How long do borg live

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I"m assuming that the Borg Drone that got taken apart was malfunctioning and couldn't be fixed. Without malfuctioning and staying active and not get destroyed, my guess is that a drone would last up to 50 years and no more. Wouldn't it somewhat depend on the species the drone was, due to the fact that even though that they can make all sorts of enhancements, the deciding factors will always be the organic units of the drone.

One can also say that the Borg are not concerned about the issue, as they could transfer drones that may have aged closer to the battle scene.

With all the nanotechnology and regeneration chambers, I'd assume the organic components would not age naturally. To me though, having BabyBorg would imply something close to normal aging of whatever species the drone is, but perhaps without some of the physical or mental degradations and if they do happen, the function is taken over with implants.

If that's a Voyager episode, chances are my brain's forced me to forget it. I forgot about the baby Borg. We've never seen a really old borg have we? I wonder what they do with the elderly when they assimilate a planet. Wouldn't want to see her do splits Perhaps Captain Picard. Although, he was only partially assimilated and was only part Borg for like 2 weeks.

Probably doesn't count anyways. What about Marcus Henson Annika's Dad? If a Drone is exposed to a disease that cannot be controlled or eliminated by the nanoprobes, they are likely isolated, until such time as their attempts to overcome the pathogen are successful. If they are unable to be successful, the Drone is likely destroyed completely to prevent further infection.

The pathogen will be cataloged and recorded as a potential threat. Using humans as a reference, we have two primary forces acting on us as we age, poor cellular reproduction and shortening telomeres. Cellular reproduction is the process we use to produce new cells to replace aging ones.

Eventually that reproduction becomes less efficient as we are exposed to natural mutagens and background radiations. Sometimes cancer is a result of a failed mutation or cellular replication. The second force is the shortening of telomeres. As cells reproduce, a genetic marker falls away and its theorized that as long as cells reproduce, this shortening eventually ends cellular development and the death of the organism is the result.

It can be assumed the nanoprobes are effective in keeping cells reproducing effectively so it is unlikely Borg suffer from runaway cellular developments like cancer. We have not been given sufficient information to determine if the Borg nanoprobes keep telomeres from becoming shorter over the lifespan of creatures such as humans.

If they did, a Borg human could theoretically be immortal since the two primary forces affecting the physical well being of the human body have been arrested. Alien species might have different aging factors but if the Borg technology can affect that genetic hardware, such durability would be a side effect of the Borg nanotechnology.

If the creature's telomere or long-term genetic viability cannot be arrested by the Borg nanoprobes, the creature should be able to survive to the oldest effective age of its species, likely maintaining physical vigor until nearly the very end of their existence.

None of this conversation discusses issues such as neural development or what the rigors of an extended lifespan my have on the psychological state of a creature under the influence of the Borg nanoprobes.

Voyager , in order for her to gain experience as an individual. Almost two years later, in , the Queen attempted to lure Seven back into the Collective — again, by having her give herself voluntarily to the goal of Borg "perfection", while remaining an individual within the Hive. After refamiliarizing Seven with assimilation procedures during an attack upon Species , the Queen ordered her to program nanoprobe viruses that would be used surreptitiously upon Species — the human race.

In spite of the Queen's seductive appeals to the former drone, Seven of Nine refused to assist in the destruction of yet another race, especially the one she had come from and was now living among.

The Queen even brought in the Magnus Hansen drone to convince Seven that her "family" was the Collective. These temptations ultimately failed, and Seven was rescued by Captain Janeway and the U.

Voyager , to the Queen's chagrin. In , the Queen was engaged in an obsessive quest to uncover the interlink frequency that bound certain drones in a dreamstate realm called Unimatrix Zero while regenerating. She wished to terminate this realm, because in it drones were able to regain their identities as individuals, and even though they would awaken from it without any memory of the experience, the Queen considered it a threat to her control over the Hive.

Thanks to intervention by Voyager , the Queen actually got her wish, but not quite how she wanted: Unimatrix Zero was shut down, but the drones who occupied it regained their individuality in the physical world and began a resistance movement to undermine the Collective. In the Queen once again had a fateful encounter with Voyager when a future version of Kathryn Janeway came back in time from the year with technology that could help the lost starship resist the Borg while using a Transwarp Hub as a shortcut home.

The Queen was actually approached by Admiral Janeway with an "offer" — to help the Queen prevent Voyager from destroying the Transwarp Hub in exchange for the ship's safe passage to the Alpha Quadrant. But the Queen wanted more — she wanted to assimilate the technology from the future.

The Queen thought she had the upper hand when she attempted to assimilate the admiral, but it turns out the older Janeway was carrying a neurolytic pathogen that proceeded to infect the Collective.

That pathogen brought chaos to the Collective, leading to the decapacitation of the Queen and the destruction of Unimatrix One. The extent of the damage to the Borg as a whole, and its status as a continued threat to the galaxy, remains unknown at this time.