That's what the onscreen lore says, the following is merely speculation working off that. Also, they were apparently 'very different'. You are not at all like the Borg I knew.īased on this, the Borg have simultaneously been around for 'thousands of centuries' (so 100,000 years as a minimum if Guinan was accurate) but also only took off as a galactic power in recent centuries with fragmentary records as recently as 900 years before the 24th century. SEVEN: She must have been an efficient individual.

She had a knack for cutting to the truth. GEDRIN: Practical and to the point, just like my wife. It looks like they've spread through the quadrant like a plague. GEDRIN: The Borg? In my century they'd only assimilated a handful of systems. GEDRIN: I've had many encounters with your kind.

SEVEN: The Collective's memory from nine hundred years ago is fragmentary. GEDRIN: Don't you recognise my people? The Vaadwaur? GUINAN: They're made up of organic and artificial life which has been developing for thousands of centuries. The only definitive evidence I know of comes from the following:

Borg homeworld