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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] Re: AndrewR's thought of the Borg only arriving in the Milky Way 1000 years ago or so: While that's possible, I would've expected the Borg to be much more advanced when they got here. Intergalactic travel isn't exactly a walk in the park. An alternative, given the Borg habit of crossing dimensional boundaries, would be that they themselves came from somewhere else . . . i.e. the Borg aren't from our corner of the dimensional plane. This idea would have certain intriguing advantages, not the least of which is that whatever technology they had might not be compatible with our universe and thus, they'd basically have had to start from scratch. Still, though, I'd have expected them to develop faster. So assuming they originated in our galaxy, then here's a thought . . . suppose the Borg didn't even [b]have[/b] warp drive until sometime between 1476 and 2145? It would certainly explain their control of a mere handful of systems early on. On the other hand, if the Borg existed for thousands of centuries but only in the past thousand years or so really got cracking as a spacefaring civilization, then the question becomes one of what they were doing before that. I mean, just ponder the idea of 21st Century proto-Borg considering a space program. Why would they bother? How could they design a ship if they have no technological creativity? And so we'd have to assume that the Borg either only became a collective after their race's space program was already in place, or else it somehow happened before that but someone from another system dropped in to say hello. And if someone else dropped in, it really only makes sense if they had warp drive or very-high-sublight engines, unless it was a probe. (One can almost imagine the original Borg race with Apollo-esque capsules having an advanced sublight probe drop in on them. Assimilating the technology and deciding to go visit the senders, taking the probe's tech and their own and saying "We will adapt.") But, we're forgetting something. If the Borg were a collective making use of primitive 21st-Century-style tech, then anyone who got too far away couldn't have been a part of that collective, until subspace radio and/or vincula were created. So, until FTL communication was a reality, it hardly seems likely that the Borg could've successfully conquered anyone. "Resistance is futile. We are the . . . er . . uh . . . who are we?" "Well, I think I'm Bob." "And I'm Steve." "Ah, yes, right. And I'm Jack. Resistance is futile for some reason. Actually, lemme get back to you on that." And as a raw issue of communication, just what is the bandwidth of the Collective? I mean, can the Borg Collective's networking apparatus ("I can hear their thoughts") be maintained by a megabit connection? Gigabit? Hi-Fi Wi-Fi? Could the early Borg even go wireless without a temporary disconnect from the Collective? Are they using XML? There are easily a hundred different fanfics that could be written from just these sorts of questions, each taking a different tack on the history of the Borg. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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