I'm going to assume I'm evil for this hypothetical exercise. I'm going to spend the first few years obtaining the technology from Kataan that enabled Picard to live a lifetime in a few moments. I'll then interface it with a Starfleet archive containing all of the most interesting technology they've discovered in the last two hundred years. I'll live a lifetime in a matter of an hour, picking my way through all of the grand technology. SF may figure this out, but I'll be gone long before they discover the breach. I'll obtain vital Borg secrets, cloaking technology, backward aging, planetary recombination (via Genesis), Trill symbiotic knowledge, slipstream technology, AI consciousness, consciousness transfer technology, Betazoid telepathic blocking techniques, holographic projection technology, Barclay's brain enhancer, genetic manipulation, Alkar's neurotransmitter, the interdimensional core from Pegasus, and various other, galaxy-terrorizing artifacts.
I'll then transform myself into some sort of variant of Thanos and begin collecting my acolytes. I'll show the Founders my superior, transmogrifying ability. I'll pose a question to them. What if the Great Link can be manifest galaxy wide? What if Trills can serve as conduits for the Link to attain so much of the AQ's secrets? What limits are there for us? They'll agree and I'll use them until I'm ready to consume them. They will be linked to me, but I will be so much more. Too late, they will be consumed. I will dance in the heavens. I will plunder amongst the cherubs. Light will behave differently. Vinge's partitions will reign.
And, finally, I will play cards with Worf and Data. Suggesting hidden schemes by each to draw them into neverending belligerence. And I shall have peace.
I'll then transform myself into some sort of variant of Thanos and begin collecting my acolytes. I'll show the Founders my superior, transmogrifying ability. I'll pose a question to them. What if the Great Link can be manifest galaxy wide? What if Trills can serve as conduits for the Link to attain so much of the AQ's secrets? What limits are there for us? They'll agree and I'll use them until I'm ready to consume them. They will be linked to me, but I will be so much more. Too late, they will be consumed. I will dance in the heavens. I will plunder amongst the cherubs. Light will behave differently. Vinge's partitions will reign.
And, finally, I will play cards with Worf and Data. Suggesting hidden schemes by each to draw them into neverending belligerence. And I shall have peace.
