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Consider: Weren't the Organians actually a fail safe?

I do believe the Borg might assimilate primitives if only to bolster their numbers when they need to. Though that is a different discussion.

Anyway I wonder if it would be possible for the organians to be contacted somehow.
Mostly they don't bother with primitives, as there wouldn't be anything "new" to acquire. Unless they're short on drones. I believe the best and most reliable drone is one that is "home grown" in a Borg hatchery. Because there's no chance of it defecting after unexpected separation. No prior life memories to be lingering about in the mind.

But as depicted in TOS, the Organians are seriously powerful... considering that they immobilized the Klingon and Federation star fleets everywhere. If it was only within a sector or group of sectors, then it would be a different story. But as written, their powers can stretch across a galaxy. That's HUGE. Imagine the power. No Borg could stand up to that. This is why, as written, they'd make an amazing fail-safe for the Federation.

Not that this would be easy to leverage while maintaining a good story. "Best of Both Worlds" was highly flawed, when considering how the Borg were utilized as an enemy in future series and movies. Because ONE Borg cube wiped out over 40 starships... and later on in other engagements, one Borg cube wasn't shown to be that powerful. I think the Borg would have waited for more cubes to appear before attacking Wolf 359, to ensure complete destruction of the Federation and its allies. Anyway, presuming the "sleep" command wouldn't work again, let's say the Borg returned with an armada. How could the Federation possibly survive this? Run to the Organians!

To keep that from being a permanent failsafe, what the Organians would do is immobilize the Borg armada... but then the Organians realize what this means -- the Borg collective will be aware of Organia and the powerful entities there, and would never leave them alone. What they then do is broadcast a message to all Borg, to leave the Alpha quadrant and never return or else face destruction. The Organians would then tell the Federation something along the lines of this:

"We have stopped your war and warned the Borg to never return. But that is no guarantee. Now that they know who we are, they will undoubtedly remain curious. We remained here in peace for thousands of your Earth years, but now the indigenous forms of life in this sector have advanced enough to become bothersome to us. We wish you no ill will, but we cannot tolerate these incursions to our planet. We have already made plans for a suitable relocation, despite Organia having been an ideal place for us. We regret having to do this, but we are leaving and you will not be able to follow. The Treaty of Organia is over. You will have to sort out your differences with other beings on your own terms. We wish you well. Good bye."
 
The Borg probably wouldn't bother trying to assimilate Organia if they saw the "primitive native population" as they wouldn't be technologically advanced enough to warrant assimilation.

How do you assimilate beings of pure energy anyway? The Organians were far above even the Talosians so I doubt Organia had anything to fear from The Borg!
JB
 
Given the knowledge that Humanity will one day surpass the 'Q, it's not unreasonable to assume that the Organians may have had insight to Humanity's future as well. The Federation was close to a military victory with the Klingon Empire but it was also later implied that the Romulans were supplying the 'Empire with cloaking technology, as it's a treaty between the Klingons' and Romulans. This would have left Humanity and the Federation as a whole, scant and thin on resources in which the Romulan Star Empire could have capitalized and Humanity could well have faced annihilation. It stands to reason that the Organian's involvement was a balancing of forces to ensure future development of said races and species. Furthermore, since it was Humanity that was instrumental in defeating the Borg, the Organian's may have used this 'balancing' as a proxy to mitigate and suppress the Borg threat.
 
I liked the old novel that had the Organians ban the Klingons from space travel for a thousand years. This was contradicted by on-screen canon, of course.

Kor
 
I trust "Organians" can be equated with "Daddy" freely enough. You may use the words as a threat in an argument between peers, but you definitely don't want to actually yell out loud lest they actually hear you and come to see what the ruckus is all about!

Timo Saloniemi
 
How do you assimilate beings of pure energy anyway? The Organians were far above even the Talosians so I doubt Organia had anything to fear from The Borg!
JB
Remember when the Borg encountered species 8472. They couldn't assimilate them, but they kept trying nonetheless. Relentlessly intruding upon and bothering them. So 8472 got riled up and went on a hunt to destroy them all.

The Borg were apparently incapable of comprehending 8472 because of their inability to assimilate, thus they remained in the dark. It was only the human beings who could "think outside the box" and conceive the idea of a nano-virus to infect 8472. The Borg don't seem capable of much creative thought. Their technology evolved over thousands of years, from gradual acquisition of technology from other species. Their only "creativity" was in finding ways to incorporate and combine those technologies for their own purposes. If the Borg were capable of creative thought, they would have been far more entrepreneurial and their technology development boosted by assimilated tech would've advanced extremely fast... much as we saw with "One", the Borg hybrid influenced by the mobile emitter's future tech. Because of his mind not being bound by the confines of drone mode in the collective, he could leverage creativity to impressive degrees. He saved Voyager.

Anyway, sorry I drifted a bit there. My point is that when the Borg don't understand something, they relentlessly pursue it until they can assimilate it and learn from it. They would have detected the energy beings from Organia, recognized their superior abilities, and sought to assimilate them at any cost. Even if it was a dead end... because the Borg don't see any obstacles in their way at all. Completely and coldly arrogant.
 
Point taken but the Organians were beyond living as such and might have just made themselves invisible to the Borg's sensors I'm guessing!
JB
 
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