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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [qb]Since we know that the disappearance of the Hansons was never solved until Voyager encountered Seven and it's quite possible that Starfleet never discovered what happened to the Tombaugh either so neither of these would count as a first contact. At least not a confirmed contact as far as the Federation was concerned. [QB][/QUOTE]Makes sense: the Federation has launched thousands of ships and lost dozens without explanation (or at least not comfirmed explanation anyway). [QUOTE][QB] Personally I'm of the opinion that Starfleet had known about the Borg way ahead of time, the Raven and the Tombaugh aside we know that at least 47 El Aurians made it to Earth as early as 2293. One of them must have told someone what they were refugees from, perhaps even given them a description of the cube ships, which would explain how the Hanson's had a description before the J-25 encounter. [/qb][/QUOTE]The Hansen's description may have been pure hearsay or telemetry from deep space probes (we already know Starfleet had charted parts of the gamma Quadrant by this time via probes). The probes likely encountered a Sphere or something not Cube shaped so alarms never went off back at Starfleet after the "J" encounter. The Hansens may have been cyberneticists working for years on Bynar prior to the Raven's departure. It would at least explain their intrest in the Borg and their stupidity in going without backup and taking their daughter along. The thing I hate about the "starfleet knew all along" is that it makes for a crappy "X-Files" kind of thing in Starfleet. Crappy consparicy stories to come. It's FAR more likely that the Borg were only a very minor footnote in the archives and nobody ever kept track of them at all: No Starfleet ship had ever been lost (confirmed) to the Borg prior to the Raven and in the century between Regeneration and the raven's low key/ low priority mission to study a new species, the Federation encountered very real and present threats from new races and the occasional artifact like the PlanetKiller. In fact, it's likely that a team was assembled to continously study the PlanetKiller and not the Borg. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE][qb] Indeed it seems that the Borg were well aware of the Federation since we know that in "Neutral Zone" they were probing the borders, the J-25 encounter was probably the only instance when a Federation ship actually escaped assimilation. Which could be the real reason why the Collective decided to attack; they thought their cover was blown and that the Federation would be preparing for them. So Q really did do them a favour, since they were coming anyway. [/qb][/QUOTE]Q really didint do anyone any big favors: The Borg probably were not intrested in immeadately assimilating the (comparativly) low-tech Federation untill the Enterprise demonstrated a super velocity drive far superior to Transwarp at the J system: the Borg could'nt have known that Q had saved the ship, they only saw something very useful to assimilate. They would'nt have been intrested in the Federation if Q had not saved the Enterprise. They sure were'nt intrested as far back as the raven's assimilation or even 20 years later in "The neutral zone". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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