Unimatrix 1 was obliterated entirely along with the Queen and who knows how many ships.[/queen]
AGAIN, the queen has been destroyed before, it doesn't matter. One unimatrix out of countless thousands, all assimilated planets and ships means absolutely nothing to Borg.
The Collective was damaged in it's operations disrupting Queens control over the manifolds and Collective functions overall.
AGAIN: the Queen HAS NO control over the collective whatsoever. Drones can choose not answer her in Unimatrix Zero, which means she has no control over the collective at all.
Once she assimilated the pathogen the collective itself became infected.
Not possible. A pathogen is not a computer virus, it's a physical virus. A physical virus requires physical access to systems to get places. Unless the Borg for some ridiculous reason decided to beam this pathogen around, they could not be affected. This does not show an affection, this shows the Borg shunting an affected section of the Collective for security reasons.
She only retained contact with one Sphere which was ordered to destroy Voyager (which resulted in a failure).
Again, the Queen has no control over the collective. She's nothing but an experiment. The Sphere is the only ship of the section that the Borg shunted that she could contact.
Yes I understand that the Borg assimilated the QS technology, but there is no guarantee their knowledge and information they had was not damaged by the pathogen.
The pathogen did not spread around the collective.
The pathogen introduced chaos to order.
It was successful.
We don't know if the Borg eventually adapted to the pathogen because 1 cube got infected by it before that and the Borg never came for that one.
Reason ?
Perhaps they were incapable to adapt to it.
Yes it's possible that they could have found a way around it by the time of Endgame, but the virus dealt a good deal of damage.
The Borg are not affected by the pathogen, only a small section, a section they shunted for security reasons until they understood the nature of what was affecting them, to prevent any potential spread. To the Queen this only appeared as the collective disintegrating, but it didn't obviously, a pathogen is a physical construct, it cannot move through information signals.
7's knowledge from what we know is only 2 years behind the Collective's (since she was in the collective during Dark Frontier and as evidenced collected a vast amount of data during that time).
The principles of assimilation procedure would hardly change in any large time frame.
7 knows how it's done and can find a way to undo it.
She said she did not exactly encompass the knowledge of 10000 species in her head (prior to Dark Frontier) but at the same time in Think Thank, she was praised because she contained the sum of all knowledge from the Borg (which she never debunked).
It does not matter. Everything 7 knows, the Borg know. Everything the Borg know, 7 however does not know. Just because she didn't deny it, doesn't mean it's true. Whatever she can figure out to prevent assimilation, the Borg will adapt. That's what they do. They are a collective, she's just an individual, they'll change to overcome it.
As for the database from the future being deleted.
Unlikely.
Voyager can easily delete it's files if danger arises, so if the database was copied, it's intact.
Janeway would only resort to deleting it probably if she knew there was no way out and all options failed (which lucky for her never happened).
If that's what Voyager's crew things, it just show they're idiots. You do not take such changes with the Borg. One slip up, one moment not recognizing the danger, and Borg will have it all.
In regards to the armor being light on energy.
Fat chance on that happening since it involves combination of transporter and replicator technology (2 systems that are very energy intensive to begin with).
No, it doesn't. Even if it did, it matters not. Replicating stuff is still piss easy compared to warping space and time. It's still only a momentary use of power in a manner used all but continuously already. It has no effect on Voyager's energy capabilities. Once deployed, the armor requires no energy, it's simply there. And that is of course, assuming it even requires replicator technology to begin with.
It has to involve replication if the armor is expected to be re-deployed on 100% after it's been previously damaged.
So examination of power generation and various other advances of the next 26 years is a must.
No, it isn't, replicating stuff is no trouble at all for Voyager.
The Borg only got a 'preview' when it came to the Transphasic torpedoes and Armor.
The armor they assimilated, torpedoes were not.
And future Janeway was sure the Borg would adapt, hence her telling to present Janeway she shouldn't waste time and hurry before the weapons became useless. Not only were the Borg expected to adapt, they were expected to adapt at any time.
And transphasic torpedoes HAD to be much more powerful from a standard photon torpedo with a phase cloak if 1 is expected to annihilate a cube.
Wrong. A photon torpedoes has a maximum yield of 64 MT. That's a vaporization radius of several kilometers, and a blast radius many more that. A cube is only 3 by 3 by 3 kilometers. Detonate one inside a cube, having bypassed the shields, will instantly reduce a cube to nothing.
1 regular photon torpedo damaged a Borg sphere that exploded on the inside of the ship.
Coming from the outside, not being truly inside it.
A transphasic torpedo probably uses phasing systems much more advanced than what the Pegasus had, and a warhead which has to be capable of delivering an explosion numerous times larger than a regular photon torpedo.
Nope. Maximum yield of a photon torpedo is enough, doesn't even need the yield of quantum torpedo to do it. And whether it is more advanced or not, doesn't matter: like future Janeway already said, it was not advanced enough, the Borg will adapt.
Oh I wholeheartedly agree that the Borg could assimilate the entire galaxy if they wanted to by sending enough forces that wouldn't even put a dent if they lost them by any means.
But their interest in the Federation is evident.
At least they were portrayed like that in Voyager through the Queen (which was introduced by FC movie).
The Queen is an insane individual, not the collective. To the Collective, the Federation is no more than an interesting testing ground - after all, the Federation is essentially them - a collective of species and technology highly adaptable that will able to find a weakness and exploit it, allowing the Borg to plug it, and be that much stronger facing an actual threat.
We have no reason to think the Queen had no real control over the collective when in fact she was portrayed as she did.
It also could be the collective wanted to put a show for others, but for them, that would be irrelevant.
No, she was portrayed as having no control over the collective and even individual drones at all. This is a consequence of what the Queen is supposed to be; not controlling, but BEING the collective. Therefor, she would never have to ask any drone any question, simply take the information from its knowledge. Yet, she spent torturing drones in order to get them to answer her verbally. So not only could she not take the information from the drone's brains, she couldn't even order it to answer. As a result, we know she has no control at all, she just has the illusion of control. After all, the only way a queen did not truly have full control of the collective, is if the collective did not let her have it, which means all that she can do, and all that she can't do, comes directly from the collective; she's nothing but a slave, a drone, albeit a more unique one.
Further, Unimatrix Zero shows something very interesting. Vastly different species from vastly different sections and environments of the galaxy, all had the same "mutation" in their genes to "create" Unimatrix Zero. Well, there's a problem. A mutation is either artificial or natural. A natural mutations comes through evolution. For a mutation to occur and remain, it would have to have been an interesting adaption to the environment. So, to have the exact same mutation happen in all of these vastly different species and from different environments, one must find a commonality throughout all of them, to produce the coincidence of the exact same mutations. There is only commonality: the Borg. They were assimilated. Assimilation is no environment - it produces no evolution, and no mutation - unless the Collective WANTED that mutation, and created it artificially. The Borg Collective CREATED the drones with the mutation, and thus CREATED Unimatrix Zero. Yet the Queen has no knowledge of this - once again showing she has absolutely NO control over the collective WHAT SO EVER.
I don't underestimate the collective and if anything they would return much dangerous than ever, but at the same time, the Feds would have to find a way to deal with them if they were to survive into the 31st century (which they do).
Janeway changed time - they don't have to at all.
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