The Borg Were Losing. Then Starfleet Saved Them.

For the first time in their history, the Borg were not the most terrifying thing in the galaxy. Two cubes began the speech every species had learned to fear, we are the Borg, resistance is futile. They never finished it. Both were torn apart in seconds by a single enemy vessel from another dimension, a species the Borg could not assimilate, could not match, and could not stop. The Borg called them Species 8472, the apex of biological evolution. Their bioships destroyed Borg cubes in a few shots. Fifteen cubes lost in one battle. Three hundred and twelve Borg vessels gone in another. Hundreds of Borg worlds reduced to ash. The unstoppable assimilators were, for the first time, losing a war. And then a lost Federation starship, stranded on the far side of the galaxy with no orders and no backup, made a choice that would echo across the entire quadrant. Voyager handed the Borg the one weapon that could turn the war around. Starfleet saved the Borg from the only enemy that ever truly scared them. In this investigation we walk through the whole story. The graveyard of cubes that revealed an enemy worse than the Borg. The telepathic warning that the weak will perish. Janeway's impossible plan, and her own first officer telling her she was making a catastrophic mistake. The scorpion and the fox. The weapon that ended the war. And the consequence almost no one remembers, the moment the predator the Borg feared turned its eyes away from the Collective and toward Earth. We do not hand you the answer. We lay out the cases and let you decide. Was saving the Borg the call that stopped a galactic apocalypse, or the worst mistake any captain ever made? Drop your verdict in the comments. Would you have saved the Borg, or let the two monsters destroy each other? If you are new to TrekVault114, hit subscribe and the bell so you never miss an investigation. New videos every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday on the hidden lore, untold history, and unanswered questions of the Star Trek universe. Sources referenced include Star Trek: Voyager and Memory Alpha canonical records. #StarTrek #Species8472 #Borg