Why keep the Borg Secret?

[Dukhat]

Thanks to the remains of the Borg sphere from FC, there's evidence of the existence of the Borg even as far back as the 22nd century.

21st century?

No, the 22nd century. That's when scientists found the remains of the Borg sphere in ENT's "Regeneration."

 

[aj1981]

Also think of this way. The Federation is massive supposedly covering over 8000 light years. Starfleet is comprised of thousands of ships, hundreds of starbases and millions of personnel. Given that scale its easy to believe things would fall through cracks, be misplaced or forgotten. Especially when there has been no sign of them for over 70 years after the intial report (assuming Starfleet learned of the Borg from the El-Aurian refugees)

 

[T'Girl]

Thanks to the remains of the Borg sphere from FC, there's evidence of the existence of the Borg even as far back as the 22nd century.

21st century?

No, the 22nd century. That's when scientists found the remains of the Borg sphere in ENT's "Regeneration."

No the 21st, because the remains of the Borg sphere that crash in antarticia did so in the mid 21st century.

The evidence was then in existence on Earth.

 

[Dukhat]

^But not found until the 22nd

 

[spinnerlys]

Romans?

Weren't they Greek?

 

[Dukhat]

Enterprise B? I thought Q introduced them.

During the series, yes. But in Generations, the Enterprise B rescues El-Aurian refugees. You would think Starfleet or the Federation would want to know what they were running from. And you would think the El-Aurians would warn them.

Who said the Lakul and the other ship were refugees from the Borg invasion, and not some unrelated but tragic other incident? Recall that (per ``Q Who'') Guinan wasn't on her home world when the Borg destroyed it a ``century ago'', which would be about 25 years before the events of Generations. Granted she might have been rounding 75 years off to a century (or using her home world's definition of year, which could be any length), but it seems to me there's a loophole wide enough even Timo doesn't have to work it into existence.

But the implication, based on Guinan's and Soran's dialogue later in the movie, is that they were indeed refugees from the destruction of their world. And it's possible that Guinan wasn't physically there when the Borg destroyed it, but she could have gotten picked up later.

As for the 25 year thing, keep in mind that El-Aurians can live for, like, thousands of years. 25 years traveling in space would be nothing to them.