Species 116
Humanoid (Delta quadrant)
Remarks: A highly intelligent race. They perfected quantum-slipstream
drive. Members of this species
were gifted linguists, some knowing several thousand
languages. The Borg first tried to assimilate them
centuries ago, but they managed to outwit them,
always staying one step ahead. A few years before
2374, the Borg managed to weaken their defenses.
They were closing in and species 8472 was their
last hope to defeat them. Voyager took that
away from them. Their outer colonies were the first to fall,
23 in a matter of hours, their sentry vessels were
tossed aside, providing no defence. By the time the
Borg surrounded their star system with hundreds
of cubes, they had already surrendered to their own
terror. About 10 to 20 thousand managed to
survive.
Example: Arturis (He had escaped assimilation with a vessel,
alone but alive. He was eventually captured
by the Borg after his plans to lure the U.S.S. Voyager
to the Borg failed).
Episode: Hope and Fear [VOY]
Species 125
Humanoid
Remarks: Original species of the Borg Queen
Episode: Dark Frontier, part 2 [VOY]
Species 149
Remarks: Civilization assimilated by the Borg that had advanced
medical technology, including a method
to enable the Borg to use modified nanoprobes for
reversing cellular necrosis, thus allowing them to
reactivate drones as much as 73 hours after "death."
This technique was used by Seven of Nine aboard
the U.S.S. Voyager to revive Neelix.
Episode: Mortal Coil [VOY]
Species 180
Ferengi (Ferenginar, the Alpha quadrant)
Remarks: It is not known why the Ferengi has such a low species
number, which
would imply that they were
encountered and catalogued very early in the Borg's
existence. This was
one of the personalities that took over Seven.
Episode: Infinite Regress [VOY]
Species 218
Talaxian (Talax, Delta quadrant)
Remarks: Easily Assimilated. Their dense musculature made them
excellent drones. First catalogued by
the Borg when a small freighter with a crew of 39
was taken in the Dolmine Sector.
Examples: Neelix, Wix Aban
Episode: The Raven [VOY]
Species 259
Omnicordial life-form (from Galactic cluster 3)
Remarks: The Borg use an autonomous regeneration sequencer,
designed to counteract resistance,... It is
technology assimilated from Species 259 that automatically
replicates any Borg circuitry that is
removed or disabled by non-Borg means. Galactic
cluster 3 is a transmaterial energy plane intersecting
22 billion omnicordial life forms.
Episode: The Gift [VOY]
Species 262
(Delta quadrant race)
Remarks: Primitive race assimilated in 2145. (229 years before
this episode). Their oral language referred
to a powerful substance which could burn the sky.
This lead the Borg to 13 more species (including 263)
before finding one with useful scientific information
about Omega.
Episode: The Omega Directive [VOY]
Species 263
(Delta quadrant race)
Remarks: Primitive race which believed that Omega was a drop
of blood from their creator.
Episode: The Omega Directive [VOY]
Species 312
(Delta quadrant race)
Remarks: Assimilated by the Borg hundreds of years ago. Species
312 developed tetrion-flux-technology
based shields that they erected around endangered
cultures, very much like the energy barrier that was
found on the planet Ledos over the southern sub-continent
which protected the primitive Ventu people
from intrusion by the more advanced Ledosians. This
energy barrier was undetectable by conventional
sensors, and impenetrable by the Ledosians until
crewmembers from the U.S.S. Voyager found a way
to break through it.
Episode: Natural Law [VOY]
Species 329
Kazon (Delta quadrant)
Remarks: Nomads in stolen Trabe ships; they are formed into
factions, which are usually at war with
each other, and don't seem to have a single homeworld.
The Borg encountered a Kazon colony in the
Gand Sector, grid 6920; the Kazon's biological and
technological distinctiveness was unremarkable
and unworthy of assimilation. Their assimilation
would have detracted from perfection.
Example: Jal Culluh
Episode: Mortal Coil [VOY]
Species 521
Shivolian (Delta quadrant)
Remarks: A female member of this reptilian species visited the
U.S.S. Voyager while the ship was
docked at the Markonian Outpost in 2376.
Episode: Survival Instinct [VOY]
Species 571
Humanoid.
Remarks: Vertical line down forehead. Their species worships
the supernatural deity Brothara, who
frowns upon the desecration of dead bodies.
Examples: P'Chan, whose Borg designation was 4 of 9. (Yes, that's
9 as in 7 of 9... he was one of the
interconnected ex-drones)
Episode: Survival Instinct [VOY]
Species 689
Norcadians (Norcadia Prime, Delta quadrant, Spatial Grid 2369)
Remarks: Mezoti's species. Norcadia Prime is a theta-class
planetoid, with a population of 260 million,
and binary suns.
Episode: "Ashes to Ashes" [VOY], "Collective" [VOY]
Species 2461
The Brunali (Delta quadrant)
Remarks: Their world was located near a Borg transwarp conduit
and had been attacked three times in
10 years; each time the Borg wiped out the society
they had worked hard to rebuild. This race had
developed sophisticated techniques in agricultural
genetics to allow them to grow crops in inhospitable
environments, and they used the same science to
engineer an anti-Borg pathogen that they
implanted into the genetic code of some of their
children.
Examples: Icheb (one of the children with the pathogen)
Episode: Child's Play [VOY]
Species 3259
Vulcan (Vulcan, the Alpha quadrant)
Remarks: The enlarged neocortex produces superior analytical abilities.
