View Single Post Old November 5 2012, 12:02 AM   #12 Surak of
Vulcan Re: Did we know about the Borg sooner?  If we're not
going by what T'Girl said (Which makes a whole lot of sense,
thinking about it) then the next plausible explanation is:  As
they said in 'Regeneration,' Cochrane told people of the Borg,
but no one took him seriously, and brushed it off to being a
drunken ramble. Then, when the El-Aurians are found in the Nexus
ribbon by the Enterprise-B, they are apparently fleeing from the
Borg (Why Guinan is on board those ships when they were
apparently fleeing the Borg is beyond me, considering she was on
Earth in 1893.) Any number of reasons could be thought of on why
Starfleet didn't exactly take notice of the fact that they'd
probably tell them that the Borg destroyed their homeworld.
Maybe some admirals thought that it wasn't important enough, and
it quietly fell away.  But then the Hansens are introduced,
which sort of complicates matters. If some (quite possibly
insane) scientist could dig up fa