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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I've kept track of the Borg numerical designations for various species myself for several years now, but in my personal database I simply included an annotation on the species' alphabetical listing. [URL=http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/quickref/borg_species.htm]Bernd's new list[/URL] instead puts them in numerical order, which is perfectly logical since his list is focusing on the numbers rather than the names. And then it struck me -- since the Borg are assigning numbers sequentially, and therefore chronologically, it might be possible to read something into the Borg's history. [b]First example:[/b] Species 3259, Vulcans; Species 5618, Humans The first theory this debunks is the previous belief that the Enterprise-D was the first time the Borg had ever encountered someone from the Federation. If they'd first "met" both Vulcans and Humans at the same time when they took that core sample of the Enterprise, then the two species should have had numbers that were much closer together. Supposedly, the Hansens were the first people from the Federation to encounter the Borg. But what if, instead, the Hansens were only the first Humans that the Borg encountered? I hate to use evidence from "Enterprise" because so much of its background does contradict previous canon, but in this case, the fact that Vulcans have been a spacefaring race for longer than the Humans gives them more of an opportunity to meet the Borg themselves, (I'm talking about a lone ship that's far from home, of course, not a nearby encounter. For instance, a Vulcan ship tossed several thousand LY from home thanks to an unstable wormhole or whatever.) [b]Second example:[/b] Species 6339, Unnamed; Species 8472; Species 10026, Unnamed Species 6339 was explicitly stated to have been first encountered by the Borg about four years before the episode "Infinite Regress" (in VGR's fifth season). Round that up to 5 years for safety, and we get an approximate anchor point of 2371. Everyone's favorite nonhumanoids, Species 8472, were first encountered (and given their designation) in late 2373. And finally, in "Dark Frontier" we were introduced to Species 10026, who had probably been found by the Borg only recently. Now, using these two pairs of values, we can project an approximate rate of the number of encounters of new species the Borg had in TNG times and just before. Like this: [IMG]http://lobotomy.pleh.net/~flareupload/uploads/444/speciesnumber.gif[/IMG] Based on the (unfortunate) events of "Dark Frontier," we must set 2355 as the absolute latest date that the Borg could have encountered Humans for the first time. As the graph shows, if they'd encountered Humans sooner, the graph would be even more distorted. It seems that the Borg made a sudden and drastic increase in the number of new species right around the time of TNG. It might be interesting to speculate on the reasons for such a remarkable increase in activity. [i](Disclaimer: Yes, I know that the writers of "Voyager" probably didn't pay too much attention to the numbers they were assigning. But they're canon, so we might as well try to rationalize them before ignoring them.)[/i] ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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