Changeling physiology is so alien that theyre classified in their own category separate from the solids and humanoids that constitute the vast majority of star trek races. The borg could also assimilate data by downloading and incorporating knowledge they gained. Featuring ships of the borg and vessels of the delta quadrant, the first of two companion volumes of ships from star trek. My first question would be whether or not the nanoprobes could actually do anything, to assimilate a changeling, given its nonsolid nature. Assimilation memory beta, noncanon star trek wiki fandom. I even address in the book that fact that janeway and crew are so used to the borg they have forgotten how genuinely terrifying they can be. But is their nanotech advanced enough to overcome some. This is a list of fictional sentient life forms from the fictional universe of the star trek media. The 15 strongest species, ranked from weakest to most. This star trek fan theory explains why the borgs attacks. Apr, 2019 figured that this fits better here than verses, but will understand if moved so, as the title says, would the borg be able to assimilate a time lord.
So whenever i see changeling in a pf book, my initial thought is still the. Assimilation included the borg s ability to procure everything they required, from personnel in the form individuals turned into drones to technology, by taking control of, and then analyzing andor. The borg only assimilate lifeforms that they deem worth the effort, which means the species generally have something to bring to the table that the borg wantdont have. When a borg drone attempted to assimilate a founder in 2376, the changeling was able to alter its form and. In one of the ds9 novels i cant remember which one the borg tried to assimilate a changeling and it simply modified its body to crush the nanoprobes into a ball and eject them. A changeling was simply able to compress themselves and eject any nanoprobes within herself without any ill effects to them being seen. This is because the borg nanoprobes used in assimilation actually rewrite the victims dna as stated in the borg documentary that uses all canon based information on the borg. If found to be so, the species was set upon and forcibly assimilated. The next generation tng featured a group of selfaware borg who had managed to break away from the collective. The borg are cybernetic organisms linked in a hive mind called the collective. Other answers here point out that the dominion infiltrated starfleet with changeling spies. In those rare instances of physical confrontation attempts at assimilation, the jemhadar thrash the borg thoroughly.
Apr 03, 2021 the final season cliffhanger for star trek. A kalashtar can literally have a soul that had a different gender identity than its physical. The borg also assimilate, interface, and reconfigure technology using these tubules and nanoprobes. Where data is the artificial that wishes to be integrated into the biological, the borg are the artificial who wish to subsume the biological. From there, it profiles more than thirtyfive ships operated by. The borg could successfully assimilate an incorporeal being. This however does not provide a proper protection for the shapeshifters. Jun 19, 2020 the changelings were all about control. They have invaded thousands of worlds and forcibly assimilated billions of individuals. The later scene where donatra assists the enterprise was great sadly, in star trek online, donatra is assimilated by the borg, and becomes a. The founders also known as the changelings can not be assimilated at all for they are not biological beings and thus are immune to assimilation. When the borg wiped out the elaurians home world, the galaxy lost a race of wise listeners or it almost did, because the surviving members of.
Species 741 in star trek voyager were too advanced to be assimilated so they had to stay away as best they could. Changeling memory beta, noncanon star trek wiki fandom. Are the borg star trek a ripoff of the cybermen doctor. The accepted answer was that the q do not necessarily fear the borg but rather they recognize that they could be a potential threat. The changeling explains, they were trying to overwhelm me.
With some experimentation, an individual changeling could be assimilated. The borg are an independent menace, attacking players ships and assimilating civilized worlds. Published by pocket books, it was first released in november 2002. This became possible following the enterprises encounter with a young borg survivor whose time amongst the command crew infused him with a sense of individuality he later shared with an entire borg ship. This is something captain jeanluc picard experienced first hand when he was assimilated into the borg and titled the locutus of borg. Like the infinite galaxy, it seems like there will be no end for star treks popularity. When you kill a borg, its systems relay information to other borg. Picard be that they were responsible for creating the borg. The borg message is consistently being delivered to 1. After initial assimilation through injection, borg are surgically fitted with cybernetic devices. I think the dominion would fight back over any outlying worlds the borg assimilated and would lead to battles much like those between the borg and the federation. I would really hate for bashir to be a changeling in this episode.
It was the last of the mission gamma books, lesser evil in which they came across a changeling. Lesser evil memory beta, noncanon star trek wiki fandom. The borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the star trek fictional universe. There is a discussion of an attempted borg assimilation of a founder in a ds9 novel.
The borg are not individuals like the cybermen but consist of a hive mind a collective. The minute the borg fleet shows up, the dominion and federation will basically have to team up to deal with them. The borg use the assimilation process to forcibly join other individuals to the collective. Feb 04, 2021 the borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the star trek franchise. In the novel q strike, the organians appear to observe a battle between members of the q. I know it isnt strictly the same, but im reminded of the borg struggling and failing to assimilate species 8472. The borg vs the dominion star trek message board gamefaqs. I dont believe the borg could assimilate a changeling, however they could attack other species the dominion has conquered, also the jemhadar and the vorta. The changeling was returned to the dominion in an amicable exchange.
Read on for some of the best star trek borg quotes. If the founders were able to be infected with a disease, its quite possible that borg nanites could have some effect on a changling, however i am not sure if assimilation would be possible. It is often associated in a negative connotation with the loss of ones identity or historical culture as part of an integration process. Those creatures were a high form of sentient lifeform yes the borg would assimilate them, they would likely have assimilated the crystalline entity. Picard has been a relatively groundbreaking entry in the franchises mythology data has at least 2 secret daughters, picard resigned from a corrupt, conspiracyaddled starfleet, and romulan assassins are operating openly in federation space and beyond. The borg assimilation expansion adds an allnew threat the game.