Examples: Tuvok, Sarek
Episode: The Raven [VOY]
Species 4228
Hazari (Delta quadrant)
Remarks: "Technologically advanced, extremely violent. They
make excellent tactical drones." Other
races often hire them as bounty hunters.
Episode: Think Tank [VOY]
Species 5174
(Delta quadrant race)
Remarks: A spacefaring race. The Borg once encountered a small
ship of this species where the
occupants were "gutted" in the same manner as another
humanoid that Voyager found (a complete
osteomy, their entire skeletons surgically removed
along with musculature, ligaments, tendons and
internal organs). The Borg never determined
the perpetrators, considering it irrelevant, but the
responsible parties were apparently the Hirogen.
Episode: Hunters [VOY]
Species 5618
Human (Earth, the Alpha quadrant -- Origin: Grid 325)
Remarks: Warp-capable. Physiology: inefficient. Below-average
cranial capacity. Minimal redundant
systems. Limited regenerative abilities. The
Hansens may have been the first humans assimilated
in 2356 while studying the Borg in the Delta Quadrant.
This may have also led to the Borg's first
scouting missions to the Alpha Quadrant where they
attacked outposts along the Romulan Neutral
Zone in 2364.
Episode: Dark Frontier, part 2 [VOY]
Species 5973
A non-corporeal, multispectrum particle lifeform (from Galactic cluster
8).
Episode: Haunting of Deck Twelve [VOY]
Species 6291
Yridian (Alpha quadrant)
Remarks: All but wiped out by the Borg, everyone, including
the Borg, thought they were extinct, but
Ransom found a few survivors and made first contact
with them in his days as an exo-biologist. He
was promoted to captain and given command of the
Equinox as a result.
Episode: Equinox, part 1 [VOY]
Species 6339
Humanoid. (Origin: Grid 124, Octant 22 Theta).
Remarks: Warp-capable. They first encountered the Borg about
2371, and in approximately 4 years,
11 billion individuals had been assimilated.
They created a biological agent that could be carried
within their bodies to be used to retaliate against
the Borg. In 2375 the Collective intercepted one
of their shuttlecraft and assimilated the 13 individuals
aboard. Those 13 were sacrificing themselves,
as they carried the agent in their bodies.
When assimilated, the biological agent mutates into a synthetic
pathogen which spreads to, and attacks the programs
within the Vinculum of Borg vessels just as a
virus attacks living cells. The pathogen caused
the drones on a Cube to randomly manifest hundreds of
thousands of personalities, leading to chaos among
the drones and ultimately the destruction of their
Cube. The intention was that after the destruction
of the Cube, the Borg would salvage the Vinculum
and spread the virus to other vessels in the Collective.
Their plan went awry because USS Voyager
was in the vicinity and the infected Vinculum identified
Seven as an errant drone. It tried to reintegrate
her into the Borg Collective. It sent erratic commands
to Seven's cortical implant via an interlink
frequency. This caused her to exhibit the
personality traits of certain individuals in whose assimilation
she was involved during her time as a Borg drone.
Eventually Torres developed successful measures to
counteract the Vinculum's ability to adapt and stave
off attack, by using a remodulated dampening field
designed to constantly compensate for the Vinculum's
own adaptations, and as a result the Vinculum
was shut down. Voyager beamed it into space
so that Species 6339 could recover it.
Example: Ven
Episode: Infinite Regress [VOY]
Species 6961
Ktarians (Alpha quadrant)
Remarks: A drone originating from this species was studied close
up
on a Cube by Magnus Hansen. They have an 8 chambered heart.
Episode: Dark Frontier, part 2 [VOY]
Species 8472
Lifeform (from an extra-dimensional realm of fluidic space -
fluidic space can be accessed by creating a
singularity using deflector technology)
Remarks: Encountered by the Borg in late 2373. They are a Telepathic
species. Their DNA is 100x more
densely coded than human DNA. They cannot
be assimilated because of an extraordinarily powerful
immune system - any chemical, biological, or technological
attempts to penetrate their cell membranes
are instantly destroyed. Their bodies generate
a bioelectric field that can't be scanned through. The
thoracic crest appears to be its most vulnerable
spot. The Borg learned that Species 8472 possessed
organic spacecraft and a biogenically engineered
weapons technology that was superior to anything
known to them. Their assimilation would have
greatly added to the Borg's perfection. So, seeking to
assimilate this civilization and its technology,
the Borg launched an attack on fluidic space, only to be
repulsed by Species 8472. They are the only species
to have ever offered true resistance to the Borg.
8472 launched a retaliatory strike, sending hundreds
of powerful bioships into the Delta Quadrant
with the goal of eliminating all lifeforms from
the galaxy. They destroyed over 4 million drones and
hundreds of worlds and fleets of ships in Borg-occupied
space. 8472's assault was ended when the
U.S.S. Voyager collaborated with the Borg to use
new nanoprobe technology which they had developed,
a weapon against which 8472 had no effective defense.
It was in the midst of the Borg / 8472 battle
that Seven of Nine came aboard Voyager and was later
severed from the Collective.
Episode: Scorpion, part 1 [VOY], In the Flesh [VOY]
Species 10026
Humanoid race (from grid 532)
Remarks: Assimilated in mid 2375. Their vessels lack maneuverability,
but they developed a modulating
phaser pulse that could penetrate Borg shields.
The Borg easily adapted by triaxialating their shield-
matrix. The Borg Queen assimilated all of
them (392,000) to make a point to Seven, and tried to force
Seven of Nine to help, but instead Seven arranged
the escape of 4 individuals.
Episode: Dark Frontier, part 2 [VOY]