Borg Cube
What is Borg Cube?
History of Borg Cube
The Borg cube was a type of starship used by the Borg Collective in the 24th century. Along with the Borg sphere, cubes were among the primary types of vessel for its fleet. Described as mighty and omnipotent, Borg cubes were considered one of the most destructive weapons ever known. The USS Enterprise-D came into contact with a single cube in System J-25 in 2365, marking the first official Federation contact with a Borg cube. However, civilian researchers on board the USS Raven had previously tracked a Borg cube in 2347, twelve years earlier. Every Starfleet encounter with a single cube resulted in heavy casualties. At the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2367, an armada of forty Starfleet ships were assembled to stop a cube; thirty-nine of those ships were lost in a matter of minutes. Dozens more were destroyed stopping another cube in the incursion of 2373. Normally a single Borg cube was capable of assimilating all elements of civilization from an entire planet. Millions of cubes were estimated to exist in Borg space in the Delta Quadrant; the largest single grouping of cubes directly observed by Starfleet was fifteen, by the crew of the USS Voyager in late 2373. When describing the assimilation of his world, Arturis said that hundreds of cubes surrounded his homeworld before its destruction. Seven of Nine stated to Captain Janeway that the nebula concealing the transwarp hub contained at least 47 Borg vessels.
