The New Borg Emerge | Star Trek Online Story Series E182

[@RanSolari]

Love this update’s changes to the prime Borg as well as its introduction of the mirror Borg. Regular Borg Cubes are no longer common enemies, but tougher bosses, and in their place you fight the smaller Borg Assimilators from Star Trek Armada.

[@LMG1792]

I was so happy to see the assimilators from armada I was like a kid on Christmas

[@KalEl7802]

The Borg we are fighting in STO is not the mirror universe but from another universe all together.

[@Buddy74656]

Doctor McDonald is doing a great job as a voice actor. Hopefully we get to see her in Prodigy season 2.

[@QuestionDeca]

One of the doors Harry overrode literally had "Harry, use the Force" or similar as text on it.... Someone in Engineering was having fun with the Captain.

[@JasonCliftJones]

Visible at 15:57 :)

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

all of them have. LOL

[@MrEricmopar]

"Submit to our authority" Sounds like Eric Cartman was assimilated into the collective. LOL

[@dragonsword7370]

"We are the Bo-arg. Submit to our... Authoritay."

[@horusrage]

Yeah. Unfortunately they don't say Respect my authoritah.

[@Yasuda9000]

Maybe that explains the color red for these borgs since Cartman usually wears red.

[@jeannehall6546]

😂

[@ShadeNightwolf]

CPT Kim: "Why didn't they take me?" Savage Janeway: "Damnit Kim, you're not as important as you think you are!"

[@stab74]

They looked at his service record and were like, why was this dude an ensign for so damn long, must've been a shitbag. Next!😁

[@LARGO125]

I'm still wondering how ensign Harry Kim could be an acting captain? We know he didn't get promoted!😅

[@lordadorable1140]

SPOILERS: The reason might surprise you.

[@Reddotzebra]

So this iteration of the Borg have learned to forgo their earlier generalist approach of "every tool can do every job" and adapted specialized drones for mixed unit tactics. That is actually horrifying.

[@SuperGamefreak18]

Well this is the borg who has to deal with an imperial earth so acourse they would be more war like

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@SuperGamefreak18 And they had a long running war with their Janeway...

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

@@SuperGamefreak18 Actually I don't think so. Mirror Janeway was functionally a BORG queen and had a mini collective she could create but they for the most part acted as the BORG we know even similar color. Think what happened was the BORG Kingdom invaded the Mirror universe at some point and absorbed the Mirror BORG. Likely was vulnerable to the Kingdoms influence.

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

These mirror Borg (and the prime borg due to the update) have indeed become a much more formidable threat. Though all the kamikazes are indeed quite the mild infuriation gameplaywise. And yeah, why does captain Kim have some many individual codes for Jefferies tube doors? *Press read more for hidden easter egg below:* ... 18:00 ; There is a parallel corridor where if you reroute the plasma coordinate, you can find an ultra rare anti-borg phaser.

[@barrybend7189]

And the gun is farmable.

[@QuestionOfTrek]

Those Vinculum Borg drones were a pain. 😂😂

[@alexhurlbut]

the kamikaze drones were also a pain as well if you weren't paying attention.

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@alexhurlbut I found the need to swap to a ranged weapon to shoot the ceiling ones was the biggest pain to deal with because, otherwise, you're needing to play the game of modulation all the time rather than just stabbing things to death.

[@QuestionOfTrek]

@@alexhurlbut 😂😂😂 yeah I got assimilated and ended up killing my own away team

[@jerrytroy2677]

U mammy

[@Zeakthecat]

not for me. i just killed them first, took out their vinculums and started blasting some more borg fools. the exploding borg tho, real pain.

[@mc-zy7ju]

Poor Kim, even the borg dont want him.

[@richmcgee434]

They're afraid to provoke Janeway. :)

[@literallyzeropercent]

As a player with a 2409 Federation Captain, this episode gave me major flashbacks to the cadet cruise, especially during the ground combat on the Inouye. Fighting the Borg has become somewhat of a personal demon. (Although their use as the antagonists is getting a little bit old) Great video Rick, can't wait for the next one. 👍

[@barrybend7189]

I do consider the mirror Borg a different beast but yeah I would like to have a downtime arc especially after the Terran Gambit.

