along what is called the Neutral Zone.

The second incursion was by a Borg Scout vessel, which are smaller cube like ships that act as point vessels. It is their task to go in and survey the space before them before the main Borg vessel enters the area. Unfortunately, this vessel crashed on a desolate world, where we believe that only one member of the five crew, designated as Third of Five survived. When this drone was recovered, he contained a sense of individuality within himself, that spread to the other Borg aboard the Rescue Vessel. Realising this to be a threat, the Collective isolated itself from this small cell of Borg. The artifical lifeform known only as Lore discovered the Borg vessel drifting, and assured them that he could lead them toward a state of perfection, the prime directive of the Borg. Lore was defeated and deactivated by the Federation when he attempted to lead his group of Borg drones against the Federation. The current wherabouts of the disconnected Borg is still unknown.

The third and most recent incursion was in 2373, when a single Borg ship again penetrated its way deep into Federation space in an attempt to assimilate Earth. The attack failed when the ship was met with heavy resistance by the Federation fleet, led by the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)

Before the ship was destroyed, a single vessel managed to escape and go back through time to Earth time 2063, in an attempt to prevent Zefram Cochranes first Warp flight, thus preventing First Contact with the Vulcans. The Enterprise-E followed the ship back, and managed to help Cochrane make his Warp flight, but at the cost of over half the crew of the Enterprise being either killed or assimilated. The ship was heavily damaged internally while the Borg seized control of her vital systems.

Back in the Delta Quadrant, using technology assimilated from other races, the Collective attempted to assimilate a new biological species, designated as Species 8472. Species 8472 originated from outside the Milky Way galaxy. However, this species proved to be difficult to assimilate as their genetic sequencing could destroy the Borg nanoprobes. Once Species 8472 realised that they could also cross the divide and enter the Delta Quadrant, a systematic war began with the Collective. Having suffered heavy losses, such as entire solar systems and thousands of ships, the Borg started to fall back. It wasn't until they intercepted a Federation starship, designated U.S.S. Voyager (NCC-74656), that a weapon was created to stop Species 8472. They retreated back to their realm, giving the Borg a monumentous victory. However, one Borg drone, designation Seven of Nine was lost during the battle, as was the location of the Alpha Quadrant vessel Voyager.