When the crew of Voyager realizes that it has no choice but to go through Borg space in order to continue home in any kind of timely manner, Captain Janeway hatches a plan to construct a weapon to kill Species 8472 and use it as a bargaining chip with the Borg in exchange for safe passage through Borg space.

While most of the Federation starships are destroyed early in the engagement, the Defiant manages to continue fighting the Borg Cube as it approaches Earth.

Playing on the Champions Tour allows him to continue his most iconic rivalries with old adversaries Ivan Lendl and Bjorn Borg.

They successfully kidnap Locutus, although the Borg ignore this and continue to Earth, destroying all resistance.

Hugh is tempted but realises that the Borg would continue to look for him, jeopardizing the Enterprise.

You've defeated the Borg with one thing the Queen can never assimilate: the human spirit.

Borg survivors invade the Enterprise, and begin to assimilate its crew and modify the ship.

The Borg discover Species 8472 in the Delta Quadrant and try to assimilate its biotechnology which is more advanced than anything the Borg have seen.

Voyager convinces 8472, led by an individual posing as Boothby, that the Federation has no quarrel with them – it had in fact long been known that the Borg themselves started the war between the two species by invading fluidic space to assimilate the superior technology of Species 8472.

In an attempt to gain knowledge about Starfleet defenses, the Borg assimilate Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U. S. S.

The Borg, wanting to secure the particle at all costs, assimilate a Dominion cloning facility and use it to clone Locutus, the former title of Jean-Luc Picard when he was assimilated.

With Locutus leading their armada, the Borg take the Omega Particle from the Romulans and assimilate Ambassador Spock, who is trying to mediate between the Klingons and Romulans.

The Borg eschew latinum completely ; they do not trade with other species, they assimilate them.

He does so, and the drone instantly recognises Picard as " Locutus of Borg " so the Captain plays along with this ordering Hugh to assimilate the crew of the Enterprise, including Geordi.

In Star Trek: First Contact, she played the Borg Queen, who attempts to assimilate Earth into the Borg collective.

Meanwhile Captain Janeway and her crew have entered a transwarp corridor and fire torpedoes at the unprotected manifolds while traveling back to the Alpha Quadrant, but are pursued by a Borg sphere ship that has managed to withstand the pathogen ’ s effects and assimilate Admiral Janeway's ablative armor upgrade.

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Overview: Re-animated surviving Borg drones from the Sphere crash in Star Trek: First Contact assimilate Starfleet researchers and a freighter before heading back home and toward a confrontation with Enterprise.

Spock also learns of this alliance when he is captured dealing with Romulans, but the Borg do not assimilate him as, for some reason, they believe Spock is already Borg.

In the process, they learn that V ' ger, the former Voyager 6, was actually upgraded by a division of the Borg Collective, which explains why the Borg did not assimilate Spock ; they assumed the trace of V ' ger in his mind from their meld ( in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ) was an actual link to the Collective.

Though the rest of the crew is elated at this news, Seven of Nine remains cautious, given that the Borg have never been able to assimilate Arturis ' species.

The Borg are expected to assimilate it at all costs, even though they have experienced the loss of a large quantity of Borg vessels to Omega explosions while trying to harness the power of the substance.

Picard, Worf, and the ship's navigator, Lieutenant Hawk, stop the Borg from calling reinforcements with the deflector dish, but Hawk is assimilated.

This kamikaze action is prevented when the Enterprise arrives and draws Borg fire away, while also beaming Worf and the other surviving crew off of the stricken Defiant.

Although Shelby suggested attacking with the stardrive section, Riker does the reverse and orders the saucer section to fire an anti-matter spread near the Cube, disrupting its sensors and allowing a shuttlecraft piloted by Data and Worf to pass the Borg shields and beam aboard the Borg cube.

The goal of this secret alliance is to destroy Picard and therefore Starfleet's only defense against the Borg but, despite his conditioning, Kirk is able to resist commands to kill Worf, Data, and Geordi La Forge, all of whom are attacked by him during his search for Picard.

Meanwhile, Riker and Worf encounter Hugh, who tells them that Lore is the leader of this Borg group.

Two Borg seize Data and Lore is about to execute his " own, dear brother ", when Riker and Worf arrive, accompanied by Hugh and some of his rebel Borg.

Shelby suggests randomly changing the frequency of the ship's phasers to prevent the Borg from adapting to the attack, which frees the vessel.