[@Werezilla]

The part where a Caitian ensign gets abducted by a Borg is like a direct parallel to what COULD have happened to 2409 players. Which was the exact species I picked when made a 2409 character making it especially ominous.

[@stab74]

Lol that "help me please"! Sounded like "Oh Lordy help me Jesus!" 😂

[@navblue20]

You are about to get assimilated by your worst possible nightmare because that thing will take your very being. I don't know too many who wouldn't be terrified by that.

[@AstoundingCameron]

Wooooo, the story series returns!

[@Hellboy2922]

the "oh..." In the beginning killed me 😂😂

[@kingsilvergrass8751]

dun dun dun, Cliffhanger, also glad see more of your awesome Star Trek Stories. Always a treat to see this from STO.

[@farnsworth3000]

Simpsons used to joke "Again with the Klingons!" Now we can joke "Again with the Borg!"

[@themark443]

"Cap'n, I can't reach the control panel!"

[@jannegrey]

I've been waiting for this video for.... long time. Re-watching the series again and again (Iconians just melted Preservers). Thank you for continuing with it. I hope there will be more and more content available to you, so that you can make those videos!

[@CoronisAdair]

Oh noes! Hale missed out on getting a new shotgun!

[@Penfolduk001]

Interesting that the drone paused when confronted with Harry Kim. Joking aside, it was like the drone recognised him and was confused. I'm wondering whether in the Mirror Universe the Borg have a King rather than a Queen. And the King is... Harry Kim! Or in the mirror universe Kim is the equivalent of Locutus.

[@grey790]

Until later on the missions you face the king and some how you would guess correctly of the mirror universe Harry Kim as of you play the current missions that just dropped during this new update you get a surprise

[@DanielSolis]

18:36 Classic Harry dance moves.

[@Shatterverse]

Nice to see some Borg that actually assimilated some combat tactics and doctrines for a change. And learned how armor works. It does make them look a little like Fallout 4's Synths though lol. They also have a broader understanding of "specialty roles" than prime timeline Borg do; they seem to prefer to be able to retrofit any drone to any role, and while they do have specialist loadouts, most of them are generalists. These mirror Borg, at least in combat, seem to have assigned roles. They even figured out how to include a field medic, sorta. Nobody's figured out power armor yet though.

[@nataschajordan6053]

Respect my Autoritaaaah! - Borg must have assimilated Eric Cartman ^^

[@davesobani9565]

Man could have fooled me , could have been the Daleks with that voice actor.

[@danielseelye6005]

Good to know I wasn't the only one that half expected to hear them scream, _"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"_

[@davesobani9565]

@@danielseelye6005 could be even worse it could have been the german talking daleks from that who/torchwood crossover

[@RandomTrinidadian]

Someone call River Song, ASAP!!

[@00nick7]

Captain Kim. I thought this day would never come.

[@navblue20]

It's been around for a while.

[@00nick7]

@@navblue20 2001 to '23. Nice length. Unless he was already captain on STO before.

[@danieltilson4053]

I had the same reaction as you when Kim used a different code for every door. lol

[@fishbaitx]

"resistance will be annihilated" oh... shit O_O; also YES! STOSS IS BACK!

[@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon]

You got that right. 😬

[@KEVMAN7987]

They're doing quite the job of telegraphing that Mirror Harry Kim is the Mirror Borg King.

[@mikesurlygentlemanwalton]

In the area where you fight the viniculum drone in the Jeffreies tube: you can pick up a anti Borg Shotgun. all you have to do is go to the opposite side of where you fight the drone and look for the plasma leak then find the shut-off for said leak ( on the same side) and then search the body at the end of the corridor.

