The Borg Queen has temporal intuition?
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They probably can't assimilate the Q. They aren't corporeal lifeforms, even in Q's weakened state.
I'm curious as to why the Queen didn't assimilate Soong. There didn't appear to be any real reason to let him live, unless she saw the Confederation timeline as somehow beneficial to her survival. That one action would have removed Data from the equation.
I'm curious as to why the Queen didn't assimilate Soong. There didn't appear to be any real reason to let him live, unless she saw the Confederation timeline as somehow beneficial to her survival. That one action would have removed Data from the equation.
They could probably assimilate a Q if they were 'locked' in Human form though.
Remember that the Q retained all his knowledge when he was stripped of his powers. Same with his son. Powers gone, but intelligence and knowledge remained.
If weakened (and very much without access to most of their abilities), I suspect the Q could be vulnerable to assimilation (at least temporarily).
If powers are restored, then its possible those could be used to overcome the Hive mind and effectively remove themselves from the Collective.
The Borg could in that case assimilate a Q and all his knowledge at least (unless the Continuum would prevent that from happening - which I suppose is possible - they may punish the individuals in question by stripping them of their powers, but I don't think they would be so callous to leave all thier knowledge for the Borg to use).
Assimilating Q's knowledge alone would give the Borg a ridiculous upper hand over anyone and anything... unless (again) the Continuum took measures and erased any extra knowledge but leaving the consciousness as is - thus far they hadn't done so in the case of Q or his son.
He was weakened this season, but there wasn't any indication he was technically locked into a corporeal form. We only saw that he had limited powers.
Yes, but we were talking under which circumstances could the Borg assimilate Q.
As I said, if Q was stripped of his powers and locked to a human(oid) form (or any other lifeform the Borg might happen to come across as 'interesting'), they could conceivably assimilate him while he's powerless and absorb all his knowledge.
In a weakened form, Q couldn't do much it seems. His teleportation capabilities were limited to say the least. For that matter he also said that even Raffi could have killed him in his weakened form.
I suspect that during Pic S2, Q was barely 'above' a mere mortal... conserving his energy for the most part so he can transport the gang back to their own time, and mainly relying on his vast knowledge to use the contemporary 21st century technology and get around.
If Q had no powers, there'd be nothing (except for his body) for the Borg to assimilate.
Logically speaking, the Borg can't assimilate powers which do not exist. They might have access to Q's knowledge, but that would be the extent of it.
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Might be easier to swallow this temporal intuition gimmick if the BQ had not so thoroughly blown her First Contact incursion. 
Assuming they are even able to process it, they'd get a Q's knowledge. Didn't Q give an estimation of his IQ at 6,000 or something while stuck in human form?
