The core theory, hatched during Discovery's second season, holds that that Leland -- a Section 31 agent who merged with the synthetic components of Control -- becomes the first “proto-Borg” and uses the Red Angel suit to travel back in time to the Delta Quadrant and lay the foundation for the Borg Collective.
What created the Borg?
In the fifth season, we see the Borg in "Drone", where an advanced Borg drone is created when Seven of Nine's nanoprobes are fused with the Doctor's mobile emitter in a transporter accident.Did the Romulans create the Borg?
It's possible that the big secret of Star Trek: Picard is that the Romulans are actually responsible for the creation of the Borg Collective. We learn in “Maps and Legends” about the Zhat Vash, a secret cabal within the already super secretive Romulan Tal Shiar.Is Leland the first Borg?
But if Discovery is telling a Borg origin story, establishing Leland as the earliest Borg Drone could set the precedent for their human appearance.Did the Borg procreate?
In TNG they show that the Borg have nurseries on their ship that contain half upgraded children. Riker theorizes that the Borg start as normal humanoids, reproduced biologically, and then are upgraded into drones as they grow older.Theory: Section 31 changed History!
Did Wesley Crusher create the Borg?
In Star Trek Next Gen S03E01 Evolution he improves on nanites so that they can work together and improve themselves. To allow further growth they leave the enterprise to a wormhole that sends them through space and time to delta quadrant around 1484.Can Borg assimilate Q?
Could "Q" or a "Founder" be assimilated by the Borg? Q: no. Changelings (founders): not really, since borg nanoprobes and technology probably aren't compatible with non-solid species.Is control the precursor to the Borg?
Control could be a time-traveling proto-BorgIn Discovery Season 2, Control behaved like a primitive version of the Borg, complete with nano-probes capable of taking over human bodies. Perhaps Control went to the distant past of the Romulan people and assimilated them.
What species is the Borg Queen?
The Borg Queen was stated as being Species 125 which is how they've only ever been identified. The EL-Aurian's have been travelling the galaxy centuries before Human's achieved space flight and are perfectly capable of blending in on Earth during the 1800's but have no official Borg Species Identifcation.Are the Borg ever defeated?
The crew of the Enterprise-D eventually managed to sever Locutus from the Borg Collective, save Picard, and ultimately defeat the Borg.Did the Klingons ever fight the Borg?
The Klingons, now armed with transphasic torpedoes, managed to successfully defend the planet Morska from the Borg.Why do Romulans look like Vulcans in Picard?
Romulans look nearly identical to Vulcans, because Romulans used to be Vulcans. That is, until they split from their logical brethren to found their own world roughly around the 4th century CE.Is there a Borg Homeworld?
Officially, the existence of a Borg homeworld is a hypothetical one as it has yet to be revealed in a canon Star Trek source. However, an identity for the Borg homeworld is given by the non-canon novel Lost Souls, which names it Arehaz.Who can beat the Borg?
Star Trek: VoyagerThe Borg quickly realize that Species 8472 is immune to assimilation and that contemporary Borg technology is no match for it. In fact, 8472 is one of the few species so advanced that its ships are able to destroy Borg cubes in seconds.