[@alexhurlbut]

all I got was a phaser pulsewave

[@barrybend7189]

@@alexhurlbut that's what the anti Borg phaser shotgun is. But I used the Transporter rifle in my first run.

[@alexhurlbut]

@@barrybend7189 dude when you said shotgun, you're implying something similar to the Zefram Cochrane Shotgun. Which was a nice anti borg gun (before this update went live).

[@barrybend7189]

@@alexhurlbut it's a plasma spread hence phaser "shotgun". That's the pulswave category. It's name is the anti Borg phaser shotgun.

[@mikesurlygentlemanwalton]

@alexhurlbut if you follow the instructions I posted or any of the videos you can find the anti borg shotgun

[@specialservicesequipment393]

Why is capt. Kim waving his arms about over his head? Is he flagging in air support?

[@aliendeer1294]

Because he....*just doesn't care!*

[@davidlovsin]

So the daleks and the borg had a baby :D

[@Deamon93IT]

The Borg got Hale's GF? Now it's on

[@SilverAranda]

Dam this BORG are savages! Coming out of the Mirror universe surely edge you out no matter who you are. I have a theory on why they didn't take Kim but say it might be spoilers.

[@vickytam5096]

Tell me please

[@travelswithsi8932]

Well that was good story telling. Hang on I'll go around the corner to this panel, you guys just stay, looking at the situation table....don't worry about me.

[@zeroscale7766]

These borg remind me of the 29th century borg from Voyager, they are very sleek. Maybe its related to the mirror variant?

[@Reshtarc]

Cpt. Kim's set his code to him saying "override code Kim" the rest is just crap he says to make himself look that way to the crew. lol

[@stevenboggess9805]

One borg cube fending off an entire fleet Starfleet needs to upgraded it's weapons.

[@navblue20]

Did you get the part where they are NOT from this universe. Just asking.

[@richmcgee434]

Again. Bloody nuisance.

[@dabradmp1]

Oh wow never heard of this game it looks really awesome!!! it looks really fun!! You can even go on ships!! I need to play this.. I need to search more about it!!

[@ppenmudera4687]

Which reminds me, are you going to continue the The Expanse game? It's been a month since the first episode and I can't wait for more!

[@danwood7770]

Love this series made me get back into STO

[@peterq1978]

Admiral Quinn here.

[@kurumachikuroe442]

Having the Omega rep set saved my ass on this mission multiple times rofl

[@nsr-ints]

Yea lol. I have MACO set on me, and a temporal strike team set on one of my BOFFs. Me using the pulsewave phaser really saves my sorry self, and by BOFFs chiming in with the overloaded shot with the temporal dual pistol makes for an effective crowd control device.

[@Ragnarock227]

kinda glad the borg are a threat again ^^

[@kineuhansen8629]

the borg again sure alternative borg but still have we not had enough of them

[@richmcgee434]

Yes, yes we have. Far too much of them, even.

[@patrikhjorth3291]

It's a combination of the two most common enemies: Borg and Mirror Universe. I wonder what they'll think of next.

[@schott106]

Are transphasic torpedoes not used?

[@richmcgee434]

11:05 What's an Adeptus Mechanicus servitor doing in Trek? :)

[@HairTorque]

The storied series! Weee. I've been looking forward to this. Let's go, ahurm.. I ment, Engage

[@nonamegiven202]

.....So what's the over/under on Kim being the Borg King?

[@HitodamaKyrie]

I'm so glad the intros are back :D

[@Falchion1984]

I totally thought Erin's "hidden talent" meant she was actually a Terran. In Dark Mirror, they did something similar with a Terran hacking specialist who was impersonating his counterpart...who was a biologist, which was the giveaway. Still, these Mirror Borg ARE interesting, so I look forward to the next video.

[@danieltilson4053]

I thought she was assimilated, and using "helping" as a distraction. The first changes could be entirely mental.

[@Falchion1984]

@@danieltilson4053 I'm not discounting the possibility that the Terrans and the Mirror Universe Borg are in cahoots, actually. Still, you could be on to something.

[@danieltilson4053]

@@Falchion1984 I would like to give her the benefit of the doubt, but when even her captain was surprised and questioning it... that seems like a bit of a red flag.

[@Falchion1984]

It’ll be interesting to see if either of us are right.

[@badwolf66]

It doesn't matter how powerful these NuBorg are, Plot armour will destroy them eventually.

[@wesleyguthrie9612]

I don't care that Star Trek Online is either canon or non-canon, the mirrored universe Borg just make it's first appearance in the prime universe of Star Trek.

[@MrChupacabra555]

Wow, I'm way behind both in playing STO, and in listening to these: The Thoilians are Friendly now (or just this singular Tholian)?

[@kdvideoproductions2904]

An alert from Captain Harry Hodini of the USS Star: It seems like these Mirror Borg (I shall dub them as Mirog) has been able to adapt to weapons such as the Thompson Submachine Gun. Melee Weapons seem to have very minimum effect on them. Our ships have done damage, but not fast enough to keep them from healing. The brightest minds are now working on a way to beat them with the help of our Allies. Captain Harry Hodini USS Star NCC 1996-C

[@Nachtfalke-NSKR]

A Dreadnought class starship based from the Kelvin timeline U.S.S. Vengeance came into view. On the saucer it read *U.S.S. Nebula* *NCC-4937* A Vulcan with Fleet Admiral ranks and in a Science Officer uniform answered. T'Mino: "From what I've seen these Borg are using Combat Tactics. Isolate then board and assimilate. Captain Houdini of the U.S.S. Star, Why your tactics are indeed archaic and fascinating. I do believe our regular measures will suffice given our determination and frequent remodelacion of our weapons. My ship seems to be perfectly capable of holding them off so far. Use this to your advantage Captains. I draw their fire while you do as much damage as you can. Admiral T'Mino Out." *The U.S.S. Nebula then flew into the fray, Her torpedoes and phasers firing like clockwork.* //I really love the U.S.S. Vengeance as a ship.

[@Darthjoemo]

I want. Game where you play as Borg, assimilate folks, strategise on where to attack etc with the goal of assimilating everyone and reaching perfection.

[@thedarkdragon1437]

so, basically a pandemic game

[@dmtribaltyphoon5001]

Dang it Mark Hale ya had 1 JOB! Not to let the borg get its hands on protomatter technology.😅

[@jm823]

Wtf no one did a security check to ensure the admiral's safety, incompetence I tell you, utter incompetence!! LLNP 🖖

[@bluemoon1197]

I wish there was mobile version of Star Trek Online. I recently started to play Star Trek Timelines again for awhile, glad that they added new ships

[@enisra_bowman]

My Headcannon is that the Starbase 1 Planet is the Planet Nine we are searching and that disturbs the Oortcloud And while many don't like that the advesary are the Borg again, i ... not really mind it for the reason that these Borgs are a threat again like in TNG Also it's an established thing that Star Trek has multiple paralell Universes, why shouldn't there also more than one "Mirror" (comes more in play in the second Part of the Mission) Universe in the Sense that it could also have different Timelines Like Prime and Abrahmsverse or the weird Shattnerverse (hmmm, what if the Shattnerverse plays in the Nexus, imagined by the Shadow of Kirk)

[@fishbaitx]

"kim-3-1-4-alpha" xD PI!

[@Noms_Chompsky]

16:53 314 alpha is pi, 628 omega is pi * 2, 2718 epislon is the number e or Euler's number (the mathematical constant, it's the base for natural logarithms,) and 1839 delta is that number that's always on the factorization test; it's divisors being 1, 3, 613 and 1839 (3 * 613 = 1839.)

[@colepreston4872]

Kim‘s “huh?” Damn LMAO

[@zephyr8072]

STO in a nutshell- "Honey it's time for another Borg invasion." "Yes, dear."

[@richmcgee434]

Sigh.

