Save this article to read it later.

Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.

Last weekonStar Trek: Discovery, a line was spoken rather conspicuously.

Article image

Killing Section 31 heads and using hologram trickery via communicator is no longer sufficient to fool the U.S.S.

In all but name,Discoveryviewers are very likely being treated to the origin story of the Borg.

like locusts, pillaging raw materials of any civilization deemed worthy of assimilation, from metals to sentient bodies.

Although in several instances its hinted that the Borg evolved on a remote planet, this is never confirmed.

And where better to start than in the similarly mysterious black-ops wing of Starfleet Intelligence?

With such a decision,Discoverywould bepulling aPlanet of the Apes, three decades in the making.

Enterprise moment in the final seconds of the season-one finale).