If I understand correctly. Q sent the Enterprise to the otherside of the Galaxy and met the Borg in an episode in NG. That was the first time the Borg were recorded, correct?
Now, Fast Forward to Voyager. Seven is assimilated when she is a little girl (6?). She is presumebly in her mid-late 20s when she is on board Voyager. So, ballpark 20 years passed from when she was abducted to being rescued.
So, I guess I am wondering is this an inconsistancy in Star Trek or is Voyager taking place more than 20 years after of TNG?
As well, was Sevens Parents’ science ship in the Delta quadrant when they were studying the Borg or was it in Federation space? If it was in the Delta quadrant, how did it get there?
Its an inconsistancy. Voy pretty much starts where TNG leaves off. Some fans explain it away by saying that the fact that the Borg travelled through time in the First Contact movie altered the federation’s knowledge of the existance of the borg.
Another way to look at it is that the feds didn’t know for a fact about the Borg’s existance, but there were rumours of the existance of something out there, and some of the more reckless scientists went out looking to see what they could find. Kind of like people looking for Bigfoot or something? There probably would have been rumours about the Borg at the very least, since they destroyed Guinan’s planet before TNG began.
It isn’t an inconsistency if the reason for 7/9’s parent’s ship disappearing was never recorded. For all anyone in the Federation would know, the ship went off into deep space and was never heard from again. It’s like someone going off and discovering America and then getting killed before getting back to Europe.
Though I despise Voyager, I’ll go with msmith on this. 7’s parents were “explorers” or some such contrivance and their capture might be the first Borg contact with humans, though the Borg didn’t act on it until after they saw a larger example of Fed technology (i.e. the Enterprise-D). Of course, every Borg appearance contradicts an element from an earlier Borg appearance, so all bets are off.
For a similar question: what was the first contact between an Earthling and Q? If you say “Encounter at Farpoint”, head immediately back to Star Trek 101 for re-education.
Interesting, Lance… I was under the impression that she grew up at a relatively regular rate. Several times throughout the series they mentioned how she had spent many years (like, 17 or something) as a Borg. But maybe I’m remembering wrong. The maturation chamber would make more sense.
I don’t recall it stated explicitly, but I would assume the guy in “The Squire of Gothos” (whose name I can’t remember, but I know he also played a Klingon captain) was actually a member of the Q Continuum. Just a very young one, of course.
That was the original series, BTW, so it would (probably) predate the parents of “True Q” showing up in Federation space - if I’m right about Tremayne’s (?) identity.
No good, msmith537. In the episode where we learned about 7’s assimilation, there was a scene at the beginning where her parents were telling her about Borg lore, discussing various theories on what the Borg were like, and they even had a model Borg cube.
Their explicit purpose in going into deep space was to find and study the Borg. It was made clear (in that episode) that some knowledge of the Borg was well-established in the Federation.
Except, as noted, it shouldn’t have been at that time. We have Brannon Fucking Braga to thank for this.
The other thing that seriously bugged the hell out of me in that episode was that Voyager used technology and methods developed by Seven’s parents to spy on and hide from the Borg…but since Seven’s parents had been assimilated, those shouldn’t have worked! The Borg knew about them!
Trelane was never officially “outed” as a Q. I believe that (in one of the rare, watchable Voyager episodes) it was revealed that Q had been dropping in on humans for several hundred years, including saving the life of one of Riker’s ancestors at the Battle of Gettysburg (or another such notable Civil War battle, I don’t remember exactly).
Don’t forget Sir Isaac Newton and That Hippie Dude. As for Q inconsistancies, Q’s son, Q was supposed to be the first Q offspring, except Amanda Rogers was 20 some odd years earlier. 7’s dad, Dr. Hanson (or Kevin “Ug” Lee from Salute Your Shorts), might have gotten his info from non-Fed sourses, and the Offical Fed stance was “Borg who? we haven’t met them.” I bet Starfleet gets reports of superpowerful aliens every ten minutes.