How would The Vidiians and The Borg react to each other?

[marsh8472]

How would The Vidiians and The Borg react to each other? I figure the Borg's organic parts might be appealing to the Vidiians to harvest a drone's body parts but they may run into difficulties disabling the nanoprobes. Likewise the advanced technology and medical knowledge may be appealing to the Borg but the Vidiians may not be appealing drones due to their decayed state and difficulty with getting the phage out of their system, in the pre-"think tank" era anyway.

The Borg may try to avoid Vidiians if their harvesting appeal makes them too annoying to attempt assimilation or the Vidiians may try to avoid the Borg if attempting harvesting costs them more lives than it saves. So how would these parasitic races react to each other?

 

[DonIago]

Why would the Borg even want to assimilate the Vidiians? They rejected the Kazon and the Vidiians have a known pathogen.

Similarly I'd say Borg nanoprobes constitute a type of pathogen and you'd have to be extremely foolish to want any organs from a Borg drone added to your body.

 

[Farscape One]

What if Borg nanoprobes cured the phage? Since they basically rewrite DNA to make them part of the Collective, maybe in doing so it destroys the phage.

Worst case for the Borg, they assimilate a Vidiian colony, have each of them put all their knowledge in Borg data nodes, then destroy those assimilated Vidiians.

There is one thing I noticed... Voyager had a big technological advantage against most everyone before hitting the Nekrit Expanse. And the Borg didn't bother to assimilate the Kazon, which made me think the Borg intentionally left that area of space alone, allowing the races to develop a lot more before coming in.

It definitely would explain, in umiverse, why Voyager never emcountered them until the Nexrit Expanse, in addition to the Expanse playing hell with a cube.

 

[johnnybear]

I agree with everything said up above! The Borg would probably classify the Vidians as not worthy of assimilation due to the Phage and the Vidians wouldn't want organs harvested from a damaged or crashed Borg cube due to the nanoprobes within their bodies! I'd say apart from the fact that neither race or within stone throwing distance they tend to keep out of each other's ways as much as possible!
JB

 

[Butters]

My suspicion is that the nanoprobes would either cure the infected organs, or replace them with mechanical elements. The question is, why hasn’t the Borg assimilated that region already.

 

[Farscape One]

I wonder about the Borg transwarp conduits. Could it be the conduits are sort of organic, in that they grow over time? It would explain why the Borg never went to Federation, Klingon, or Romulan space that way... they haven't spread that far.

Maybe something about the Nekrit Expanse stops the transwarp conduits from passing through them... it certainly can be treacherous to a fully functional cube.

 

[Terok Nor]

The Borg did encounter and assimilate the Vidiians. You see one in Infinite Regress.

 

[at Quark's]

Picturing the Borg with a Vidiian tricorder now -- they could adapt it, and put it into reverse,and instead of beaming organs out, beam nanoprobes into their victims … they would have an insta-assimilation gun!. Probably much more efficient than mucking about with those tubules that require physical contact...

 

[DonIago]

^That's not quite as terrifying as the notion raised in a different thread of telepathic Borg who could mentally convince you that you wanted to be assimilated.

 

[marsh8472]

The Borg did encounter and assimilate the Vidiians. You see one in Infinite Regress.

Yes that's true. Maybe the Vidiians can develop a way to prevent themselves from being assimilated from nanoprobes too

 

[Farscape One]

Personally, I find the idea of nanoprobes being beamed directly into my body to be the most terrifying. At least with telepathy, there's a chance my will is strong enough to resist and see through it. With direct beaming, I have no chance.

(Side note: Phlox surviving assimilation. That was really my only gripe with "REGENERATION". One would think such a procedure is used in the 24th century. The Doctor on Voyager should have used it during their journey.)

 

[Farscape One]

Yes that's true. Maybe the Vidiians can develop a way to prevent themselves from being assimilated from nanoprobes too

If there is one race that would develop a medical way of fighting the Borg, it's them.

 

[marlboro]

^That's not quite as terrifying as the notion raised in a different thread of telepathic Borg who could mentally convince you that you wanted to be assimilated.

That is a cool idea.

I can't help but think of Scott Thompson's "assimilate me!" line from Voyager's Someone to Watch Over Me.
Turns out 7 of 9 actually looks like Divine from Pink Flamingos till she gave us all the Talosian treatment.

 

[marlboro]

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(Side note: Phlox surviving assimilation. That was really my only gripe with "REGENERATION". One would think such a procedure is used in the 24th century. The Doctor on Voyager should have used it during their journey.)

I agree.

I think they should have killed off Travis in Regenerstion. They were never going to do anything with the character and it would have been the perfect opportunity to give the Borg their balls back after FC and VOY.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

+ =

 

[1001001]

How would The Vidiians and The Borg react to each other?

Poorly, I imagine.

 

[USS Excelsior]

Maybe they would just be interested in assimilating their technology

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Borg defensive tech would protect drones against any Vidiian attempts to harvest them.

Conversely, Vidiians would be viewed as unworthy of assimilation. Why bother with drones who are going to quickly sicken and die?

 

[flandry84]

Just imagine the wealth of knowledge that the Borg must have accumulated over the decades though if you could “reverse assimilate”one of them.
Given that they had assimilated hundreds of alien cultures it always surprised me that it took them time to adapt to Federation technology.Was anything the Federation had all that radically different to what we’ve seen heretofore?
Or maybe yeah,the Borg had sprung from a technological ‘backwoods’ of the galaxy?

 

[Infern0]

Personally, I find the idea of nanoprobes being beamed directly into my body to be the most terrifying. At least with telepathy, there's a chance my will is strong enough to resist and see through it. With direct beaming, I have no chance.

(Side note: Phlox surviving assimilation. That was really my only gripe with "REGENERATION". One would think such a procedure is used in the 24th century. The Doctor on Voyager should have used it during their journey.)

If I recall correctly Phlox only survived the procedure due to denobulans having high tolerance to radiation and it still almost killed him.