I am near completing my first time watch of Voyager, I just watched the episode in question yesterday. From what I've read on the net most people's beef with this episode is that it had a good premise that was not well executed.
Well, I have trouble with the premise itself. Seven of Nine has a line in the episode that goes:"If the Borg had come across this probe they would have assimilated Earth centuries ago". Although this contradicts some of the stuff we know about the Borg from earlier encounters, the point does come across: how could humanity be so imprudent as to send a probe containing all this information about it for just about anyone to see? The Vulcans propably shared whatever knowledge they had but even theirs was somewhat limited at the time, the bottom line is that nobody knew what was really out there. Ther probe could have quite easily fallen into the hands of not necessarily the Borg but another malevolent technologically advanced race bent on conquering other worlds. To expose itself in such a manner at the time when your own space travel is taking only it's baby steps is at best careless, at worst suicidal. Humanity really rode it's luck there IMO.
Well, I have trouble with the premise itself. Seven of Nine has a line in the episode that goes:"If the Borg had come across this probe they would have assimilated Earth centuries ago". Although this contradicts some of the stuff we know about the Borg from earlier encounters, the point does come across: how could humanity be so imprudent as to send a probe containing all this information about it for just about anyone to see? The Vulcans propably shared whatever knowledge they had but even theirs was somewhat limited at the time, the bottom line is that nobody knew what was really out there. Ther probe could have quite easily fallen into the hands of not necessarily the Borg but another malevolent technologically advanced race bent on conquering other worlds. To expose itself in such a manner at the time when your own space travel is taking only it's baby steps is at best careless, at worst suicidal. Humanity really rode it's luck there IMO.
