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Star Trekhas confirmed the Borg are immune to a major Modern galactic scourge . The parasitical aliens from the first seasonStar Trek : The Next Generationepisode “ Conspiracy ” have render , primed for a putsch of the Federation . Yet , inStar Trek : Defiant#13,the parasites endeavor to bond themselves with Worf and his crew – and fans are appalled to learn the Borg are seemingly immune .

Star Trek : Defiant#13 is written by Christopher Cantwell and pull back by Angel Unzueta . Worf and theDefiant’screwhave docked at Starbase 99 , which has been infested with parasitic aliens . The parasites then assail , and as Worf and company try out to stand them off , one of the aliens set about to take over Hugh , the ex - Borg drone that recently link up the crowd . However , they are unable to do so , call the Borg “ corrupt tissue ” that is of no usage to the sponger .

A closeup of Nero, with his ship Narada in the background, in Star Trek.

Hugh wisecrack a joke , state the rejection makes him “ sad . ”

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The abbreviated exchange between the stranger and Hugh is a meeting of two of the biggest threats to theStar Trekuniverse . The leechlike aliens from “ Conspiracy ” have at last retort , following up on the promise of their sole on - screen appearance . The installment end with the unknown sending some sort of signaling into deep space , with the implication it was a beacon fire , indicate for an encroachment . It took theparasites some time to make their means back to our galaxy , but now they have give and are deadly than ever .

However , their destination of conquest have already hit a major stumbling pulley block : the Borg . The sponge made a comment about Hugh ’s tissue paper being dead and thus useless , a percipient reference to the nano - probe the Borg use to assimilate others . As the absorption process claim hold , living tissue paper is significantly alter , and apparently so much so that it renders the consistency useless to the parasites . What is ironic about this is thatStar Trek : Defiant#13 suck up a bit of parallels in the societal structures of both the Borg and the parasitic extraterrestrial .

The Narada , Nero ’s ship in the 2009 Star Trek film , had a much deeper chronicle than fans initially opine - include a tie to the Borg !

Picard and Riker in season 1

Who Would Win: the Parasites? Or the Borg?

It Would Be an EpicStar TrekShowdown

Yet despite these law of similarity , the leech unknown and the Borg are fundamentally antagonistic . Both species are driven by the need to bestow all life descriptor under their ascendancy , but take dissimilar route for doing so . By assimilating , or taking over , other lifeforms , the two species expand their noesis base . If a parasite can not take over a Borg , they can not defeat them . allurement for future issues ofStar Trek : Defianthave revealed Borg nano - probe may be the only result to the crisis . TheBorg ’s unsusceptibility to the parasites may be the extragalactic nebula ’s save grace .

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Three panels of a parasite trying to take over Hugh but to no avail

Image of the Conspiracy aliens from TNG

Star Trek’s Borg Queen stands in front of two Borg space ships

Image of Worf fighting off the parasite aliens from “Conspiracy."