Sloane had about 45 minutes worth of traumatic interaction with the Borg while also dealing with all the futuristic stuff Picardy dumped on her and Cochrane’s was seemingly just ramblings from an elderly alcoholic. I’d doubt anyone from the future left them with detailed intelligence files on the Borg.
Then 50 years later a remote outpost finds something but kinda gets wiped out with only some hearsay from a couple officers. Fledging Starfleet may not have even connected the dotted-line.
But did B-era Guinan even know if it was the Borg who attacked her planet? Or could it just be massive starships just showed up and started wiping out her planet and only long after the fact was it proven to be Borg?
Yeah, I think it’s an open question as to when Starfleet knew about the Borg.
It actually seems totally reasonable to me that the reports about strange cybernetic beings from Cochrane’s, and later Archer’s, time might not necessarily get connected to the El Aurian refugees or Picard’s first encounter with a cube.
After all, the old reports from 150 years ago, from TNG’s point of view, only happened due to temporal shenanigans and would probably have been super-duper classified.
My people encountered them a century ago. They destroyed our cities. They scattered my people throughout the galaxy. They’re called the Borg. Protect yourself, Captain, or they’ll destroy you.
Yeah, but after the rescue and all the survivors being debriefed by Starfleet, did they outright say “it’s a massive hive-mind of cybernetic organisms called the Borg who assimilate entire civilizations and can adapt in minutes to any attack you throw at it”? Or “a large invading force showed up, we don’t know who they are or where they came from”
They usually give the whole “you will be assimilated” spiel beforehand but hard to say if that would be something that the common folks would know or only world leaders
Sloane had about 45 minutes worth of traumatic interaction with the Borg while also dealing with all the futuristic stuff Picardy dumped on her and Cochrane’s was seemingly just ramblings from an elderly alcoholic. I’d doubt anyone from the future left them with detailed intelligence files on the Borg.
Then 50 years later a remote outpost finds something but kinda gets wiped out with only some hearsay from a couple officers. Fledging Starfleet may not have even connected the dotted-line.
But did B-era Guinan even know if it was the Borg who attacked her planet? Or could it just be massive starships just showed up and started wiping out her planet and only long after the fact was it proven to be Borg?
Yeah, I think it’s an open question as to when Starfleet knew about the Borg.
It actually seems totally reasonable to me that the reports about strange cybernetic beings from Cochrane’s, and later Archer’s, time might not necessarily get connected to the El Aurian refugees or Picard’s first encounter with a cube.
After all, the old reports from 150 years ago, from TNG’s point of view, only happened due to temporal shenanigans and would probably have been super-duper classified.
Yeah, but after the rescue and all the survivors being debriefed by Starfleet, did they outright say “it’s a massive hive-mind of cybernetic organisms called the Borg who assimilate entire civilizations and can adapt in minutes to any attack you throw at it”? Or “a large invading force showed up, we don’t know who they are or where they came from”
They usually give the whole “you will be assimilated” spiel beforehand but hard to say if that would be something that the common folks would know or only world leaders