when the Borg were first introduced to Star Trek didn't they just terrify you this
nightmarish Frankenstein monster first announces the futility of your resistance and then tells you
to hold still while it ends your way of life they think so little of you you can board their cube
mess with all of their stuff and they don't care but try to stop them from assimilating
you and they become harder to stop than Michael Myers on a Halloween sugar high killing spree so
where did these monsters of the Milky Way come from while we know the Borg hive was smack dab
between voyager and their way home in the Delta Quadrant we've never known their origin story but
that may have just changed thanks to information uncovered during the new Star Trek Picard series
we think we've unlocked the origin of the Borg and it's M night Shyamalan good like The Sixth Sense
good I seek not the happening which was actually really bad this really be happening is something
happening in a few states whatever is happening is happening to small and smaller population that's
he happened to know you couldn't have guessed this origin story if you were part Nostradamus and part
Mayan calendar no offense this is confusing so you aren't gonna want to miss this video and if you
haven't already subscribed to our channel please do so now and also click the notification bell
to never miss a show but there's nothing rational about this who needs rational and your toes curl
at all so stay tuned until the end of the video so you can see a new Star Trek inspired graphic
design from the amazing artists at mix tees calm the sinister unrelenting Borg with they're
unstoppable singular drive to assimilate everyone is what makes them one of the all-time best
villains not only in Star Trek but in any science fiction universe but unlike most other franchises
with great villains we have no idea where the board came from no one has been brave enough to
create an in Canon story for the origin of the Borg sure there is the speculation that there
is a connection between the Borg and VG which was the vessel encountered in Trek the motion
picture the idea being that a Voyager space probe from the 20th century vanished into a black hole
and was given life by a race of sentient machines this of course becomes the progenitor of the Borg
as VG returns to Earth looking for its creator unable to determine who its creator is the machine
determines all carbon-based life an infestation of the creators universe and thus the assimilation
begins but like we said that's not canon what exactly do we know about the Borg's origin from
canon there are a few interesting pieces and even a couple contradictions but writers don't catch
everything right in the next generations episode q who Guinan said the Borg have been developing for
thousands of centuries which has been developing for thousands of centuries however during the Star
Trek Voyager episode dragon's teeth a vaadwaur that had been in suspended animation for 900
years said the Borg were small and only a minor nuisance in the Delta Quadrant so which is it are
they hundreds of thousands of years old or are they only 1,000 years old what if they're both
perhaps when Guinan says thousands of centuries she is referring to an earlier version of the
Borg connected to their sentient technology and the incorporation of humanoids well that would
tell the rest of the story but when did this happen and how is it related to the new Picard
series jean-luc Picard's Romulan assistant Loris gave us a couple of cannon rocking factoids that
might change how we view Star Trek history from now on when she was explaining the Zap vash she
said they had kept a secret for thousands upon thousands of years and that they have kept this
secret for thousands upon thousands of years and didn't we just say that Guinan said the
Borg had existed for hundreds of thousands of years coincidence we think not remember
this is the Guinan who once stood toe-to-toe with Q and he backed down the Guinan whom Q
told Picard this creature is not what she seems this is a dangerous creature you have no idea
and from our own experience we know that Guinan is pretty much never wrong and we also know that
Guinan is coming back for season two of Picard wanted to invite you into the second season so
just let that swirl around your brain a few times these two phrases are not a coincidence just like
it's not a coincidence that the Borg are centered around a Picard series all in on the creation and
destruction of artificial intelligence we likely won't know the full truth until the end of season
two but we do believe the origin of the Borg will be revealed before Patrick Stewart retires and
jean-luc becomes a part of the Q continuum what an ending for Picard that would be what no and
there might be more to that than wishful thinking but let's save that for an upcoming video first
how is it possible that the Romulans created the Borg if the Borg are hundreds of thousands
of years old and comparatively the Romulans were born yesterday Star Trek history teaches us the
Romulans existence begins during Earth's fourth century and since the year is now $23.99 that two
thousand years is missing a couple of zeroes it's impossible that the Romulans could be the creators
of the Borg right we think there is a way that allows Guinan llores and the vaadwaur from the
Delta Quadrant to all be right and it lines up directly with the new Canon we've learned in
Picard but to do that we need to go back to the beginning and the birth of the Romulans sometime
