Tobbles
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Post by Tobbles on May 19, 2005 15:11:30 GMT -5
Do borg age?
Do the drones age normally then when they reach say 80 they die or do they live on till there disassembled or destroyed?
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ConqueringWolf
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Post by ConqueringWolf on May 19, 2005 17:27:23 GMT -5
As far as I know they age..look at seven of nine....she was assimilated as a child and still aged normally....I assume at a certain age where Borg become too old to be functional they are terminated and disassembled for parts.
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Post by Tobbles on May 20, 2005 1:56:40 GMT -5
Yeah but aren't children put in a maturation chambre so they can grow there implants and age rapidly.
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Post by ConqueringWolf on May 20, 2005 8:40:25 GMT -5
I don't know for how long though.....I still think they would age on their biological side.....they still have biological parts....and I have never heard anything about the Borg having non aging technology so I am assuming that their physical bodies would still have to age.
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Post by oblivion on May 20, 2005 15:37:46 GMT -5
I remember seeing Seven of Nine's assimilated father in one of the episodes. I think it was Unimatrix Zero. The actor wasn't "aged". That could be an oversight on the part of the continuity police, or it could indicate that the Borg age more slowly than the non-assimilated do.
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Post by syborg on May 22, 2005 9:48:56 GMT -5
The first time in STNG, the Enterprise encountered a Borg cube, Riker found Borg babies in incubators. So Borg must be aging. Of course kids are assimilated like 7 of 9 who grows to become a woman. The Borg assimilate entrie races and acquire their technology. However there is real problem with all this - the Borg are not a single race they are a collective - which means they are several species put together. If the Borg were to assimilate Vulcans, these live for several hundred years, there could be other species which live for thousands. The Borg do not only assimilate technology but the biological differences. It would be in their interest to have Borg drones to live longer. What would the Borg end up assimilating a race 200 foot giants,would all the Borg be transformed into giants?
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Post by xkamelx on May 30, 2005 14:32:40 GMT -5
I think the borg would only assimilate ginats for groundwarfare. I mean, if the entire race of Borg were giants, they'd have to rebuild their ships. I would think, though, that the biological portions of the drones' body would age slower then normal, due to all of the biotechnology incorporated in.
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Post by Phenom on Jun 14, 2005 0:26:04 GMT -5
Very good question, I read this entire topic and I'm still a little unsure about how to respond to this. I would think that the biological side of anything would age, It's nature. When you add in technology, anything can happen. The reason why seven grew was because she was placed in a natuation chamber, I'm not sure if she lost all those years or not just yet but I wouldn't doubt it if she did. In the end the writers never pushed the issue so that they wouldn't have to come up with an answer,
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Post by Ginner Alien on Jul 27, 2005 16:44:57 GMT -5
Well you never see any "old" drones do you really, they are all played by people around 30 apart from Locutus. Take the Borg Queen for example, even though not a good one with the way that she keeps re apearing every so often.
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Post by Tobbles on Jul 28, 2005 9:36:42 GMT -5
Well some species have different lifespans like for example Guinan she dosen't look old but is actually hundreds of years old. Also when there assimilated its harder to tell if there older or younger than "30".
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Post by syborg on Nov 22, 2005 10:19:58 GMT -5
Aging could very well be simply a matter of how far our technology has gone. As science progresses one day we may be able end aging completely. I read somewhere that the aging gene was discovered, it switches on after certain time and we start becoming old. The way to control it would enable may assure us perpetual youth. There several ethical cell research. But once they have been resolved - people would be able to regrow lost body parts or repair people who are permanently crippled. It would be an entirely different world. Once remaining perpetually young, having found a cure of virtually every disease - travelling to the vast distances at sublight speed through the universe would not be a problem because everyone would remain the same age as they left and return the same way. Coming back to sci fi. If the Borg encountered a race which had found a cure for aging the veritable fountain of youth, the Borg would have assimiliated that technology no Borg would age.
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Post by Beaveringsfan on Nov 28, 2005 22:55:27 GMT -5
::Even if the Borg found away to stop the aging process, the biological components would still eventually give out. Nothing biological can last forever, we've already seen that in several Star Trek episodes. And also, just because the Borg assimilate the biological coponnents of a species, doesn't mean that it is transfered to all parts. When Piccard became Locutus, he was still distinctly human, and distinctly Piccard, part of that was due to the Borg intentionally keeping him seperate. But we have seen drones that seem to hail from diferent species, assimlated Klingons, Romulans, and various unidentified species. It is my understanding that while many are assimilated into the collective, drones are also biologically maunfactured, using selective gene manipulation. So if the the race of giants were assimilated, then they might make a selective group of giant shock troops, and mix in other genes taht provide favorable traits. But the collective as a whole would not "magicallly" begin to grow.
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Post by 0 of 0 on Dec 7, 2006 17:25:11 GMT -5
I think that the borg in fact do not age at all. Since they carry implants they do not need the ability to grow or replace cells in the body.
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Post by orey on Jan 3, 2007 10:37:23 GMT -5
I think that the borg in fact do not age at all. Since they carry implants they do not need the ability to grow or replace cells in the body. Why not
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Post by xkamelx on Jan 6, 2007 11:44:47 GMT -5
I think that the borg in fact do not age at all. Since they carry implants they do not need the ability to grow or replace cells in the body. Why not Welcome to TR. I love that avatar. I would imagine the Borg technology would regenerate the organic tissue.
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