Comment on If the borg were a religion
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 8 months ago
In my head cannon, that’s more or less how the borg started.
maybe they just assimilated hostile species, but I think they’ve always been kind of invasive.
I imagine the borg started as a peacefull cybernetic species who radicalised them self or their ai made some mistakes maybe. Or they started as an ai that became evil and assimilated biological life on it’s quest to perfection
I could see that too. Either way, it’s a fun thought experiment to question how such an entity comes into being. Because surely the starting point looked a lot different given that they’ve assimilated (and therefore been changed by) thousands of species.
frezik@midwest.social 8 months ago
I’ve had a fan fic on the back of my head where the Borg start out as a small group exploring networked community like that, but some of the members are more radical than others. One believes that people need to be brought under collective influence in order to solve their social problems and sees individuality as a problem. However, when the more virulent form of the collective gets going, she becomes a hypocrite who refuses to subsume her own individuality to the collective while inflicting the same on everyone else.
That’s why the Borg Queen seems so contradictory. She actually is.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 8 months ago
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who’s had thoughts about the borg origins.