Star Trek: Alien Spotlight: Borg #[nn]
In "Assimilating the Past," the Borg launch a radical bid to rewrite their own history by deploying a tachyon wave that moves backward through time, assimilating species at the moment of their birth. Captain Picard faces off against a lone Borg drone in a tense confrontation, attempting to prevent the assimilation of a child whose future self will become the architect of the very technology that enables this temporal assault. Written by Andrew Steven Harris and illustrated by Sean Murphy, with colors by Leonard O'Grady and letters by Chris Mowry, the issue features a striking cover by Zach Howard.
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The Borg deploy a tachyon wave moving backward through time to enable them to assimilate species as they are born. Captain Picard confronts a single Borg drone and convinces it not to assimilate a child who will later become the Borg that develops the tachyon wave using logic that conveys how the paradox could destroy the Borg.
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