The Federation and the Borg Collective create an alliance and venture into Species 8472's fluidic space to destroy their staging grounds by destroying the Rift Maker, thus ending the threat to the Alpha Quadrant by closing all the rifts.

The Enterprise escapes to a nearby nebula, with Geordi LaForge and Wesley Crusher adapting a technique suggested by Shelby to modify the deflector dish to fire a massive energy discharge capable of destroying the Borg cube.

** Species 8472 pilot bioships capable of destroying Borg cubes and even planets.

In the film Star Trek: First Contact, the Enterprise participates in the Battle of Sector 001, destroying a Borg cube, and subsequently travels back in time to stop the Borg from interfering with Zefram Cochrane's first contact with the Vulcans.

Deeply troubled by the knowledge that she is effectively ordering her crew to their deaths, Captain Janeway discusses the issue with them, but they too decide that destroying the Borg ’ s transwarp hub is more important than returning to Earth, as without it, the Borg's ability to travel across the galaxy will be severely hampered and countless lives will be saved.

* Tactical Fusion Cube, a type of Borg cube from Star Trek: Armada II which is known as the strongest starship in the game, capable of destroying entire bases alone

She reprimands Picard for not destroying the Borg when he had the chance (" I, Borg ") and orders him to do so if another opportunity should present itself.

They use the ship's phasers to trigger an eruption on the sun's surface which engulfs the Borg ship, destroying it.

After Picard hears Borg communications in his mind, he orders the fleet to concentrate its firepower on a seemingly non-vital section of the Borg ship.

The Borg sphere fires on the planet ; realizing that the Borg are trying to prevent first contact, the Enterprise crew destroy the sphere and send an away team to the Montana site where Cochrane is building his ship, the Phoenix, to look for survivors.

As the ship sets out on its projected 75-year journey home, the crew passes through regions belonging to various species indigenous to the Delta Quadrant, such as the barbaric and belligerent Kazon ; the organ-harvesting, disease-ravaged Vidiians ; the nomadic hunter-race the Hirogen ; the fearsome, scorpion-like Species 8472 from a fluid-space realm ; and most notably the Borg, as Voyager has to move through large areas of Borg-controlled space in later seasons.

In the show's fourth season, Kes is replaced on the ship by Seven of Nine, a Borg drone ( known colloquially as Seven ), who was assimilated as a six-year-old Human girl but liberated from the collective by the Voyager crew.

During the incident with Lore and the renegade Borg, she was left in command of the Enterprise, during which she engaged the Borg ship in combat.

According to the TNG Technical Manual, the transporter cannot move antimatter, but in the VOY episode " Dark Frontier " Voyager transported a live photon torpedo equipped with antimatter onto a Borg ship.

After a seven-year journey, the ship returns to the Alpha Quadrant via a Borg transwarp conduit with the aid of the time-traveling Admiral Kathryn Janeway ( former Captain of Voyager ) from an alternate future.

During the years in the Delta Quadrant, the ship is augmented with custom, non-spec upgrades and modifications, some of which are modified from technology of other cultures, an example being Seven of Nine's alcoves and the Delta Flyer which both utilize modified Borg technology.

In " The Best of Both Worlds ," 40 Starfleet starships gather near Wolf 359 to intercept a Borg cube ship traveling to Earth.

Following its victory, the Borg ship continues on its course to Earth, where the crew of the Enterprise-D rescue Picard and stop the cube.

The player's character in the interactive movie / video game Star Trek: Borg replaces a crewman aboard the character's father's ship during the events leading to the Battle of Wolf 359, and to change history to prevent the ship from being destroyed there.

*" The Resurrection of Jesus Christ ", vs. Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan ( with James Renihan ), August, 2005, aboard ship on the Sun Princess

Sisko is resentful of the duty, having lost his wife Jennifer three years previously during the Borg attack at Wolf 359 and destruction of his former ship, the USS Saratoga, and worried about the well-being of his teenage son Jake while on the station.

The Borg flushes the Enterprise from the nebula with magnetometric-guided charges, and then board the ship and abduct Picard.

The Enterprises normal weapons have very little effect on the Borg ship, so the crew devises a way to channel a massive amount of energy into the main deflector dish, turning it into a massive weapon.

An Enterprise away team boards the Borg ship to try and rescue Picard, but discover that he has been assimilated — he is now Locutus of Borg.

The Enterprise discovers a wrecked Borg scout ship with a single survivor: a young Borg drone.