Sign me up. Free healthcare and housing for a body I cram cookies into sounds like a deal but what is their stance on aborgtions?

This is the end of Season 2 of Picard!! Borg Queen only assimilates those you want to be assimilated.

“Hugh bet I do!”

“Soul soliciting pig fuckers!”

No thanks I’m already a member of Unity

Ass immolation?

Yeah but the Borg would be breaking into houses to force convert folk.

Then again those xtian door knocking religions are often very fond of ‘mission trips’ to forcibly convert folk for the cost of the ‘humanitarian aid’ they provide, which isn’t unlike the Borg at all.

Reminds me of that time the Hegemonising Swarm was converted to the Proselytising swarm

“Let us tell you the advantages of adding your uniqueness to our own. Have you thought of what will happen if you don’t join the collective before you die?”

This is gold. Haha

“I’m 1 of 2, and he’s 2 of 2.”

They kind of are a religion, just supplemented by a lot of technology that allows them to convert people against their will.

In my head cannon, that’s more or less how the borg started. I can see it starting off as a much more basic networked community that started off legitimately respecting people’s wishes to join/not to join. But over time it grew and changed, and become so invasive to the point they snowballed into the borg we know and love today.

And if we REALLY want to speculate, their first act of violence/force may have been against some entity that sought to attack them for being new and different. And whatever war or conflict that turned into ended up shifting the values of the borg such that forced assimilation was then seen as morally acceptable. And once that’s condoned, why stop?

You boys can fuck right off.