Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:00 am
Isnt their a huge amount of Debre in the arctic?
The El-Aurin can be explained, ENT cant.
The El-Aurin can be explained, ENT cant.
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It was a longer time between ENT and TNG and Generations and TNG. A lot more to go wrong, there, or even get lost/forgotten. heck, maybe the debris inspired the Hansens?Teaos wrote:Isnt their a huge amount of Debre in the arctic?
The El-Aurin can be explained, ENT cant.
They probably did but that is hardly fact, which is what is taught.And it still baffles me that someone-anyone didn't ask the El-Aurians about them.
Tsukiyumi wrote:Hey, I've got it! By the late 22nd century, the northern ice cap melted, and the Borg debris sank to the bottom of the ocean! Then, weather control fixed the environment, and it froze over again. And, everyone involved was mind-wiped by Section 31.
Almost certainly the El-Aurians were asked and told what happened to their homeworld, otherwise we have to assume the Hansens got their speculative information about the Borg from some totally different source than the El-Aurians.RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:It was a longer time between ENT and TNG and Generations and TNG. A lot more to go wrong, there, or even get lost/forgotten. heck, maybe the debris inspired the Hansens?Teaos wrote:Isnt their a huge amount of Debre in the arctic?
The El-Aurin can be explained, ENT cant.
And it still baffles me that someone-anyone didn't ask the El-Aurians about them.
So why were the Borg such a total surprise to the Enterprise? The retcons didn't start with ENT dealing with the Borg.Duskofdead wrote:Almost certainly the El-Aurians were asked and told what happened to their homeworld, otherwise we have to assume the Hansens got their speculative information about the Borg from some totally different source than the El-Aurians.RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:It was a longer time between ENT and TNG and Generations and TNG. A lot more to go wrong, there, or even get lost/forgotten. heck, maybe the debris inspired the Hansens?Teaos wrote:Isnt their a huge amount of Debre in the arctic?
The El-Aurin can be explained, ENT cant.
And it still baffles me that someone-anyone didn't ask the El-Aurians about them.
Annkia built a friggin' scale model of a cube in the Raven. VOY did the messing up before ENT. So did Generations. Q WHo's not it anymore.Teaos wrote:Before ENT ****** up the Borg plot line, first offical contact was in "Q who?"
There had been reports from the El-Aurin and such before then, thats how the Hansens knew about them but nothing offical Picard would have known about.
Then ENT came along, pulled down its pants and shat all over canon.
I think accounts of an implacable, highly-advanced cybernetic race would've been in Starfleet records-including their name and ship designs. If Annika could build a cube, then Data should've known what one looked like.Teaos wrote:Annikas information could have come from the El-Aurin.
Picard, Data, Riker, none of them had heard about these guys apparently.
The Hansens only had rumors to go by, they stated that directly.
I daresay they'd be slightly more articulate than that. And multiple accounts would boost it from rumor to fact.Teaos wrote:Refugee: OMG we just got attacked by a bunch of cyborgs in a mile wide cube.
Starfleet: Ah... sure. Lets just make a note about that.
It was a rumor known among the exobiology people in starfleet. Not everyone would hear it and not everyone would believe it. Hell no one but the Hansens did.
Teaos wrote:Before ENT ****** up the Borg plot line, first offical contact was in "Q who?"
There had been reports from the El-Aurin and such before then, thats how the Hansens knew about them but nothing offical Picard would have known about.
Then ENT came along, pulled down its pants and shat all over canon.
I think the most reasonable explanation is that the Federation heard a debriefing from the El-Aurians (who are not always forthcoming with information, if you noticed) and got some vague descriptions of the Borg, but probably few of the actual survivors had ever actually seen a Borg vessel or could accurately describe the Borg themselves. Even Guinan's information was secondhand, she might have heard a vague description of the Borg cube's appearance (how can you miss a cube-shaped starship?) but beyond that she didn't have any specific technical detail. Only that they were very dangerous and very powerful and cybernetic, which is what she told the Enterprise-D crew. I don't think it was a mess up at all; the Hansens basically admitted that they were laughed out of the scientific community for taking the theory about the Borg seriously, implying that Starfleet considered the El-Aurian information tentative or apocryphal at best, which makes sense, given that the information by that point was quite old and few firsthand witnesses survived to give any detailed accounts.Teaos wrote:Annikas information could have come from the El-Aurin.
Picard, Data, Riker, none of them had heard about these guys apparently.
The Hansens only had rumors to go by, they stated that directly.