[@barrybend7189]

Wish we had an individual C store Rhode Island class. My Equinox class is missing the ship. Also shame on Prodigy show writers for changing Harry Kim's captaincy from Rhode Island to the new ship. He deserves his ship like Riker to the Titan.

[@drmayeda1930]

Hey, the Inouye has a good legacy. I'll bet it was named after Daniel K Inouye. He was a Lt in WWII from Hawaii part of the 442nd BHe went on tio Serve six terms in the US Senate.

[@barrybend7189]

@@drmayeda1930 i know but considering how much the tiny ship was collectively given to him and is his for a long time in STO. Geordie got the Challenger as well. It just feels wrong to remove him from a ship he did earn( even if he was ensign during his career in the Delta Quadrant).

[@drmayeda1930]

@@barrybend7189 Geordie or Harry Kim. Ensign Kim is the one that spent 7 years as an ensign on voyager. Hhe should have promoted at least to full Lieutenant, maybe Lieutenant commander.

[@barrybend7189]

@@drmayeda1930 Harry Kim spent his Delta Quadrant career.

[@zooropa04]

It was her first tour? At least she wasn't two weeks from retirement.

[@shiva_chirr]

you know when i played this it made me wonder where is mirror janeway. didnt she become the queen of mirror borg kinda hinted that in the previous mission that included her.

[@bjornjoseph]

last time i played this game seriously it was during the dyson sphere... logged in the other day to try it out and saw space jebus michael burnham.. my HP was like 43 and kept getting 1 shot... couldn't figure out what to do to fix it...

[@philly83]

Yeah, I'd try not shooting the warp core

[@nyxorelius]

good choice of location to end the video

[@spartan078ben]

How do you remember so many codes? I know right? It just seems impractical to have a special code for EVERY DOOR ON THE SHIP.

[@AlyssaNguyen]

Maybe it's an OTP app, like Google/Microsoft Authenticator, on his tricorder? That's the only thing that would make sense to me.

[@TheFreelancer131]

I have only 3 question after having played this mission 1st why DOES Kim have so many codes 2 are we gonna see our borg come into all this and what of the coprative? And 3 is mirror Kim the birg Kong I'm the mirror universe lol

[@Mythteller]

Does Certifiably Ingame allow youtube subscribers to participles in STO game stories if they have STO account?

[@johnmichaeldorienjohn467]

All i can say is Dammn!😮

[@ThisIsMeAndNotYou]

1 & 1! This is the life or whatever

[@VulpisFoxfire]

And is it me, but don't you look rather smug at 11:11 when you save Harry? :-)

[@XX-sp3tt]

Every time someone thinks the Borg have been reduced to a minor nuisance... their civilization vanishes, and the Borg endure.

[@nobodyyouknow1065]

The New Borg should assimilate some better speaker tech.

[@Reddotzebra]

Especially since as we know from Voyager, they actually do install tech that more or less would let them have built-in autotune.

[@danielseelye6005]

Sounds like they flew by Skaro on their way to Starbase One.

[@barrybend7189]

You'll find out later about why it sounds like the way it is.

[@storozhevoy75]

Why did that drone just stare at Kim? Those two could've assimilated him, instead one decided to go after someone else while the other looked like it didn't know what to do beyond rendering him as a non-threat.

[@stab74]

Maybe because he was once infected by species 8472 and they sensed it somehow? 🤷‍♂

[@thefamilydad8635]

I’m betting it has something to do with Mirror Harry.

[@LackofFaithify]

My Authorita....Is Eric Cartman the new borg....king?

[@knightofavalon86]

As usual the space stuff was great and the ground stuff is a miserable boring slog. I wish Cryptic would stop doing so much ground crap in new story missions.

[@the_Kutonarch]

Are there going to be more Expanse episodes?

[@savirianwinter1656]

Is this a new enemy? I beat STO and have waited for new enemies.

[@georgefrankly]

man even the Borg don't want to promote Harry Kim????

[@golgarisoul]

omg! a Prodigy ref? in STO! are there any more?

