Species 6339

Species 6339, is the designation of a humanoid, warp-capable species. Origin, grid one two four, octant twenty two theta. The Borg first encountered Species 6339 in 2371. By 2375 over eleven billion individuals had been assimilated. Species 6339 vessels tended to be well-armed, the one encountered by USS Voyager in 2375 being equipped with twenty-two phaser cannons on their aft section alone.

In 2375, the Collective detected one of their last surviving shuttlecraft with thirteen individuals aboard. A Cube was sent to intercept it. However, unknown to the Borg, Species 6339 had introduced a synthetic pathogen made to attack the programs of a Borg Cube's vinculum. The virus brought chaos to the Borgs' ordered hive conciousness, which led to the destruction of the Cube.

The intentions of the Species 6339 was that once another Borg ship had retrieved the vinculum from the destroyed Cube, it would infect that ship, with the possibility existing to infect dozens, perhaps hundreds of Borg vessels. (VOY: "Infinite Regress")