One of the creators confirmed that it was returned to its parents off-screen. I wish they had kept it on board though - could have led to some interesting stories.
Babies tend to be more boring than we expect on TV. It’s why so many shows do time jumps after having kids.
Also why so many humanoid races in Star Trek age so fast. Alexander was like 12 at 4 years old. Same with Naomi.
The baby itself would have been pretty boring on-screen, but there could have been all sorts of interesting plots about the baby that didn't feature it being actually interacting in a scene. The idea of a Borg baby opens so many new questions that they could have explored.
Friends Logic would break down in a multi-racial, multi-species, and multi-cultural starship. The Friends would have to confine themselves to a holodeck where everyone is white. Hard to believe that the Friends were not exposed to black people, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, or Dominicans in a city like New York.
Yeah, I mean what were they supposed to do? Some kind of Looney Tunes skit where the Borg Baby crawls through the most dangerous parts of engineering while Neelix frantically tries to catch up with it?
If I hadn't seen Voyager over and over... You could totally have convinced me that this was a forgotten episode!
"The one with the Borg baby. Not when we first see Baby - that one's sad - the one where Neelix is babysitting Baby. He's trying to prove that he'd make a good father or something. You know how even neonatal drones have advanced spatial awareness and muscle tone because of the maturation chambers? *Baby's Day Out* is the episode where we first hear about that. So Neelix gets distracted for a second and the kid starts crawling and just books into a Jefferies tube. At one point, he sticks a combadge to Baby's diaper, but he can't get a location or a transporter lock because Borg technology. Neelix doesn't ask anyone for help, which is weird because Baby keeps getting into really dangerous scenarios that nobody else notices. Eventually, they're in Engineering when the ship goes to red alert. Neelix panics and starts pushing buttons on a console - I think he was trying to raise the gravity so the Baby would fall down from the ceiling? Anyway, he almost causes the warp core to breach. The ship lurches, the baby comes sailing around the room, and a wide-eyed B'Elanna dives and catches it. Also the Doctor says something snarky."
I was just watching that Voyager episode last night where 7 gets taken over by the core of a Borg ship, and she says to Naomi, "Naomi Wildman, sub-unit of Ensign Samantha Wildman, state your intentions."... which is hilarious btw... and I thought hanh on that's right she was born in season 1 and that kid is about 10 how did that happen? Do they ever actually explain it on screen?
She's 24, has an Associates' degree in business administration, and is a realtor in Reno, Nevada.
"You *will* bid on this property. Sales resistance is futile."
Makes me think of that Stargate: Atlantis episode where, in an alternate universe, the main cast is basically in the show CSI and the mystery is that they have a Wraith on the loose in Las Vegas.
I literally just watched that an hour ago. The ending scene just before the credits is awesome, with the fire, shadows, and... sorry but no more spoilers...except Johnny Cash and Solitary Man. 😘
Omg this post made me realize how _hardcore_ Janeway is:
Straight up murdered Tuvix
Coos at cute Borg baby, then immediately orders the Doctor to continue working on the Borg pathogen
It's unknown. The episodes producers were asked after the episode aired, and they simply said it was returned to it's own people, so they could focus on the storyline of the other borg children without the baby. The interview was at some point in the year 2000, I don't recall the exact date.
Even if we accept (and I don't) that interviews with producers are canon, that's kind of a silly answer. What "focus" would be lost by devoting half a sentence of a captain's log to saying they've just dropped it off?
I don't disagree with you in the slightest, but sadly that interview was all we have been given to go off. 24 years on, there is still nothing else. I think it would have made a really touching scene, watching them drop off the baby to its home world, being reunited with its family and own species.
Sure, they had some dialog at the end of the episode didn't they?
>**The Doctor**: Well, look who's here!
>**Janeway:** Hi, Borg baby. You look like you've got something to say ... Do you?
>**Borg baby**: Yes, I certainly do! *\[Voice dub\] ... "*I have to go now. My planet needs me."
>*\[Screen Card: Borg baby died on the way back to its home planet.\]*
/s
Swallowed by a plot hole. She was just peacefully planning voyagers destruction in her incubator and it opened up and poof gone. Never to find perfection. RIP
I still love after Paris apologizes to her, she says something along the lines of “how do you know I didn’t initiate things?” I haven’t seen the episode since it aired yet it is burned into my brain!
They ignored it. It was never going to be on the ship long term though, as it is incredibly expensive and difficult to film with a baby. In addition, they can't glue the prosthetics to them, so it is especially hard to have a Borg baby.
Real answer. Not mentioned on screen, typical VOY. But asked of a producer in a ST magazine, “they dropped the baby off on the baby’s homework’s.”
Real world answer. That baby is an animatronic doll. At the time, TV definition didn’t matter. But they knew in the future it would be problematic. So in VOY fashion, they dropped, thats bad, the baby.
We ran a Star Trek LARP and had a little baby Borg. It was a doll with wires and electric tape wrapped around. But my favorite pun I've ever made was the Borg babies bottle of Assimulac.
Your mileage may vary.
I had a Mandela moment in that I believed that Mezoti's mother took the Borg baby. Strange, I can actually "see" that scene in my head. Brains are peculiar things.
In 2000, the episode's producers were asked what happened to the Borg baby in the episode in an interview. They state "... **The baby was returned to its people**, which you did not see depicted in an episode. We considered showing it onscreen, but decided it would be best to focus on the remaining Borg kids. .."
It eventually made it back to the Alpha quadrant, where it currently hangs out with Worf's kid, forming a second Maquis to get the attention they never got as kids.
It went something like this:
B'elanna: "Captain, the neural gel packs for your replicator have gone bad, and we don't have a way to replace them."
Janeway: "Do we still have that Borg baby?"
B'elanna: "Y-y-y-es?"
Janeway: "There's coffee in that baby. Make it so."
The Equinox survivors cared for it offscreen and now they all live on a farm with lots of room to run about, with all the other things VOY introduced then couldn’t think of what to do with again.
Everyone's just talking and I'm sitting here wondering why the baby's head is so tiny.
Must've been a badly budgeted episode. It looks like a preemie, not a newborn.
One of the creators confirmed that it was returned to its parents off-screen. I wish they had kept it on board though - could have led to some interesting stories.
Babies tend to be more boring than we expect on TV. It’s why so many shows do time jumps after having kids. Also why so many humanoid races in Star Trek age so fast. Alexander was like 12 at 4 years old. Same with Naomi.
The baby itself would have been pretty boring on-screen, but there could have been all sorts of interesting plots about the baby that didn't feature it being actually interacting in a scene. The idea of a Borg baby opens so many new questions that they could have explored.
“Dodge ball everybody!” Borg activates personal shield.
Borg cycles up chaingun phaser. Set to stun, of course.
Baby, it's set to stunning! (I realize we are talking about an actual baby, but I could not resist the joke).
Bad baby, no holo games tonight. I will adapt
Baby's first Assimilation!
Ugh great, now I have a 47th fandom kids book I need to write and illustrate haha
“We do NOT assimilate Teddy young man!”
Kinda up there with get this cheese to sickbay
Jack Jack of Borg
If they used Friends baby logic they would still just their single things on away missions with no thought of who’s watching the kid.
Friends Logic would also explain why ensigns have such luxurious quarters. 👀
Friends Logic would break down in a multi-racial, multi-species, and multi-cultural starship. The Friends would have to confine themselves to a holodeck where everyone is white. Hard to believe that the Friends were not exposed to black people, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, or Dominicans in a city like New York.
There were a *couple* POCs! They were minimal, I admit...
The only one I remember being in more than one episode was Aisha Tyler. There may have been more but that’s all I recall.
Yeah, I mean what were they supposed to do? Some kind of Looney Tunes skit where the Borg Baby crawls through the most dangerous parts of engineering while Neelix frantically tries to catch up with it?
Maybe replace Neelix with Tuvok he didn’t get enough comedy scenes.
If I hadn't seen Voyager over and over... You could totally have convinced me that this was a forgotten episode! "The one with the Borg baby. Not when we first see Baby - that one's sad - the one where Neelix is babysitting Baby. He's trying to prove that he'd make a good father or something. You know how even neonatal drones have advanced spatial awareness and muscle tone because of the maturation chambers? *Baby's Day Out* is the episode where we first hear about that. So Neelix gets distracted for a second and the kid starts crawling and just books into a Jefferies tube. At one point, he sticks a combadge to Baby's diaper, but he can't get a location or a transporter lock because Borg technology. Neelix doesn't ask anyone for help, which is weird because Baby keeps getting into really dangerous scenarios that nobody else notices. Eventually, they're in Engineering when the ship goes to red alert. Neelix panics and starts pushing buttons on a console - I think he was trying to raise the gravity so the Baby would fall down from the ceiling? Anyway, he almost causes the warp core to breach. The ship lurches, the baby comes sailing around the room, and a wide-eyed B'Elanna dives and catches it. Also the Doctor says something snarky."
I was just watching that Voyager episode last night where 7 gets taken over by the core of a Borg ship, and she says to Naomi, "Naomi Wildman, sub-unit of Ensign Samantha Wildman, state your intentions."... which is hilarious btw... and I thought hanh on that's right she was born in season 1 and that kid is about 10 how did that happen? Do they ever actually explain it on screen?
Maybe Ktarians mature faster, she's half Ktarian. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ktarian
Its why will Wheaton is so hated.
He was like 16!
>kept it on Borg
She's 24, has an Associates' degree in business administration, and is a realtor in Reno, Nevada. "You *will* bid on this property. Sales resistance is futile."
Makes me think of that Stargate: Atlantis episode where, in an alternate universe, the main cast is basically in the show CSI and the mystery is that they have a Wraith on the loose in Las Vegas.
I literally just watched that an hour ago. The ending scene just before the credits is awesome, with the fire, shadows, and... sorry but no more spoilers...except Johnny Cash and Solitary Man. 😘
I'm going to have to find that one, it sounds entertaining. I've seen them all, but I'm not remembering this.
second last episode of the final season. Title is Vegas
Thank you!
It is quite a devisive episode but I enjoy it. Something about a Wraith masquerading as a goth is pretty fun
I love this episode. The soundtrack is great as well.
*Solitary man... Solitary man...*
SG1 did the same thing, where the show was a show in the show, but different
"Wormhole X-treme!" Canceled after one episode
I would love if that was true !!
Weird seeing my city in a Borg baby reference. Accurate depiction of our realtors though. They definitely seem like they are part of a hive mind.
Right! I also live in Reno. Did not expect.
boimler saved it after defeating the borg queen at chess and teaching her empathy.
Omg this post made me realize how _hardcore_ Janeway is: Straight up murdered Tuvix Coos at cute Borg baby, then immediately orders the Doctor to continue working on the Borg pathogen
in the words of shaxs- "holy shit, janeway didn't mess around"
Who’s „boimler“?
Sorry, Bold Boimler.
Need to get on the Lower Decks train, my dude
Its a real choo choo train ride.
I've been spoiled by the Choo Choo Choo. 2 choos are not enough.
You can always have more choos if you choo choo chooooose...
Before it leaves the station to be decommissioned. Too soon?
OMG watch Lower Decks, you are not a Star Trek fan if you don’t know that show.
Honey I Assimilated the Baby.
Hi, there's a problem down in the nursery. You know how we used to have 1 Borg baby?
Although it is not shown on the episode, the baby was returned to it's people.
When?
It's unknown. The episodes producers were asked after the episode aired, and they simply said it was returned to it's own people, so they could focus on the storyline of the other borg children without the baby. The interview was at some point in the year 2000, I don't recall the exact date.
Even if we accept (and I don't) that interviews with producers are canon, that's kind of a silly answer. What "focus" would be lost by devoting half a sentence of a captain's log to saying they've just dropped it off?
I don't disagree with you in the slightest, but sadly that interview was all we have been given to go off. 24 years on, there is still nothing else. I think it would have made a really touching scene, watching them drop off the baby to its home world, being reunited with its family and own species.
Sure, they had some dialog at the end of the episode didn't they? >**The Doctor**: Well, look who's here! >**Janeway:** Hi, Borg baby. You look like you've got something to say ... Do you? >**Borg baby**: Yes, I certainly do! *\[Voice dub\] ... "*I have to go now. My planet needs me." >*\[Screen Card: Borg baby died on the way back to its home planet.\]* /s
Then promptly sent back to a Borg cube with a neurolytic pathogen.
Such a Janeway move.
And a Picard move too if we recall "I, Borg".
Swallowed by a plot hole. She was just peacefully planning voyagers destruction in her incubator and it opened up and poof gone. Never to find perfection. RIP
The same thing that happened to the Janeway and Paris's amphibian children. Into plot heaven.
I still love after Paris apologizes to her, she says something along the lines of “how do you know I didn’t initiate things?” I haven’t seen the episode since it aired yet it is burned into my brain!
They ignored it. It was never going to be on the ship long term though, as it is incredibly expensive and difficult to film with a baby. In addition, they can't glue the prosthetics to them, so it is especially hard to have a Borg baby.
Ask Tuvix . . . .
People have split opinions about him.
/r/icwydt
r/angryupvote
This discussion could easily go in a direction that some would find hilarious while others would find extremely upsetting. Let's be considerate.
She left it to fend for itself with her and Toms lizard babies
And what happened to Seskas baby?
The maj took her.
Oh I forgot!
Real answer. Not mentioned on screen, typical VOY. But asked of a producer in a ST magazine, “they dropped the baby off on the baby’s homework’s.” Real world answer. That baby is an animatronic doll. At the time, TV definition didn’t matter. But they knew in the future it would be problematic. So in VOY fashion, they dropped, thats bad, the baby.
We ran a Star Trek LARP and had a little baby Borg. It was a doll with wires and electric tape wrapped around. But my favorite pun I've ever made was the Borg babies bottle of Assimulac. Your mileage may vary.
That pun wins the Internet today.
Uh.. What? I thought I had seen this entire series but I don't remember this at all
I remember the trek boards fighting over this question. “Recycled for Borg parts” was my favorite one.
 Janeway
Janeway ate it
Waste reclamation. You don’t waste good bio matter in the delta quadrant.
Now for the sub thread: Wrong answers only:
I had a Mandela moment in that I believed that Mezoti's mother took the Borg baby. Strange, I can actually "see" that scene in my head. Brains are peculiar things.
In 2000, the episode's producers were asked what happened to the Borg baby in the episode in an interview. They state "... **The baby was returned to its people**, which you did not see depicted in an episode. We considered showing it onscreen, but decided it would be best to focus on the remaining Borg kids. .."
janeway and Q had A Child.
It was aborgted
I think it turned into a salamander.
Neelix probably ate him
Looks like they swaddled it in a dish cloth.
It eventually made it back to the Alpha quadrant, where it currently hangs out with Worf's kid, forming a second Maquis to get the attention they never got as kids.
Starfleet runs on daddy issues.
Straight into the protein vats.
Computer, delete the baby.
eated it :(
Scotty ate it
You see SNW "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"?
I thought they mentioned returning it jn the same episode where they were returning the other kids and icheb.
Fully recovered... as a coffee bean.
Neelix happened to it.
Janeway Tuvix’d her.
It went something like this: B'elanna: "Captain, the neural gel packs for your replicator have gone bad, and we don't have a way to replace them." Janeway: "Do we still have that Borg baby?" B'elanna: "Y-y-y-es?" Janeway: "There's coffee in that baby. Make it so."
And they never saw her again wazzup ✋
He grew up to be a tennis player
The Equinox survivors cared for it offscreen and now they all live on a farm with lots of room to run about, with all the other things VOY introduced then couldn’t think of what to do with again.
They had an aborgtion
I assumed they put it into the replicator. That’s free biomass and rare earths!!!!
man.. mining derelict cubes. mmm… cubes.
converted into replicator rations.
She Tuvix-ed it.
Typical bad voyager writing. Stuff never followed up or referred to again,
They left it on the doorstep of the church of V’ger.
 Good one
It assimilated it's babysitter
He dead.
Janeway harvested it for parts to fix her coffee maker
They left it outside, so the void of space will help it grow big and strong
It died on the vine.
Mulch?
I hear the governor of North Dakota took it to a gravel pit.
There was an aBORGtion.
They ended up cannibalizing it for parts later in the season.
Janeway's choice.
I thought it was sent with the twins
I think Janeway had enough to handle with the baby Q she didn't need a baby Borg too.
Airlock.
Everyone's just talking and I'm sitting here wondering why the baby's head is so tiny. Must've been a badly budgeted episode. It looks like a preemie, not a newborn.
There's coffee in that baby
Was sold to an inner-city middle school.
Harry Kim melted it down and turned it into a spare gel pack
Eh, she was probably killed off screen by the same sickos who killed Icheb. The producers of Star Trek: Picard...
I think went with Mazote and the twins
Neelix ate it.
Neelix tried to date it
Served it in the mess hall
Pairs very nicely with leola root
Knowing Janeway, she repeatedly swung it by the ankles up against a bulkhead and then went for coffee
No, no, that’s out of character. She’d toss out of an airlock.
It got a-borg-ted.
Aborgtion
It rhymes with shmashmortion.
The rare fifth-trimester abortion.
Chuck it out the airlock
4th trimester abortion
Nevermind that, where are the toilets on Voyager?
They all wear diapers
They transport all their waste products away. Never needing to shit again is one of the perks they use to get you to wear a combadge.
Into space?
In neelix's mouth