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star trek - Are Borg Drones humanoid?


In "Q Who," while seeing a Borg Drone for the first time in Engineering, Q tells Picard that the invading Borg is "an enhanced humanoid" ("humanoid" as defined in the "Memory Alpha")


Now, Q is Q, and it's hard to disagree with a being of such intellect, but I always thought that the Borg were not humanoid. I think being part of a cyborg civilization disqualifies them from being humanoid.


In-universe answers only, please.



Answer



Lets follow the definitions here:


From the "Memory Alpha" dictionary:



As generally understood by the United Federation of Planets, a humanoid is an intelligent, bilaterally symmetrical, bipedal lifeform in possession of an upright posture, two arms, two legs, hands, feet, one thorax, a neck, and a head with a brain located in it. Source




Since we can agree that Borg drones look like humans, the key here is the word "lifeform":



A lifeform is simply any living entity or organism. The study of lifeforms is known as biology, and, when dealing with alien lifeforms, could be further sub-categorized into xenobiology and xenology[...] A lifeform was not necessarily organic — which was to say carbon-based.source



since we don't really have 24th Century definition of the word "living", we can use our current definition:



not dead, having life, currently active or being used; having the form of a person who is alive source



putting those three things together Borg perfectly fit into those definition as they are alive -> then they are lifeform -> they have humanoid (XXI century definition) shape => they are Star Trek humanoids.



QED.


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