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Warning: contains spoilers for Star Trek: The Last Starship #4!
After 37 years, Star Trek has changed the Borg forever with a massive lore update. The Borg were one of the franchise’s best villains, a cybernetic race that wanted nothing more than to add the galaxy to its collective. There are still many mysteries surrounding the Borg, and Star Trek: The Last Starship #4 clears the air on one in particular.
Star Trek: The Last Starship #4 was written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and drawn by Adrian Bonilla. As the Omega’s crew discuss their mission, Agnes Jurati brings them up to speed on the ship’s Borg-designed engines.
Star Trek Borg Time
She informs the crew it is different from warp drive, and the Borg experience time differently.
The Borg Are One of Star Trek's Most Frightening Alien Races The Borg Are Also Still Quite MysteriousFirst appearing in the second season Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Q Who?”, airing in 1989, the Borg would become one of its most popular enemies, which came as a relief to the show’s producers, who intended them to be a replacement for the Ferengi, who failed to land with audiences.
From the get-go, the Borg were a different kind of Star Trek nemesis. The cybernetic beings did not want to simply take lands or planets. Instead, the Borg added their victims to their Collective, stripping them of their humanity and turning them into a mindless drone in the service of the Queen.
The Borg’s origin is one such sticking point, and while several non-canon sources have tackled this issue, a definite backstory has never been presented on-screen.
Even though the Borg made numerous appearances in The Next Generation and Voyager, much of what fans knew about the race was still up in the air. The Borg’s origin is one such sticking point, and while several non-canon sources have tackled this issue, a definite backstory has never been presented on-screen. The lack of origin created mystery, which helped make them popular.
The Borg Perceive Time and Space Differently Than Organics Borg Drones Are Incredibly Long Lived, Lasting For Over a Century
Enterprise in trapped in a beam from the Borg Cube
During the Borg’s various appearances, it was hinted there was still more about the aliens to reveal. The Borg Queen appeared in season two of Star Trek: Picard, and lorded over the organics her different perception of time. She said humans think “too linearly,” but never clarified what this point meant.
It makes sense that the Borg think in a more cosmic sense than other beings in the universe. In theory, a Borg drone can go on functioning forever, assuming nothing happens to it. A second season Enterprise episode, “Regeneration,” revealed Borg drones can exist in hibernation for almost 100 years.
. The Borg exist and operate on a scale that would terrify nearly everyone. Episodes such as “Scorpion” revealed the Borg have made excursions into other dimensions, which led to first contact with the powerful Species 8472. While the Borg could not assimilate 8472 specifically, the Queen still bragged that there were Borg on other planes of existence.
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A Borg Drone appears on the Enterprise in Star Trek TNG
All of these revelations built an aura of mystery around the nature of the Borg, and now Star Trek has seemingly confirmed that they view time in a different fashion from humans and other organic beings. Far from eroding the mystery that makes the Borg scary, it actually makes them more terrifying by showing how far their reach goes.
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