Timeline for Why don't the Borg pursue Voyager after 'Scorpion II'?
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| Aug 27, 2019 at 20:22 | comment | added | Matt | And Memory Alpha should only be used to check small details, it should never be used as a substitute for watching the episode | |
| Aug 27, 2019 at 18:46 | comment | added | Matt | @PaulD.Waite they did try to take it by force anyway in the 2nd part (so they weren't worried about that threat), and leaving Voyager alone makes perfect sense (I've added an answer to elaborate on that). The goal is just not to kill 8472, but to stop the war. The Borg are patient, waiting is what they do when they can't assimilate | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 17:18 | comment | added | Einer | @BBlake If the handover was later, than the thread of the weapon being destroyed if they attack Voyager would still be in place by the end of the episode. And it would still explain why the Borg don't attack... that is: they don't attack that episode of course ;-) But if there was a handover that episode, it would render my question void. | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 16:37 | comment | added | BBlake | I can't remember for certain. It's been about 6 months since I last watched it. Just going from memory. Might have been a later episode. | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 16:35 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @BBlake: aha! That would indeed invalidate my answer, and the question too. | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 16:28 | comment | added | Einer | @BBlake: When was the handover? When was the data downloaded from the doctor and handed to the borg? I'm not saying you are wrong, but I can't remember that scene... | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 16:16 | comment | added | BBlake | IIRC, this is incorrect. This threat was only in place during the first part of this episode. By the end of the episode, the Borg have this technology themselves. They use it to drive 8472 back into their realm and end the war. We find out later in the episode Hope & Fear, that they also used this tech to assimilate Arturis' people. | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 14:34 | vote | accept | Einer | ||
| Jun 3, 2014 at 14:31 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | I know what you mean. You’d imagine the Borg would try to grab the nanoprobes anyway. But the whole premise of the episode kind of falls apart then — you have to believe the Borg need something from Voyager and can’t just take it, otherwise the whole thing (and probably the rest of the show’s run) makes no sense. (This may give a hint as to why I haven’t watched Voyager.) | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 14:16 | comment | added | Einer | The original agreement included that the Borg would escort Voyager. If I were the queen, I'd love to do that and spend some more time in the vicinity of my new favorite toy. Yet I don't think that that's the way the Borg think. They don't wait for an opportunity - either they take what they want and know how to do it, or they don't know and they don't take. To me a satisfying answer, anyhow! | |
| Jun 3, 2014 at 13:57 | history | answered | Paul D. Waite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |