What an odd question. Why assume that the Hirogen and the Borg may have wiped out all intelligent life? Isn't that view a bit extreme, giving too much credit to them?
How Could There Still Be Any Intelligent Life in the Delta Quadant?
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What an odd question. Why assume that the Hirogen and the Borg may have wiped out all intelligent life? Isn't that view a bit extreme, giving too much credit to them?
The Borg control a vast "empire" that spans thousands of light years. They also seem to have transwarp portals allowing them access to other parts of the DQ and the rest of the galaxy. They aren't interested in conquest for conquest sake though, but they could definitely be larger-you need to be interesting biologically or technologically to warrant the Borg's interest. I would say the lack of major powers in the DQ is a consequence of the Borg "farming" the region. Its very scattered with countless mini states, empires and the like-often paranoid, at war with one another and otherwise in turmoil(though obviously not all). Could they conquer the DQ if they wanted too? Probably barring species like the Voth but that isn't their MO.
As for the Hirogen-no, the Hirogen are scattered bands of hunters often operating as lone ships. They aren't an extinction level threat to anyone but maybe very primitive cultures-that don't even have space travel. And why would the Hirogen want to hunt such weak and easy prey anyway?
As for the Hirogen-no, the Hirogen are scattered bands of hunters often operating as lone ships. They aren't an extinction level threat to anyone but maybe very primitive cultures-that don't even have space travel. And why would the Hirogen want to hunt such weak and easy prey anyway?
Way more than that, even. 1% of 25,000,000,000 is 250 million.
(unless there is some additional '1 in a 1,000' stipulation I simply overlooked).
Then again, I wouldn't be surprised to learn the incidence of evolving intelligent life is much lower than just in 1% of the star systems.
Maybe the Fermi Paradox maybe in play... not an issue for Star trek...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox,[5][6] primarily suggesting that intelligent extraterrestrial beings are extremely rare, that the lifetime of such civilizations is short, or that they exist but (for various reasons) humans see no evidence. This suggests that at universe time and space scales, two intelligent civilizations would be unlikely ever to meet, even if many developed during the life of the universe.
You know the Hirogen would update their tactics and tech if needed to hunt a challenging prey...
As many others have said, space is vast and full of potentially habitable star systems. Even if the Borg and Hirogen were high on cocaine and Red Bull and assimilating/hunting on overdrive without stopping, it would take tens of millions of years to clear out a quadrant of species, if that. Plus, the Borg aren't content with just conquering their own neighborhood, they spread out to the Alpha/Beta Quadrants, Fluidic Space, etc.
Responsible hunters practice conservation of the animals they hunt so as to preserve their numbers for future generations. If the Hirogen hunted every one of their prey species to extinction (which is not their M.O. anyway) they would have no one left to hunt.
The Hirogen are nomadic by nature. They have neither the time, inclination, or resources to hunt a species to extinction, much less millions of them, before they move on to the next hunt.
The Borg do not assimilate species they don't consider to add to their biological and technological distinctiveness, like the Kazon and the massive amount of territory their various sects control (though at some point that may have changed as I believe we saw an assimilated Kazon, but I could be mistaken). That means there are a bunch of intelligent but not that unique or biologically/technologically interesting species that the Borg just ignore.
Responsible hunters practice conservation of the animals they hunt so as to preserve their numbers for future generations. If the Hirogen hunted every one of their prey species to extinction (which is not their M.O. anyway) they would have no one left to hunt.
The Hirogen are nomadic by nature. They have neither the time, inclination, or resources to hunt a species to extinction, much less millions of them, before they move on to the next hunt.
The Borg do not assimilate species they don't consider to add to their biological and technological distinctiveness, like the Kazon and the massive amount of territory their various sects control (though at some point that may have changed as I believe we saw an assimilated Kazon, but I could be mistaken). That means there are a bunch of intelligent but not that unique or biologically/technologically interesting species that the Borg just ignore.
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