Star Traks: BorgSpace
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Series Synopsis
All Borg are created (or rather, assimilated) equal - that's the story the Collective wants you to believe. The truth is more complicated - sometimes when assimilated, a drone retains a part of its original personality. Otherwise, the drone is fine and functional - discarding it would be a waste. But "Borg with Personality" isn't exactly Perfection either. So, the Collective put all those square pegs into one cube, keeping it at arm's length, and sends it on low-priority tasks. Imagine you're in a madhouse where you don't only hear voices, those voices are also not necessarily your own. Welcome to Exploratory Cube #347.
Series Status
Under Construction
Main Stories and Season Synopsis
Season 1
Season 1 - Synopsis here
Season 2
Season 2 - Synopsis here
Season 3
Season 3 - Synopsis here
Season 4
Season 4 - Synopsis here
Season 5
Season 5 - Synopsis here
Season 6
Season 6 - Synopsis here
Season 7
Season 7 - Synopsis here
Season 8
Season 8 - Synopsis here
Season 9
Season 9 - Synopsis here
Books and Other Projects
A Fish Story (Book) - Synopsis here
Dark Rising (Book) - Synopsis here
Assimilations (Mini-series) - Synopsis here
To Be Named (Mini-series) - Synopsis here and this is the Lugger-class #238 run
The Reject's Table (collaboration) - Synopsis here
Major Characters
- Captain (4 of 8)
- Second (3 of 8)
- Delta (12 of 19)
- Weapons (45 of 300)
- Doctor (27 of 27)
- Sensors (1 of 3)
- Assimilation (13 of 20)
Minor Characters
Blah blah blah here about minor characters intro (minor, reoccurring, and notorious)
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For the remainder of the many Cube #347 drones, please visit the BorgSpace Drone Database.
Author's Series Notes
Some sort of introduction here about each season and story has its own notes as well, but this is for the entire BorgSpace concept
What I liked about the idea of Cube #347 (and still do at the time of this wiki entry) is that they are essentially villains. The sub-collective of Cube #347 are not nice people. Writing villains is difficult, not least of all because you can't let them win. Not in the end, anyway, because if the Cube #347 crew always won (as opposed to muddling their way through what the universe throws at them), then everyone would be assimilated and the series would have been very short.
Another thing I immediately found hard when I began writing BorgSpace, and still do many years and many stories later, was the problem of not making my erstwhile villains too powerful. In Star Trek cannon, the Borg area about the biggest, baddest thing around (give or take the occasional extra-dimensional three-legged alien or Jean-Luc Picard's intuition). Knowing when and when not to use the powerful nature of the Borg has been another challenge. However, sometimes one just has to break out the disruptors and unleash one's internal Weapons.
I one major problem with writing BorgSpace has been the lack of ability to focus on interpersonal relationships. That is just an arena that does not exist within the Collective. Oh, there are 'quasi-relationships' in the form of the antagonism between Weapons and Delta, or the sarcastic foil of Second, but nothing 'deep', per se. I've tried to compensate over the years by purposefully including at least one story per season that focuses on a single character to try to expand and grow their inner-self, but the fundamental reality is that true emotions like 'love' or 'hate' have to be consciously censored when I write stories that focus on the sub-collective.