Star Trek: The Next Generation : A couple curious Borg questions (no kidding)

A couple curious Borg questions (no kidding)

1) I know when a machine is starting to wear down or is already broken, you can fix it or replace it. In the case of the Borg, it probably doesn't get to that level, they're probably already upgrading before any FWT. It's the human side, they can't keep replacing that and a body always wears out. So what do the Borg do when one of them is past it's prime, but it's still can function?

2) What's the deal with the Borg reproducing? I remember a little bit from that episode, but do they have a fleet of fertile female Borg standing by at the ready? Plus, can all the worlds they assimilate be made up of mammals?

I know with my last couple of posts I've been silly about the Borg, this time I come searching knowledge, not jokes. But you know me, a little humor in your posts is always a plus. I await your answers.

Spenser with an "S", like the poet.

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1) I know when a machine is starting to wear down or is already broken, you can fix it or replace it. In the case of the Borg, it probably doesn't get to that level, they're probably already upgrading before any FWT. It's the human side, they can't keep replacing that and a body always wears out. So what do the Borg do when one of them is past it's prime, but it's still can function?
They send it to an assisted living facility where everyone pretends they still matter.


2) What's the deal with the Borg reproducing? I remember a little bit from that episode, but do they have a fleet of fertile female Borg standing by at the ready? Plus, can all the worlds they assimilate be made up of mammals?
Originally they were all male which is confusing. But now they are all for equal opportunity and assimilate everyone rather than breed in a confusing way.

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I've always wondered how the Borg would do if they were ever infected by those spores from TOS' "This Side of Paradise."

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1) If the drone is too old to perform any function, it's likely euthanized and its cybernetic parts recycled into another drone.

2) It's not directly stated if the Borg actually reproduce, in spite of the Borg Nursery that Riker found in Q Who, but it's probable that they use some form of test-tube approach to reproduction. This is so that no drone ever feels any sort of bond to their offspring, and thus has a shred of individuality. At the same time, it's just as probable that in the process of assimilation they take the babies and assimilate them as soon as possible. Either way, this is in keeping with some concepts about the Borg that need to be understood.

The Borg are a technological cult, in that they desire a peculiar form of perfection that involves the integration of flesh and machine. Voyager has pointed out, indirectly, that the Borg do not develop technology on their own, but rather they assimilate it and add it to their own knowledge. Hence why in Scorpion they were not able to apply the technology they already possess into making a weapon to use against Species 8472, because they have almost no creativity of their own, among other lapses in the intellect and wisdom department.

I had this notion that the Borg do not directly assimilate every world they run across, but sometimes have certain worlds they use to cull out new drones from. This is in keeping with their mindset and nature, but the alternative that they reproduce new drones also works in this regard. However, philosophically, they would see anything regarding organic processes to be inferior, in spite of the fact that not they, nor anyone else, has been able to develop life on their own that reproduces in a better way, if there is one. Frankly, one thing going for the Borg if they choose either of these methods is that they get away from the tedious mating rituals endemic in every species (the Klingon method would seem very impractical to them, involving the female to hurl objects at her paramour, if Worf is to be believed).

You might say that their ability to adapt to threats helps make them somewhat creative technologically, but Scorpion proved that they only are creative in so much as they only apply what they think is conventional with the technology they already possess. In other words, their ability to develop defenses against phasers and torpedoes is only there because they have something in their toolbox already that can defeat them. Put them up against a physical weapon like a sword or a machine gun and they would have problems, because defending against those requires mostly something like body armor, and those are rather limited in function; bullets and blades can find their way into any weakness.

Because they worship technology so much, and they lack any serious wisdom, they do not apply real tactics with what they have, so much so they have a lack of understanding of combat that most creatures in the animal world know by sheer instinct. They do not have any operations security, they do not mass their enemies with numbers (unless it's 8472), they do not use maneuver and attack other targets of opportunity until they deem it necessary, and that criteria is very narrow. I've often said that if the Borg were to attack the Dominion or, say, the Gorn, they'd have a harder time defeating their opponent (the Gorn, in TOS Arena, used rather exquisite deception to lure the Enterprise to Cestus III, which did not even bother to scan the planet for any kind of problem, and were able to use maneuver and indirect fire against Kirk and his landing party). Anyone with a firm grasp of combat tactics and sufficient technology (roughly anyone equivalent to 22nd Century Federation tech) should be able to adequately defeat the Borg in a variety of ways - all it takes is the wisdom to see their flaws.

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Very well thought out, Wylde. Well done, sir.

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3) Why weren't there any black Borg?

Seriously... were the Borg basically racist??? They didn't seem to waste their time "assimilating" minorities, did they???

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There were some. I saw them.
However, I don't remember if it was in the series or in one of the movies.
But they had all of that makeup on people to be like that grey-white color, it was on the black person to, so he looked the same color as the others. It was more that his features appeared black.

Because you'd be in jail

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They made Dave Chappell white. Lol.

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