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

[Farscape One]

It still went past my suspension of disbelief, and I've got a pretty high threshold for it.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

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

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[cosmic mouse]

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.

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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!
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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.

but this is an interesting concept...

 

[Timo]

(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.)

Perhaps Beverly Crusher used it on Picard, foolishly thinking that it worked. The events of ST: First Contact showed her wrong, there still being nanites inside Picard, just waiting to coalesce into a communications node so that the Queen could give him a call.

The EMH might not have known better, though. But the EMH would also have had more time and material to experiment with assimilation victims, and could have discovered all on his own how ineffective the Phlox Technique really was.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

I suspect the Collective would ignore the Vidiians, they in no way would bring the Borg closer to perfection--not ever species will be assimilated, as Seven stated when the Kazon were brought up once. I suspect the Vidiians would avoid the Borg as well, though if they found a dead drone then they may examine it to see if their nanoprobes could be used against the Phage--they were very advanced with medical technology so they may have had some success in this regard had they discovered a source.

 

[Timo]

The Vidiians were the Federation's one match in technology in the Delta Quadrant. Surely that alone would make it attractive to assimilate a few, along with samples of the tech? "Ignoring" would still be likely - the Borg ignore the Federation as well, after all, beyond said few samples.

The Phage is supposedly gone now, thanks to Think Tank. That is, if we trust the lot. Not only did they claim to have found the cure, they boasted on it already having made a difference. The Borg need not worry about becoming tainted by the disease, then, and would reap the benefits of Think Tank research as well if proceeding with assimilation.

The Vidiian attitude towards the Borg might match that of the Federation. After all, their means would. Their tech caters for high speed escape and pursuit, the all-important boarding via transporter to defeat the Borg by the standard Starfleet tie-their-shoelaces-together trickery, and for sheer firepower on par with Starfleet's. But the Vidiians are nomads now, having been dictated this lifestyle by the disease. Their strategy might be one of evasion rather than defense.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[DonIago]

While not a credible source, I always wanted to believe the Think Tank was being honest when they claimed they'd cured The Phage.

I know the Vidiians did a great deal to come off as unsympathetic, but they didn't ask for what happened to them either, and some of them seem to have retained at least some morality. I have a feeling humanity wouldn't fare any better under such circumstances. :/