Do you think there's a real possibility that one of the writers could write a history of the Vidiians, with maybe an explanation as to what started the phage in the first place. I suspect that time travel could be involved. What if the Vidiians caused themselves the phage to appear with a time travel experiment gone wrong? As Picard dd say a "Chicken and the egg" paradox.
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Do you think there's a real possibility that one of the writers could write a history of the Vidiians, with maybe an explanation as to what started the phage in the first place. I suspect that time travel could be involved. What if the Vidiians caused themselves the phage to appear with a time travel experiment gone wrong? As Picard dd say a "Chicken and the egg" paradox.
I don't see why not, the most recent Voyager books have involved DQ races that we've seen before and have gone into more detail about their civilizations.
Moore said that there was a dude with a whip in the Voyager writers room that took a layer of skin off your back any time someone said a word like "continuity".
I think there's a ferengi rule of acquisition that says: "Continuity is bad for business."
The older more powerful species in the Trek Galaxy had centuries to find a way of defeating the Borg, and still haven't.
What species is that?
Almost 900 years earlier The Vadwaar saw the early days of the Borg.
So a little older than that.
The Dominion have been a space empire for 12 thousand years, and the phage started 2 thousand years ago, so unless the Vidiians invented warp significantly after patient zero...
Actually, if the Vidiians were travelling around in sleeper ships or at relativistic speed, that might explain how the phage could have been around for two thousand years without the species dying out.
The Hirogen Communication network is old, even if the Hirogen are not. So whoever built that either figured out how to avoid the Borg, or they are Borg.
So a little older than that.
The Dominion have been a space empire for 12 thousand years, and the phage started 2 thousand years ago, so unless the Vidiians invented warp significantly after patient zero...
Actually, if the Vidiians were travelling around in sleeper ships or at relativistic speed, that might explain how the phage could have been around for two thousand years without the species dying out.
The Hirogen Communication network is old, even if the Hirogen are not. So whoever built that either figured out how to avoid the Borg, or they are Borg.
You forget the people who created the water world of the Moneans, more than a hundred thousand years before.
The Voth, the Vadwaar...pretty much anyone who's been out there for a few thousand years.
They adapt. I mean, even Starfleet, with all their research and abilities, still have to fight against constant adaptation.
Kind of like the common cold.
But maybe they never thought that the borg would get this big.
That's a bit of naive thinking considering the Borg basically tell you what they will do to you before they actually do it.
But when they were small and inexperienced, those threats could have been taken lightly, like when the Krenim were small and were making empty threats against Voyager.
I wonder what the Borg are like in the very beginning. Was it just a computer or computer virus? They originally sought out technologies before they turned to Assimilation so that makes sense if it was a computer virus.
There are some novels that go into their origin, but I would definately love some canon back story for them. Of course I have my head canon of how they started
I personally like the lit-verse version of how it all started but if someone doesn't like it...then it's just another alternative timeline.
There are countless alternate timelines in the Trek-verse.
Me too and it creates a moral dilemma....time travel will solve the Borg problem, would you use it if were you? mmmmmmI personally like the lit-verse version of how it all started but if someone doesn't like it...then it's just another alternative timeline.
Time travel will solve anyone's problem.
The common cold is just a cold, not some massive virus. The stronger Trek species would've adapted to the Borg at the same rate, or even faster and made the Borg nothing but a nuisance.