[@tupe444]

Something tells me Macdonald isn't quite as alright as she says she is

[@AC20sAkimbo]

lts kind of funny that the borg have red and white medics. I guess the glowing thing on it's back wasn't enough to differentiate for play testers or something

[@sparky_murph]

I’m sure, writers of the shows can make a bigger villain than the borg.

[@SchardtCinematic]

Yes the Borg are officially over used and no longet feel like a threat. Even in Picard Season 3 you knew they were going to win. We need something that makes the Borg look like the federations best friend.

[@sparky_murph]

I enjoy watching all the shows of Star Trek, most of the villains have been great. I agree the Borg, are a big over done. Still great to watch, but, why not have the Borg assimilate a species that in turn takes over the Borg from within. Whatever they are, take over the Borg, and kick the Federation’s a** and all of the Alpha quadrant for a while. Then have the Borg beg the federation for help, to get rid of the species that they assimilated that took them over from within.

[@wesscoggins6963]

I mean that sounds like what they did with Species 8472, they had to ask Voyager for help. But they did kind of already bring them in as a villain on STO where everyone had to fight them. Then of course the Iconians as a big bad as well.

[@sparky_murph]

8472 was not really one they left the Delta quadrant, you are correct though they did kick the Borgs a**, but 8472 didn’t need to use the Borg as its army and take them over from within. 8472, could and can eliminate the Borg, not use them.

[@SchardtCinematic]

@matthewmurphy6138 I often wonder why they never showed the Bynar's actively helping the Federation defeat the Borg. If any species understood being part machine part organic they would have.

[@stevenboggess9805]

Borg sound a hell of a lot more aggressive. They don't want to assimilate you they just wanted to annihilate you borg from that universe must be pissed off. Did they assimilate too many kazon and voth

[@thedarkdragon1437]

they got occupied by terrans

[@nsr-ints]

Huh... Unusual. This Borg never was ruined by Janeway's virus, perhaps?

[@hudsonball4702]

I have to ask, and forgive me if i am mistaken, but is your channel logo a play on the Judgment Logo from A Certain Scientific Railgun anime?

[@saliston]

The borg sound so angry

[@YDKJ07]

Different type borg assmilation and annhilation like borg in star trek picard season 3.

[@RionE23]

Is it just me or did Harry Kim get promoted to captain too soon? I mean.. most of his crew are dead..

[@navblue20]

It's just you. He's been a Captain quite a while in this series.

[@richmcgee434]

Having any survivors is still better than most Oberth-class captains manage.

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

How many did Picard lose to the Borg?

[@MrMikellsof88]

Yeah I think Kim is overcompensating for all those years as an Ensign. He's decided every door on his ship has it's own Captain's Override Code so that the higher ups can see how painful he's made hostile boarding actions and think that's a good thing. Note: I think the Adaptation thing has been patched out. There's no remodulator in the replicator anymore and I've been fighting Borg at max level on two characters without them adapting.

[@xero0083]

Interesting storyline. I have one question: we are Starfleets temporal time authoritie we're is Daniel's 🤔

[@catgath9718]

He thanked you for doing something?!

[@otakuwolf4ever985]

I can't complete the mission. Every time I get to a certain point inside the cube, it cuts off and says "error."

[@geeklukeg]

The first code being 314 alpha. Its pi. 😊

[@richmcgee434]

Who doesn't like pie? :)

[@christopherwilson7092]

The character is a fleet admiral, and you report to a non Fed admiral

[@Lukos0036]

What damage type are the new borg using? It's not plasma. If it is it has a terrible chance to burn, I have yet to have any plasma fires applied to my ship fighting them.

[@spartan078ben]

From the weapons fire on their ships id say anti proton. I think individual drones still use plasma though.

[@dailyrider2975]

I'm an idiot. Never really think about Dr.Who and startrek at the same time. But Darleks and Borg are extremely similar.

[@LoneTiger]

I thought Mirror Universe Borg would be more like vegetarian hippies, since good are evil and evil are... weird?