Kingu Kurimuzon
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In the film Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg use time travel to go back to the mid 21st century to assimilate a pre-warp Human race, thus preventing the formation of the united federation of planets.
This bothered me because it seemed counter-productive to the entire purpose of the Borg. They were established in previous TNG episodes to be focused on assimilation of technology. What use would highly advanced Borg need for pre-warp technology from the 21st century? Even if they just went to get some new drones, it would be a lot easier to just assimilate new drones from any number of 24th century planets.
The Borg are technology farmers. It's established that they're pretty powerful, to the point just one of their vessels wipes out a fleet of over 40 Starfleet vessels in "The Best of Both Worlds". If they wanted to simply wipe out the federation, they could easily send a fleet of borg cubes and get the job done with ease. Yet they never do this. They usually send one ship towards Earth, likely as a distraction whilst other ships assimilate new drones and federation tech from more distant planets in the federation (meanwhile most of Starfleet would be unable to respond as they'd probably be on their way to fight the Borg at earth). The Borg then get a little bit of new technology, then Starfleet spends a few years developing better tech, and then a few years later the Borg invade and assimilate another planet or ship or two, and get to farm even better tech than the last time. To simply wipe out the federation at once defeats their purpose of farming for better technology. Assimilating a pre-warp earth also holds little reward for them, since it's also established in Trek that the Borg have in fact deemed some less advanced species unworthy of assimilation or not worth the bother. The Kazon in Voyager were referred to as such by Seven of Nine. Surely the Kazon of that show were still a fair bit more advanced than 21st century Earth, so why the mission back in time to assimilate an Earth that would be primitive by 24th century Borg standards?
Their entire plan in First Contact goes against their usual MO, when you think about it.
In the film Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg use time travel to go back to the mid 21st century to assimilate a pre-warp Human race, thus preventing the formation of the united federation of planets.
This bothered me because it seemed counter-productive to the entire purpose of the Borg. They were established in previous TNG episodes to be focused on assimilation of technology. What use would highly advanced Borg need for pre-warp technology from the 21st century? Even if they just went to get some new drones, it would be a lot easier to just assimilate new drones from any number of 24th century planets.
The Borg are technology farmers. It's established that they're pretty powerful, to the point just one of their vessels wipes out a fleet of over 40 Starfleet vessels in "The Best of Both Worlds". If they wanted to simply wipe out the federation, they could easily send a fleet of borg cubes and get the job done with ease. Yet they never do this. They usually send one ship towards Earth, likely as a distraction whilst other ships assimilate new drones and federation tech from more distant planets in the federation (meanwhile most of Starfleet would be unable to respond as they'd probably be on their way to fight the Borg at earth). The Borg then get a little bit of new technology, then Starfleet spends a few years developing better tech, and then a few years later the Borg invade and assimilate another planet or ship or two, and get to farm even better tech than the last time. To simply wipe out the federation at once defeats their purpose of farming for better technology. Assimilating a pre-warp earth also holds little reward for them, since it's also established in Trek that the Borg have in fact deemed some less advanced species unworthy of assimilation or not worth the bother. The Kazon in Voyager were referred to as such by Seven of Nine. Surely the Kazon of that show were still a fair bit more advanced than 21st century Earth, so why the mission back in time to assimilate an Earth that would be primitive by 24th century Borg standards?
Their entire plan in First Contact goes against their usual MO, when you think about it.
