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Don't Provoke the Borg!

Don't chuck dog shit at retarded kids.

They were telling Q not to be a prick because the borg were not emotionally developed enough anymore to be teased. He'd hotfoot the queen and her spaz out would total a few innocent civilizations collaterally and leave the collective frustrated and in a sour mood for the next century.

It's like when you used to sneak back into the intermediate and bogwash the 1st formers.
 
Hm, I don't think that line makes much sense, no. But then again, I doubt it's supposed to be more than a joke. My recollection of that episode is rather fuzzy, though.

(Memory Alpha implies that it is an allusion to Q Who, where Q himself introduces Starfleet to the Borg. Still doesn't make that line particularly funny or meaningful, does it?)

Regarding Guinan: Q actually felt threatened by her! It was suggested that they dealt with each other in the past. (Also in Q Who, by the way.)
 
Considering the Borg tried to invade another universe on a whim, the Q probably don't think it's a good thing for the Borg to get a chance at getting insight into their natures. Probably as much for the sake of the lower universe as for fear for their own hides.

Every time the Borg fight something, they learn about it and adapt to it. The last thing anyone needs is Borg with any degree of understanding of Q's powers, which is exactly what you'll get if a dumbass kid keeps flashing his ass at them.
 
Kinda funny, since provoking the Borg is exactly what Q did when he snapped his fingers and sent the Enterprise into the Delta Quadrant. Maybe that's why he was so upset--he regretted what he had done and the rest of the Continuum was kinda pissed about it, too.
 
Well, as we've seen, the Borg generally ignore anyone who isn't a threat, so it would make sense not to do anything to provoke them.
 
I think it's something along the lines of having a Q do something that antagonizes the Borg could cause them to set their sights on trying to assimilate the Continuum. Though they may threaten it, I doubt the Q go about wiping entire species out of existence all willy nilly, so they wouldn't just snap their fingers and pfoof, no more Borg. And if, by some strange quirk of fate, the Borg managed to access a fraction of the Q Continuum's abilities, it's safe to bet that the universe as a whole would be pretty screwed. I mean, Q didn't provoke the Borg in 'Q Who' - he just dropped the Enterprise into one of their sectors and they wandered across a cube.
 
The Q are noncorporeal, so the Borg couldn't assimilate them. And even if the Q wouldn't wipe out the Borg en masse, a Q who suddenly finds him/herself confronted by a bunch of drones would obviously not be in danger, they could just teleport away, or turn the drones into frogs or something. :lol:
 
I always thought the line meant that the Borg weren't a thread to the Continuum, but rather that the Continuum didn't want the Borg effing up other species and nations, ie the Federation. Hell, didn't Q Jr. just snap the Borg in and out of the episode? It seems kind of silly that if a kid can do that to them, that a race of cosmic entities would suddenly be afraid for their own safety.
 
In "Before Dishonor", the Borg queen threatened the Q. It could be with their sensors they are slowly learning the secret to the Q existence, something the Q obviously wouldn't want the Borg to have. Remember, Voyager actually entered Q space during the"Q and the Grey". If Janeway was told how (from Chakotay), then she was assimilated, then the Borg would have that knowledge
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If they still exist. Which I doubt.
 
Tommy Boy said:
In "Before Dishonor", the Borg queen threatened the Q. It could be with their sensors they are slowly learning the secret to the Q existence, something the Q obviously wouldn't want the Borg to have. Remember, Voyager actually entered Q space during the"Q and the Grey". If Janeway was told how (from Chakotay), then she was assimilated, then the Borg would have that knowledge
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If they still exist. Which I doubt.
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I agree with this, I actually like the scene where the Queen threatens Lady Q and she seems to take it literaturely.
 
I took it this way.
If a Q provoke the Borg, the Borg are no threat to a Q.
They can't enter the relm Q's live in.
So Q don't fear them.
They fear what they'll loose.
The Borg can never find the Q because you'd have to assimilate one to gain it's powers to get there. Q as far as we know, might not even be corporeal in their natural form. Human Q is only how he chooses to appear to us.

I'm guessing that the Borg go nuts looking for what they can't find and while doing so, go assimilation crazy trying to understand/find Q and why one would taught them. By assimilating more species, Q looses more play things........us.

Q is a child and doesn't want to share or loose his toys, so don't provoke the Borg and Q keeps most of us.
 
I always toke it that piss off Borg they wouldn't be albe to assimilate Q so the Collective would take out their "Anger" on another Species and wipe that species off the map ie leave absoulutly nothing left-no people, no planets, no plants and no technology so that the species could never be deassimilated. Q was trying to stop his son doing what he did to the Enterprise.
 
David cgc said:
Considering the Borg tried to invade another universe on a whim, the Q probably don't think it's a good thing for the Borg to get a chance at getting insight into their natures. Probably as much for the sake of the lower universe as for fear for their own hides.

Every time the Borg fight something, they learn about it and adapt to it. The last thing anyone needs is Borg with any degree of understanding of Q's powers, which is exactly what you'll get if a dumbass kid keeps flashing his ass at them.
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Spot on!
 
The Q can traverse time and space on a whim. The Q could wipe out the Borg literally with the click of a finger. Any possibility of a threat from the Borg against the Q would be immediately taken care of.

I find it highly unlikely that the Q fear the Borg. It's more likely that by provoking the Borg the Borg will attempt to expand faster and increase it's military force which would spell doom for other races and would spell doom for Humans and the Federation.

We know Q and possibly the continuum (even though they don't show it) have a soft spot for Humanity as we are like they used to be and have potential to be like them in the future.
I mean Q wanted to mate with a Human, he brought his son to a Human to try and mend his ways. To the Q Humans are special and provoking the Borg may spell the end of Humanity.

When Q originally introduced the Federation to the Borg it's likely he was in fact doing them a favour. Being ignorant of the Borg may have left the Federation weak to them, introducing a single cube early on has allowed the Federation to prepare for them. It's only a matter of time that the Borg expand beyond the Delta Quadrant border and into the Alpha Quadrant.
 
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