From the impression i get stone age technology is still technology, if its not compatible it would just go on the shelf. They could do this despite the encounter during the book that was mentioned, the. In handtohand, the borg may have a physical edge, but the jemhadar are true fanatics, and they use their own edged weapons to great effect. The unique nature of the species meant that were were resistant to borg assimilation. Assimilation seems to use the circulatory system, latching onto the blood cells to spread throughout the body.
The importance of assimilation in your employee training program. May 23, 2017 if any story proves the adage truth is stranger than fiction, its this one. Feb 18, 2020 could the romulans big secret in star trek. I wonder if it would result in more or less the same thing with a changeling. We have no evidence either for or against 2, although it does seem unlikely. I think upon first meeting the borg could indeed assimilate a few ships of the. May 08, 2018 star treks counterpoint to commander data is the borg. If the borg assimilated the founders, then the galaxy as we kn. I dont believe the borg would even assimilate a jem hadar. How star trek voyager should have gone, a startrek.
Borg cubes were able to withstand more and more of 8472 firepower. The goto source for comic book and superhero movie fans. Even if they were low on drones, its likely that they would devote their resources to assimilating as many humans as they could. Like the borg in star trek, china will assimilate you into a virtual empire controlled by chinese technology.
The defiant crew attempted to remove the borg implants from tenmeis body, but the. Lesser evil is a pocket ds9 novel part of the deep space nine relaunch series and the fourth novel in the mission gamma series written by robert simpson. China is taking control of the fourth industrial revolutionthe economy of artificial intelligence and quantum computingjust as america dominated the third industrial revolution driven by the computer. Imagine the havoc a founder changeling could cause with. As for the unassimilatable species youd want to look at species 8472 from voyager. After much discussion, it is popularly assumed that the assimilation may hurt initially, but not throughout the process. For questions about the borg, a fictional pseudorace of cybernetic organisms depicted in the star trek universe, first encountered when q brings the enterprise to meet them in 2365. I cant cite the exact source but i believe it is stated multiple times that the borg has only two ways to interact with other species. The borg are also way more biological then the cybermen.
If its biological tech the same rule still applies. This hivemind is driven to seek out and assimilate new species and new technologies in order to achieve what it considers to be perfection. In borg language, resistance is futile you will be destroyed and assimilated. The borg is a fictional alien species, often appearing as antagonists in star trek. It might be pretty difficult to assimilate plasma or colloids both of which founders can do, but the borg have shown themselves able to assimilate. The borg are a pseudorace of cybernetic organisms from the star trek universe. Begotten a baby changeling is discovered floating th. The changeling goes through some pain and distress but, in the end, it expels the nanoprobes. Assimilation was the process by which the borg added new members and new technology to the collective. Yes the ships were destroyed but all relevant information was relayed to other ships and this is how they adapt.
The inhabitants of the bajoran wormhole and the sheliak corporation if they encountered them. Lesser evil was the fourth novel in the mission gamma miniseries of pocket books s deep space nine books. Jan 21, 2020 this was asked on the star trek stack exchange a few years ago and the dont provoke the borg. Sep 02, 2014 assimilation is a loaded word in the english language. Would the borg ever try to assimilate the farpoint creatures. Each time the borg interacts with a species, assimilation or not, they learn something about it. The borg send a cube, which is promptly suicided to death by jemhadar attack ships. The changelingss weakness with their shifting is they do need time to. Given that other humanoid borg dont need to eat, id think an implant could easily negate the need for kwhite.
They exist as a collective of various alien lifeforms that have all been interconnected through cybernetic technology into a unified hivemind. It turns out that changelings could not be assimilated by unmodified borg technology because they effectively are a much more advanced version of borg technology themselves, changeling matter being essentially a fluid matrix of selfreplicating and selfmodifying nanotechnology capable of assimilating any matter on the atomic level. When a borg drone attempted to assimilate a founder in 2376, the changeling was able to alter its form and crush the nanoprobes into a ball thus preventing them from taking over its cells. The borg have the ability to adapt to weapons with their body shields making them useless cybermen do not.
I think the dominion would fight back over any outlying worlds the borg assimilated and would lead to battles much like those between the borg. Their main objective is to assimilate other species. Weve seen the cybermen almost take over the doctor, so its not like its impossible. They cant assimilate the changelings, and while jemhadar could be assimilated, theyd need to obtain a steady supply of kwhite to stop them from dying. When the borg assimilate picard, they supplement or replace all kinds of stuff. Would the borg ever try to assimilate the farpoint. The borg encounter and assimilate a single changeling. They are dark mirrors of one another, and reveal what we often dont talk about when we talk about the robot who wants to be human. Locutus of borg is a villainous borg who was given that name rather than a standard borg designation ie. Christine collins, a manager at a telephone company, sent her nineyearold son walter to the movies.
I think there was a book where a drone tried to assimilate a changeling, and the changeling basically spat out the nanoprobes. The borg are uncontroable, so i doubt theyd be open to an alliance, were the borg to offer an alliance. The borg queen states openly while interrogating data that she considers the borg s biggest weakness to be their remaining vestiges of humanity humanoidity. While the translators can literally tell us what the tamarians are saying.
While they may only be known by their borg designation, species 8472. The borg assimilate you by injecting you with nanoprobes which assimilate you from the inside. This volume begins with the ships operated by star treks greatest villains. The borg encounter and assimilate a single changeling, what. They were very clearly designed to be an enemy the crew. Could the borg assimilate the dominion founders even.
In the star trek customizable card game, you will venture into the final frontier. Jul 24, 2020 no matter how hostile the federation and dominion are towards each other, the last thing either side wants is for the borg to assimilate some founders and gain the ability to shape change. Sure you can take down a few drones but after that, you are one of. It occurred to me that if the borg are able to assimilate a changeling it would be very useful to them.
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