between 300 and 400 AD on earth the violent and warlike Vulcan race was transforming and becoming
more peaceful and logical the warlike Vulcans who refused to embrace the new ways left their
homeworld to start a new life deeper into the beta quadrant they would become the Romulans
we know today official Star Trek Canon gives us little insight into the actual Romulan history
but if you combine the Star Trek Canon we know and combine it with authorized novels including those
of Diane Duane we can piece together a picture of a young sparsely populated society desperate
for technological advancement an estimated 80,000 new Romulans traveled the beta quadrant for more
than 130 years for limping into romulus and remus with only 18,000 people the journey had not been
easier kind and they ran into many strange worlds during their search for a new home once there most
of the travelers began colonizing Romulus but some stayed on the ships that remained in orbit
they were reluctant to abandon their home as it was the only form of space travel available and
featured technology that couldn't be found in the settlements below these people became the
ship clans and the technology they possessed would be the beginning of the new Borg story Romulans on
the ground broke into small nation-states and began using cloning to increase the population
and quickly raise standing armies the use of cloning alone in this way is indicative
of a general carelessness for life if you don't mind cloning on a mass scale why would you mind
attaching cybernetic implants into them so you can control them the ruler who initiated the cloning
was Tory who who around 540 ad allied with the technology empowered ship clans and used their
technology as well as her own cloned armies to intimidate and conquer neighboring nations those
who accepted her rule were brought into her ranks while those who refused were either killed or mind
changed by telepathic adepts that she commanded she would then proclaim herself free ha or ruling
queen that has a certain assimilation ring to it doesn't it during her rule she would demand
that the ships develop and apply technology in the fields of communication and transport more
important Borg tools all of this happened about 900 years before the vaadwaur said the Borg were
small potatoes in the Delta Quadrant but 540 ad doesn't cover the hundreds of thousands of years
the border claimed to exist as well as the secret of the zat Vash so what gives the answer lies in
the technology the Romulan ship clans gave to Riku when she was creating what we believed to be the
first Borg clone armies remember that 130 years of travel the beta quadrant before finding Romulus
the new homeless Romulans came into contact with many worlds and civilizations prior to
finding their homeworld this is where things get really interesting and everything starts
to connect to the new Picard series one of the planets that would have been accessible to those
early nomadic Romulans is Iconia the iconians are famous in Star Trek lore and were considered a
highly technological advanced race of beings that disappeared without a trace two hundred thousand
years earlier hold on to that number because it's important while making this connection it
was either here on Iconia or other planets in the previous iconian Empire where those early
Romulans would have acquired incredibly advanced technology remember captain Donald Varley of the
USS Yamato during the next generation episode contagion Varley was gifted an artifact found
in an archeological dig with technology that baffled his engineers we believe the advanced
technology picked up by those early Romulans were remnants of iconian artificial intelligence left
behind after their disappearance this ancient technology once combined with these new clones
on Romulus would give birth to an early version of the Borg terrorizing the galaxy today so when
Guinan explains that the board are thousands of centuries old she would be right if the artificial
intelligence that led to the current iteration of the Borg had actually been created more than
200,000 years ago by the iconians why do we think the iconians had artificial intelligence well
thanks to the Picard episode broken pieces we are introduced to the desolate planet of a aya where
an ancient civilization left behind a repository of memories warning of the dangers of creating
synthetic life how long ago was this warning left that's right 200,000 years ago the planet was
placed in the center of an unnatural Conclave of eight stars which means any civilization who had
the our to collect and move stars around must be supremely technologically advanced someone
like the iconians and if that wasn't enough of a coincidence the octa nari star system is located
in or near Romulan space as it once could be found on ancient Romulan star charts when you
put all of this together with the fact that Iconia was destroyed by aerial bombardment the same way
we see during the warning vision received by the saath Vash it's plain to see this advanced
civilization who gave us the warning is iconians same region same timeframe same destruction and
same advanced technology but the story doesn't end there the Romulans would have likely been
on their way to unleashing more potential in the new cybernetic beings they had created there is no
way to know exactly when the first Romulans found the planet of a aiya and watched the warning from
the long-dead iconian civilization but it scared them it scared them enough to create
