Are “Borg” telescopes from Scandinavia? Or does the name come from the Star Trek TV show?
Borg telescopes are designed and manufactured in Japan. “Borg” comes from a contraction of two Japanese words: Bo-enkyo- (telescope) Do-gu (equipment) This is combined into “Bo-gu” which becomes “Borg” for the non-Japanese-speaking world. But Mr. Nakagawa at Borg also likes the fact that “Borg” is a shortening of “cyborg,” which is itself a combination of “cybernetic organism” implying that man and machine are working together as one. As far as we can tell, the choice of the name was not influenced by the characters from the Star Trek TV series!
