Why would the Borg stop?

[BriGuy]

Then when they assimilated Picard and found out it was the work of Q, they probably thought "Okay they didn't do any of that amazing stuff but they must have some importance for that Q thing to be interested in them."

Works for me. They might have knowledge of Q, and are desperate to assimilate him. Picard and humanity are bait.

Oh my goodness, you just may have resolve an argument in the movie forum about how to get Q into a TNG movie.

 

[Neutral Zone]

From what I could see the Borg were so powerful and good at what thet did in assimilating other worlds they probably felt that there was no rush.

I've wondered would there be any chance of really beating them?

 

[Gary7]

They didn't "stop." We just didn't see more stories about them... The "realm" crafted by these Star Trek series have many untold qualities about them that we can imagine to be there. They just need to be fleshed out in story form. Each episode does that. We simply ran out of time to explore the Borg threat in the Alpha quadrant more extensively. The reasons why the Borg didn't show up again sooner could very well be that they're busy assimilating other cultures or conducting other exploration. It's a known fact that they assimilate for raw materials in addition to technology, and the Federation is chocked full of resources... so, I see no reason why they wouldn't want to plunder that.

 

[Tiberius]

Rememkber that the Borg Queen is a single mind made up of all the drones interesting together. So attracting the attention of a drone is little more than a reflex response, almost like how our own immune system responds. But if you attract the attention of the Queen, then the Collective has a conscious interest in you.

And given that the Borg Queen is a single individual who is able to get what she wants when she wants it, I think it's safe to say that the Borg Queen is a spoiled brat.

 

[The Dominion]

The Borg Queen should just be forgotten. I hated the whole concept. It took the Borg's unique conciseness and focused it into an individual dictator. The whole point of the Borg was that they didn't have a leader, therefore in order to deal with them, you have to deal with ALL of them. And on the downside, they're so mechanical they lack individual creativity and logic, their natural weakness. The Borg Queen just crapped on all that to make an easy villain.

 

[Gary7]

^ I like to think of the Borg Queen as an aberration. That it's the effect of a drone becoming self-aware and asserting control over their immediate Borg junction, and then spreading across a certain extent of sector(s). If a Borg Queen dies, the collective doesn't die. We've seen that happen. So... it's still possible to think of the collective as we originally saw it.

 

[Anwar]

The Borg Queen should just be forgotten. I hated the whole concept. It took the Borg's unique conciseness and focused it into an individual dictator. The whole point of the Borg was that they didn't have a leader, therefore in order to deal with them, you have to deal with ALL of them. And on the downside, they're so mechanical they lack individual creativity and logic, their natural weakness. The Borg Queen just crapped on all that to make an easy villain.

The writers of TNG were melting their brains over how to bring the Borg back after "Q Who?" because of their lack of personality. It's why they came up with Locutus.

And after that story, they had Hugh the individual Borg.

And after THAT, they had Lore the Borg King.

So, every single Borg story after Q Who? in TNG had a Borg "figure" so to speak.

And no, the lacking of creativity was not present in TNG, it was invented by VOY.