Yet Another FC Question...

[Computer]

Hello all,

I was watching my FC DVD the other day and the question popped into my head (11 years late) Why would the borg want to assimilate earth in 2063?

If they are going to "add our biological and technological distinctivness to their own" wouldn't the benefits of assimilating 24th century minded humans who obviously have far more scientific knowledge and superior technology out weigh putting earth out of it's misery in the past?

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I'd always thought it was more of a "You've really been pissing us off" sort of move. So, they assimilate the humans when they were the weakest, and thereby remove any threat to them in the future.

 

[LeadHead]

Sure there would be more benefits to assimilating 24th Century Earth, they had already tried and failed. (For some reason only sending one ship each time) First Contact got Humans connected to the Vulcans, and by extenstion the Interstellar Community. Preventing that and thus assimilating earth then gets the Borg the highest level of human technology, not to mention the firthest evovled humans. (from a scientific point of view) Also, if Earth is crucial to the establishment of the Federation one of their greatest foes, perhaps without humans the federation won't exist, therefore their greatest alpha quadrant enemy will no longer exist. Makes sense to me.

 

[Dayton3]

LeadHead said:
Sure there would be more benefits to assimilating 24th Century Earth, they had already tried and failed. (For some reason only sending one ship each time) First Contact got Humans connected to the Vulcans, and by extenstion the Interstellar Community. Preventing that and thus assimilating earth then gets the Borg the highest level of human technology, not to mention the firthest evovled humans. (from a scientific point of view) Also, if Earth is crucial to the establishment of the Federation one of their greatest foes, perhaps without humans the federation won't exist, therefore their greatest alpha quadrant enemy will no longer exist. Makes sense to me.

Your signature is inaccurate in several respects.

For one thing, people never believed the Earth was flat.

Not in Bibical times nor anywhere else.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

^What, pray tell, does that have to do with why the Borg assimilated 20th century Earth as opposed to 24th century Earth?

 

[cardinal biggles]

I don't know, but I strongly encourage Dayton to take his sidebar conversation with LeadHead to PM or a more appropriate forum.

 

[archeryguy1701]

Wow, this is a bad day for FC, isn't it?

Just a guess, but at that time, Voyager was kicking the Borg ass over and over again (in my opinion, Voyager made the Borg un-cool, but that's a different thread), so if they were to travel back in time, and take out humanity early on, there would be no first contact, no federation, no starfleet, no major Alpha Quadrant defense, and ultimately, no Voyager.

 

[Christopher]

archeryguy1701 said:
Just a guess, but at that time, Voyager was kicking the Borg ass over and over again...

Nope. FC takes place in 2373, several months before Voyager had its first encounter with the Borg. Part of the reason why the Borg showed up on VGR late in its third season was to tie into the just-released movie and hopefully draw new viewers to the show.

Presumably the idea was that the Federation had not only beaten back the Borg in BoBW but proven itself a significant threat when they "infected" Hugh with individuality and caused a whole cube or more to go rogue. So they employed the old "If we wipe them out in the past, they won't be a threat in the present" routine.

(And Dayton3 is right. The myth that people thought the world was flat pre-Columbus was invented in the Enlightenment as a way of ridiculing the traditional establishments of church and state by claiming they had believed something that any marginally competent observer can clearly see to be false.)

 

[cardinal biggles]

(That doesn't change the fact that this wasn't the appropriate place for him to point that out.)

 

[Maurice]

The Borg thought the world should be flat, so when they made tbeir own, they made them cubes.

 

[CaptainStoner]

The Battle of the Bumperstickers notwithstanding -

I think of it as the Borg mind being mostly computer-like. They base their strategies on large equations - like how the drones don't initially attack - so at that point it was more beneficial to pre-assimilate Earth than it was to absorb current Federation tech.

 

[GodThingFormerly]

DS9Sega said:
The Borg thought the world should be flat, so when they made tbeir own, they made them cubes.

Either that or they assimilated one of Stanislaw Lem's HPLD civilizations.

TGT