“A Q would never allow it!”
Maybe… what if the Borg had found the suicidal one from Voyager and he let them because he found the idea fascinating?
How do you assimilate something that only has a representation of a body so that low dimension beings can understand it?
Playing devil’s advocate: Let’s assume a Borg nanite could assimilate a Q while it/they assumed a corporeal form. Depending on it’s collective/queen’s objectives, it could wreak plenty of havoc across known time and space. But we’re dealing with the Q here, so at any point they could “assume control” switching from chaotic good/neutral/evil as they see fit. After allowing the collective to have it’s fun, with a snap, we’re back to square one. In the event of actual assimilation, let’s just assume the known universe is kaput. Take your pick.
Another option: Assimilating a Q assuming human form is the exact same thing as assimilating any other human. They get no more knowledge of their powers, and maybe only some understanding of the universe as a whole because they only get what’s able to actually work inside that meat brain, and not the whole sum of the being of the Q who was assimilated. The nanites only function with the physical aspects, but none of the metaphysical, in this case.
Put into that frame, it’s like Marty McFly using Gray’s Almanac to place bets. A temporary boon with limited implications compared to the span of the Q continuum.
they only get what’s able to actually work inside that meat brain, and not the whole sum of the being of the Q who was assimilated.
This seems logical, but when the continuum revokes or disables Q’s powers in TNG he still appears to be a super-intelligence. I would think even that degree of power could potentially augment and improve the capabilities of the Borg by orders of magnitude.
Q would have to allow the Borg to assimilate Q’s human form though. I say this because Q should already know everything about the past, present and future. It feels like we might be getting into paradox territory now…
I think an individual as powerful as the Q would end up dominating the minds of the collective. The drones would simply become physical embodiments of the Q’s will.
So to answer the question of how fucked? It depends on why the Q wanted to take over the Borg from within.
I’m not sure this would even be possible within the existing canon because the continuum could revoke the powers of the Q who was being assimilated.
Excluding this canonical failsafe, I think it would most likely mean that the Borg would be able to eventually replicate the powers of the Q within the collective. This posses another interesting question or thought experiment.
Would the Borg even be driven to assimilate any more worlds or beings at that point given the fact that their entire motivation is understood to be the pursuit of all knowledge in the universe? The Q seem to be near omnipotent and omnipresent. So, in theory, if the Borg gained access to this power then it seems logical that they would no longer be driven by the same motivations, and would even cease to be Borg at all since they would necessarily reclaim a sense of individualism.
Either way, great question. This is why I love Lemmy. The Trek community here is amazing.
In TNG they were going to let the Borg see a funny shape to fuck them up.
I’m pretty sure there would be something in a Q’s head that would fuck them up even harder.
If this were Gate instead of Trek, ascension instead of Q power, and Goauld instead of Borg, then the answer would be Anubis.
