Resistance is Futile: Cyborgs, Humanism and the Borg

Of all the villains populating the Star Trek universe, none is perhaps more terrifying and threatening than the Borg. First introduced in “Q Who,” the sixteenth episode of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, this collective of cybernetic organisms quickly became “the signature villains for The Next Generation and Voyager eras of Star Trek” (Wikipedia). Unlike any previous or subsequent antagonist—the cold war era Klingons and Romulans of the original series; the various evil geniuses like Khan Noonien Singh, Lore, Tolian Soran, Nero, and Shinzon; or the different alien empires threatening the integrity of Federation space such as the Cardassians, the Dominion, or Xindi—nothing comes close to the threat represented by the Borg.