a secret society that loathed the existence of artificial intelligence and in order for
that fear and loathing to make sense a fear that compelled them to secrecy the Romulans would have
had to be heavily involved in the creation and use of artificial intelligence already to go to
this length to hide this they must have feared that they were already very close to breaking
the barrier described in the warning fear is an incredibly motivating factor and if they thought
that what they had done thus far would bring an end to their civilization they would stop
at nothing to get rid of the evidence and make sure it never happened again but we know the Borg
haven't been hanging out in the beta quadrant how exactly did they end up in the Delta Quadrant it
would have happened sometime after the SOT Vash found their way to a aya likely sometime after
5:50 but before 1400 AD since the board were confirmed in the Delta Quadrant at that time
it's likely that it was closer to 550 since Laura said the SOT Vash was thousands upon thousands of
years old and predated the Tau Chi R since the Romulans are only about 2000 years old perhaps
Loras got this wrong or the sect was may be provoking Romulan split she heard it from her
drunk mother-in-law so who knows for sure one of my first hurts and mother but we do know in 558 a
revolt ended the life of Tory who and likely her new clone borg army as well with a new planetary
government being formed this would have been a perfect time for the saath vash to begin
implementing their anti artificial intelligence agenda the ban would certainly have had to occur
before 784 ad as the last of the four remaining generational ships began to fail and all of the
ship clans were forced to move to Romulus the Romulans had no ability for interstellar travel
and didn't achieve warp technology until 2137 long after the Borg had been busy in the Delta Quadrant
we think members of the SOT Vash took what Borg creations were left to a remnant iconian planet
with a still active command center like the one in next generations contagion episode perhaps they
even used the one on Iconia itself with the planet being so close to the new Romulan homeworld if
they were afraid they couldn't destroy all traces of the artificial intelligence technology linking
back to them they would have no choice but to send it away and what better place than the other side
of the galaxy so far away it could never be linked to their civilization cold and alone in the Delta
Quadrant perhaps those first Borg were confused at being cast out and they huddled together to create
their first collective the comfort and safety of sharing their combined thoughts intermixed with
the idea that their creators discarded them for being imperfect would have started the
ball rolling the realization that their combined thoughts and strengths could achieve a perfection
not even known by their creators might have fueled their first desires to begin assimilating truth or
fiction well take a couple of these facts into consideration the Borg have been numbering all
of the species in the order that they encountered them with species one zero zero to six the highest
number we've seen so far the combination of an eyewitness from the vaadwaur as well as the
species numbers of the talaxian to one-eighth and Kazon 3:29 is the best proof we have for the true
age of the Borg remember the vaadwaur said that in his time the Borg had only assimilated a handful
of systems in my century they'd only assimilated a handful of systems this would make sense if they
had only recently arrived in the Delta Quadrant and started assimilating from the time of the
vaadwaur it would take seven hundred years before the Borg assimilated species to 62 in 21:45 this
is one of the few pinpoint times we have for the Borg and we learn it from seven of nine during
the Voyager episode the Omega directive it began with species 262 they were primitive but their
oral history referred to a powerful substance which could burn the sky but from that point
forward the board contact with new civilizations grows quickly they would go from 262 species to
almost 10,000 species in the next 250 years this at first gradual and then explosive growth proves
that this version of the Borg are not hundreds of thousands of years old and were new to the
Delta Quadrant during the first millennia but if that's the case why didn't the Borg remember the
Romulans it may be because during the time of the vaadwaur the collective hive mind was shattered as
a result of too many Borg drone deaths at once seven of nine explains that because of this she
has no memory of time before when a drone is damaged beyond repair it is discarded but if
memories continue to exist in the collective consciousness also isn't it odd that Romulans
avoided assimilation until this Borg cube on the Picard series despite their empire being closer to
the Delta Quadrant than the Federation perhaps someday we'll learn that's because species 0 0
1 is Romulan thus the secret the SOT Vash is protecting isn't only that of the admonition
warning and the dangers of creating synthetic life but also that the Romulans gave birth to the
biggest and baddest cyborg intelligence currently in the galaxy so far anyways if the iconians did
create artificial intelligence that survived hundreds of thousands of years to eventually
become a creation of the Romulans and then the error of the galaxy what a fascinating and rich
history we still have to explore in the Star Trek universe what do you think of this theory
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