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| • | in the Brig]] and Data show a virus they've created to infect the Borg]]"I, Borg" was an episode of the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation.
This episode explores the concept of a Borg with aspects of individuality. (See Borg on why this is an apparent oxymoron.)
The crew of the Enterprise find a wrecked Borg transport. Dr. Crusher insists on treating the one surviving Borg, and Picard reluctantly agrees to transport him aboard the Enterprise.
The Borg (played by Jonathan del Arco), calling himself only "Third of Five", was dubbed "Hugh" by Geordi La Forge. In the course of working with Hugh, the crew reconsiders their attitudes toward their enemy and explores the nature of individuality.
Considering the fact that the Federation is still officially at war with the Borg, the crew are initially wary of the Borg refugee. In fact, the idea of using Hugh as a weapon of mass destruction is one of the central themes of the episode; at first, Picard and the crew consider sending back Hugh to destroy and/or cripple the Borg. This idea is refined throughout the show, eventually culminating in the (potential) creative use of a paradoxical mathematical construct.
Though Hugh, at first, consistently refers to himself as "we" to refer to the entire Borg collective, his interactions with the crew cause him to eventually refer to himself as "I" and develop humanlike characteristics. LaForge, and eventually, Guinan, argue that is isn't morally right to use Hugh in that way. In the end, Picard decides to send Hugh, individualism intact, back to the Borg. He hopes that the feeling of individuality will spread throughout the Collective, perhaps thereby incapacitating the Federation's greatest enemy.
Source: [wikipedia: i, borg (tng episode)]
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