Nothing about the Qs really makes sense. You have to roll with the punches.
El Aurian homeworld
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Nothing about the Qs really makes sense. You have to roll with the punches.
maybe borg aims changed trough time. Maybe they prefered to stay hidden until they became strong enough (it's not said they were warp-capable since the beginning).
Borg may be like that story of the lake with a seaweed doubling its size every day...when you notice it, it's too late
PS. in Q who? Ent-D is thrown 7000 ly from its previous position, and it would nedd less than 3 years to reach the nearest fed starbase
The Q don't seem to have any limitations whatsoever. They can start a war between two species, they can add or remove starships from a battle without the other "participants" noticing. They can make borg cubes appear out of nowhere and disappear all the same. They can make all males of a ship disappear with a single thought, reduce the size of a ship to that of a molecule, send it back to the big bang.
Does that sound like someone with limitations to you?
The Lakul and it's companion ship looked to be old and slow starships, antique practically. I dount they could manage that great a warp factor, they were 3 lightyears from Earth when the Nexus caught them, so they were probably heading for the Sol system anyway.
That puts whats left of their starsystem not that many lightyears out from Earth, maybe 20 lightyears.
The better question is, why would the Borg "swarm" through the system, destroying their civilisation so utterly that they just pummled the El Aurians out of existance. We've only ever seen the Borg do that to one other race, 8472.
We need to know why the Borg and Q were both shit scared of a race of "listeners".
Dark Frontier also features the Borg swarming the solar system of the forehead aliens of the week with a fleet of ships supervised directly by the Queen. The episode would imply this is SOP despite the fact they only ever send one ship at a time to take on the Federation.
I don't think Q was scared of the El Aurians in general, just Guinan specifically.
^The Queen did that to try to rekindle Seven's desire to return to the Collective by demonstrating their power, it was exactly the opposite of a standard assimilation, her being present, the overkill of the operation, all to to with 7.
And they didn't need that species, it was just to bolster drone numbers. Guinan said they completely destroyed the El Aurian system and most of it's people in a rage, implying they barely even slowed down, just bulldozing as they went. That's not like them.
And they didn't need that species, it was just to bolster drone numbers. Guinan said they completely destroyed the El Aurian system and most of it's people in a rage, implying they barely even slowed down, just bulldozing as they went. That's not like them.
I don't know. I know three El Aurians: One is a bartender, the second one is a swindler and the third one a would-be mass murderer. If I were the borg, I'd stay as far away from these guys as possible.
They live for a long time and they have some extra perception of alternate realities. That's all I know about them.
If I were the Borg, I'd want virtually immortal Drones who would be aware of anyone messing with my timeline.
Then why slaughter them? they didn't try to assimilate them, Guinan said it was an attempt at extermination.
That's not something the Borg *do* as a rule.
Maybe El Aurians, if assimilated, would retain too much knowledge of their original selves.
We don't know that Guinan's cross-temporal insight in "Yesterday's Enterprise" and "Unification" is a trait that's common to her people...just that she demonstrated it. Likewise, Q's reason for acting threatened by Guinan's presence may be specific to Guinan.
That all remains rather mysterious. We never get any more accounts on that.
For all we know, Q could have been Joking as he sometimes does, and pretending to feel threatened by Guinan's presence, without more examples of that, it's hard to tell which.
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That makes sense.
If it had been me--I might have made them humanoids who lived on the Planet of the Guardian of Forever--exposure of which left them almost as 'tweens
I doubt the Tactical ships were much stronger, given that Voyager survived a blow from one without it's shields. I guess it's possible the J25 cube was a scout, but not the one from BoBW. Though they were the same size.
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