I prefer to think that the altered "Endgame" timeline wiped out Braxton and his timeship pals.
Starfleet technology after Voyager's return?
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I prefer to think that the altered "Endgame" timeline wiped out Braxton and his timeship pals.
Also, in addition to the knowledge and futuretech and sensor readings etc etc the voyager has extensive files relating to the Borg - the Hansen's notes etc. I would say that next time the fleet go up against the Borg the Borg are toast unless they send dozens of cubes.
You judge them based on the pitiful adversaries the Federation has encountered in the past: The Klingons, the Romulans, the Dominion. The Borg are relentless. Whatever changes you make to your weaponry, they will adapt. Whatever changes you make to your strategy, they will adapt. There is no way to consistently beat them. Sure, you can hold them at bay with brute force and clever tricks, but eventually your best and your brightest will run out of ideas, eventually your defenses will be ground away, and you will be pound into dust, your biological and technological distinctiveness added to their own. Your precious Federation but a footnote in galactic history, now gone, existing only to add to the perfection of the Collective.
Resistance was futile.
^Yeah.
Even with Seven's intel, it was all Voyager could usually do to escape the Borg by the skin of her teeth. Seeing as the Borg have a superior ability to gather new information on whatever the Federation plans, we're back to the same old pattern on them: most of your measures and countermeasures will only work a couple of times at best.
I hear some of the novel writers are moving ever forward with the whole defanging and familiarizing the Borg thing, but even factoring in what we saw at the end of ST: Voyager, I think they could still fairly be regarded as a next-level kind of threat. Viewing them this way even provides a certain understanding, in the sense that they have bigger fish to fry than the Federation, half a galaxy away.
Even with Seven's intel, it was all Voyager could usually do to escape the Borg by the skin of her teeth. Seeing as the Borg have a superior ability to gather new information on whatever the Federation plans, we're back to the same old pattern on them: most of your measures and countermeasures will only work a couple of times at best.
I hear some of the novel writers are moving ever forward with the whole defanging and familiarizing the Borg thing, but even factoring in what we saw at the end of ST: Voyager, I think they could still fairly be regarded as a next-level kind of threat. Viewing them this way even provides a certain understanding, in the sense that they have bigger fish to fry than the Federation, half a galaxy away.
^^The "Destiny" trilogy covered that ground fantastically with a full-scale invasion of the Federation by the Borg. Not surprisingly, everything Starfleet threw at the Borg could only barely hold them back and eventually proved useless. I won't give away the storyline, but it's a pretty great series.
I think the men in black from Temporal Investigations probably showed up and hauled off all evidence of future technology from the Voyager.
The magic shields and weapons are probably in a wooden crate stashed in a warehouse somewhere next to the Ark of the Covenant, the Sword of Kahless, and the Tox Uthat.
On the other hand, I'd like to think the EMH got to keep his mobile emitter -- but that piece of technology seemed more difficult to replicate than Admiral Janeway's indestructible shields stored on a computer chip, so maybe Temporal Investigations made an exception in his case. ...
The magic shields and weapons are probably in a wooden crate stashed in a warehouse somewhere next to the Ark of the Covenant, the Sword of Kahless, and the Tox Uthat.
On the other hand, I'd like to think the EMH got to keep his mobile emitter -- but that piece of technology seemed more difficult to replicate than Admiral Janeway's indestructible shields stored on a computer chip, so maybe Temporal Investigations made an exception in his case. ...
RobertScorpio
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Defanging the Borg? If these authors were smart they would go in the opposite direction. The Borg were 'hip' when they came around back in the day. By turning them into a race of cyborgs ruled by a horny queen they have ruined them. They should have the collective revolt, kill the Queen, and become the ZOMBIES of the Galaxy who just keep coming after you until they "devour you" i.e assimilate.
Rob
